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cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

did jay little regret you claiming that he libeled you? you said that he would too, but it seems his website is still up after many years, and no action was ever taken..., as well as many other individuals who you've threatened with libel suits that resulted in no action. you're a demonstrated liar. you're a moronic buffoon. you are completely worthless.

searching for "Alexander Peter Kowalski" on google responds with the top result "How to Respond When People Threaten to Sue You on the Web"... full of people mocking your pathetic attempts to invoke legal action where none is warranted. why do you think that is?

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

you're completely pathetic.

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

did jay little regret you claiming that he libeled you? you said that he would too, but it seems his website is still up after many years, and no action was ever taken..., as well as many other individuals who you've threatened with libel suits that resulted in no action. you're a demonstrated liar. you're a moronic buffoon. you are completely worthless.

searching for "Alexander Peter Kowalski" on google responds with the top result "How to Respond When People Threaten to Sue You on the Web"... full of people mocking your pathetic attempts to invoke legal action where none is warranted. why do you think that is?

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

you're completely pathetic.

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

did jay little regret you claiming that he libeled you? you said that he would too, but it seems his website is still up after many years, and no action was ever taken..., as well as many other individuals who you've threatened with libel suits that resulted in no action. you're a demonstrated liar. you're a moronic buffoon. you are completely worthless.

searching for "Alexander Peter Kowalski" on google responds with the top result "How to Respond When People Threaten to Sue You on the Web"... full of people mocking your pathetic attempts to invoke legal action where none is warranted. why do you think that is?

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

you're completely pathetic.

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

did jay little regret you claiming that he libeled you? you said that he would too, but it seems his website is still up after many years, and no action was ever taken..., as well as many other individuals who you've threatened with libel suits that resulted in no action. you're a demonstrated liar. you're a moronic buffoon. you are completely worthless.

searching for "Alexander Peter Kowalski" on google responds with the top result "How to Respond When People Threaten to Sue You on the Web"... full of people mocking your pathetic attempts to invoke legal action where none is warranted. why do you think that is?

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

you're completely pathetic.

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

did jay little regret you claiming that he libeled you? you said that he would too, but it seems his website is still up after many years, and no action was ever taken..., as well as many other individuals who you've threatened with libel suits that resulted in no action. you're a demonstrated liar. you're a moronic buffoon. you are completely worthless.

searching for "Alexander Peter Kowalski" on google responds with the top result "How to Respond When People Threaten to Sue You on the Web"... full of people mocking your pathetic attempts to invoke legal action where none is warranted. why do you think that is?

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

you're completely pathetic.

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

did jay little regret you claiming that he libeled you? you said that he would too, but it seems his website is still up after many years, and no action was ever taken..., as well as many other individuals who you've threatened with libel suits that resulted in no action. you're a demonstrated liar. you're a moronic buffoon. you are completely worthless.

searching for "Alexander Peter Kowalski" on google responds with the top result "How to Respond When People Threaten to Sue You on the Web"... full of people mocking your pathetic attempts to invoke legal action where none is warranted. why do you think that is?

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

you're completely pathetic.

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

did jay little regret you claiming that he libeled you? you said that he would too, but it seems his website is still up after many years, and no action was ever taken..., as well as many other individuals who you've threatened with libel suits that resulted in no action. you're a demonstrated liar. you're a moronic buffoon. you are completely worthless.

searching for "Alexander Peter Kowalski" on google responds with the top result "How to Respond When People Threaten to Sue You on the Web"... full of people mocking your pathetic attempts to invoke legal action where none is warranted. why do you think that is?

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

you're completely pathetic.

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

did jay little regret you claiming that he libeled you? you said that he would too, but it seems his website is still up after many years, and no action was ever taken..., as well as many other individuals who you've threatened with libel suits that resulted in no action. you're a demonstrated liar. you're a moronic buffoon. you are completely worthless.

searching for "Alexander Peter Kowalski" on google responds with the top result "How to Respond When People Threaten to Sue You on the Web"... full of people mocking your pathetic attempts to invoke legal action where none is warranted. why do you think that is?

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

you're completely pathetic.

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

did jay little regret you claiming that he libeled you? you said that he would too, but it seems his website is still up after many years..., as well as many other individuals who you've threatened with libel suits that resulted in no action. you're a demonstrated liar. you're a moronic buffoon. you are completely worthless.

searching for "Alexander Peter Kowalski" on google responds with the top result "How to Respond When People Threaten to Sue You on the Web"... full of people mocking your pathetic attempts to invoke legal action where none is warranted. why do you think that is?

