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Re:Prove it's true by Anonymous Coward · 2017-08-05 17:54 · Score: 0 · on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk)

I heard about that case, but I don't recall it saying anything about GPL being a contract, valid or otherwise.

In fact, now that I Google it, it doesn't appear the judge issued any ruling on the validity of the GPL, although she regarded it as a valid license during the trial.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) had hoped to turn the dispute between Sweden’s MySQL and NuSphere into a test case upholding the validity of the GPL. But Boston District Judge Patti B. Saris refused to even hear testimony on the issue.

Re:Summed up in verse by AHuxley · 2013-07-15 18:36 · Score: 5, Insightful · on Leaked Letter Shows UK ISPs and Government At War Over Default Filters

"level it may not be too bad."
What would the UK gov like to memory hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole ?
Some past stories that would be so tempting to just filter down just a bit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Gun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakeknife
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/30/iraq-torture-allegations-uk-military-investigations-reopened
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163799/UK-soldiers-beat-innocent-Iraqi-men-black-ops-jails-new-secret-justice-law-means-torture-hidden-forever.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/24/undercover-officers-police-chief-met
http://www.information-age.com/technology/mobile-and-networking/123457043/ee-and-ipsos-mori-face-privacy-backlash-over-mobile-data-analysis
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9750403/MI6-codebreaker-Gareth-Williams-probably-locked-himself-into-sports-bag.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9337175/Soldiers-sacked-days-before-pension-date.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2127453/M16-1m-bribe-silence-torture-victim-Spies-gave-dissident-Gaddafi-thugs.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/11/gchq-staff-war-crimes-drones
With some "filter controls" for a few days after publication and pay walls long term, an individual in the UK could have their news just reshaped a bit long term.
Ideas like the http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/jun/14/what-are-secret-courts will shut the press out from some UK court reporting.
This mass filter idea might be the next step.
Australia shows the mission creep eg just for a few suspected fraud sites.
http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/16/global-eyes-are-watching-eff-condemns-australias-new-internet-filter/

Re:Buzzword-heavy by cold+fjord · 2013-06-18 19:05 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Revisiting Amdahl's Law

Demand Surges for Supercomputers

Do Supercomputers Still Matter?

Oil giant Total builds "world's largest commercial supercomputer"

Computer Associates = disreputable "source"... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-11 06:27 · Score: -1 · on Mark Shuttleworth Answers Your Questions

CA got BUSTED for accounting fraud scandals by the SEC as well as having to sell off their b.s. "security-suite" for PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR (lmao - some "source of authority" you used there, eh? NOT!):

From my +5 Upward Modded post on Computer Associates, above (CA's the source of that libel of myself):

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CA's disreputable - See their "ethics" in accounting practices which they got busted for:

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"Customers know Computer Associates - and, these days, for all the wrong reasons. Just as the company was beginning to shed its reputation as a home for legacy software products that carried an inflated price tag, it was rocked by a series of accounting scandals. An on-going FBI fraud inquiry and investigations by the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have left it reeling, with a power vacuum at the top as over a dozen senior executives have left or been sacked. The allegations centre on internal accounting and sales activities in the years around the turn of the century, and involve the movement of revenues between quarters and product areas, and consequently, the mis-statement of financial results."

FROM -> http://www.information-age.com/articles/290656/the-information-age-interview.thtml

APK

P.S.=> CA also listed a freeware of mine as a "malware", falsely since it passed ALL 21 of their REMOVAL QUESTIONS no less!

They did not remove it, & other sites used as a "source" (like the faulty IKARUS database)!

The program was written in GOOD FAITH by myself, to help out a fellow forums person I knew at NTCompatible years ago, because he had an OLD version of Apache server on Windows which would not run as a tooltray icon while minimized & it was not implemented as a service he told me (that was so it was not visible onscreen and ran "in the background transparently" which most webservers now, do).

So, in good faith/being a "good neighbor", I wrote it up for he (it's NOT commandline argv/argc parameterizeable either, so it's NOT scriptable) in GUI form (only 2-3 lines of code & works via C/C++ type invisible "spawn" type parameterizations).

