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Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory
An anonymous reader sends a story from a writer whose Facebook account was locked because somebody reported it as using a pseudonym. It doesn't, but Facebook demands a look at identification documents before releasing control over the account. Anyone whose name doesn't sound "real" to Facebook is at risk for this, and the social network doesn't even have a consistent stance on what an "authentic" name is. "Aside from the complexity of identity, the policy is haphazardly enforced at best. At worst, it’s dangerous and discriminatory, and has demonstrably and repeatedly been used to target people who often already are marginalized and vulnerable." Matt Cagle, attorney for the ACLU, says, "By controlling the identity of the speaker with this policy, Facebook has the effect of both reducing speech and eliminating speakers from the platform altogether. This is a particularly concerning move to the ACLU because forums like Facebook serve as the modern-day equivalent of the public square for a lot of communities.
I repeat, do not treat a private service as a public square. That's a horrible idea.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
turkeydance. i identify as a bird.
"...forums like Facebook serve as the modern-day equivalent of the public square for a lot of communities."
Is there a way to identify these communities? Just trying to avoid areas of mass stupidity where Facebook somehow supplanted actual news outlets.
Those who feel Facebook is in the position of being a modern day times square have obviously never heard of a troll before.
Enjoy.
Everyday they provide new reasons not to use them.
Facebook is dogshit.
and have it tied to my business account. One thing I discovered Facebook and Especially Google are usless for anything business related with out paying up the ass for likes. Only reason I got a G+ account that I update once in a while is that it lists me higher than the other local businesses in search.
Probably in the next few months I'll abandon both of them usage wise and just keep them for search indexing.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
It's actually Professor Tekno A. Hogg, M.Pupp. (Cantab). Now that you know my full name, I'm sure you will take my opinions much more seriously, because free speech is all about who says something, not what is actually being discussed.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Ahh.. Public Square - the phrase to use when trying to coerce someone into doing something you want.
It's a dumb policy. Don't use Facebook. If people don't care they'll use Facebook anyway. Problem solves itself.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
They should probably just switch to a policy where an account requires a credit card, or valid ID, and you only allow one private and one public account per person.
-Z
Don't like Facebook terms? Don't use it. There are better ways of getting attention from other people, like joining a dance troupe.
Only a fool would put their real name or address anywhere on the internet with the exception of places you buy stuff from.
I always use real sounding pseudonyms (frank johnson, james alexander etc) to prevent accounts being flagged as bot or fake accounts.
see above.
So glad I never signed up for this shit in the first place.
I have two Facebook accounts, a real one with with my real info and another one I just use for playing games. I don't want to mix 'friends' from casual games in with my real friends. I used a pseudonym on the second account. Facebook just locked my second account this week and wouldn't release it until I sent in a photo of my driver's license. I consider that a huge invasion of privacy. I had be using the second account for a long time under the pseudonym. After receiving my driver's license they changed the name on the account to my real name (now no one in the games knows who I am) and they entered all of the data from driver's license into the profile. This is just a total mess which is going to cause me to use Facebook even less than I do now.
Fair is fair -- why are celebrities allowed to go by their stage names?
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Who the fuck cares about Facebook?
Facebook is a despicable company that doesn't have even a basic level of respect for its users. This has been readily apparent to anyone who has been willing to look for the better part of a decade. You want to be a part of that? Go right ahead. Just don't act all indignant when they arbitrarily lock your account or sell the data they have on you to corporations or the government.
Furthermore, likening Facebook to a public square is just silly. Public squares don't fight for your clicks by targeting you with advertisements. Public squares won't track every move you make on the Internet after you leave. And, most relevant of all, public squares are places where it's perfectly acceptable to remain anonymous through the use of any pseudonym you can dream up.
I say let Facebook do whatever they want. The more egregious the abuse, the more likely another clueless user will wake up and boycott that shit.
People are stupid enough to comply with them when they request documents too. Seriously. I'm pretty sure my dog can live without a facebook account if the account she currently lends me is ever closed.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
I'm fine with them targeting ads to my interests. I actually like seeing new information about topics I enjoy. However, my problem is when they so aggressively demand to link it to my real identity, name, address, family members, etc. There's no legitimate need to have that information for marketing purposes. It's intrusive at best and fascistic at worst. I don't see how they could have any non-evil need for such information.
My Facebook name is "Dick Gazinya" and it has been such since 2006. Please don't report me.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Except in the public square you are identifiable by your face unless you're wearing a ski mask.
A right to be anonymous is not the same as a right to be anonymous AND participate fully in society. People who have used anonymity to spread speech that challenges power have to watch their asses, which means that they make a sacrifice. You can still have anonymity, but you're going to have to sacrifice.
Nobody owes you anonymity.
You are welcome on my lawn.
When a social network becomes so big and so important that facebook's policies negatively impact a person's life and the ACLU feels it needs to fight for them, it's time to get away from that social network.
We need an alternative form of connecting to each other, one that isn't controlled by the policies of a single company. One *WE* control.
Im sure one can make some satisfactory fake IDs for this cause... in fact there's probably a market for it in facebook :)
I can stand up in any public square the US and give my opinion of whatever topic I want to. I don't have to provide my name to do so.I don't have to show my papers. I don't have to get permission from overnight billioinaires. I can simply tell people what I am thinking, and call myself Silence Dogood.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
Facebook is a place where most of the people you encounter have a real-world persona that pretty much matches their online persona, so if you take care to know the people you friend, it cuts out a lot of bad behavior. You have the opportunity, though you can also screw it up with poor choices of friends, to have a community that avoids much of the trouble of random corners of the internet. People are *much* better behaved when their real-world friends and acquaintances can see them.
This is useful. It doesn't serve every purpose, and it isn't intended to. It isn't for everyone, and that's okay. It discriminates against people who would otherwise behave behind a pseudonym, so it's not perfect. Nothing is.
A place without pseudonyms is useful, even if it isn't universal.
Disclaimer: My slashdot name is a pseudonym. My facebook name isn't.
Here's a brilliant idea.. Facebook requires real names as part of its terms of service.. put your real fucking name in, or don't use the fucking website!. Is this so god damn hard to understand? No one but you cares if you want to have your made up wiccan name.. god knows there's enough freaking raven moon/unit/cloud/wolf or whatever fairy tale you want to live in. No one cares about your gaming name, your crossdresser name, your stage name, etc.. they have categories for that, and yeah, you have to pay for distribution on that, but hey, you're not being a real fucking person, you're being an actor or playing a role.. guess what, you go to the option to pay to troll the public. that's how it works numbnuts. and lets not bring in the sorry assed PC patrol in on this either. if its a private service, its their rules, obey them or leave. no one cares what you think you're entitled to, or what you think the service has become.
I have an email username "nobody" at one of my own domains that I use for things that I don't want connected to me. It's a perfectly functional normal email account just like the ones I actually use, it just happens to be named "nobody".