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

you're completely pathetic.

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

did jay little regret you claiming that he libeled you? you said that he would too, but it seems his website is still up after many years..., as well as many other individuals who you've threatened with libel suits that resulted in no action. you're a demonstrated liar. you're a moronic buffoon. you are completely worthless.

searching for "Alexander Peter Kowalski" on google responds with the top result "How to Respond When People Threaten to Sue You on the Web"... full of people mocking your pathetic attempts to invoke legal action where none is warranted. why do you think that is?

cower in my shadow some more, feeb.

you're completely pathetic.

Peter, APK, my love, come back to bed ...

Daddy

If you google his name, this is the first result: http://www.thorschrock.com/2008/05/19/how-to-respond-when-people-threaten-to-sue-you-on-the-web/

I don't mind the occasional postings from him, but he's resorted to lazily spamming certain stories with 20+ posts of the same fucking shit and it's quite unsightly. 7 proxies are clearly not enough for him...

Thankfully, enough mods points were available to mod all his posts to -1.

Given the whole thread started by Him hereafter (and in other /. stories), I thought it could be enlightening for everyone to learn a bit more about the Great & Wise APK :

http://www.thorschrock.com/2008/05/19/how-to-respond-when-people-threaten-to-sue-you-on-the-web/

http://www.jeremyreimer.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=4128&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

If you're in a bad mood, this should be enough to make your day :-p

Keep up that Awesomeness of yours Peter

Come on. 2000 was never particularly widely used. Only in business environments. The driver support was lacking for too much consumer-level hardware, for one thing. And of course, as you pointed out, games are important to mainstream acceptance, and 2000 didn't have the support from games companies. NT was even less mainstream. XP was the first mainstream NT derivative.

Anyway. I was interested in whether or not you were actually a career troll, or if it was just this one article you were posting on and you were having a bad week or something. So, I looked for you via google. It seems that you're pretty much a career troll. At least, it looks to me like just about everyone, just about everywhere you post thinks so. You can call this an Ad Hominem attack if you want, but an Ad Hominem attack isn't always a logical fallacy. When it bears on your character and your actual ability to engage in rational debate it's perfectly valid. An example would be someone who insists that the moon landings were faked because rocketry is impossible and refuses to even look at the mountain of evidence that thousands of rockets have been launched or to look through a telescope at the artificial satellites. In such a case, calling the person crazy might technically be an Ad Hominem attack, but it's not a logical fallacy.

So, anyway, some great links related to you:
This one about a situation where you threatened to sue over a piece of software of yours being identified as malware. It seems to me you could have worked with them to resolve the issue amicably, but you couldn't help yourself.

This insane thread that you posted to for years. My favorite quote from it is: "Great Scott! APK's numerous and highly repetitious responses read like examples from a freshman textbook on logical fallacy and deceptive rhetoric." I think that poster had you pegged perfectly.

This exchange which was absolutely hilarious. That one really was worth a LOL!

This has a list of some of your ars technica posts. You seem to have been hated there right from the start for good reason. The fact that you seem to have believed that C++ was dying, but that Delphi was the future is hilarious. It's also really funny when you post under a different alias pretending to be some random person supporting you. It's so blatantly obvious that it's you, even when you use a handle like Cybordeath. I'm a bit disturbed by some of the racism, homophobia and misogyny in some of your posts, by the way. Your temper seems to have calmed a bit over the years. Your fundamental troll nature seems to be coming through even more as you age, however.

So, basically, you're a very well known troll, which is an accomplishment, I suppose. Getting sucked into long flame wars with you doesn't seem wise, and it looks like any discussion with you pretty much has to turn into a flame war.

Fun stuff. This one is awesome and surreal

APK detected. If you Googled the name "Alexander Peter Kowalski" you would find these:

http://www.thorschrock.com/2008/05/19/how-to-respond-when-people-threaten-to-sue-you-on-the-web/

A nice bit using APK as an example of how to handle yourself when dealing with people "like these." APK is the poster child for this behavior.

http://www.jeremyreimer.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=4128

More of the same from other people... complaints mostly and somewhere in there, his home address. Probably moved by now since many complaints about this nuisance date back before the year 2000... quite a career.

http://www.acronymgeek.com/APK/Alexander_Peter_Kowalski/276459

Here he is so infamous that he is registered with an acronym.

I'll skip the crappy registry cleaner utilities. There are hundreds of those all equally useless. And really... engine? Is that what a utility gets called? An engine?

http://twitter.com/#!/klastalov/statuses/2001247938

Here's a link from an APK fan... worth reading

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=821190&start=40

This is beyond awesome.

