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"Fallout 4" Release Raises Questions About Reviews of Buggy Games (kotaku.com)
RogueyWon writes: Fallout 4, the latest instalment in the long-running video-game series and one of the most hyped titles of the year, was released on 10 November. The game has generally been reviewing well, currently holding a Metacritic score of 89. However, a number of reviewers have noted the very large number of bugs present in all versions of the game and have, in some cases, reflected on the difficulty that these pose for reviewers, despite still awarding positive overall write-ups. Can it be ethical to recommend a product to consumers on the basis of its strengths, despite knowing that it contains serious faults?
And have no bad bugs to report. A couple instances of things disappearing and reappearing, but no hard crashes or getting stuck.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is the magic number.
"Can it be ethical to recommend a product to consumers on the basis of its strengths, despite knowing that it contains serious faults?"
Yes. Are you disclosing those flaws honestly, so consumers can make an informed choice? Unless you're lying about your endorsement, what's the problem?
>> Can it be ethical to recommend a product to consumers on the basis of its strengths, despite knowing that it contains serious faults?
Yes, as long as the first words of your review are something like, "you might like [product] in a few years, but don't plan on buying it now...[reasons for hope]...[reasons why it's currently broken]."
Reviewers giving a big studio game a pass on being a buggy piece of shit. Oh if only there was some grass-roots organisation against this kind of unethical behaviour.
"I know I will be modded down for this": where's the option '-1, Asking for it'?
I think we need to look a little deeper than is it ethical to review a broken/buggy game. This stems way back to when games had to be right when they were released. If you fudged up somewhere in your game, you had to recall all your cartridges/disks/whathaveyou and eat that loss. Now you can push out a broken game in half the time and work on it as the company sees fit, it's almost like renting out a home before you even put the drywall in. Makes no sense to me.
Have you ever fallen asleep at the keybhanusdiog?
Disclaimer: have no intention of playing the game.
Bethesda stay on top of updates. Safe to assume that any game breaking bugs will be addressed.
If it's fit to release, it's fit to review, warts and all. If the devs don't want bugs to bring their average down, perhaps they should spend more time on QA.
Release now patch later give CEO big bonus for laying off QA (we have end users that pay to due that) and working people 60-80 hour weeks to save on man power.
...isn't possible for most mainstream websites with a deadline. More likely, these guys are just getting 10-20 hours in and doing a write-up. Bear in mind, this is for a popular game. Less popular games probably only get an hour or two.
Think about the volume a movie-review site can pump out since movies are usually around two hours long. Most games are longer than that, so the output is going to be less. This may also cause reviewers to favor shorter indie games since it allows them to pump out reviews.
Add to that the fact that publishers/developers sometimes give different versions to reviewers and you've got a recipe for a dissonance between review and reality.
...and yes, it was buggy. But it was still fun, and patches came out pretty quickly. I don't have a problem with reviewers giving a good review as long as they note that there are bugs. If it's so buggy as to be unplayable, that's another story.
Never let a lack of data get in the way of a good rant.
...Microsoft!
- Goat simulator devs
They cannot break their streak now. Not a single TES or Fallout game they released was ready on release date, why would they want to tarnish that pristine record?
Can it be ethical to recommend a product to consumers on the basis of its strengths, despite knowing that it contains serious faults?
Critics are panning the latest James Bond movie, yet movie watchers gave it an A- grade. How do we explain this gap?
Fallout 3 was a total bugfest, so I want to know if 4 is any better - apparently not.
We know that huge open-world games will contain bugs. It's just that the games are so good that it's worth putting up with some crashes.
Sorry, but do we still believe reviewers are honest, objective, and tell us all of these things?
Aren't they basically put under a gag order, told they can't release reviews early, and pretty much told they won't get access to future games if they give a bad review?
I was kind of under the impression game reviewers have been glossing over crap like this for years.
And if I'm aware of it, it's gotta be a pretty open secret. Because I don't read video game reviews, because I don't buy brand-new releases.
From the sounds of it, game companies are now so reliant on shipping a broken product and then patching it later, getting a new release is like being the beta testers.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
I believe there is a rational basis for giving Bethesda the benefit of the doubt that the bugs WILL be fixed. In all of their previous games -- Fallout 3, Oblivion, Skyrim, etc. -- Bethesda has released a huge number of patches fixing bugs, bolstered further by an ardent community of modders to fix yet more bugs with their own patches, that make the polished game pretty close to bug-free 1-2 years later, and still quite playable and workable even after 2 or 3 months of major patches from Bethesda.
There is something to be said for a developer's reputation. In this case, I believe the reputation of the developer is one that gives us reason to trust them to fix the worst of the problems, and the game should be moddable enough that the community will fix the rest.
Also, this is a 64-bit native game on PC (not sure about consoles), which means that we won't be getting crashes due to hitting the virtual address space limit like we did on 32-bit. It makes a gigantic difference. Even if there's a slow memory leak in the game that persists for a long time, you can just have a large pagefile, even if you only have 8 GB of RAM, and eventually the leaked memory pages will get swapped out to disk, freeing up RAM for the pages actively being used by the game.
And having it be 64-bit gives us the advantage of being able to scale up the number of objects and mods to a complexity level never seen before in a Bethsoft sandbox game.
Basically I would advise everyone to take a chill pill about the bugs. If you're being bitten by bugs currently, and feel that it's too buggy to play, just wait 2 or 3 more weeks for the first major patch(es) to land, and it'll be good enough to enjoy the experience, at least. Then, on your second playthrough a month or two from now, it'll be even more polished, and we might even have a community bugfix patch by that time, depending on how quickly and fervently people work on it.
I would not give this same level of trust and expectation of bugfixes for just any developer or just any community, though. Most games are not nearly as moddable out of the box as Bethsoft games, and most games don't get nearly as much post-release support as Bethsoft and their community gives their games.
shove garbage down our throats. Down our throats.
It is currently sitting at 5.3 User reviews. Reading through the negative reviews, they have a point. Many immortal characters (where is the kill anyone Fallout?), game on rails, only like 5 different enemies, terrible voice acting, horribly stupid AI, same quests over and over (go kill this many of this creature), refusing quests doesn't refuse the quests, the world is empty, only one city on the map, and a bunch of ruins with nothing there.
It sounds like Bethesda forgot to actually build a game and just built an engine.
I'll wait till it is $5 on Steam and has a ton of mods.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
>> Can it be ethical to recommend a product to consumers on the basis of its strengths, despite knowing that it contains serious faults?
Yes, as long as the first words of your review are something like, "you might like [product] in a few years, but don't plan on buying it now...[reasons for hope]...[reasons why it's currently broken]."
You don't need to tell other people when to buy or not, just the facts please.
The 1-star reviews on metacritic all seem to lament the boring plot and empty world, hollow characters, crummy voice acting, etc. Some say "buggy", but they don't mention what kind of bugs. You mention disappearing items... What items? Inventory items? Items in the world? Plot critical items?
One of the funniest bugs I remember in TES4: Oblivion is when you killed a guy in a house, and came back to that house later in the game, the dead body was bouncing and flailing all over the room. Sometimes, the banging would make quite a racket. It was funny, but it didn't really stop you from playing the game.
I agree - I don't bother reading "professional" reviews these days, I just don't care what the "gaming journalism industry" thinks about games. Instead, I go to places like Metacritic where Fallout 4 has an 89/100 from the industry but a 5.4/10 from users. But even that's useless, because most of the 10/10 reviews are from obvious fanboys whose opinions don't matter to me because they were never going to criticize the game even if it deleted their entire hard drive.