When I was forced to sign up for a Facebook account for a development project that integrated with Facebook, I signed up using that email address. Facebook refused with a message that was tantamount to "ha ha no but really, what's your email address?" Fuckers, that IS a real fucking email address...
-Forrest Cameranesi, Geek of all Trades
"I am Sam. Sam I am. I do not like trolls, flames, or spam."
None of that has anything to do with "anonymity".
If you come into the public square and start to holler about how black people need to die because they're raping all the white women and taking over the country, people will remember your face, I guarantee. And when you come back tomorrow, someone will recognize you as the Dylann Roof-acting motherfucker. They don't need to know your name, or see your papers to know who you are.
Unless you have a hood over your face, of course, which I suppose is possible in certain parts of the US.
See, facial recognition has been around for as long as people have been around. Your anonymity in the public square goes as far as the extent of peoples' ability to remember your face.
You are welcome on my lawn.
> Public squares don't fight for your clicks by targeting you with advertisements. Public squares won't track every move you make on the Internet after you leave. And, most relevant of all, public squares are places where it's perfectly acceptable to remain anonymous through the use of any pseudonym you can dream up.
Have you ever been to the United Kingdom? Our public squares do all of these things.
So glad I never made a facebook account. No facebook, linkedin, pinterest, no twitter, etc etc etc.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
The United States has this wierd thing called free speech zones. If the government doesn't like your message they will try to force you to use them instead of the public square.
Who the fuck cares about Facebook?
Hey! Don't badmouth my self-updating list of contacts.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
So what happens if you send them a (poor) scan of fake ID? You're not impersonating a real person, and you're not interacting with the government, so I don't see any actual legal consequences of this. Do any lawyers out there have any idea on this?
Seriously.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
See subject: You're a weasel as you aren't willing to stand behind your words - Plain & simple.
* Yes, that goes for all you "registered 'lusers'" on /. too with your nickname/handles/pseudonyms (& I've said it before, even though I have "had it out" TONS of times with her/him, as an e.g. - At least BarbaraHudson/TomHudson posts with HIS/HER REAL NAME, afaik @ least & I have some solid evidence he/she does & THAT? I will give him/her, unlike many of you: He/She has SOME integrity in that regard... the rest of you? Don't!)
(Especially who TRY to play "superior" for being easily tracked sheep no less, & are deceitful weasels AND trying to be someone you're NOT... & on 'superiority' being an easily tracked registered sheep? Hey - Fact is, You're ANYTHING BUT that... & you know it, since your online hiding behind some b.s. name that's not your real one merely evidences it).
Truer words were NEVER spoken on /. ...
APK
P.S.=> Don't LIKE that? Too bad - truth can be like that, now can't it?? Absolutely - & I'd STRONGLY WAGER those of you that give me guff over it will eventually realize that based on your effete "ReAcTiOnS" (which will give you away in them)... apk
I can stand up in any public square the US and give my opinion of whatever topic I want to. I don't have to provide my name to do so.I don't have to show my papers. I don't have to get permission from overnight billioinaires. I can simply tell people what I am thinking, and call myself Silence Dogood.
Then you should do that. Facebook, a business, is under no obligation to help you with that effort.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
All of the people who use it. And that's a lot of people. Let them do whatever they want? That affects a lot of people. Fail to sound the alarm? Then how do you differentiate you vs. the enemy?
Knowing, but not warning, that makes you feel superior? What about knowing and warning?
I say tell everyone you know, and let them decide. I would prefer to let them wrestle in Jell-O, but time is short and I have other priorities.
But if you have links to Jell-O wrestling where this is a solved problem, do share.
I've stayed away from Facebook for ages but ever increasingly the queer community seems to be using it. My ID documents do not match my new name yet and using my old name causes a lot of distress for me. If I do get Facebook I don't want to put my last name (because Facebook is evil) on there just have a first name, which I'm sure will cause Facebook to yell at me.
That said, why the fuck does Facebook need a real name? Never mind we all know that.
Can I signup to Facebook over TOR inside a VM?
Or you could come in the middle of the night covering your face and put up signs and posters saying the same and come morning it will be there.
Let's stop pretending that all public places have no means or anonymity. Someone recently went around placing notes about some KKK group and candy on people's porches in my area. The candy I suppose was to entice children to read the notes if they saw them before their parents I guess.
Of course my porch was skipped. I have a couple very large dogs and signs saying "trespassers will be violated" and "hidden fence, dogs run loose on property".
The writer, Nadia Drake (as listed in the byline at Wired.com), doesn't explicate until almost the end of the article: it's not that FB is misinterpreting her actual name as overly exotic, nor is she using a stage or business name, but her account is registered as "Nads N. Nads". She justifies this by saying that her friends commonly call her "Nads" for short and that she also wants to avoid a stalker. That might be justified, but the fact that she buries it near the end of the article, after a whole bunch of support for actual minority and Native American names, makes it feel just a bit self-serving. I would argue that proper journalistic practice would be to front-load this information in the first or second paragraph.
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
Who the fuck cares about Facebook?
Like this is going to get you modded down on Slashdot.
The better question to ask is "Who on Faceback gives a damn about Slashdot --- or even knows that it exists?"
The problem isn't unique to the geek forums: almost no one on the net makes the effort to open channels of communication with those outside their own group.
The free speech zones are not about your message being liked or not, it's about your message interrupting others in their message and your message becoming violent and disruptive.
If you don't like it citizen, you can run for office and change it.
It's true if you look at CNC forums and 3D printer forums. The same things keep getting re-invented all the time on both sides.
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Clearly you haven't been modded into oblivion, but honestly, this is a dumb question. That's like asking, "Who the fuck cares about Google?"
Literally over a billion people care. And the advertisers care. And the shareholders care. There're a lot of people that care about Facebook.
Whether you like it or not, and whether you use it or not, to many people, Facebook is becoming all they know of the internet. For all intents and purposes, it IS the internet for a segment of the population. There are mobile providers that will sell you a plan that gives you virtually no data for free, but you DO get Facebook access for free. Facebook's Messenger chat service has something like 700 million users and is the single most popular chat application in the USA. We hear stories about the NYT doing a deal for instant loading articles and a share of ad revenue because Facebook is also becoming the place where most people read their news.
So yeah, LOTS of people care. YOU should care, even if you don't use it, because it's becoming the sort of behemoth that warps space around it. I hardly use Google's services at all anymore, but I definitely care about what Google is doing in the world. Most people with PCs and Android phones care about Apple and the influence it brings to hardware and mobile—even if they purport to hate every single change Apple brings to hardware or mobile. People that don't live in the USA definitely care what the USA is up to. There are plenty of reasons to care about Facebook and even weird things like this because they really do serve to show us the state of the internet today and give us hints to the future, or at the very least, what we DON'T want the future to look like.
People have been threatening to abandon Facebook for various minor transgressions every year that it's been around, and it keeps getting bigger. It's not going anywhere for a while.
Facebook users are the commodity. never forget that. They sell your data to marketing companies and make a pretty penny doing it. They just want to make sure their data is as accurate as possible.