Next thing I know? It's out online being classed as a "malware" (1 of around 40 freeware apps I've done over time that did VERY well & were featured in respected publications in good reviews in reputable & respected publications like "Windows IT Pro" Magazine (it was Windows NT Mag back then in the 1990's - early 21st century) & others of like ilk).

Heck - it's NOT EVEN SCRIPTABLE for attack purposes! I saw that much, coming ahead of time.

Apps that can be used "both ways" get 'victimized' this way (which is like PING via "ping of death")...

OR

Tools from NIRSOFT (good stuff) who also gets a "bad rap" from the likes of CA!

OR

SysInternals even too (yes, even Dr. Mark Russinovich has had this happen to he (e.g. pstools) as it has myself & Nir Sofer of NIRSOFT) have tools that can be used "for the good" or "the bad", depending on WHO is using them & what they're up to (like a gun, guns don't murder people - other people do)).

So, then I took CA's 21 point removal test & passed EVERY SINGLE QUESTION without fail no less, & they would not remove it (but, they had to put it down to "Zero Threat Levels")...

I did that on the advice of an attorney (John Lowe of Hiscock & Barclay).

Afterwards when I told the attorney these results, he told me "Yes, you have a WINNING CASE for libel/defamation of character" etc. "and it's worth approx. $150,000 U.S. Dollars"!

So, to that, I said:

"Well, let's do it then on a 33.3% of the take for you as payment" (keeps attorneys 'motivated' doing it that way, plus, it's no init. money down for retainers etc./et al).

Then, he replied

Re:national insecurity by scubamage · 2012-10-26 17:43 · Score: 1 · on China Telco Replaces Cisco Devices Over Security Concerns

It's not a trade war disguised as national security, it's national security disguised as a trade war. There's been no evidence presented of any backdoors. I'm quite certain that by now, many intelligence organizations have taken the chips apart and scanned them down and if they'd found anything there would have been a reaction.

I wish you were right.

Thor Schmuck & CA "blown away" easily... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-20 04:58 · Score: -1 · on Windows 8 Changes Host File Blocking

From my +5 Upward Modded post on Computer Associates, above (CA's the source of that libel of myself):

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CA's disreputable - See their "ethics" in accounting practices which they got busted for:

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"Customers know Computer Associates - and, these days, for all the wrong reasons. Just as the company was beginning to shed its reputation as a home for legacy software products that carried an inflated price tag, it was rocked by a series of accounting scandals. An on-going FBI fraud inquiry and investigations by the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have left it reeling, with a power vacuum at the top as over a dozen senior executives have left or been sacked. The allegations centre on internal accounting and sales activities in the years around the turn of the century, and involve the movement of revenues between quarters and product areas, and consequently, the mis-statement of financial results."

FROM -> http://www.information-age.com/articles/290656/the-information-age-interview.thtml

REAL CRIMINALS no less... as well as anyone associated with them, like Thor SCHMUCK who submitted my app (& it's not even scriptable, I saw THAT coming is why for abusers of others apps, examples exist below from some "famous" folks in the art & science of computing too that it's happened to, like myself, in "false positives")

CA's "security suite" too, in the end?

SOLD OFF, lol

(Yes - Served 'em right, they failed...)

Plus - I passed every one of their 21 point test for removal too - they should have REMOVED it, but, instead, downgraded it to ZERO THREAT LEVELS!

(It happens... they screwed up totally though, & I used their OWN RULES to do them in too, I love it.)

APK

P.S.=> CA also listed a freeware of mine as a "malware", falsely, which was written to help out a fellow forums person I knew at NTCompatible years ago, because he had an OLD version of Apache server on Windows which would not run as a tooltray icon while minimized & it was not implemented as a service he told me (that was so it was not visible onscreen and ran "in the background transparently" which most webservers now, do).