So, ultimately, I just wait until a general consensus has been reached, and it sounds like you do the same. I've seen so many games where the early impressions were great and it was only after people had a few weeks with it that people realized that the game was pretty terrible.
Plus there are things like that Arkham City game where it was released broken for PC and it's now something like six months later and they STILL haven't fixed it for the PC. Waiting is the only way to give people enough time to discover that the game breaks an hour before the ending and that the developer still can't, even after six months, figure out how to get it to run with less than 12GB of RAM.
Shoot, I'm playing (and loving) the original Witcher right now.
I did play Fallout 3 earlier this year (and New Vegas a couple of times last year), but I'm in no rush for the new one at full price.
Please note, all of the games I play are well tested and bug patched (I don't buy the games where reviews say they are still buggy).
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From the sounds of it, game companies are now so reliant on shipping a broken product and then patching it later, getting a new release is like being the beta testers.
It's true, the best time to buy a Bethesda game is 18 months later when it is 1/3 the cost and most of the big bugs are fixed. Nothing beats paying release prices to get access to the large public beta.
Any of the Critic reviews were false reviews of the PC version, and we've known that for a while now. The only versions of the game that were released early to the critics were PS4, and XBox One. Many of the reviews disclosed that early in their reviews, and most of them released what version they were reviewing. By reading the reviews you can tell by reading the negative reviews. Console user reviews have more positive then negative, and the PC has more negative than positive. Heck even one of the PS4 negative user reviews cites "-poor optimalization on a pc " as the reason for the negative review. The XBox One has a stutter issue that Probably should have been fixed before release, but by and large the major issues are a poor PC release that you should have understood before. As for the critics they very rarely consider giving different scores for different systems for the same game. They only have time to review one version. Most rational PC gamers understand that the platform is buggy and a head ack for a large sample of games, and that there is only a short period of time where the consoles are at their End of Life that the PC wins hands down because the consoles are holding back development by their static specs. Only the new, nieve, and master race PC gamers are upset because they thought the days of PC buggyness was over.
So,, is the take away fromt his article..
a. regardless of the disposition of the game it self, we will promote it regardless
b. By promotion, we are giving the companies the permission to unload a peice of shit on society..
c. Why should we employ beta testers? Look the public took this peice of shit, why should they not take more?
d. Why's to fix, the public loves it, the critics love it who cares if it dont work..
e. Lets make it, not test it propperly, and lets see how many people we can screw doing this?
f. Look at batman, Akaram nights.. That shit has never worked and yet we still buy it like water..
g. If they dont like it well stop making it in america, well move our model to the ukraine or something, and ban every onelse. We will vcreate our own eleitist group and whom the fuck cares if u like it or not, our reputation will take us where the quality of our actual product will now..
Now let's talk about your rental in California...
Speaking of unfair things....
This is not quite the question that TFS poses, but it's one that interests me. Some games are awfully buggy on release, but the developers have enough integrity to fix as many problems as they can, even if they aren't getting paid for them (the studio I most associate with this good behavior is Paradox). On the other hand, there's some games that are awfully buggy on release, the developers fix a few that have simple solutions, but leave the game a mess for the rest of time. The primary example I'm thinking of here is Empire: Total War. The game was almost unplayable on release; Creative Assembly fixed a few problems, but the game was still a POS and ended up being just a beta for its "sequel", Napoleon: Total War.
Now, myself and plenty of others have since boycotted all CA products, but that only punishes them for future releases. Short of forcing a lawsuit to fix the game/issue refunds, there seems to be no other way to punish a shitty product--or is there?
This.
This game CAN and WILL get fixed.
Reviews are a bit of a broken system on that part because they are static when a lot of games are very dynamic.
Maybe the next big thing of reviews is a dynamic scoring system, or a re-scoring system, or even secondary review score.
all games released since the ps3 have been bugged that is why ever game has some day release patch.
Other than a bunch of wrongfully entitled whiners with no understanding of how computers and software are meant to work, are there any legitimate negative reviews? Were these kids expecting a 1:1 post apocalyptic life simulator? Have any of these children ever played any of the other Bethsoft games?
I'll admit it...I wasn't impressed with the E3 previews last year, it looked like skyrim with guns, where Fallout 3 looked like oblivion with guns. So far this game is buttery smooth, the story so far has me interested enough to keep playing. And the MOLE RATS ACTUALLY TUNNEL INTO THE GROUND HOLY FUCK. Extra challenge introduced by allowing time to progress while in VATS mode. ADS and shooting mechanics are fucking amazing. If this game is this good on release day, I can't wait to see what they add to it down the road.
From all of those bugs.
Years?? The bug fixes will be out soon. This is standard for almost all PC games ever. The only reason to wait years is if you need new hardware.
I haven't ran into a bug yet console commands haven't been able to get me out of. Joys of using a PC: console commands and modding.
I liked PC Gamer's review of Extreme Paint Brawl (lowest score ever at the time mainly due to the fact that the game wasn't fun and was buggy as hell). That was a game that was so buggy as to be unplayable. a few glitches, crashes etc that are common in modern games, I can over look them as I know they'll be fixed. Another problem with reviews is that the game they get to play, isn't the same game you buy on day one. It's pre-release, so it has MORE bugs. What is the point of saying the game sucks because of this one bug that is at the beginning of the game blah blah blah... focus on that bug, but if that bug isn't in the final release, you look petty as a writer.
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
It's safe proven by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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Its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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More "SALT IN YOUR WOUNDS" -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
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MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
APK
P.S.=> /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
... apk
But the negative reviews are from the habitual malcontents. Player reviews are always by one of two types of people, those who love it 10/10, and those who hate it 1/10. The average player will never review. You get shitty unreliable reviews this way, just like you do with Yelp. The game is new, people are still playing it. Anyoen who's submitted a review to Metacritic already is doing so prematurely. I know there are indeed players who have the hate/love reviews ready to go before they've even touched the game. Just witness all those losers who proclaimed how awful the graphics were just from videos.
While that is true... if we all do that, then we won't get any more of these games...
If you really want more of these games to come, someone has to pay launch day prices...
I do get the vast majority of my games from Steam sales. I'm playing Witcher 2 right now. Aside from the annoying "no drinking potions during combat" rule, I'm liking it a lot more than its predecessor.
Never let a lack of data get in the way of a good rant.
You always end up needing a fan patch with Bethesda anyway.
Bethesda has a solid track record of releasing patches. I would agree that a release from an unknown publisher shouldn't get the benefit of the doubt.
Never let a lack of data get in the way of a good rant.
part of the facts is that bethesda games are eventually fully playable, it just takes time getting there.
I could've told you this would release with a lot of bugs as soon as I heard there was a review embargo. Why else would they not want games journalists heaping praise on their game pre-release? Because that praise would be mixed in with a lot of reporting of bugs and what not.
People really need to be a little more discerning with spending their money on games, but I know that's never going to happen.
you're forgetting that it tells you the ratio of lovers and haters. If the user review is really 5.5, and we go with your conceit that people either gave it a 1 or a 10... then that's a lot of haters. more so than a lot of other games it seems.
I think the fact that reviewers fail to mention obvious bugs is:
1) unethical
2) Proof of how widespread the control/corruption of these reviewers by the game companies is.
3) If it already isnt, it should be illegal if reviewers misrepresent themselves as being an independent authority/in a position of trust that puts consumers interests first, as we look to these people for advise on spending wisely. Them being complicit in what amounts to misrepresenting and misadvertising a product is clearly fraudulent.
Just because they are reviewing a pre-release version is no excuse either, they should still mention the bugs but then say its still in beta or whatever, not just pretend it didn't happen.