Mean what you say...say what you mean.
As I said, you can have anonymity in the public square, but you have to make sacrifices. Wearing a hood or ski mask tends to raise suspicion in the people around you, and for good reason. There's a trade-off. Sometimes, the trade-off is worth it, but there is always a cost. And despite the bitcoin wishes, the Internet is not a magical place where laws and social norms do not apply.
Being anonymous is different from being anonymous and participating fully in society. If you have to cover your face, it limits your options quite a bit.
You make my point. You don't send out your dogs anonymously. You clearly state, on signs on a property with an address, that dogs are protecting your house. You're house. This way people know which house you don't go trespassing around. It gives you peace of mind and it informs the people around you.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I know someone who's real first name is "Fantasy" and FB wouldn't let her register an account. She had to change it to "Fantasie" instead to get past it.
Bingo. Ben franklin would be proud of you.
This is a serious issue for many Native Americans and has been repeatedly "Facebooked" about over and over with little to no effect. Because many Native Americans do not have European names they get their accounts locked out. This is easily exploited by those who actively engage in harming Native Americans and others they do not like because of race.
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Blog: @muksihs
... because Facebook's members waive damned near every right that is on any books anywhere.
The only right we have is to leave.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Too bad people are forced to use Facebook. If they were free to leave then this wouldn't be an issue.
Oh wait.
-1 disagree is not a modifier for a reason. -1 troll, flaimbait, redundant, overrated are NOT acceptable substitutes.
"Gazinya" looks plausible, as if it were some ethnic variant of Garcinia , the genus that includes mangosteen and brindleberry trees.
For the life of me, I don't see why this is suddenly a controversy. So far as I can recall, Facebook has had the "real names" policy the entire time they've been around; all the way back to when they were "The Facebook" and were exclusive to college students. And they've never hidden the policy. In fact, they used to advertise it as a feature to distinguish themselves from the cesspool of fake accounts and trolling that MySpace had degenerated into. The people whining about it now remind me of those people who move into houses next to airports and then complain that the airplanes make noise.
And as far as the drag queens' complaints, Facebook does in fact 0provide mechanisms, separate from individual pages, for promoting your stage name, band, business, or whatever else you consider your brand. So that is also a stupid non-issue.
Imagine all the people...
You sent Facebook your driver's license? What a fucking moron. You do realize that Facebook is owned by the government, and they are using this information to literally plot your death, right? Cue the dumb fuck "OMG @ ur tinfoil hat!" responses from the ignorati of Slashdot in 3...2...
Like everyone else here, I don't want to give Facebook my real information. So when I set up a Facebook page for my business and it demanded a personal account to link to that business, I just made something up. I don't care if they ban / lock my personal account. Or all of my personal Facebook accounts, those mean squat to me, but what happens to my business page if that happens? Does anyone know for sure what happens in that case?
People have been threatening to abandon Facebook for various minor transgressions every year that it's been around, and it keeps getting bigger. It's not going anywhere for a while.
There are other measures that are important, though. Like, more people have probably quit using Facebook this year than started using it in it's first five years of existence.
It can continue to grow bigger and more stupid. People catch on, and when they get a clue they back away. Facebook is probably as ubiquitous now as the National Enquirer magazine. But we all see that magazine at the checkstands when we're buying groceries. Do we pick it up and read it, much less buy it? Part of our job is to make sure Facebook heads to the same place as the National Enquirer.
Mark pseudonym accounts as such. Put the name in a different color of whatever you need to do. That way people who want to use it anonymously don't inconvenience those who want to know who people are.
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Of course my porch was skipped. I have a couple very large dogs and signs saying "trespassers will be violated" and "hidden fence, dogs run loose on property".
It's not social networks you have a problem with, it's being social.
And about hiding the protestors away so they aren't seen by people deemed important by the state, and so there are no photo opportunities for the press containing both the protestors, and those they are protesting to or about.
Quite amusing when you consider how Americans like to lecture the world about free speech.
You know that the most efficient way of telling everyone you know is on Facebook, right? You could do it in 5 minutes, then not have to worry about it again.
Right. It's not going anywhere for a while. And there's nothing that the open source community can do to change that. Because the FOSS community can only do what they always do: copy, whilst leaving out important bits and making the rest more complicated.
In this case, the vary fact of anonymity destroys the very purpose of a FB type social network. It's all about mirroring real life social networks on the computer, thus making communication with people you know easier. No one wants a FB with anonymous people. The anonymous communication function is filled by forums like this one.
How does this have anything to do with 'Free Speech' (considering the conventional usage of that term)?
and noone thinks his name is fake. Of course his last name is Jenkins and not "the crazy cat man".
I repeat, do not treat a private service as a public square. That's a horrible idea
If someone opens a FB account under "Ching Chong Chang" is it a pseudonym?
There are Chinese whose last name happen to "Ching", or "Chang", or "Chong" and if FB is going to play that 'let us see your ID first' game they will end up harrasing A LOT OF CHINESE (plus Koreans / Vietnamese)
The solution is simple: do not use Facebook.
Facebook is evil.
Two very important reasons never to use Facebook:
* Facebook blatantly states in their EULA that they will sell your private information to third parties. In fact, anything you upload becomes their (intellectual) property.
* Facebook does not let you use pseudonyms. Your privacy is your own and it should be up to you to decide whether or not you use your real name and not to some billion dollar company whose primary goal in your participation is to sell your private information to third parties.
And on the Eighth Day, Man created God.
Anonymous Coward got locked out of Facebook ... twice!
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
... because the name facebook doesn't sound real to me.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Most news sites use Facebook for posting comments. The country I live in is into a lot of political turmoil right now and not only is my name unique but muy workplace lists me very fondly, so anyone wishing to find me and break my face could do it.
We all know about the teams whose job is to swing political opinion by means of fake accounts with real sounding names. It would seem like nothing is being done against those. On the other hand, many of my friends have fiddled with their screen names and pictures to the point of becoming irecognizable by their contacts out of fear of being harrassed or tagged in a defamatory post.
thats all. punish them by ignorance.
use freedns.afraid.org and small computer to set up you own homepage and crypted chat system.
zuckerberg works for the banksters. less so google, but they also like to play thought police.
fuck that and give us our germanic freedom back !
See subject: I post using my real initials. I don't hide it. Most here know who I am too.
If you'll note the idiot doing the "timecube" reply to me as well? It's part of the reason I don't keep a "registered 'luser'" account here, since as I stated, it makes you an easily tracked for trolling sheep (think about it)...
APK
P.S.=> ... & I don't need any more trolls stalking/harassing me than "Mr. Timecube" reply to me already (I've had them 'threaten' me saying "if you get an account, I'll modbomb you to hell" out of spite after I handed them their behinds on some technical issue - like many "I KNOW IT ALL" nerds do, once they find out they don't... apk
Fazebook's face recognition will help with this one, no worries
I keep warning everyone I care for and teach my children
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You can do just fine on Facebook. You can easily register an account as "Silence Dogood". You can post your rant on your page, and share the post on various groups (many of which are open access). It may even work better (be safer for you personally) than a random public square, as there's less chance for being arrested for stirring up trouble, in case you're proclaiming hate against certain people or so, and people don't get to see your face with it.
