The job of the NSA is to spy and if they don't spy on everything spyable they aren't doing their job. Can't even figure out why this would worthy of a./ headline.
Maybe it is. But I'm pretty sure if the USA found out that the French had our Presidents office/phone bugged, we'd (the USA) would have a shit about it.
Of course you would, Candide... The only difference between the NSA & the DGSE is that the DGSE has essentially no legal limits, as confirmed by a recent French interior minister. When asked if the DGSE performed the same data collection that was so scandalous for the NSA, he replied "Yes, but here it's legal". Result? One line in French Newspapers...
You can continue to be "shocked, just shocked" that spying is being performed by organizations who's explicit mission is to spy, but we all can see through your Capitaine Renault impressions.
Yeah, well for some people, even video footage of people discussing who and how to DDOS / deface is insufficient evidence. Not because evidence is insufficient to convince a jury to convict but because they are ideologically opposed to any limits to their imagined "electronic freedom".
At least we know what/. articles we'll be seeing in a few months: Anonymous hacker XYZ convicted to Y years of prison for participating in last year's attack of Canadian computer infrastructure...
Yech, did you _have_ to boring JB into this?! Pthaugh!
JB aside, marketplace popularity does usually indicate which of two products is generally preferred through sales figures. Just about everyone agrees that Dark Side Of the Moon is a better album than Atom Heart Mother & the sales reflect it. You can give whatever points you want, that doesn't change that your "production equipment" based judgement is a niche so small & off the mean of desireable features in a tablet as to be be irrelevant to 99% of the people looking To purchase one.
A few years back I heard a salesman vaunting the merits of a Bentley being fuel efficient because it could shut down a cylinder or two on the highway. On a quarter million dollar car it is completely illogical to purchase it because you can eke a few hundred a year out of your gas mileage. Microsoft's attempt to sell surfaces because they are faster similarly completely misses the point on why the enormous majority of people want to buy a tablet.
That is in fact what many people have been doing & is in part why the 6+ and other phablets let's have been selling so well. Now compare sales figures for the 6+ & the SP. That yawning gulf is another data point that should tell you that once again, only a tiny minority cares that a desktop replacement SP is faster.
Don't forget to also write down that most people don't want a heavy, "tablet" that has poor battery life to replace their PC with, they want a simpler, lighter device with better battery life. We wouldn't want you to miss the point
Yup, that was back when Apple's market position was small and getting ever smaller & people like Michael Dell we're saying that they should just shut down, sell off the assets & give the money to the shareholders. Not at all the same company today.
My first Mac was a Mac II. I used it for over 10 years but even upgrading to a 68030 & running A/UX couldn't make up for the fact that it was a niche device & I used non-apple gear for over a decade before Apple rediscovered mas market appeal with iPhones, iPads, & rMBPs.
MS touting that the SP is the fastest tablet misses the point on why almost everyone uses tablets.
So Microsoft has made the perfect niche device for you. That's great for you but only adds a tiny exception my point: Other than for minuscule & specialised use cases, nobody cares that the their desktop replacement tablet is faster than all the other tablets that are massively outselling the SP.
Not according to the sales figures I've seen where Surface sales figures are minuscule compared to IPads & android tablets. For every person saying "I want a PC equivalent tablet and am willing to pay the price in weight and reduced battery time", there are thousands that aren't.
Dragon will not be going up half empty. If NASA only uses 4 of the possible 7, the remainder of the mass budget will be used for cargo which should greatly offset the cost/seat lost. Not totally, as astronauts to orbit are worth more but closer to $25m than $35m.
I have exposed more than enough info in my profile for anyone to contact me. That I do not expose more is to avoid lazy twits, among whom I can now count you.
I have zero sympathy for Anonymous Cowards. I think that if people have something that they really need to say on/. that they should use their normal account. Who cares if they lose mod points. The people like you posting using AC accounts should be outed!
No, really it was funny seeing you backtrack all over when really you just consider anyone who doubts your sincerity a douchebag. I mean, how dare they!
You seem to think that DNS names being exposed in TLS negotiation was an accident.
The purpose of DNS names being exposed by the SNI extension is to facilitate name-based virtual hosting. It is not to expose additional information to 3rd parties sniffing the line; that part was clearly an accident. It can be fixed, and I see no reason why it won't be.
Other than from just about every firewall vendor... People like Cisco, Fortinet, PaloAlto, Checkpoint, etc and all the people who use their kit and who are currently widely "abusing" it.