I know Bethesda has a long history of releasing very buggy games, but expecting all consumers to necessarily know that and make a judgement before buying the product is unreasonable.
If you were reviewing any other product (say a car) and it failed in some way, of course you'd mention it. I don't go along with the apparently common sheep-like misconception that software somehow gets a magic get-out-of-jail card, so that when we buy a clearly substandard product its somehow now the consumers responsibility to just suck it up and accept crap for good money.
I don't want more of these games where launch day features include broken quests, random crashes, missing plot points, and other things that would have been caught if QA wasn't cut the make the launch schedule. I am willing to see fewer of these games made if that is the price of me waiting 18 months to buy them.
"APK doesn't think that DNS servers are worth running and seems to believe that somehow Microsoft Active Directory can run without DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:58PM (#50811615)
Where'd I say AD will run minus DNS Coren22? I've said AD = internal network DNS dependent as far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
(Search this in BOLD there "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers!" referring to OpenDNS suggestions for those using AD stupid in the POSTS BEFORE IT in my security guides for users (geared to stand alone single machines no less), & right there on that page proves it stupid - so even if you posted as myself someplace here on /. "impersonating me", I have your ass NOW, shithead!)
I've also stated MANY TIMES I use remote DNS in OpenDNS @ home (but not @ work on AD networks + exchange/outlook: Free OpenDNS model doesn't work with AD dependent Exchange + Outlook specifically you lying little imbecile).
I also don't hardcode in "every site there is under the sun" is why, so I have to use DNS, but OpenDNS & rarely.
I also RARELY MISS A LOOKUP since I put where I spend a good 95++% of my time online in my favorite sites into hosts @ the TOP of hosts for utmost LOCAL FASTER RESOLUTION SPEEDS and more reliability vs. Open DNS (not OpenDNS) resolvers being abused, Kaminsky redirect poisoned DNS servers (of which 99.999% of ISP DNS are not proofed against to this very day even though a patch exists which OpenDNS uses), rogue DNS servers, and yes ROUTERS with bushwhacked by malware DNS settings (happening a LOT lately).
Hardcodes in hosts are faster than remote DNS, waste less resources than local dns in power, cpu cycles, RAM, & other I/O by FAR considering ALL THE PARTS of such a setup in programs, data, I/O, & power (especially if setup as a separate machine).
APK
P.S.=> You're a disgusting liar... apk
Coren22 says "hosts=bad" (they add security, speed, & reliability) & bitches on admin priv to UPDATE vs. threats
"So, have you figured out why privilege escalation is a bad thing yet?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:15PM (#50577809)
& admits using admin priv himself
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How else can I programmatically update hosts minus it in Windows?
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"Of course it requires elevation to write to the hosts file" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:35PM (#50585879)
You FINALLY later admit there's no other way!
FACT:
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS you use admin privelege (you saying it's "bad" too?) it can't do its job fully otherwise, like many security tools do!
APK
P.S.=> Lastly - Coren22, there is a CURE for your "outism" due to your retarded by assburgers clearly defective brain (lol) - quit making childish sigs about me & sockpuppet accounts as well as telling lies about me - I'll stop OUTING you immature "signature boy" troll... apk
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
It's safe proven by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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Its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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More "SALT IN YOUR WOUNDS" -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
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MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
APK
P.S.=> /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
... apk
See subject & links where I tried to make peace - says it all w/ proof of it from his trolling "signature boy" mouth http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & here too http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + here http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
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(I've discovered that trying to make peace with a mental retard due to assbergers & OUTISM is a difficult thing & largely apparently unachievable...)
APK
P.S.=> You brought it on yourself Coren22, nobody else - you sow the wind? Here comes the whirlwind, & all your sockpuppets, signatures, & fellow trolls can't stop it (lol, you're 'outta bullets' in downmods) - so "the beatings will continue" until you stop your immature childish signature bs... apk
If its very minor stuff then its fair to ignore it or make a brief mention however if they're bugs affecting gameplay to any extent and/or system stability should be taken into account and the marks given adjusted accordingly. Its because reviewers are all too willing to overlook some seriously show stopping bugs that allows companies to think its OK to continue to release games like COD and BF series which are notorious for taking at least 3-4 patches before major "wanna throw my controller at the screen" issues are resolved.
I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams
This shit is why APK is a troll who should not be fed. Any dumbass who offends APK while posting under his own slashdot name is responsible for the resulting APK shitposting trail they will drag around behind themselves, cluttering up stories where APK would otherwise not post at all.
If you respond to APK, do it the way he does, as an AC.
APK is a worthless faggot. I don't post about him under my name and thus he never has stalked me and never will. To do otherwise is to act foolishly.
Remember Fallout 1? Fallout 2? Heck, I'm just guessing here, but Fallout 3?
Why mess with a successful formula.
How about raising questions of not using spell-check?
I think I bought it the night before it was released and I don't really remember that many bugs. It's possible that I just didn't encounter anything bad enough to notice it as a bug or was lucky. The only thing I can remember standing out was the mouse controls being borked as a console port, looking up or down required a hugely disproportionate amount of mouse movement, which was readily fixable through an ini file change. Now that I think of it though, I don't think I ever finished the civil war quest line.
So long as customers pay premium prices for buggy garbage like fallout 4, reviewers should be entitled to showcase said garbage as it is released.
After a long night of achievements not working, crashes, stuttering, abysmally low frames despite a robust system, glitches, hitches, and canon inconsistencies "because vidya games" for the cherry on the shit sundae I finally got the game to run smoothly after heavily editing out the console junk meant to cap frame rates, limit FoV, etc.... none of which comes standard with the game. Bethesda is a disgrace chasing the almighty dollar and should be ashamed as well as shamed.
See subject: & I annihilated him point by point http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
I call it THE CRUSHING OF COREN22!
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(Downmod away - there's no hiding the truth, lol... I'll just repost as usual until Coren22 wises up...)
APK
P.S.=> Armies of sockpuppets and trolls + liar weasels that are technically weak vs. myself? No problem - they're easy to outsmart, outtthink, outdo AND OUT on any level for me, lol... apk
I never finished the first Witcher, I hit a point in the fourth or fifth chapter that CTD'd every time. Even tried installing on another machine, still couldn't get past that point. Hope you have better luck.
Never let a lack of data get in the way of a good rant.
Can we all stop pretending Kotaku is a gaming website? Please? That their clickbait is both subtle and PC doesn't make it any less annoying.
See subject: Says it all & this link, dismantling him point-by-"so-called 'point'" of his publicly http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
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(Coren22, I tried to give you a chance, 3x no less - you're a fool: You mistake mercy for weakness, like cretin brutes in the streets do... you paid the price!)
APK
P.S.=> I notice you stopped responding there - "Gosh, golly gee - why's that?" (not) - but I expect you'll TRY some more b.s. as that's all "your kind" (trolls) understand - crap like downmodding my posts (which you & your sockpuppets OR fellow trolls have here already NOW TELLING OTHERS TO TROLL ME BY UNIDENTIFIABLE AC POSTS as I've torn you ALL up 1 by 1 every time as I have yourself above... you did this, to yourself "signature boy")... apk
I would just give out a score lowering it how unplayable the game is because of bugs. The witcher 3 was released in may and it still is way too buggy. My guess is at this rate i will play both by half of 2016
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On the other hand, no one can really have gotten very far in the game. The game lovers will be playing it still, and it's too early to review it. The game haters have given up early without waiting even for the day 1 patch, and so did their reviews already.
As long as you adequately highlight the faults, then yeah, it's ethical.
If they can't write the game to full release status, why the hell should I pay full release price? If they fix the bugs BEFORE selling the game, then they will NOT lose the studio, because people will hear there aren't bugs in it and buy it on release.