Sure the account may get blocked later, but what'd you care? The message is out already, and that's what it's about. Messages older than a few days are effectively expired on Facebook - not many people browse that far back in their news feed. Too many other messages appearing.
As long as there are alternatives that are not too odious, I won't care about any company
What if someone uses a real name that is not their own? Someone made a new account with a friend's maiden name using a scantily clad photo with her face photoshopped on and started sending friend requests to all her friends (her friend list was public at that time). It took weeks for FB to react to her and all of her friends flagging the account as fake.
The writer, Nadia Drake (as listed in the byline at Wired.com), doesn't explicate until almost the end of the article: it's not that FB is misinterpreting her actual name as overly exotic, nor is she using a stage or business name, but her account is registered as "Nads N. Nads".
She comes to it in the third or fourth paragraph. It's not exactly buried, or at the end, and comes before any mention of Native American names. Then, it seems you were modded up by people who didn't RTFA at all.
I don't see why her reasons for pseudonymity are any less legit than anyone else's. Everyone on FB ought to be using a pseudo, simply because of the whole spy game FB is running. Then, there are all the other reasons.
-- sudon't
Air-ride Equipped
"She comes to it in the third or fourth paragraph."
Totally false. Search for "Nads Nads". This appears for the first time in the 32nd paragraph ("The last name on my account was not Drake. I started out as Nads Nads.").
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
You can thank the Democrats (DNC - 1988) for that. I am not a Republican, I am further left than most elected Democrats, actually. The FSZs are a horrific idea.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
See subject: I've had THAT go down many times until Jeremiah Cornelius got BUSTED doing it (& the guy works for VMWare for Pete's sake, & MS before it - talk about STOO-PID!) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* That's a SINGLE INSTANCE only - I have MANY more... would you like me to post more of them? Ask!
APK
P.S.=> Besides: I have a rather "unique style"/imprimatur in my posts that's nigh "inimitable" & most everyone here knows it, so they can TELL when I'd be the real poster, vs. a 'pale imitiation' like ole' JC got caught doing above, red-handed here on /. ... astounded me actually!
(... he, & others too with him, probably 'sockpuppet' alterego fake accounts for farming karma so they can upmod themselves & downmod opponents they can't get the better of)
Yes - he USUALLY submitted it by ac posts, signing off as me (anyone that's been here for years remembers those - they were unending in nearly EVERY article... I couldn't BELIEVE jc did that actually, I never had a thing against him & even got along with him for the most part, often respecting his views which aren't far off of my own in fact)... apk
because forums like Facebook serve as the modern-day equivalent of the public square for a lot of communities.
We allow private corporations to become "the public"
bickerdyke
See subject: I'm surprised you don't know that after your statements to myself here http://slashdot.org/comments.p... (which states you have not seen me in a long time which means you KNEW I existed here, first of all) but perhaps MORE IMPORTANTLY, this from you:
"I do not debate the use of the hosts file. In fact I have contributed to the MVPs Hosts File in the past." - by KGIII (973947) on Friday May 29, 2015 @05:07PM (#49801895)
You're excused/exempt from my statements due to THAT (good taste on YOUR PART by the way/great minds think alike, lol), & due to the below (we do the EXACT same).
TRIVIA & ODD: I saved you quoted in that, yet it DOES NOT SHOW in your post history here -> http://slashdot.org/users2.pl?...
Though on that same page in your post history, you say you post AC & thus are aware of how to "game the system" here for karma bs (& it is bs).
APK
P.S.=> I've used the same 'id' method as you have since 1995 online everywhere I post as you have... apk
"APK is an acronym of his real name, Alexander Peter Kowalski." - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Sunday June 21, 2015 @03:41PM (#49957601)
1st: You proved a point to KGIII (others know me)
&
2nd: You prove my initial premise here in your posting under some 'fake' name...
(I will never understand that, UNLESS YOU'RE UP TO NO GOOD & ARE HIDING... which you seem to allude to next in fact!)
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"He doesn't fear his real name being attached to his posts" - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Sunday June 21, 2015 @03:41PM (#49957601)
Should I be? Again, you seem to be... why??
Are you up to no good??? I'd say you are. That'd be the ONLY REASON for being frightened for speaking your mind imo (if you are up to NO good).
Fact is - You've got a HUGE listing in my bookmarks for times you've pestered me (& I plastered you all over the pavement for it, a prime example or two's below in fact, lol)...
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"and has a tendency to write angry comments" - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Sunday June 21, 2015 @03:41PM (#49957601)
No, Ash: I do, however, have a tendency to GLOAT though, rightfully, especially after YOU SCREW UP LARGE on hosts vs. myself as you have numerous times...
Case in point/e.g. -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
LMAO - but Ash-Fox was "only pretending", lol which is a stupid way to TRY 'cover up' the fact you F'd UP large there & I ate you alive for it... lol!
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"particularly when you credit his 'award winning' text file generator" - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Sunday June 21, 2015 @03:41PM (#49957601)
See subject?
I've cut you to shreds on that very thing before (you have nothing like it to your name/credit I can see) -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
& you must still be "angry" over it... truth's like that, Mr. "ne'er-do-well", now isn't it? Yes.
I LOVED WHEN I MADE YOU "EAT YOUR WORDS" ON MY CODE BEING IN COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL APPS HERE:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
& YOUR 'B.S.' REPLY "I can't say which ones I've done due to an NDA"?
LMAO - please:
WHO ARE YOU *TRYING* TO FOOL WITH THAT BS?
(Clue - it goes over as well as a lead balloon & fools NOBODY... lol!)
APK
P.S.=> Thanks for helping me prove my points to KGIII though, that I give you props for, as you actually FOR ONCE, helped me out + for letting me show what a bs artist you are, especially your "NDA" bs when the truth is, you haven't done a damned thing anyone's ever noted as good OR sold off that does well in software, independently, as I have, lol... apk
See subject: The question is explicit, do your worst/state your best & I will rip it apart with facts... go for it.
* I love TAKING APART/DISMANTLING PhD's...
APK
P.S.=> It's just "what I do/how I roll" & I've done it to the likes of Dr. Mark Russinovich of MS before - you shouldn't present any challenge on this account @ all, Mr. Math... Go on now, speak - this is NOT your area, I will fry you in it with facts as well as logic (as this IS my area)... lol, & hey - so you know?
Ash-Fox has *TRIED* it only to be shot to pieces (tried using DNS but it has MORE moving parts for breakdown (which it does a LOT), & complexity, exploits galore, & electrical power inefficiency usage due to more moving parts even if used as a local service, WORSE if separate machine etc.)... apk
See subject: OR did you NOT write this here as ac -> "I do not debate the use of the hosts file. In fact I have contributed to the MVPs Hosts File in the past." - by KGIII (973947) on Friday May 29, 2015 @05:07PM (#49801895) FROM-> http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
* NOW, should you ATTEMPT to deny that's you that said you use hosts?