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-33596.html

Yet more indicating his stellar reputation as a contributing member of society who gets along well with everyone.

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1010242&start=40

Another sample... these are dated 2001. I mean really. If a person goes a whole 10 years like this and everyone seems to respond to him in the same way, what sane person can believe that he's not the problem and that the rest of the world just wants to attack him for no good reason. This is just a person who will never look at himself as the source of his own problems.

"erroneus" spelled in this way is a kind of loop. Also, it was taken from an error message reported by old IRC server software after a user attempted to change his nick to something that is not allowed -- "erroneus nick change." Oh yeah, I go way back.

What I find amazing is that he replied to my same comment numerous times and then replied to his own replies numerous times. His replies are hilariously like elementary school tactics rather like calling someone "chicken" or in his case "...ran away!" As people go, APK is quite a piece of work and completely genuine I'm convinced. He's literally stuck in a kind of loop somehow. Tracking just what he does on Slashdot alone is quite impressive. He has to track individual targets all over the place checking and rechecking comments and threads to keep his fire burning. And it's not just here. It's other places too. This is probably the most angry and obsessive person I have ever witnessed. I am completely convinced that he's over-the-top mentally ill.

I think you're confusing SquirrelDeth with APK. They're different people. You can tell the difference because SquirrelDeth didn't write a 40 page treatise on how you aren't qualified to criticize his ramblings.

While his rantings may look completely incoherent, APK very likely has full blown asperger's (or at the very least is schizophrenic). Here is one of his greatest hits.

Disregard that, I suck off goats.

APK

(P.S. http://www.thorschrock.com/2008/05/19/how-to-respond-when-people-threaten-to-sue-you-on-the-web/)

his latest crapflood, still active as of 5 minutes ago. Typical - someone somewhere must have posted something against him as an AC, and he went nutzo again.

Of course, "teh question" changes all the time, because he has *ahem* issues ... and more so issues with women, from the looks of things.

Anyone running into this guy needs to see this. It's funny, he makes threats - either veiled or outright - to sue for libel, and when you tell him "so sue me, you stupid fat tub of lard", he changes the question.

Pete, you're a troll and a moron. You made a complete ass of yourself here and you continure to do so in this forum.

Not to mention that he’s been banned on multiple sites & forums for sock-puppeting to sing his praises, including writing fake reviews for himself. He also has a few /. sock-puppets – MEK LoveBug, the kings jokwers, and kingsjokers – with whose presence he might grace us if we get him especially pissed off. (Though it looks like the old ones haven’t spoken up for a while now – maybe they were banned, or he forgot the passwords for them.)

He also doesn’t like it when you link to this (Ugh. APK again!), this (How to Respond When People Threaten to Sue You on the Web), and especially to this.

(APK, are you mad yet?)

You’re a liar. Why should anyone believe you?

At least his name carries a lot of weight: http://www.jeremyreimer.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=4128 and http://www.thorschrock.com/2008/05/19/how-to-respond-when-people-threaten-to-sue-you-on-the-web/

After reading this I'm not sure you are as qualified as you like to think! http://www.thorschrock.com/2008/05/19/how-to-respond-when-people-threaten-to-sue-you-on-the-web/

Well, if you're not a spyware maker then obviously it's unfortunate, but in the US libel does require an element of malice, and from some quick Googling, it does appear that multiple sources believe you are, indeed, a spyware author. They may or may not be correct, but someone can legitimately, in good faith, say you are one because it's very easy to believe you are.

I say this because I googled "Alexander Peter Kowalski". The very first link is this one:

How to Respond When People Threaten to Sue You on the Web.

Now, in the above posting, you threaten the author of a spyware removal tool because his tool (and apparently others too) have identified one of your programs as being spyware. As with Jeremy Reimer and, indeed, Clone here, you were, apparently quick to yell "Libel", and your responses appear (to me - and I'm just giving you my honest opinion, this is how you're coming across to me) as hysterical and nutty. The impression anyone reading the article gets is not "My, Mr Kowalski has been given a very rough time, poor thing.", but "Some Spyware manufacturer is trying to intimidate anti-spyware people."

And, for what it's worth, doing some googling on the executable described by the above link continues the theme whereby apparently rather a lot of people are under the impression your software is spyware. The first eight links I get when I Google are all from anti-spyware organizations, and the other two on the first page aren't flattering either.