Only if they hear there are still several bugs will they not buy until it has dropped in price and had several bugfixes.
If they can't do that, then if they DO go under, there was no talent lost.
So a Gawker property is posting an article about ethics and journalism? Wow. Pot meet Kettle.
I browse on +1 so AC's need not respond, I won't see it.
"APK doesn't think that DNS servers are worth running and seems to believe that somehow Microsoft Active Directory can run without DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:58PM (#50811615)
Where'd I say AD will run minus DNS Coren22? I've said AD = internal network DNS dependent as far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
(Search this in BOLD there "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers!" referring to OpenDNS suggestions for those using AD stupid in the POSTS BEFORE IT in my security guides for users (geared to stand alone single machines no less), & right there on that page proves it stupid - so even if you posted as myself someplace here on /. "impersonating me", I have your ass NOW, shithead!)
I've also stated MANY TIMES I use remote DNS in OpenDNS @ home (but not @ work on AD networks + exchange/outlook: Free OpenDNS model doesn't work with AD dependent Exchange + Outlook specifically you lying little imbecile).
I also don't hardcode in "every site there is under the sun" is why, so I have to use DNS, but OpenDNS & rarely.
I also RARELY MISS A LOOKUP since I put where I spend a good 95++% of my time online in my favorite sites into hosts @ the TOP of hosts for utmost LOCAL FASTER RESOLUTION SPEEDS and more reliability vs. Open DNS (not OpenDNS) resolvers being abused, Kaminsky redirect poisoned DNS servers (of which 99.999% of ISP DNS are not proofed against to this very day even though a patch exists which OpenDNS uses), rogue DNS servers, and yes ROUTERS with bushwhacked by malware DNS settings (happening a LOT lately).
Hardcodes in hosts are faster than remote DNS, waste less resources than local dns in power, cpu cycles, RAM, & other I/O by FAR considering ALL THE PARTS of such a setup in programs, data, I/O, & power (especially if setup as a separate machine).
APK
P.S.=> You're a disgusting liar... apk
This is literally what I see on one of the PC gaming forums. People said Bethesda promised no frame rate caps and are now calling them liars saying the game is the worst evar game because it won't support 144fps. (The 'bug' is that the physics behaves strangely above 60fps until you change an INI setting to tell it to expect 144fps...)
People calling for refunds because of this and the... 'massive' amount of bugs this game has... somewhere.
Pretty disgusting. I won't really *cough*PC*cough* mention the *cough*master*cough* forum to *cough*race*cough* keep things civil...
Coren22 says "hosts=bad" (they add security, speed, & reliability) & bitches on admin priv to UPDATE vs. threats
"So, have you figured out why privilege escalation is a bad thing yet?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:15PM (#50577809)
& admits using admin priv himself
+
How else can I programmatically update hosts minus it in Windows?
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"Of course it requires elevation to write to the hosts file" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:35PM (#50585879)
You FINALLY later admit there's no other way!
FACT:
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS you use admin privelege (you saying it's "bad" too?) it can't do its job fully otherwise, like many security tools do!
APK
P.S.=> Lastly - Coren22, there is a CURE for your "outism" due to your retarded by assburgers clearly defective brain (lol) troll - quit making childish sigs about me & sockpuppet accounts as well as telling lies about me - I'll stop OUTING you "signature boy" troll... apk
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
It's safe proven by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
Its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
More "SALT IN YOUR WOUNDS" -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
---
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
APK
P.S.=> /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
... apk
See subject & links where I tried to make peace - says it all w/ proof of it from his trolling "signature boy" mouth http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & here too http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + here http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* :)
(I've discovered that trying to make peace with a mental retard due to assbergers & OUTISM is a difficult thing & largely apparently unachievable...)
APK
P.S.=> You brought it on yourself Coren22, nobody else - you sow the wind? Here comes the whirlwind, & all your sockpuppets, signatures, & fellow trolls can't stop it (lol, you're 'outta bullets' in downmods) - so "the beatings will continue" until you stop your immature childish signature bs... apk
See subject: Says it all & this link, dismantling him point-by-"so-called 'point'" of his publicly http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* :)
(Coren22, I tried to give you a chance, 3x no less - you're a fool: You mistake mercy for weakness, like cretin brutes in the streets do... you paid the price!)
APK
P.S.=> I notice you stopped responding there - "Gosh, golly gee - why's that?" (not) - but I expect you'll TRY some more b.s. as that's all "your kind" (trolls) understand - crap like downmodding my posts (which you & your sockpuppets OR fellow trolls have here already NOW TELLING OTHERS TO TROLL ME BY UNIDENTIFIABLE AC POSTS http://slashdot.org/comments.p... as I've torn you ALL up 1 by 1 every time as I have yourself above... you did this, to yourself "signature boy")... apk
Still thinks his HOSTs is worth a shit when more and more programs every day are coming with hardcoded stuff to directly bypass HOSTs, even the Operating System itself has bypasses for HOSTs.
Given HOSTs can be BYPASSED, it's NOT FUCKING SECURE.
Do not listen to APK nor purchase or use any AV product he may recommend, or any AV product from companies that recommend his INSECURE HOSTs file.
They are simply untrustworthy.
Virustotal is untrustworthy. Virscan is untrustworthy, any entity APK mentions is not trustworthy.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
"APK doesn't think that DNS servers are worth running and seems to believe that somehow Microsoft Active Directory can run without DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:58PM (#50811615)
Where'd I say AD will run minus DNS Coren22? I've said AD = internal network DNS dependent as far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
(Search this in BOLD there "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers!" referring to OpenDNS suggestions for those using AD stupid in the POSTS BEFORE IT in my security guides for users (geared to stand alone single machines no less), & right there on that page proves it stupid - so even if you posted as myself someplace here on /. "impersonating me", I have your ass NOW, shithead!)
I've also stated MANY TIMES I use remote DNS in OpenDNS @ home (but not @ work on AD networks + exchange/outlook: Free OpenDNS model doesn't work with AD dependent Exchange + Outlook specifically you lying little imbecile).
I also don't hardcode in "every site there is under the sun" is why, so I have to use DNS, but OpenDNS & rarely.
I also RARELY MISS A LOOKUP since I put where I spend a good 95++% of my time online in my favorite sites into hosts @ the TOP of hosts for utmost LOCAL FASTER RESOLUTION SPEEDS and more reliability vs. Open DNS (not OpenDNS) resolvers being abused, Kaminsky redirect poisoned DNS servers (of which 99.999% of ISP DNS are not proofed against to this very day even though a patch exists which OpenDNS uses), rogue DNS servers, and yes ROUTERS with bushwhacked by malware DNS settings (happening a LOT lately).
Hardcodes in hosts are faster than remote DNS, waste less resources than local dns in power, cpu cycles, RAM, & other I/O by FAR considering ALL THE PARTS of such a setup in programs, data, I/O, & power (especially if setup as a separate machine).
APK
P.S.=> You're a disgusting liar... apk
"APK doesn't think that DNS servers are worth running and seems to believe that somehow Microsoft Active Directory can run without DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:58PM (#50811615)
Where'd I say AD will run minus DNS Coren22? I've said AD = internal network DNS dependent as far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
(Search this in BOLD there "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers!" referring to OpenDNS suggestions for those using AD stupid in the POSTS BEFORE IT in my security guides for users (geared to stand alone single machines no less), & right there on that page proves it stupid - so even if you posted as myself someplace here on /. "impersonating me", I have your ass NOW, shithead!)