Well, again:
I have a quote of YOU ADMITTING you "game" the moderations systems here via restricting posts via your "registered 'luser'" account as well -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
NO DENYING YOU WROTE THAT for sure... & that you DO indeed, post as ac... though I suspect your reasons there are NOT 100% truth, I've seen worse lies...
Especially here on /. from some "real winners" like Ash-Fox & his "I was only pretending" + "NDA" bullshit I pointed out here from his sorry ass -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... )
APK
P.S.=> My man, let me tell you 1 thing (it's why FOOLS like Ash-Fox continually "try me" only to fall FLAT ON THEIR FACES everytime, especially on hosts): There is NO WAY you can win here, no way, since you TRAP YOURSELF... that's truth & logic here along with solid evidence (your own words), vs. illogic if you attempt it on your part... apk
See subject: Why're you being deliberately obtuse?
They attempted to "mimic me" to be caught (a former MS employee & VMWare current afaik employee did, pestering ALL OF /. DOING IT no less, trying to "character assasinate me")
E.G. - See whose name is on this when he was caught doing a BOGUS 'masquerade' of myself, albeit he forgot to submit as ac & instead, STUPIDLY, he submitted as himself (Jeremiah Cornelius) -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... )
Since I'd consider you fairly intelligent @ the very least due to an alleged PhD in mathematics on YOUR part (& I'll take you @ your word on that, for now, assuming honesty on your end)?
* WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU WANT TO BE A TRACKABLE FOR TROLLING SHEEP VIA YOUR REGISTERED 'luser' ACCOUNT FOR?
Please - don't insult your OWN intelligence telling me "it's for 'karma points'" since that's for kids for Pete's sake, come on, if you have something good to say to someone, say it... or bad for that matter!
(Plus, on childish "/. karma"? Hey, that's EASILY GAINED via multiple sockpuppetry which goes on here like mad to mod ones self up via a sockpuppet & opponents you can't beat DOWN with them too by the same token)
Don't think it goes on? You're not very smart for a PhD then, not in how the online world REALLY works...
Want proof?
APK
P.S.=> As far as being "limited by post counts" as ac? If you KNEW a bit more on how TCP/IP works, then, like myself?? You'd be "LIMITLESS" as I am per the film of the SAME name here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
E.G.you don't see me "run dry" of the ability to post as much as I wish here & that drives "registered 'lusers'" trolls here nuts when they try downmod my posts to oblivion! I just POST AGAIN, as much as I like, they run dry of modpoints for downmodding & GUESS WHO WINS, as always, in the long haul? Yours truly!
I ROLL OVER the dolts here beating them @ their OWN game, & I am less trackable by a HUGE longshot than they are... apk
How did you go from having contributed to currently using - use is present tense? I do not, unfortunately, currently make use of the hosts file on any systems that are used regularly. I probably should, it would be less resource intensive than my use of adblock. Mostly I have become weary and do not take the time to maintain it properly which is unfortunate as it is a great way to block unwanted connections or to push certain URLs to a specific IP address.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
See subject: "Doth not a good argument make" - simple enough for you?
APK
P.S.=> You know, IF you're going to *play troll* w/ me? Try their usual "TL:DR" when confounded & caught w/ their pants down as you have been via your OWN words & what-not... ok?? apk
I'll give you that! See? I can be FAIR & honest about it!
* However, the TRUE dimwit that's stalked & harassed me MANY TIMES here (Ash-Fox) only to have fallen FLAT ON HIS FACE vs. myself as I literally have shown in replies to him which you are free to examine (which admittedly has me worked up since it never ends from that little prick) will NOT admit what YOU have stated
APK
P.S.=>... has me "on guard", admittedly, even vs. yourself (which I apologize for + should've known better coming from you on)... apk
See subject: GOOD! You help prove my points in your very words now... good enough for me.
(Thank you)
* You noted a lack of originality on my part as far as hosts? Fine... I'm about IMPROVING our lot, via a BETTER improved way to do so, & I provide the means.
I can say that I have originality in this creation being portable, 64-bit, & SOLID + verified as clean by MANY sources (including the BEST antispyware company hosting & recommending it for me via one of their BEST employees doing so) -> http://start64.com/index.php?o...
Especially vs. others like it, since it does more, better, & from 1 single moving part with NOT NEARLY AS MANY DEPENDENCIES on others' engines (SQL) & pure atomic string functions...
Beat that with a stick. Like hosts itself vs. inefficient easily detected & blocked addons? It's better.
I'm doing it PURELY out of the goodness of my heart, such as it is, & why? The internet is GREAT, the 8th wonder of the world as the saying goes & as far as I am concerned...
See, one of my "technical intellectual heroes" (Mr. Cliff Stoll) even recommended I go out & MAKE IT BETTER as he himself did as an early inspiration to myself, here on /. no less, here -> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
So, that all "said & aside"? That's my effort - he's aware of it, as you are... & it works. Better + more efficiently than others like it in fact.
APK
P.S.=> Apparently, around /. (home of the online internet TROLL, lol) - It takes a PhD in mathematics in yourself to understand what I've been telling others here for ages apparently, even though I provide ENDLESS proofs (screenshots & all from VALID analysis that, put it this way as Oppenheimer said of genius "Genius sees the answer before the question" iirc)... apk
You had issues with what I wrote: Ok - The most salient useful part, for you, per my subject above & your words, from my post then (slightly edited only):
As far as being "limited by post counts" as ac?
If you KNEW a bit more on how TCP/IP works, then, like myself?? You'd be "LIMITLESS" as I am per the film of the SAME name here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
E.G.:
you don't see me "run dry" of the ability to post as much as I wish here & that drives "registered 'lusers'" trolls here nuts when they try downmod my posts to oblivion! I just POST AGAIN, as much as I like, they run dry of modpoints for downmodding & GUESS WHO WINS, as always, in the long haul? Yours truly!
I ROLL OVER the dolts here beating them @ their OWN game, & I am less trackable by a HUGE longshot than they are... apk
APK
P.S.=> That's from that post's PS, & what *might* intrigue you the most, as to HOW it's done especially, circumventing those "ac limits" you complained of (& of which I am *NOT* subject to)...
Should you want the answer, provided you're NOT aware of it, & apparently you're not?
I will give it to you (it's fast too, not like proxy usage, & astonishingly SIMPLE as well)...
Write me @ apk4776239@hotmail.com should you wish to know (for my 'mistake' in misreading you here in our exchange? It's the LEAST I can do, to allow YOU to overcome an objection you have to ac posting)... apk
See subject: Commercial code to my name's proven http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
* YOU CAN'T DO THE SAME "Ash-Fox"... lol!
( I have successfully commercially sold code to my name with proof of it right in that link, & you don't... loved your "NDA" bullshit too - "real convincing" of you (not)).