So, in good faith/being a "good neighbor", I wrote it up for he (it's NOT commandline argv/argc parameterizeable either, so it's NOT scriptable) in GUI form (only 2-3 lines of code & works via C/C++ type invisible "spawn" type parameterizations).

Next thing I know?

It's out online being classed as a "malware" (1 of around 40 freeware apps I've done over time that did VERY well & were featured in respected publications in good reviews in reputable & respected publications like "Windows IT Pro" Magazine (it was Windows NT Mag back then in the 1990's - early 21st century) & others of like ilk).

Apps that can be used "both ways" get 'victimized' this way (which is like PING via "ping of death")...

EXAMPLES OF OTHER SOFTWARE AUTHORS GETTING THE SAME FALSE POSITIVE ABUSE BY COMPANIES:

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Tools from NIRSOFT (good stuff) who also gets a "bad rap" from the likes of CA!

OR

SysInternals even too (yes, even Dr. Mark Russinovich has had this happen to he (e.g. pstools) as it has myself & Nir Sofer of NIRSOFT) have tools that can be used "for the good" or "the bad", depending on WHO is using them & what they're up to (like a gun, guns don't murder people - other people do)).

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So, then I took CA's 21 point removal test & passed EVERY SINGLE QUESTION without fail no less, & they would not remove it (but, they had to put it down to "Zero Threat Levels")...

I did that on the advice of an attorney (John Lowe of Hiscock & Barclay).

Afterwards when I told the attorney these results, he told me "Yes, you have a WINNING CAS

Re:Video games and pizza by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-22 14:05 · Score: 0 · on Y Combinator Wants To Kill Hollywood

"you're an idiot.." - by MichaelKristopeit490 (2549324) on 2012-01-21 18:01 (#38777097)

CA's disreputable - See their "ethics" in accounting practices which they got busted for:

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"Customers know Computer Associates - and, these days, for all the wrong reasons. Just as the company was beginning to shed its reputation as a home for legacy software products that carried an inflated price tag, it was rocked by a series of accounting scandals. An on-going FBI fraud inquiry and investigations by the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have left it reeling, with a power vacuum at the top as over a dozen senior executives have left or been sacked. The allegations centre on internal accounting and sales activities in the years around the turn of the century, and involve the movement of revenues between quarters and product areas, and consequently, the mis-statement of financial results."

FROM -> http://www.information-age.com/articles/290656/the-information-age-interview.thtml [information-age.com]

APK

P.S.=> CA also listed a freeware of mine as a "malware" which was written to help out a fellow forums person I knew at NTCompatible years ago, because he had an OLD version of Apache server on Windows which would not run as a tooltray icon while minimized & it was not implemented as a service he told me (that was so it was not visible onscreen and ran "in the background transparently" which most webservers now, do).

So, in good faith/being a "good neighbor", I wrote it up for he (it's NOT commandline argv/argc parameterizeable either, so it's NOT scriptable) in GUI form (only 2-3 lines of code & works via C/C++ type invisible "spawn" type parameterizations).

Next thing I know? It's out online being classed as a "malware" (1 of around 40 freeware apps I've done over time that did VERY well & were featured in respected publications in good reviews in reputable & respected publications like "Windows IT Pro" Magazine (it was Windows NT Mag back then in the 1990's - early 21st century) & others of like ilk).

Apps that can be used "both ways" get 'victimized' this way (which is like PING via "ping of death", or tools from NIRSOFT (good stuff) &/or SysInternals even (yes, even Dr. Mark Russinovich has had this happen to he (e.g. pstools) as it has myself & Nir Sofer of NIRSOFT) have tools that can be used "for the good" or "the bad", depending on WHO is using them & what they're up to (like a gun, guns don't murder people - other people do).

So, then I took CA's 21 point removal test & passed EVERY SINGLE QUESTION without fail no less, & they would not remove it (but, they had to put it down to "Zero Threat Levels")... I did that on the advice of an attorney (John Lowe of Hiscock & Barclay).