I've also stated MANY TIMES I use remote DNS in OpenDNS @ home (but not @ work on AD networks + exchange/outlook: Free OpenDNS model doesn't work with AD dependent Exchange + Outlook specifically you lying little imbecile).
I also don't hardcode in "every site there is under the sun" is why, so I have to use DNS, but OpenDNS & rarely.
I also RARELY MISS A LOOKUP since I put where I spend a good 95++% of my time online in my favorite sites into hosts @ the TOP of hosts for utmost LOCAL FASTER RESOLUTION SPEEDS and more reliability vs. Open DNS (not OpenDNS) resolvers being abused, Kaminsky redirect poisoned DNS servers (of which 99.999% of ISP DNS are not proofed against to this very day even though a patch exists which OpenDNS uses), rogue DNS servers, and yes ROUTERS with bushwhacked by malware DNS settings (happening a LOT lately).
Hardcodes in hosts are faster than remote DNS, waste less resources than local dns in power, cpu cycles, RAM, & other I/O by FAR considering ALL THE PARTS of such a setup in programs, data, I/O, & power (especially if setup as a separate machine).
APK
P.S.=> You're a disgusting liar... apk
Coren22 says "hosts=bad" (they add security, speed, & reliability) & bitches on admin priv to UPDATE vs. threats
"So, have you figured out why privilege escalation is a bad thing yet?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:15PM (#50577809)
& admits using admin priv himself
+
How else can I programmatically update hosts minus it in Windows?
---
"Of course it requires elevation to write to the hosts file" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:35PM (#50585879)
You FINALLY later admit there's no other way!
FACT:
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS you use admin privelege (you saying it's "bad" too?) it can't do its job fully otherwise, like many security tools do!
APK
P.S.=> Lastly - Coren22, there is a CURE for your "outism" due to your retarded by assburgers clearly defective brain (lol) troll - quit making childish sigs about me & sockpuppet accounts as well as telling lies about me - I'll stop OUTING you, the immature "signature boy" troll... apk
No one lives forever had a map hole the designers couldn't or wouldn't fix so they put a sign on it. It's a real map hole. If you ignore the sign you're reloading your game :P
Hi! I make Firefox Plug-ins. Check 'em out @ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-mp3-podcaster/
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
It's safe proven by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
Its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
More "SALT IN YOUR WOUNDS" -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
---
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
APK
P.S.=> /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
... apk
See subject & links where I tried to make peace - says it all w/ proof of it from his trolling "signature boy" mouth http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & here too http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + here http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* :)
(I've discovered that trying to make peace with a mental retard due to assbergers & OUTISM is a difficult thing & largely apparently unachievable...)
APK
P.S.=> You brought it on yourself Coren22, nobody else - you sow the wind? Here comes the whirlwind, & all your sockpuppets, signatures, & fellow trolls can't stop it (lol, you're 'outta bullets' in downmods) - so "the beatings will continue" until you stop your immature childish signature bs... apk
See subject: Says it all & this link, dismantling him point-by-"so-called 'point'" of his publicly http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* :)
(Coren22, I tried to give you a chance, 3x no less - you're a fool: You mistake mercy for weakness, like cretin brutes in the streets do... you paid the price!)
APK
P.S.=> I notice you stopped responding there - "Gosh, golly gee - why's that?" (not) - but I expect you'll TRY some more b.s. as that's all "your kind" (trolls) understand - crap like downmodding my posts or ac troll me!
(Which you & your sockpuppets OR fellow trolls have here already NOW TELLING OTHERS TO TROLL ME BY UNIDENTIFIABLE AC POSTS http://slashdot.org/comments.p... as I've torn you ALL up 1 by 1 every time as I have yourself above... you did this, to yourself "signature boy")... apk
See subject & links where I tried to make peace - says it all w/ proof of it from his trolling "signature boy" mouth http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & here too http://slashdot.org/comments.p... + here http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* :)
(I've discovered that trying to make peace with a mental retard due to assbergers & OUTISM is a difficult thing & largely apparently unachievable...)
APK
P.S.=> You brought it on yourself Coren22, nobody else - you sow the wind? Here comes the whirlwind, & all your sockpuppets, signatures, & fellow trolls can't stop it (lol, you're 'outta bullets' in downmods) - so "the beatings will continue" until you stop your immature childish signature bs... apk
See subject: Says it all & this link, dismantling him point-by-"so-called 'point'" of his publicly http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
* :)
(Coren22, I tried to give you a chance, 3x no less - you're a fool: You mistake mercy for weakness, like cretin brutes in the streets do... you paid the price!)
APK
P.S.=> I notice you stopped responding there - "Gosh, golly gee - why's that?" (not) - but I expect you'll TRY some more b.s. as that's all "your kind" (trolls) understand - crap like downmodding my posts or ac troll me!
(Which you & your sockpuppets OR fellow trolls have here already NOW TELLING OTHERS TO TROLL ME BY UNIDENTIFIABLE AC POSTS http://slashdot.org/comments.p... as I've torn you ALL up 1 by 1 every time as I have yourself above... you did this, to yourself "signature boy")... apk
Ethics is something more akin to xenobiology to those alleged journalists at Kotaku. Of course they are going to not only publish the review recommending the game but they will write a sincere article on their struggle to avoid getting clicks. What better way than to write an article about ethics!
It's all about sincerity. Once you can fake that your golden. (paraphrasing Andrew Dice Clay as Vinny from Safe Sex?).
"Still thinks his HOSTs is worth a shit " - by Khyber (864651) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @08:48PM (#50906023)
I know it works - so do fellow /.'ers (quoted):
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources"by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
SO DO SECURITY EXPERTS OF GREAT NOTE:
Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET says hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) does-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts hosts & recommends my APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
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"Operating System itself has bypasses for HOSTs." - by Khyber (864651) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @08:48PM (#50906023)
Good - MS pays bloody money for static IPs for windows update servers & DNS kaminsky flaw redirect poisoning, routers + OS IP stack DNS settings being exploited by DNSChanger & other malware COULD DIRECT FOLKS TO BOGUS SITES!
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"Given HOSTs can be BYPASSED, it's NOT FUCKING SECURE" - by Khyber (864651) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @08:48PM (#50906023)
My hardcodes in hosts protect hosts when left resident beyond WFP/SFP (nothing in usermode can blow by its protection, I've tried while testing it).
APK
P.S.=> You fail... apk
Or, if well all refuse to preorder broken games that have zero-day DLC, they will start to fix the games and reduce the bullshit.
Right now there is no incentive for companies to even release good games, let alone working ones.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
I had the backward flying dragons a couple of times, and a texture pop-in or two, but I never encountered a game breaking bug in the vanilla version.
.ini file as well, as my trackball seemed to be a really good advanced arthritis simulator.
I had to tweak the
Then I started modding it, and now that I think about it, I never finished the game at all. With a little over a hundred mods, it sure was pretty, and oh so much more dangerous. Time to re-visit it I think.....
Donald Trump, on a crusade to make Nixon look respectable
Fallout 4? what about Black ops 3 ? at game release for PC, people with core 2 quads and i5 cpu's were hit with 100% CPU usage spikes when the game was launched, and at the menu it would freeze entirely until you ended task w/ task manager. A patch was released quickly which fixed that.
Totally related "Game development in Heaven and Hell": https://www.pinterest.com/pin/...
Coren22 says "hosts=bad" (they add security, speed, & reliability) & bitches on admin priv to UPDATE vs. threats
"So, have you figured out why privilege escalation is a bad thing yet?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:15PM (#50577809)
& admits using admin priv himself
+
How else can I programmatically update hosts minus it in Windows?