Coupled with the fact that respected agencies such as CA are apparently standing behind their claim your software is spyware, there is nothing libelous about Clone's viewpoint. It might be wrong, I can't comment, I've never been privileged enough to have your software on my PC (I'm a GNU/Linux guy personally), but it's not a malicious written falsehood that damages your reputation.

So, no, Clone isn't libeling anyone here. Here's what to do about it if you're telling the truth:

• Take a step back. Honestly, take a deep breath, and stop getting angry.
• Determine why CA and others believe your software to be spyware. If there's an innocent explanation, give it. If there isn't, well, the difference between a spyware author who harasses those who point it out, and one who keeps quiet, is that more people hear about the allegations against the stalker.
• Be the man. You've upset a number of people, and a quick Google reveals it to be more than Jeremy Reimer and Clone over here. If your software is being tagged as spyware then it rather suggests that intentionally or not, you've also upset a number of people who use your software. Fess up, fix the issues, and take some steps to mend fences between you and your critics.

I'm saying this not because I think you will, but because it's what you have to do. At this point, Alexander Peter Kowalski's name is mud. It's mud not so much because someone got confused and thought you were making spyware when really you were making the coolest app evah, but because you haven't handled the criticism of the app particularly well.

Many have tried and tried and tried and failed. The guy is a nutjob.

http://www.thorschrock.com/2008/05/19/how-to-respond-when-people-threaten-to-sue-you-on-the-web/

Read that page. Pretend that the APK posts are by someone else. Now ask yourself if his actions look reasonable or sane.

This Thor guy is being perfectly reasonable. He doesn't cave in to your empty threats, and he is trying to be nice about getting the spyware status of your software revoked. Then for no apparent reason you start insulting his character. How do you think acting like a dick is going to make him want to help you? Perhaps you should learn a little patience, and try to treat people as if they aren't all out to get you.

You acted in exactly the same way to me here, in comments I've seen on The Register and in other forums. It is no way to behave if you want people to take you seriously.

So I've never heard of you before, but you seem to like throwing your initials round APK, or Alexander Peter Kowalski.

Your initial comments seemed idiotic, you were complaining about your 15mb+ hosts file being slow to load. Sorry, but what the fuck? You have a 15mb+ hosts file? are you really that clueless about IT?

But you try and justify it all by talking about security so I figured hey, I'll see what this guys credentials are. Well, a quick search turned this up:

http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/pest/pest.aspx?id=51276

A piece of software that can arbitrarily run applications invisibly? Sorry what, did you really try and throw such a security threat onto consumer's PCs??

But wait, it appears you didn't stop there, I also found this:

http://www.thorschrock.com/2008/05/19/how-to-respond-when-people-threaten-to-sue-you-on-the-web/

So not only do you produce an app. that is a massive security risk, not only do you fail to see why it has been validly categorised as such, but you throw a hissy fit and threaten to sue? Not only that, but continue to spam the comments section of that site for over a month continuing to whine?

People make mistakes though so fair enough, I figured I'm sure there's more to this guy. I found this:

http://www.thenewtech.com/forums/chit-chat/today-4378/index32.html

Er, a program built entirely around breaking the hosts file using it for purposes it is simply not intended? Again, do you have any idea about the subject you preach? Do you realise that your very own programs pose a security risk? Do you realise how trivial it would be for Malware to hide malicious redirects in hosts files of the size you are talking meaning yet another one of your programs is a vessel for anti-security?

And there's more:

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/51009562/m/3680937305

Threatening to sue again on online forums because people didn't like the fact you were using them to advertise your dodgy Delphi programs?

Other than that, all I could find was a couple of dead web pages of yours and mention of a couple of long obsolete Delphi programs.

Your complaint is about the performance of using the hosts file for something it's never meant to be used for and the resultant performance drops of reading such a large file.

The fact that using the hosts file so incorrectly inherently severely decreases performance of DNS lookups anyway seems lost on you.

You talk of security yet you produce applications that are security threats.

You threaten to sue anyone who points out that your applications are security threats, you threaten to sue people who do not like you using technical forums to advertise your programs.

You complain here about how people obviously aren't programmers because they disagree with you yet your language of choice is object pascal via Delphi, hardly the language of choice for an expert programmer and second only to pre-.NET Visual Basic for the horifically bad bloatware it results in.

Do us all a favour, quit posting anything to the internet, spend a few years updating your knowledge to learn a worthwhile language like C++, Java or one of the .NET languages. Get a clue about security and understand why your applications are a far bigger security risk than anything you talk of and finally, stop threatening to sue anyone you disagree with.