Afterwards when I told the attorney these results, he told me "Yes, you have a WINNING CASE for libel/defamation of character" etc. "and it's worth approx. $150,000 U.S. Dollars", so I said "Well, let's do it then on a 33.3% of the take for you as payment" (keeps attorneys 'motivated' doing it that way, plus, it's no init. money down for retainers etc./et al).

Then, he replied "I can't do this case!" I was like "WHY?!?" & he said "Because larger companies have fleets of attorneys that will 'drag it out' for over a decade and by the time you collect, which you would? The overall COST of doing this would exceed your reward!"...

This is how the REAL world works, if you're not a "Financial Goliath" in other words - there is NO "justice", only money (and if you've got enough to take on the likes of these companies, then, & ONLY THEN, do you get real justice)... makes me ill, because the likes of CA know this, & abuse it! apk

Re:shell game...? by MattBD · 2011-07-07 11:23 · Score: 1 · on Voicemail Hack Scandal Leads To Closure of UK Tabloid

I have heard the suggestion that there may have been an attempt by someone within News International to destroy their data, which was held at a data centre in Chennai. Source: Channel 4 news, but also found this link: http://www.information-age.com/channels/it-services/news/1635983/hcl-denies-news-international-data-destruction-claim.thtml

Time 2 BLOW U AWAY erroneus (part #1) by Anonymous Coward · 2011-06-21 12:01 · Score: 0 · on Court Case To Test GNU GPL

Thor Schrock? Note he wouldn't answer when I asked him a couple simple questions (on HOSTS files + Spybot Search & Destroy or PING )?? Here is why in detail:

Fact is, according to CA (computer associates)- both can be classified as malwares because of Computer Associates tests criteria! For things ping can/could do "ping of death" &/or Spybot altering a HOSTS file.

Which Schrock posted to CA, AND USING MY MIDDLE NAME and LAST NAME ONLY (so I would not find it when searching my apps online when I was an avid freeware/shareware author as a student circa 1995-2002).

In the end?

Much went MY way, check it:

CA had to DOWNGRADE a single app of mine,to ZERO THREAT LEVELS, because I passed all 21 of their questions for malware testing (upon writing they on it).

Thor Schrock was made out as a FOOL to CA too, & that's why he posts that blog when I asked he remove it.

My app's NOT SCRIPTABLE: This is why Dr. Mark Russinovich of Microsoft has hassles this way @ times: He put in argc/argv commandlines into his app... I foresaw this & didn't in the app in question! It's never been used in an attack either...

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This happens to decent software makers out there

Yes, believe-it-or-not: Ask Nir Sofer of NIRSOFT (guy makes great power tools for PC's)

ALSO:

Ask Dr. Mark Russinovich - he does decent work, former "colleague/co-worker" of mine for Sunbelt Software circa 1995-2000!

(He was decent enough to thank me in email for my helping he by pointing out a VERY ROOKIE mistake in his hardcodes in it, how to fix them via the NT Native API too, & why (he overlooked things is why, good as he is at coding).

In fact, his pstools suite?

It very OFTEN gets "used & abused" by malware makers worldwide, & recently too (psexec.exe):

http://www.installsoftware.com/microsoft-admin-tool-used-by-coreflood-to-infect-computer-networks/network_software

By the coreflood botnet no less!

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That all said & aside, erroneus? YOU ARE "ERRONEOUS" YET AGAIN!
APK

P.S.=> And the TRUE CRIMINALS THERE

Well...let this tell that tale, along with Thor SCHMUCK who submitted my app to these "partners in crime" of his in CA:

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COMPUTER ASSOCIATES BUSTED FOR ACCOUNTING FRAUD:

(PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:)

"Customers know Computer Associates - and, these days, for all the wrong reasons. Just as the company was beginning to shed its reputation as a home for legacy software products that carried an inflated price tag, it was rocked by a series of accounting scandals. An on-going FBI fraud inquiry and investigations by the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have left it reeling, with a power vacuum at the top as over a dozen senior executives have left or been sacked. The allegations centre on internal accounting and sales activities in the years around the turn of the century, and involve the movement of revenues between quarters and product areas, and consequently, the mis-statement of financial results."