---
"Of course it requires elevation to write to the hosts file" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:35PM (#50585879)
You FINALLY later admit there's no other way!
FACT:
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS you use admin privelege (you saying it's "bad" too?) it can't do its job fully otherwise, like many security tools do!
APK
P.S.=> Lastly - Coren22, there is a CURE for your "outism" due to your retarded by assburgers clearly defective brain (lol) - quit making childish sigs about me & sockpuppet accounts as well as telling lies about me - I'll stop OUTING you, immature "signature boy" troll... apk
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
It's safe proven by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
Its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
More "SALT IN YOUR WOUNDS" -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
---
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
APK
P.S.=> /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
... apk
See subject & you're speechless vs. it http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
LMAO!
* :)
(You did this to yourself... & your TRULY COWARDLY AC FELLOW TROLLS? ARE REDUCED TO TROLLING ME BY UNIDENTIFIABLE AC POSTS since I've floored you all, 1 by 1, just like I have you now in the link above... lol!)
Gonna "downmod" it again to try effetely & vainly "hide it" you little mentally retarded assburgers outism pussy like you did last time? LOL -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... you disgusting little lying weasel waste of life liar?
APK
P.S.=> Come on Coren22 - reply there, so I can finish you off totally, point by point... apk
that may be another issue entirely, but, is it really too early?
must you play all the content to know how you feel about something? :) let me kick you in the balls for 40 hours... wait what do you mean you feel you hate this experience after an hour, you haven't experienced my game fully.
Really, that's what the game is like so far? People have posted that it's the worst game of all time before it was even unlocked in many places. Vitriol is being spewed because they didn't like the anti-aliasing options.
Fallout 4 is more popular than a lot of other games. I'm not defending the game; from what I've played, it's fun and has lots of sorely needed improvements to gameplay, but I haven't spent enough time to give a definite opinion. But using Metacritic user scores to judge a game is like using IMDB scores to judge a movie; utterly useless, and you're only going to get scores made by people who are rabid fanboys or people who are offended by the game's existence on a frighteningly deep level.
I'm more worried about changes to games through patches.
You read a review of a one year old game, because it's much cheaper to buy now, but because of the immense amount of patches and features added/removed the game has changed a lot form the inital reviewed game. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
i'm just saying, you're assuming your definition of a valid criticism should be correct. If someone's idea of AA options being a deal breaker are what they base their review on, that's one point of view. If some people think they can review a game before playing it, that's their prerogative. But, that is generally going to be true across the board too. Unless you're telling me, you believe people are reviewing this especially negatively because of the property, because they're being paid to bash it, or because people think bethesda sucks... I'm really not seeing your point.
premature reviewers bring down the average... but they bring down the average for all games
I've had a couple of annoying bugs...dog getting stuck in the doorway, the elevator at the end of the arcjet mission not leading outside like it was supposed to, and I fell through the map once.
But still, finding the whole ethics in gaming journalism thing funny considering...you know....that was the point of Gamergate? Before the social justice crowd started bleating and making false accusations.
See subject: There's your clue, & do you like Led Zeppelin? "Have you seen the BRIDGE?" is another. You're wrong & further proving YOU ARE NOT IN MY LEAGUE TECHNICALLY by a longshot (inclusive of being able to code, you're weak in networking).
* :)
(It's hilarious - you & "your kind", users with a better password, are ALWAYS thinking it's some "complex" thing, when it's FAR FROM IT, like when you also accused me of using TOR... wrong again, lol... it's very simple IF you have the tools, & understand them - my background for decades as both a coder AND network engineer/system admin gave me the know-how you're YET to learn... you probably, my guess this time, is you never will - & YOU SHOULD HAVE BY NOW!)
APK
P.S.=> Don't worry - I've proved what I had to with you - exactly that above & I've assembled a HUGE LIST of your screwups vs. myself into what I call "Coren22's CLASSIC hits" for use when you troll me again - the signature stuff is childish & about your speed + "the best you got" which ain't much as the saying goes... & you were SO WRONG on some things (wait till you see your classic hits list, lol) it's not funny - the lies are the worst though Coren22 but it's your rep, not mine (you have nothing to be proud of so you feel no shame - pride isn't possible for "ne'er-do-wells" like yourself - just posting all day on forums since you have no job obviously (50++ posts a day from you? Please, lol!))... apk
Funny, but nowhere in there did you actually say what you are using that isn't a proxy/VPN. You love to prognosticate about how awsome you are, but you seem like a total noob that loves to talk about their skillz.
So, when you decide to actually have a point to make, feel free, but for now, it is obvious you are making shit up.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
"nowhere in there did you actually say what you are using that isn't a proxy/VPN" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday November 12, 2015 @02:25PM (#50916751)
I gave you clues. I don't use proxies or a VPN (or TOR either as you've accused me of also) - lol!
(You can't even figure out what it is I do & it's completely legit! Almost anyone can do it in fact...)
"Noob"'s also long ago done far more than you will or have in the art & science of computing + has you stumped, lol!
I'll tell you 1 thing: 2 others here "hit upon" a part of what I do, whether they use them or not, I have NO clue & I told 1 person here by email 1 way.
You're the MCSE, networking admin engineer 'god', & security guru (not to all, lol) - figure it out - I'm NOT going to tell you!
All you know is that I do it WHEN necessary combatting little scumbags like you that hide behind fake names online trolling me. It works, like all I do does with testimonials to that effect no less.
YOU are LIMITED boy!
(No creativity (as I see no wares from you for security especially), & no skill in networking either from what I am seeing!)
There's LITERALLY, 3-4 ways to do what I do & those? Aren't them in your mistake accusations.
What I do, like all I do, is FAST + EFFICIENT requiring NO extra "moving parts" - less IS more = GOOD engineering, using what you have natively vs. "Bolting on 'MoAr'" stupidly & illogically.
APK
P.S.=> Besides: You can't keep your word as you're replying to me yet again:
"I don't have time for the Troll APK, and refuse to respond anymore to a post signed APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:27PM (#50858983)
Another lie like on AD+DNS from you. I'm no troll, far from it. I protect users for free w/ a program that also speeds them up, helps reliability, & even anonymity online w/ more abilities & efficiency than ANY other single solution - do you? No. LOL, wait till you see your 'greatest hits fails' vs. me I've assembled... apk
See subject: Like I said above, I tell the truth (sometimes not the WHOLE truth as in what you can't figure out) & I keep my word - you don't.
* :)
Read? I am not a TROLL (another lie from you) & these posts are signed "APK"... what's your problem? YOU LEARN TO READ! Especially since YOU WROTE IT, lol!
APK
P.S.=> Like I said, wait till you see my "Coren22's 'greatest hits FAILS" you've made possible - I thought it was only 2 posts long & it's turning up 4-5 already - thanks, lol... troll me again? It's your funeral with you BURYING YOURSELF in TONS of mistakes you can't admit due to your assburgers OUTISM (lol) obviously... apk
I have this super secret method of blocking ads, and it is 200 X better than hosts files, but I'm not going to tell you what it is, you have to figure it out on your own.
My method is so awesome, it even fixes all the bugs in Fallout 4, and hides all APK posts from the comment section, but it is secret, you have to be an awesome security expert like APK to figure it out.
Give me a break, I don't have to figure out what you are using to get around Slashdot's blocks, that is your choice, and it doesn't make you an uber leet programmer, network technician and systems administrator. It makes you sad and pathetic.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
I lied, I'm really using a bunch of different proxies, Unix Shells (another type of proxy), VPN services (another type of proxy), and hacked routers (another type of proxy) to get around Slashdot's AC limits to troll people.
I am an insufferable troll, I am sorry.