APK
P.S.=> I had no problems whatsoever showing anyone reading here that you're a "ne'er-do-well" bullshitter that hasn't done squat - prove otherwise (OH, THAT'S RIGHT - YOU? CAN'T!)... apk
See subject: Correct, & I'm used to them *trying* & failing, everytime.
* FACT: YOU EVEN AGREE WITH MY IDEAS ON HOSTS FILES.
( Thus, the results are proof of that, constantly - with no 'detractor/naysayer' being able to prove those ideas wrong & THEY'RE CERTAINLY SHOWING THEY'RE UNABLE TO SHOW THEY'VE DONE A BETTER PROGRAM FOR THE JOB AS WELL ON THEIR PART (or, for anything else for that matter that they can prove they've done of any worth whatsoever))
APK
P.S.=> Ash-Fox being a "prime example thereof" - you *may* have noticed he won't even TRY it this time (since he's "all out of aces" by now)... apk
See subject: You need remedial reading lessons http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
It was for YOUR BENEFIT & overcomes 1 of your objections to AC posting (post count limits).
* That "TL:DR" stuff doesn't wash with me, you have understood everything I've written thusfar, why have difficulty with that then in the link above?
APK
P.S.=> I'm not here to deal with "you can't write/you can't read" troll bs - & that IS what I am seeing... apk
See subject: No questions asked & agreed. However: No matter how much proof I put up from reputable + verifiable sources, trolls like Ash-Fox (also in this debate) do not "give up the ghost" & attempt to give me guff, constantly as you can see he's doing here in THIS very exchange also... unbelievable!
APK
P.S.=> What you describe's another "beauty" of hosts files, in COMPLETE easily managed by the user of them control...
Other hugely inferior & inefficient methods ("Almost ALL Ads Blocked" & its variants eat more CPU + RAM, no questions asked, but are also more difficult to manage (regex vs. hosts records simple format entries) AND even DNS deny rules = more complex by far)?
They're just NOT that simple or efficient OR EFFECTIVE (in combination) largely + stupidly "layering on more" & yet DOING LESS than a single file does in hosts running in kernelmode vs. their messagepassing overheads adding usermode piled onto a browser's operations too!
I knew that, as you do also evidently - trolls here apparently don't (it's that or they have "ulterior motives" that hosts adversely affect - has to be, why else argue with valid tests results & logic?)... apk
See subject: A PhD agrees w/ me on hosts http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
* Got anything like that going here for you vs. me?
No, as usual...
APK
P.S.=> Just like you didn't have proof to back up your bluster of creating successfully sold commercial code to your name/credit independently!
By way of comparison?
I can & did have instantly & easily verified to MY NAME/CREDIT, here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... )
&
All YOU had was your "NDA" bs which flies like a lead balloon, lol, as to anyone believing YOU vs. myself... apk
See subject: What've you got by comparison vs. http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
"?"
* ANSWER = Nothing on your part, as usual...
(That's just easily verifiable, undeniable, concrete proof on my part as usual vs. your off-topic bs & weak sputterings...)
APK
P.S.=> Just like you didn't have proof to back up your bluster of creating successfully sold commercial code to your name/credit independently!
By way of comparison?
I can & did have instantly & easily verified to MY NAME/CREDIT, here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... )
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All YOU had was your "NDA" bs which flies like a lead balloon, lol, as to anyone believing YOU vs. myself... apk
Just edit your ID's name and send that. Considering it's only supposed to be a scan/photo of it (where you can get away with a pretty low resolution), and the drone at the other end just wants to be able to check off some form item, I don't think that hurdle is very high.
If Facebook ever asked me to verify my fake name, I'd send them a fake ID in a heartbeat.
My real name is none of their business, and Photoshop is your friend...
How is he going to win an election if he can only campaign in the free speech zone.
See subject: What've you got vs. http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
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* ANSWER = Nothing on your part, as usual...
(That's just easily verifiable, undeniable, concrete proof on my part as usual vs. your off-topic bs & weak sputterings...)
APK
P.S.=> Just like you didn't have proof to back up your bluster of creating successfully sold commercial code to your name/credit independently let alone making a ware up to 40% better as I did (a set of wares that took EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com to a FINALIST position @ MS TechEd 2000-2002 in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement, 2 yrs. in a row!
YOU, by way of comparison? Nada, squat, zilch you did yourself.
Me?
I had that instantly & easily verified to MY NAME/CREDIT, here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... right near the top of it!
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All YOU had was your "NDA" bs which flies like a lead balloon, lol, as to anyone believing YOU vs. myself... apk
You meant "Intensive purposes". It's a common mistake. The More You Know(tm)!
See subject: It's what U do - it DOUBLES overheads inefficiently. Right there, your 'security fix' is INEFFICIENT AS HELL right off the bat!
You also "addon more" vs. hosts single file!
Which right there, is again, LESS efficient than hosts which are a NATIVE part of any OS bearing a BSD derived IP stack (most all, if NOT all do)!
Which also in turn, means YOU WILL USE MORE ELECTRICAL POWER just by running more parts (if not a separate system for DNS which really tears up more power)!
You also introduce complexity (especially vs. hosts single file easy internal design) + room for breakdown - & don't even *TRY* tell us DNS "never breaks down" either (that'd be complete bullshit).
APK
P.S.=> You are stupid if you actually *BELIEVE* "bolting on more moving parts" is more efficient smarter design (especially for a single user system or small home LAN)... apk
See subject: It's fact & common-sense, no avoiding it. It also means MORE CPU CYCLES used (you can't avoid that either, as you're powering MORE programs - hosts doesn't incur that. It's a native part of the IP stack itself).
YOU IN PARTICULAR ACTUALLY USE ANOTHER SYSTEM: THAT CERTAINLY MEANS MORE POWER CONSUMED IN & OF ITSELF!
No questions asked, & NO AVOIDING IT - it's physics, fact, & REALITY!
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When you run my program, it starts you out with between a 3-11mb hosts file (on average) - that's not "massive" & it's absolutely CURRENT data. You don't NEED it resident (though it's great for protecting hosts that way if left resident) - even I don't leave it resident since the next run of it refreshes hosts from a PRISTINE copy of NEW data (unless you merge it with older data, which I DO, do (experimenting how FAR I can push hosts file data size for years now)).
So hosts data that's current (the important type since malware makers shift & change domains/subdomains a lot) = FAR from "massive".
Especially by way of comparison to "the competition" in browser addons:
E.G.-> AdBlock = 128mb, UBlock= 63mb by way of comparison.
Proof FROM -> http://www.ghacks.net/2014/06/...
SCREENSHOT -> http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-conte...
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You don't *HAVE* to block ENTIRE DOMAINS you know. Only affected subdomains...
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DNS DOES MEAN MORE COMPLEXITY IN PROGRAM PARTS ADDED ALONE - LET ALONE DATA, & INTERNAL DATA IN DNS RULES TABLES THAT IS FAR MORE COMPLEX THAN SIMPLE 2 PART PER LINE HOSTS FILE ENTRIES TO LEARN & TO CREATE.