There are legitimate reasons for some people being able to selectively block web traffic
If someone's abusing SNI information for censorship purposes, then that's yet another reason this needs to be fixed. No a 3rd party sniffing to identify names and tampering with or "blocking" SSL traffic is not legitimate, for any reason.
Ahhh, So it's just you that decides what is/isn't justified in common Internet implementations now. I'd always found the fact that there wasn't a central reference for all that to be sooo awkward. Good to know that you're on the job then.
You gotta just love people ignorant enough to think that knowledge of their culture means that they can generalise to other cultures. It's really comical.
Here's an example: How many continents are there? Seven right? Same thing in Spanish, right? Uhhh no. Google "cuántos continentes hay en el mundo" & you'll discover that Spanish speaking cultures generally only count five with no antarctica & Americas being one.
Your assumption that a Spanish speaking "Central" American or "South" American would distinguish himself from a "North" American is bunk. You, the English speaking person from the US would. They don't. Your idea that I am trying to introduce ambiguity into "American" is bunk. All along I've been saying that for most "Americans" there is no difference. I do not care that this may hurt your pride in being "the only real Americans".
Funny how you move from ""SJW" is exclusively pejorative for the folks who use it". to only most people. I suppose there may be a slender ray of hope for you.
Who is arrogant? The more numerous Spanish speakers in the rest of the Americas ? Or the USA for assuming that American refers uniquely to those in the US. Apparently you consider it pedantry to point out that that people holding your opinion are in the minority.
Spent any significant time outside The US? I've been taken to task by people from other countries in the Americas for the USA's use of American to mean only US citizens. Travel some more and you'll see my point. You'll also use fewer US specific references like Miss SC.
Buddy also thinks that SJW is the same level of pejorative as douchebag so you may want to take that into account when reading anything he writes. Read his initial post. It is illuminating.
Nope, the problem is that Windows does not have task aggregation like Grand Central Dispatch so the CPU is constantly getting interrupted & never actually spends much time in low power states. Read the article I linked. Driver non-optimisation is not the problem, less OS optimisation in Windows is.
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The job of the NSA is to spy and if they don't spy on everything spyable they aren't doing their job. Can't even figure out why this would worthy of a ./ headline.
Maybe it is. But I'm pretty sure if the USA found out that the French had our Presidents office/phone bugged, we'd (the USA) would have a shit about it.
Of course you would, Candide...
The only difference between the NSA & the DGSE is that the DGSE has essentially no legal limits, as confirmed by a recent French interior minister. When asked if the DGSE performed the same data collection that was so scandalous for the NSA, he replied "Yes, but here it's legal". Result? One line in French Newspapers...
You can continue to be "shocked, just shocked" that spying is being performed by organizations who's explicit mission is to spy, but we all can see through your Capitaine Renault impressions.
Yeah, well for some people, even video footage of people discussing who and how to DDOS / deface is insufficient evidence. Not because evidence is insufficient to convince a jury to convict but because they are ideologically opposed to any limits to their imagined "electronic freedom".
No middle name, it's just a letter & he'll be sentenced to the base 10 ascii code representation of that letter -- Uppercase if he's lucky...
At least we know what /. articles we'll be seeing in a few months: Anonymous hacker XYZ convicted to Y years of prison for participating in last year's attack of Canadian computer infrastructure...
Yech, did you _have_ to boring JB into this?! Pthaugh!
JB aside, marketplace popularity does usually indicate which of two products is generally preferred through sales figures. Just about everyone agrees that Dark Side Of the Moon is a better album than Atom Heart Mother & the sales reflect it. You can give whatever points you want, that doesn't change that your "production equipment" based judgement is a niche so small & off the mean of desireable features in a tablet as to be be irrelevant to 99% of the people looking To purchase one.
A few years back I heard a salesman vaunting the merits of a Bentley being fuel efficient because it could shut down a cylinder or two on the highway. On a quarter million dollar car it is completely illogical to purchase it because you can eke a few hundred a year out of your gas mileage. Microsoft's attempt to sell surfaces because they are faster similarly completely misses the point on why the enormous majority of people want to buy a tablet.
That is in fact what many people have been doing & is in part why the 6+ and other phablets let's have been selling so well. Now compare sales figures for the 6+ & the SP. That yawning gulf is another data point that should tell you that once again, only a tiny minority cares that a desktop replacement SP is faster.
Don't forget to also write down that most people don't want a heavy, "tablet" that has poor battery life to replace their PC with, they want a simpler, lighter device with better battery life. We wouldn't want you to miss the point
Yup, that was back when Apple's market position was small and getting ever smaller & people like Michael Dell we're saying that they should just shut down, sell off the assets & give the money to the shareholders. Not at all the same company today.