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(Needless to say? CA sold off their Security Suite division too recently... "Gee, I wonder why?" (not))

FROM -> http://www.information-age.com/articles/290656/the-information-age-interview.thtml

Re:wampus, what was your init. post here modded? L by wampus · 2010-11-27 04:48 · Score: 1 · on CA Sues Over DB2 Migration Tool

Reply to This Parent
CA's db is dying? (Score:2)
by LaminatorX (410794)
Alter Relationship
on Fri November 26, 9:16 (#34350124) Homepage
Quick, somebody get confirmation from Netcraft.

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"The most merciful quality of the human mind is its inability to correlate its contents" --HPL

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Runs only on big hardware (Score:2, Informative)
by sbates (1832606)
Alter Relationship
on Fri November 26, 9:18 (#34350132)
From the ca site (http://www.ca.com/us/products/overview.aspx?id={40FB2A1D-9B09-429E-9D52-123477B87E97}):

It is a high-performance, multi-user relational database management system based on z/OS and VSE host platforms.

Unfortunately, although clients can access it from any platform, it's not available for anything else.

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Second most popular CA search (Score:3, Insightful)
by echucker (570962)
Alter Relationship
on Fri November 26, 9:24 (#34350190) Homepage
First one on Google is just the name, but 2nd is "computer associates removal tool". Makes you wonder why.....
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Don't wonder why (CA=disreputable, see inside) (Score:-1, Redundant)
by Anonymous Coward on Fri November 26, 10:20 (#34350586)
CA's disreputable - See their "ethics" in accounting practices which they got busted for:

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"Customers know Computer Associates - and, these days, for all the wrong reasons. Just as the company was beginning to shed its reputation as a home for legacy software products that carried an inflated price tag, it was rocked by a series of accounting scandals. An on-going FBI fraud inquiry and investigations by the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have left it reeling, with a power vacuum at the top as over a dozen senior executives have left or been sacked. The allegations centre on internal accounting and sales activities in the years around the turn of the century, and involve the movement of revenues between quarters and product areas, and consequently, the mis-statement of financial results."

FROM -> http://www.information-age.com/articles/290656/the-information-age-interview.thtml [information-age.com]

(Read on below, it only gets better, as to how CA really "operates"...)

APK

P.S.=> CA also listed a freeware of mine as a "malware" which was written to help out a fellow forums person I knew at NTCompatible years ago, because he had an OLD version of Apache server on Windows which would not run as a tooltray icon while minimized & it was not implemented as a service he told me (that was so it was not visible onscreen and ran "in the background transparently" which most webservers now, do).

So, in good faith/being a "good neighbor", I wrote it up for he (it's NOT commandline argv/argc parameterizeable either, so it's NOT scriptable) in GUI form (only 2-3 lines of code & works via C/C++ type invisible "spawn" type parameterizations).

Next thing I know? My app's listed out online being classed as a "malware" @ CA's websites!

It's only 1 of around 40 freeware apps I've done over time that did VERY well & were featured in respected publications in good reviews in reputable & respected publications like "Windows IT Pro" Magazine (it was Windows NT Mag back then in the 1990's - early 21st century) & others of like ilk. It was also listed under my MIDDLE + LAST NAME, rather than my 1st name + last name (etc.), doubtless so I would NEVER find it most likely (but, I did).

A fool named "Thor Schrock" is who did that submittal to they I strongly suspect, because I found posts of his on CA's malware forums, AND, I also wrote he and he kept addressing me by my MIDDLE name + last name, rather than my first name - which IS how CA listed it (this is actually online too, in a blog of his).