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YOU IN PARTICULAR ALSO DOUBLE YOUR OVERHEADS BY USING TCP in lieu of UDP TO "SECURE" YOUR SETUP - THERE'S YOUR PRICE!
(... & you KNOW it - TCP means "callbacks" UDP doesn't have!)
That's NOT "efficient"...
APK
P.S.=> There you go... apk
they require your realname
they may ask you to prove it (hey, what site should be allowed to see any id documents? None!)
they may block you
you may use a pseudonym and feel clever, they can stop you anytime.
Do not use it. else your create a dependency. Lose all your contents / contacts or provide a real name? Good thing, i told all my contacts, how to reach me, without having facebook. So facebook cannot block me from contacting them.
and in facebook you have a profile picture. so you point is ...?
My profile picture in Facebook is a picture of you.
When I go into the public square, my face is my face.
You are welcome on my lawn.
See subject: This captures you quoted on that much:
"Electricity wise, not enough to make any noticeable difference on my wattage meter when I turned the DNS server off." - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Friday June 22, 2012 @02:32PM (#40414665) FROM http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
Same here:
"Even if I switched to recursive mode, it wouldn't be vulnerable, since I have the server set to use TCP instead of UDP for queries." - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Friday June 22, @01:05PM (#40413497) Homepage
To be blunt: I don't think you're telling it how it is over there or the truth actually by this point: Based on those quotes of YOUR WORDS? Seems You're just vainly reaching for straws to "try get the 'better' of me" only, via lies. Your past is your undoing, read it above...
Plus, by using a router?
Your blocklist would be too small to be TRULY effective due to small amounts of RAM on them (unless you spent TONS on say, a CISCO unit - making it costly, those are NOT CHEAP)
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You ASSUME an ENTIRE DOMAIN is corrupted. That's not usually the case. Usually it's subdomains.
(Otherwise, you've got a LOT OF FALSE POSTIVES GOING OVER THERE...)
APK
P.S.=> No matter HOW you *try* to 'cut it', using DNS means more:
1.) Moving parts & complexity
2.) Power (as daemon/service & WORSE as separate system)
3.) CPU use (more programs running)
4.) Ram use (larger interior entries on deny lists vs. hosts)
5.) Room for exploit (due to things like the Kaminsky redirect poisoning flaw vs. which 99.999% of ISP DNS are NOT PROOF AGAINST)
To "fix it" vs. that flaw, as you have? MEANS DOUBLING OVERHEADS using TCP vs. UDP)... apkusing DNS means more
See subject: Than your complex many part overhead laden setup (with huge potentials for downage, exploit, & complexity), period...
* :)
"Mine is however heavily customized, but that's just because I like to tinker and do a whole slew of interesting things to me personally." - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @11:30AM (#49977881)
See above again, it's the KEY CONCEPT here: You need SLEWS of ADDED THINGS vs. myself using what I already have that's easy to manage, less complex, & more efficient + natively a part of the IP stack itself in KERNELMODE (you lose on moving parts complexity + added overheads).
Quibble ALL YOU LIKE, & *try* to NOW tell us "oh I never said that" & your OWN WORDS trapped you!
(I love you "registered 'lusers" & your post histories - to quote the Count of Monte Cristo here? "Twas your PAST that disarmed you Mondego!" - & THAT? Is TRULY, that...)
APK
P.S.=> It REALLY DOES come down to that above, Ash-Fox!
Yes - on logic alone, you fail, as always, vs. "yours truly" & a tool I designed MYSELF (unlike a USER of others' wares + tools who couldn't even BEGIN to offer others more speed, security, reliability, & anonymity as I do using what everyone has NATIVELY ALREADY)
Man - lol, no, instead? YOU "BOLT ON MOAR" inefficiently, lol!... apk
See subject: & far more complex + problem prone vs. 1 file I use...
APK
P.S.=> Hilarious: 1 single file operating @ kernelmode level does ALL you can do, more efficiently - & you're giving me GUFF over that? apk
See subject? Everyone has a host files but not routers w/ big RAM to do what you do (DOUBLING OVERHEADS no less, lol, switching from UDP to TCP)...
See subject again: FACT: You "BOLT-ON 'MOAR'", needlessly to *try* to do what I do from a SINGLE FILE in hosts, operating in kernelmode efficiency!
* Clue/New NEWS/NewsFlash: You don't NEED to do a 'multi-terabyte' hosts file, fool!
(Current data is *THE* most important kind - threats get sinkholed @ the ICANN level within a month usually, unless they're FASTFLUX type, & what stops those great? Hosts, by host-domain name!)
SECONDLY: Using 127.0.0.1 is STU-PID vs. 0.0.0.0, & YES, for reasons you noted, incurring overheads in MANY ways!
E.G.-> Larger file on disk = SLOWER loading @ the OS filesystem level (in my case, up to 30% so) vs. using the smaller 0.0.0.0!
PLUS
For internal parsing by the IP stack itself during initial loads into memory, NOT just file load by 4k segments usually by the logical filesystem)!
(You also do *NOT* incur the "loopback adapter" overhead hit using 0.0.0.0, but you'd have to have the loopback adapter installed (in Windows @ least) for that to occur...)
APK
P.S.=> Before you "give me guff" ever again? Realize something, ok?? I've been @ this stuff since 1982 on MOST every level there is, & done VERY WELL @ it (you already know this) - & I've FULLY + COMPLETELY thought this out!
Ever seen the film "LIMITLESS"?
Compared to you here? LMAO:
I'm the main character vs. YOU, Mr. Van Loon (position on the YouTube player) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"No scenario? I see every scenario: I see 50 scenarios! That's WHAT IT DOES, Karl - it puts ME 50 moves ahead of you..." ... apk
See subject + link (you bolt-on 'MOAR' & not needed) http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
QUESTION:
* You saying that ADDING ON 'MoAr' (DNS or routers that MAY NOT HAVE ENOUGH RAM ONBOARD TO DO A COMPLETE LIST) = more efficient & SMARTER than doing the same with less + natively with something EVERYONE HAS already (hosts)?
IF you do say that? You're illogical & stupid - period.
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(It ALL "boils down" to THAT very simple premise here Ash-Fox... & you lose vs. it!)
APK
P.S.=> Besides Ash-Fox: Here's YOU telling us ALL ABOUT YOU & YOUR CHARACTER ONLINE, quoted:
"I'm a troll" - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Friday August 15, 2014 @11:05AM (#47677837)FROM -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
AND ("2-4-the-price-of-1"):
"I'm a troll" - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Friday August 15, 2014 @11:13AM (#47677913)FROM -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
So, you can STOP TROLLING now, since you've failed on basic logic & engineering principles (K.I.S.S.) above... apk
K.I.S.S. = good engineering you don't practice "adding on 'MOAR'", lol!
