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Comment Bad Move (Score 1) 172

Problem was that they (IPv6 designers) did not only wanted to solve the lack of IPv4 addresses but to add a bunch of new features in it. Solved one problem but created a bunch of new ones.

The KISS principle was, once again, not respected by the tech industry.

Reminds me the 32 to 64 bits architecture transition in the software industry, it was nothing but painful and still today we have issues with it but at least it's almost done - after decades.

Comment Re: Stupid (Score 1) 130

Bottom line, the people I trust most with my data are those who primarily make money off it. They have an incentive to protect it. Those who make money off my data as just a side income stream are those most likely to pass it on to whomever in whatever raw format someone is willing to pay for.

What? Are you serious?
They can sell you over and over and you're ok with it because they are making money out of it?
Is that even an argument?

Comment Re:Netflix moves in small steps (Score 1) 184

The problem is that when a company get so big like Netflix it won't be easy for the market to react. It just can't pop up a new streaming company next day with a better offer and catalogue than Netflix. Same happens on many different areas like ISP's for example.

So, in this case, the idea of market competition and adjustment for customer benefit kinda sucks in capitalism.

Comment Been there, done that (Score 3, Funny) 26

Traveled half world to attend DEF CON 22 and it was a great experience. Saw some interesting conferences, learned how to lockpick, new hacking techniques, social engineering skills, met great people (including Kevin Mitnick) and, of course, party hard for 3 days! Thanks to all who made DEF CON possible all this years.

Comment What? (Score 1) 301

"While it is true that with TRR you may not expose the websites you call to a random DNS server in an untrustworthy network you don't know(...)"

I don't use random DNS servers and I don't trust Cloudfare at all. Why in the world should they choose that for me? I see so many problems (performance and security for starters) with this approach that find it hard to believe how this idea got this far.

This reminds me the time Network Solutions wanted to resolve all unknown hosts to his own IP's to show a friendly message (and maybe gather some data in the process).

Hope it's possible to change this behavior and sincerely hope Mozilla invest their resources in optimizing Firefox performance rather than this nonsense.

Comment This is just stupid (Score 1) 268

Forcing a website that serves only public content and requires no user input it's absurd!
Why spend the resources of encryption (well put by @RichardStallin) in something that needs none as it's already public information.
The only point I see in Google doing this is that they're concerned about sharing the user navigation history with others since forcing https doesn't affect Google Analytics but may affect other services who get their stats based on packet inspection.

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