I asked Thor SCHMUCK why isn't Spybot "Search & Destroy" also listed? It alters a

wampus, what was your init. post here modded? LOL! by Anonymous Coward · 2010-11-27 04:23 · Score: 0 · on CA Sues Over DB2 Migration Tool

"Customers know Computer Associates - and, these days, for all the wrong reasons. Just as the company was beginning to shed its reputation as a home for legacy software products that carried an inflated price tag, it was rocked by a series of accounting scandals. An on-going FBI fraud inquiry and investigations by the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have left it reeling, with a power vacuum at the top as over a dozen senior executives have left or been sacked. The allegations centre on internal accounting and sales activities in the years around the turn of the century, and involve the movement of revenues between quarters and product areas, and consequently, the mis-statement of financial results."

FROM -> http://www.information-age.com/articles/290656/the-information-age-interview.thtml

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Also, per my subject line above: wampus, what was your attempt at trolling me rated in your first post here? Oh, yes, another "direct quote" below of that data also (lol):

Re: (Score:0, Flamebait) by wampus (1932) from -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1884922&cid=34350648

(LMAO!)

APK

P.S.=> I also see that you've done nothing of good note in the computer sciences either when I asked if you had in our exchange here (whereas by way of comparison, I have a dozen or so in a list, only a PARTIAL LIST of my favs. also mind you, that I started & did well in in the eyes of others, while you were still in diapers I strongly suspect (and I continue to do so currently as well)) -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1884922&cid=34357908

So, I suppose that stands to reason (since you're a troll) & quite obviously, a "ne'er-do-well" also, that you've never done a damned thing with your life worth noting (or that others have noted either apparently on your part)...

Once more, just think: You're "well on your way" (not) to becoming JUST LIKE YOUR HEROES @ CA (lololol)... apk

wampus, take a read: "drink in, & digest it".. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-11-27 03:38 · Score: 0 · on CA Sues Over DB2 Migration Tool

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1884922&cid=34357774 Now, there you go, once more, for your reference again... take a good read, & "drink it in, & digest it", ok?

(You only did that to yourself, & the /. community here modded you right into the dirt where you belong... LMAO!)

Additionally? Well, judging by your "swift reaction" to what I wrote you in that URL above?? Ah, nothing like striking a nerve in a troll who got himself "modded down" as flamebait as you did for being nothing more than a troll!

Oh, yea, before I forget? You also said this, directed MY way:

"I hope CA continues raping your corpse." - by wampus (1932) on Saturday November 27, @09:22AM (#34357612)

CA's only "raping themselves" -> http://www.information-age.com/articles/290656/the-information-age-interview.thtml and there's the proof (in CA being caught doing accounting scandals and getting busted for it)... what goes around, comes around, eh? LMAO!

However, since you apparently like being modded down (lol) & roasting yourself into charcoal?

Well... how you spend YOUR time is up to you I suppose (lmao), but, I'll continue doing things like this list shows below, instead (try it yourself sometime, unless you like continuing being a troll and being modded down (lol) for it, as well as your evidencing yourself as a "ne'er-do-well"):

"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."

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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61

(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)

PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there

WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there

PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there

CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there

GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it

HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!

Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...

Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3

Lastly, lately (this year)?

It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html

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What do I have to sa

CA's only raping themselves, and you? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-11-27 02:59 · Score: 0 · on CA Sues Over DB2 Migration Tool

"I hope CA continues raping your corpse." - by wampus (1932) on Saturday November 27, @09:22AM (#34357612)

You're only raping yourself... getting yourself modded down as flamebait as you have (lmao) by everyone here for your 'wannabe clever' use of "memes" trying to hassle me here - too bad others blew you away for it, eh? Not.

(There's a "meme" in & of itself in there, maybe? Perhaps something along the lines of "do unto others, and slashdot will do unto you"?? In any event??? You sure found out firsthand... LOL!)

APK

P.S.=> Once more, so you can "drink it in, & digest it": CA's only raping themselves, & everyone knows it, or didn't you read this? Here it is again, for your reference ->

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"Customers know Computer Associates - and, these days, for all the wrong reasons. Just as the company was beginning to shed its reputation as a home for legacy software products that carried an inflated price tag, it was rocked by a series of accounting scandals. An on-going FBI fraud inquiry and investigations by the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have left it reeling, with a power vacuum at the top as over a dozen senior executives have left or been sacked. The allegations centre on internal accounting and sales activities in the years around the turn of the century, and involve the movement of revenues between quarters and product areas, and consequently, the mis-statement of financial results."