1.) Does everyone have a router of a nature you describe?
Answer = NO!
(They have 'modems' & CAN'T DO what you do due to lack of sufficient RAM + is slower for you as TCP has callbacks & UDP doesn't + DOUBLING YOUR OVERHEADS to secure yourself on DNS vs it's many security issues)
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2.) Does everyone have a hosts file? Answer = YES (major OS' have an IP stack based on a BSD model & hosts are a part of it).
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3.) Do custom hosts files have less "moving parts" complexity/programs to run vs. other "so-called" (BRIBED) "solutions"? Answer = yes (Proven here http://slashdot.org/comments.p... )
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4.) Do custom hosts files do MORE w/ LESS? Answer = YES (from a FASTER higher cpu serviced level of operations in kernelmode vs. usermode doing MORE from 1 FILE than any single "so-called 'competitor'" of mine out there, bar-none, & for less & are NATIVE to the system)
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5.) Have YOU incorrectly claimed I "broke services" using hosts? YES -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & I corrected you in that GIGANTIC TECHNICAL MISTAKE YOU MADE, lol!
(Usermode slow dnscache in Windows is BROKEN w/ large hosts files: I show an EFFICIENT way to correct it using PURE KERNELMODE no context switch diskcaching kernelmode subsystem to do the job BETTER & FASTER in combination with tcpip.sys as the resolver).
APK
P.S.=> Lastly - Those aren't 'ad hominem attacks' - THEY'RE STATEMENTS OF FACT FROM YOUR OWN MOUTH QUOTED -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Your "forums ILLOGIC logic" fails AS YOU YOURSELF LITERALLY *ADMIT* YOU'RE A TROLL!... apk
AshFox piles on/spends "moar" more = good? Inefficient! More moving parts complexity for breakdown + SPENDING MONEY to do it ENTAILS THAT!
(Stupidily DOUBLING your overheads + slowing yourself DOWN using TCP vs. UDP in DNS too!)
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"DD WRTs?" - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Thursday June 25, 2015 @08:47AM (#49984437)
That MOST FOLKS DON'T HAVE & have to spend $ on - that's Ash-"WestStar" (lol) - piling on "MoAr" & SPENDING MORE to do the same as 1 single file in hosts can!
* Real "smart" & "efficient" that (not).
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LMAO -You blocked ENTIRE domains for NO GOOD REASON creating FALSE POSITIVES:
"And, they take up more memory than my solution" - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Thursday June 25, 2015 @08:47AM (#49984437)
Ahem:When you do a STUPID THING LIKE YOU DID, blocking COMPLETE DOMAINS when limited subdomains are the problem ONLY
(+ your datalists for the SAME data in blocking ARE LARGER & MORE COMPLEX for "deny" rules in DNS tables by far)
By comparison: I just use what's already there natively that works!
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"Yes, your method actually breaks parts of windows you can't deny it." - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Thursday June 25, 2015 @08:47AM (#49984437)
It's not HOSTS' problem - it's a FAULTY with LARGER HOSTS FILES slower usermode dnscache clientside service!
TURNING IT OFF SAVES CPU CYCLES + RAM & OTHER FORMS OF I/O WASTED ON A FAULTY SERVICE stupid!
My fix = VERY EFFICIENT PURE KERNELMODE FIX using 2 kernelmode subsystems, no context switch overheads either, unlike YOUR "fixes" (bloated, lol).
APK
P.S.=> You're FAV COLOR = 'transparent' since you're SO EASY TO SEE THROUGH!
How/Why??
Well, I "SEE YOU" troll & YOU SAY IT BEST YOURSELF as to your "fine character":
"I'm a troll" - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Friday August 15, 2014 @11:05AM (#47677837)(#47677837) FROM -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
& ("2-4-the-price-of-1"):
"I'm a troll" - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Friday August 15, 2014 @11:13AM (#47677913) FROM -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
... apk
See subject: That's my point. They have ordinary cable/dsl modems only.
* You're saying they ought to spend more to "pile on 'MoAr'" for no reason (especially when they don't have to, see ps below)
(You're also creating a LOT of false positives by blocking entire domains that ONLY have some subdomains that are problems - that's wrong man!)
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You don't spend a thing or create the false positives you do indiscriminately blocking WHOLE DOMAINS only on suspicion with hosts, a native part of the OS & IP stack, they don't have to
PLUS:
You deny rules, LINE for LINE, are much larger/longer than hosts blocking entries, by far.
APK
P.S.=> This says it all as to your character online & YOU did the saying of it:
"I'm a troll" - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Friday August 15, 2014 @11:05AM (#47677837) FROM -> by Ash-Fox (726320) on Friday August 15, 2014 @11:05AM (#47677837)
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"I'm a troll" - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Friday August 15, 2014 @11:13AM (#47677913) FROM -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
... apk
See subject: Do You? No. You increase overheads UDP to TCP for starters!
* I make up for it + make it more efficient by turning off a faulty w/ large hosts files SLOWER USERMODE dnscache
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I also (per my subject line) save CPU cycles, RAM, + other forms of I/O used by it - & it's no good @ all WHEN it lags the hell out of you...!
No questions asked:
I make it VERY EFFICIENT by going PURE KERNELMODE using the diskcaching kernelmode subsystem in combination with the PnP kernelmode tcpip.sys IP stack resolver
You don't!
In fact, which is VERY UNLIKE YOURSELF & YOUR INEFFICIENT METHODS:
I.E.-> You spend more "$" on routers, adding more moving parts & complexity + larger (line for line) BLOCKING deny rules too for DNS - CREATING FALSE POSITIVES GALORE blocking entire domains when only some subdomains are the issue only...
APK
P.S.=> Again, this describes you perfectly, & YOU DO THE DESCRIBING:
"I'm a troll" - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Friday August 15, 2014 @11:05AM (#47677837) FROM -> by Ash-Fox (726320) on Friday August 15, 2014 @11:05AM (#47677837)
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"I'm a troll" - by Ash-Fox (726320) on Friday August 15, 2014 @11:13AM (#47677913) FROM -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
... apk
yep. you're on your facebook profile, you're on a public place. So what?
Oh, you needed the full pseudo to get the point? My bad. Probably would've been smarter to use a realistic-sounding pseudo, but I don't see how it makes any material difference to the story. Nevertheless, this sentence comes at the first break:
I’ve been going by the first name “Nads”—a nickname my friends, family, and colleagues all use, but does not exist on any official paperwork.
That's seven short paragraphs down. Again, what difference does it make what pseudo she used? It's not like Facebook saw that and thought, "Hmm, looks like a fake name". One of her trolls snitched her out, so it wouldn't have mattered how "realistic" her pseudo was. Yet, you make it sound as if she were being dishonest, somehow. Then you accuse her of conflating the separate issue of Native American names, as if she were trying to ride their coattails. She's simply pointing out that there are a number of reasons, all legit, that one would want to use a pseudo. Her particular issue, as she makes clear, is stalking and trolls.
-- sudon't
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