APK
P.S. => I love my mommy, she brought me cookies to my basement hideout! ...apk
You go you, admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery!
See subject & Coren22? You've got zero. Thanks for more ammo for "Coren22's 'Greatest Hits Fails' vs. me" 1-5 for your next upmodded post so everyone can see it - can't wait, lol!
* I was going to hold off until you trolled me again, but... your attitude merits that instead.
APK
P.S.=> You bring it on yourself, no questions asked... apk
I've already posted its "prototype" against other bs you posted today but you keep adding fuel to the fire for it in every post you make... lol!
APK
P.S.=> Don't worry - I'm just refining it now is all - you'll get to see it IF you look @ your recent posts, but the final product is STILL coming (the one you can see is still 'beta') & it'll make you "eat your words" easily (after all - I just quote you to do it)... apk
We keep forgetting how your signatures about apk make you "leet". They make you appear a frightened defeated child Coren22.
Your statement now projects otherwise & your signatures about me are just "so adult" (lol, not).
Help me? How on EARTH could someone as limited in skills as yourself, nothing to show anyone can see or that you can prove, HELP me??
Your childish signatures are helping??? Please... grow up. No, I'll help you along with that, shortly, lol... you literally brought it on yourself.
APK
P.S.=> They're coming along nicely - it is going to be a PLEASURE watching you squirm vs. your own words, lol, & double-talking fooling nobody but yourself... apk
See subject - Please, lol, grow up: That's right up there with your signatures about me - childish. Guess your being stumped got you so f'd up you're doing this now too... like the TROLL you are.
APK
P.S.=> Thanks for proving it all the more... lol!
... apk
This is EXACTLY how I know you're crumbling Coren22 by impersonating me & doing that bs too! See subject & http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
APK
P.S.=> Now it makes sense to me WHY /. is only a shadow of its former self - trolls like you scumbags have infested it & imo? It began around 2010-2012 - I'd almost BET that's about the time Coren22 joined... apk
Customers do not pay for quality! They expect some level of quality to be there, but many of glitches and flaws that clearly show the laziness and lack of care by the developers are no longer a reason for users to not see value. As for a game, as long as it entertains the player it will be fine the broken way it is. That is reflected in the reviews. It all comes down to how easily even annoying flaws can be overcome. If it takes just a second to reset to the point of where things went off the rails many will not even consider this to be a significant quality issue. While I understand that point of view I wished users would be more critical. I've seen plenty of apps with misaligned UI controls, spelling errors, and flawed validation. If developers don't bother with lining things up to cut down on optical noise for the sake of reducing visual fatigue how much effort did they put into fixing things that are a magnitude more difficult to correct? How much did they bother with security measures? How much effort did they put into preventing SQL/JS/HTML injections and XSS vulnerabilities? Companies ship mediocre software because as long as they can make money on it the quality is good enough. Getting to market quickly is more important that delivering a product that the customers paid for. None of that will change as long as customers do not ask for their money back when they encounter craptastic software. It all gets worse when software companies decide to be Agile now....Agile as implemented is the death of software quality, especially when using scrum. That's a different discussion....
"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Where'd I say it? I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
+ Migrate hosts across a LAN (admin/scripts not GPO)-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
---
I'm RIGHT on admin priv + hosts update (WFP/SFP)!
"figured out why privilege escalation's a bad thing?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015
How else can I programmatically update it?
---
"it requires elevation to write hosts" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015
Hypocrite later admits it!
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS it or it can't do its job fully like many security tools!
Guess what?
Don't NEED to run my program as ADMIN - I do it here manually vs. auto.
---
"Needing admin privileges every time a program updates is poor design" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Users set it, not programmatic impersonation for autoupdate. You design zero & say what's what here?
---
"90's technology to fight modern war" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Ozymandias/Watchmen per a namesake:
"I resolved to use antiquities teachings" (hosts) "to our world today & began my path to conquest - Conquest not of men but of the evils that beset them: Fossil Fuels (antispyware), Oil (antivir), Nuclear Power (addons) are like a drug & you gentlemen along w/ foreign interests are the pushers"
It works Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET said hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) too-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts' Admin hosts+recommends APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
APK
P.S.=> Continued in #2/5... apk
"Virus scanners/Adblock software don't need admin priv to update" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
AV does to remove threats - Adblock addons = VASTLY INFERIOR in abilities + efficiency vs. hosts as I've proven w/ noone proved me wrong to date!
---
"your software does" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
No, hosts do due to WFP/SFP!
---
"won't reveal your source code" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't owe you it. I don't give away work to be stolen by others so it's misused like GOOGLE CHROME http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
---
"What's stopping you from pointing my bank's web site at your private server?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't keep a server. You're a security guru (not - you create no ware for security & your forensics skills = non-existent): Put it in a VM, trace it using process monitor + wireshark to prove it (don't need code) & I only put in hardcodes of fav sites @ top of hosts for speed & reliabilty - you'd spot it easily & bulk of the file is sorted blocked known bad threat origins.
---
"the possibility of being caught, which would be pretty hard to catch w/ such a large hosts file, as no one can go through it manually." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
See just above!
---
"What are you going to do when Windows gets rid of the hosts file completely?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Hasn't happened!
---
"They have already taken steps to make it useless in Windows 10." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
It still works there!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #3/5... apk
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
62 sources of good repute show + /. users say otherwise:
Proven safe by 57 antivirus programs in its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
Same for the 32-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
Per VirScan its installer too -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
---
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news... /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
---
You tried using Computer Associates another antivirus I turned over on false positives (1/8 over time) & they were caught in ACCOUNTING SCANDALS FRAUD http://www.bing.com/search?q=c...
Reputable source (not): They had to sell off their PC security suite too (crap fraud also) LOWERING the 'threat level' on THAT program (not my hosts file engine) TO ZERO!
* YOU ARE WRONG ON EVERY ACCOUNT NOTED!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #4/5... apk
"nowhere in there did you actually say what you are using that isn't a proxy/VPN" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday November 12, 2015 @02:25PM (#50916751)
I don't use proxies/VPN (or anonymous relays).
"APK ... uses anonymous relays to get around the limits of posting anonymous" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I'm not stupid enough to do what YOU want (make me as stupid as an easily tracked for retrolling sheep like you).
There's 3-4 ways to do what I do & those? Aren't them in your mistake accusations.
What I do, like all I do = FAST + EFFICIENT, NO extra "moving parts" - less IS more = GOOD engineering, using what you have natively vs. "Bolting on 'MoAr'" stupidly & illogically.
You're MCSE, networking admin 'god', & security guru (not) - figure it out, I gave clues - I'm NOT going to tell you!
All you know is I do it WHEN combatting little scumbags like you that hide behind fake names online trolling me.
It works, like all I do does with testimonials to that effect no less.
"it's funny how little you know of security APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday November 12, 2015 @02:25PM (#50916751)
Funny how little you know in computing (no code, especially for security - I have it. You don't)
(& you're stumped on an anti-troll technique I use too!)
I've long ago done far more than you will or have in the art & science of computing! For security?
CIS Tool took fixes from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p... which you doubted & my layered security guides got me paid http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn... & MILLIONS use it.
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #5/5... apk
"but rather than take my advise on various things, he feels that he is allowed to defame me by saying things he knows are not true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Hypocrite, I show you're projecting in my posts. What "advice" can you, an INFERIOR to me, like yourself give?
"I have offered him advise on ways to improve what he does to reduce the feeling of icky his software - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I've shown /.'er saying differently - Show us you've done better: YOU can't - & you're "advising"? Talking out your ass on things you haven't done is what you're doing.