My first Mac was a Mac II. I used it for over 10 years but even upgrading to a 68030 & running A/UX couldn't make up for the fact that it was a niche device & I used non-apple gear for over a decade before Apple rediscovered mas market appeal with iPhones, iPads, & rMBPs.
MS touting that the SP is the fastest tablet misses the point on why almost everyone uses tablets.
So Microsoft has made the perfect niche device for you. That's great for you but only adds a tiny exception my point: Other than for minuscule & specialised use cases, nobody cares that the their desktop replacement tablet is faster than all the other tablets that are massively outselling the SP.
Not according to the sales figures I've seen where Surface sales figures are minuscule compared to IPads & android tablets. For every person saying "I want a PC equivalent tablet and am willing to pay the price in weight and reduced battery time", there are thousands that aren't.
The millions and millions of people who bought iPads and android tablets don't care that Microsoft has a heavy laptop replacement.
Dragon will not be going up half empty. If NASA only uses 4 of the possible 7, the remainder of the mass budget will be used for cargo which should greatly offset the cost/seat lost. Not totally, as astronauts to orbit are worth more but closer to $25m than $35m.
I have exposed more than enough info in my profile for anyone to contact me. That I do not expose more is to avoid lazy twits, among whom I can now count you.
Go away coward, no-one cares what anyone without the courage to log in says.
Continually lying to the world eventually gets the world to see you as a habitual lier. Putin can rig Russia to stifle dissent but not the world.
I have zero sympathy for Anonymous Cowards. I think that if people have something that they really need to say on /. that they should use their normal account. Who cares if they lose mod points. The people like you posting using AC accounts should be outed!
No, really it was funny seeing you backtrack all over when really you just consider anyone who doubts your sincerity a douchebag. I mean, how dare they!
You seem to think that DNS names being exposed in TLS negotiation was an accident.
The purpose of DNS names being exposed by the SNI extension is to facilitate name-based virtual hosting. It is not to expose additional information to 3rd parties sniffing the line; that part was clearly an accident.
It can be fixed, and I see no reason why it won't be.
Other than from just about every firewall vendor... People like Cisco, Fortinet, PaloAlto, Checkpoint, etc and all the people who use their kit and who are currently widely "abusing" it.
There are legitimate reasons for some people being able to selectively block web traffic
If someone's abusing SNI information for censorship purposes, then that's yet another reason this needs to be fixed. No a 3rd party sniffing to identify names and tampering with or "blocking" SSL traffic is not legitimate, for any reason.
Ahhh, So it's just you that decides what is/isn't justified in common Internet implementations now. I'd always found the fact that there wasn't a central reference for all that to be sooo awkward. Good to know that you're on the job then.
You gotta just love people ignorant enough to think that knowledge of their culture means that they can generalise to other cultures. It's really comical.
Here's an example: How many continents are there? Seven right? Same thing in Spanish, right? Uhhh no. Google "cuántos continentes hay en el mundo" & you'll discover that Spanish speaking cultures generally only count five with no antarctica & Americas being one.
Your assumption that a Spanish speaking "Central" American or "South" American would distinguish himself from a "North" American is bunk. You, the English speaking person from the US would. They don't. Your idea that I am trying to introduce ambiguity into "American" is bunk. All along I've been saying that for most "Americans" there is no difference. I do not care that this may hurt your pride in being "the only real Americans".
Putty corrupts data when copying/pasting large amounts. I got tired of that screwing up network confs & moved to TeraTerm.
Funny how you move from ""SJW" is exclusively pejorative for the folks who use it". to only most people. I suppose there may be a slender ray of hope for you.
Who is arrogant? The more numerous Spanish speakers in the rest of the Americas ? Or the USA for assuming that American refers uniquely to those in the US. Apparently you consider it pedantry to point out that that people holding your opinion are in the minority.
Spent any significant time outside The US? I've been taken to task by people from other countries in the Americas for the USA's use of American to mean only US citizens. Travel some more and you'll see my point. You'll also use fewer US specific references like Miss SC.
Buddy also thinks that SJW is the same level of pejorative as douchebag so you may want to take that into account when reading anything he writes. Read his initial post. It is illuminating.
Nope, the problem is that Windows does not have task aggregation like Grand Central Dispatch so the CPU is constantly getting interrupted & never actually spends much time in low power states. Read the article I linked. Driver non-optimisation is not the problem, less OS optimisation in Windows is.