FROM -> http://www.information-age.com/articles/290656/the-information-age-interview.thtml

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CA=disreputable, see inside... apk by Anonymous Coward · 2010-11-26 05:19 · Score: -1, Redundant · on CA Sues Over DB2 Migration Tool

CA's disreputable - See their "ethics" in accounting practices which they got busted for:

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"Customers know Computer Associates - and, these days, for all the wrong reasons. Just as the company was beginning to shed its reputation as a home for legacy software products that carried an inflated price tag, it was rocked by a series of accounting scandals. An on-going FBI fraud inquiry and investigations by the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have left it reeling, with a power vacuum at the top as over a dozen senior executives have left or been sacked. The allegations centre on internal accounting and sales activities in the years around the turn of the century, and involve the movement of revenues between quarters and product areas, and consequently, the mis-statement of financial results."

FROM -> http://www.information-age.com/articles/290656/the-information-age-interview.thtml

(Read on below, it only gets better, as to how CA really "operates"... & even on small software devs like myself & others!)

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P.S.=> CA also listed a freeware of mine as a "malware" which was written to help out a fellow forums person I knew at NTCompatible years ago, because he had an OLD version of Apache server on Windows which would not run as a tooltray icon while minimized & it was not implemented as a service he told me (that was so it was not visible onscreen and ran "in the background transparently" which most webservers now, do).

So, in good faith/being a "good neighbor", I wrote it up for he (it's NOT commandline argv/argc parameterizeable either, so it's NOT scriptable) in GUI form (only 2-3 lines of code & works via C/C++ type invisible "spawn" type parameterizations).

Next thing I know? My app's listed out online being classed as a "malware" @ CA's websites!

It's only 1 of around 40 freeware apps I've done over time that did VERY well & were featured in respected publications in good reviews in reputable & respected publications like "Windows IT Pro" Magazine (it was Windows NT Mag back then in the 1990's - early 21st century) & others of like ilk. It was also listed under my MIDDLE + LAST NAME, rather than my 1st name + last name (etc.), doubtless so I would NEVER find it most likely (but, I did).

A fool named "Thor Schrock" is who did that submittal to they I strongly suspect, because I found posts of his on CA's malware forums, AND, I also wrote he and he kept addressing me by my MIDDLE name + last name, rather than my first name - which IS how CA listed it (this is actually online too, in a blog of his).

I asked Thor SCHMUCK why isn't Spybot "Search & Destroy" also listed? It alters a HOSTS file, which violates CA's malware removal list test (albeit Spybot S&D alters HOSTS in a GOOD way vs. known malware laden sites). Why not PING?? It can/could issue a "ping of death"!

Thor SCHMUCK went 'silent' after that (which also shows he is NO "expert" by any stretch of the imagination).

Apps that can be used "both ways" get 'victimized' this way (which is like PING via "ping of death", or tools from NIRSOFT (good stuff) &/or SysInternals even (yes, even Dr. Mark Russinovich has had this happen to he (e.g. pstools) as it has myself & Nir Sofer of NIRSOFT) have tools that can be used "for the good" or "the bad", depending on WHO is using them & what they're up to (like a gun, guns don't murder people - other people do).

So, then I took CA's 21 point removal test & passed EVERY SINGLE QUESTION without fail no less, & they would not remove it (but, they had to put it down to "Zero Threat Levels")... I did that on the advice of an attorney (John Lowe of Hiscock & Barclay).

Afterwards when I told the attorney these results, he told me "Yes, you have a WINNING CASE for libel/defamation of character" etc. "and it'

Don't wonder why (CA=disreputable, see inside) by Anonymous Coward · 2010-11-26 04:20 · Score: -1, Redundant · on CA Sues Over DB2 Migration Tool