"posting them so often that maybe, just maybe, someone will think they are true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Quotes of you are true! You can't keep your word as you're replying to me yet again + projecting what I prove YOU do (AD/DNS lie).
"I don't have time for the Troll APK, and refuse to respond anymore to a post signed APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:27PM (#50858983)
No troll. I protect users for free w/ a program that speeds them up, helps reliability, & even anonymity online w/ more abilities & efficiency than ANY other 1 solution doing more w/ less - do you? No.
"Maybe I should change my signature again just to rile him up some more." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:07AM (#50855451) FROM http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
"Rile" me? Childish sig bs is all you've got!
"I have repeatedly refuted his assertions - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
BS - See my last 4 posts here!
APK
P.S.=>
"I never admitted you were right" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
You PROVE I AM FOR ME part #1-#5 of your "Greatest Hits Fails"... apk
"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Where'd I say it? I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
+ Migrate hosts across a LAN (admin/scripts not GPO)-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
---
I'm RIGHT on admin priv + hosts update (WFP/SFP)!
"figured out why privilege escalation's a bad thing?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015
How else can I programmatically update it?
---
"it requires elevation to write hosts" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015
Hypocrite later admits it!
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS it or it can't do its job fully like many security tools!
Guess what?
Don't NEED to run my program as ADMIN - I do it here manually vs. auto.
---
"Needing admin privileges every time a program updates is poor design" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Users set it, not programmatic impersonation for autoupdate. You design zero & say what's what here?
---
"90's technology to fight modern war" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Ozymandias/Watchmen per a namesake:
"I resolved to use antiquities teachings" (hosts) "to our world today & began my path to conquest - Conquest not of men but of the evils that beset them: Fossil Fuels (antispyware), Oil (antivir), Nuclear Power (addons) are like a drug & you gentlemen along w/ foreign interests are the pushers"
It works Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET said hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) too-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts' Admin hosts+recommends APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
APK
P.S.=> Continued in #2/5... apk
"Virus scanners/Adblock software don't need admin priv to update" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
AV does to remove threats - Adblock addons = VASTLY INFERIOR in abilities + efficiency vs. hosts as I've proven w/ noone proved me wrong to date!
---
"your software does" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
No, hosts do due to WFP/SFP!
---
"won't reveal your source code" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't owe you it. I don't give away work to be stolen by others so it's misused like GOOGLE CHROME http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
---
"What's stopping you from pointing my bank's web site at your private server?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't keep a server. You're a security guru (not - you create no ware for security & your forensics skills = non-existent): Put it in a VM, trace it using process monitor + wireshark to prove it (don't need code) & I only put in hardcodes of fav sites @ top of hosts for speed & reliabilty - you'd spot it easily & bulk of the file is sorted blocked known bad threat origins.
---
"the possibility of being caught, which would be pretty hard to catch w/ such a large hosts file, as no one can go through it manually." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
See just above!
---
"What are you going to do when Windows gets rid of the hosts file completely?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Hasn't happened!
---
"They have already taken steps to make it useless in Windows 10." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
It still works there!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #3/5... apk
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
62 sources of good repute show + /. users say otherwise:
Proven safe by 57 antivirus programs in its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
Same for the 32-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
Per VirScan its installer too -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
---
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news... /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
---
You tried using Computer Associates another antivirus I turned over on false positives (1/8 over time) & they were caught in ACCOUNTING SCANDALS FRAUD http://www.bing.com/search?q=c...
Reputable source (not): They had to sell off their PC security suite too (crap fraud also) LOWERING the 'threat level' on THAT program (not my hosts file engine) TO ZERO!
* YOU ARE WRONG ON EVERY ACCOUNT NOTED!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #4/5... apk
"nowhere in there did you actually say what you are using that isn't a proxy/VPN" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday November 12, 2015 @02:25PM (#50916751)
I don't use proxies/VPN (or anonymous relays).
"APK ... uses anonymous relays to get around the limits of posting anonymous" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I'm not stupid enough to do what YOU want (make me as stupid as an easily tracked for retrolling sheep like you).
There's 3-4 ways to do what I do & those? Aren't them in your mistake accusations.
What I do, like all I do = FAST + EFFICIENT, NO extra "moving parts" - less IS more = GOOD engineering, using what you have natively vs. "Bolting on 'MoAr'" stupidly & illogically.
You're MCSE, networking admin 'god', & security guru (not) - figure it out, I gave clues - I'm NOT going to tell you!
All you know is I do it WHEN combatting little scumbags like you that hide behind fake names online trolling me.
It works, like all I do does with testimonials to that effect no less.
"it's funny how little you know of security APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Thursday November 12, 2015 @02:25PM (#50916751)
Funny how little you know in computing (no code, especially for security - I have it. You don't)
(& you're stumped on an anti-troll technique I use too!)
I've long ago done far more than you will or have in the art & science of computing! For security?
CIS Tool took fixes from me http://slashdot.org/comments.p... which you doubted & my layered security guides got me paid http://pcpitstop.com/news/winn... & MILLIONS use it.
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #5/5... apk
"but rather than take my advise on various things, he feels that he is allowed to defame me by saying things he knows are not true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Hypocrite, I show you're projecting in my posts. What "advice" can you, an INFERIOR to me, like yourself give?
"I have offered him advise on ways to improve what he does to reduce the feeling of icky his software - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I've shown /.'er saying differently - Show us you've done better: YOU can't - & you're "advising"? Talking out your ass on things you haven't done is what you're doing.
"posting them so often that maybe, just maybe, someone will think they are true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Quotes of you are true! You can't keep your word as you're replying to me yet again + projecting what I prove YOU do (AD/DNS lie).
"I don't have time for the Troll APK, and refuse to respond anymore to a post signed APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:27PM (#50858983)
No troll. I protect users for free w/ a program that speeds them up, helps reliability, & even anonymity online w/ more abilities & efficiency than ANY other 1 solution doing more w/ less - do you? No.
"Maybe I should change my signature again just to rile him up some more." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:07AM (#50855451) FROM http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
"Rile" me? Childish sig bs is all you've got!
"I have repeatedly refuted his assertions - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
BS - See my last 4 posts here!
APK
P.S.=>
"I never admitted you were right" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
You PROVE I AM FOR ME part #1-#5 of your "Greatest Hits Fails"... apk
the game would be good, in a world of GTA5 or the Witcher 3, or even MGS5:phantom Pain this game comes 5 years too late, and I'am not talking about Graphic, these are just the cherries top of this shit sundae of a game. It should be a highly immersive RPG but instead we got a sup par story, uninteresting characters, no karma, a shitty dialog system, the atmosphere got absolutely toned down..I liked the bleakness of the previous games, because they it perfectly trasported the postapocalypse, now I'm just in a ran down version of Bioshock Infinite with less Bioshock and more nothing....in really feels like a letdown and I'm highly disapointed, oh and btw, the world is tiny, a quarter of the world of skyrim actually https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqMMAnpz7TU...
"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Where'd I say it? I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
+ Migrate hosts across a LAN (admin/scripts not GPO)-> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
---
I'm RIGHT on admin priv + hosts update (WFP/SFP)!
"figured out why privilege escalation's a bad thing?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015
How else can I programmatically update it?
---
"it requires elevation to write hosts" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015
Hypocrite later admits it!
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware (best one) DEMANDS it or it can't do its job fully like many security tools!
Guess what?
Don't NEED to run my program as ADMIN - I do it here manually vs. auto.
---
"Needing admin privileges every time a program updates is poor design" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Users set it, not programmatic impersonation for autoupdate. You design zero & say what's what here?
---
"90's technology to fight modern war" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Ozymandias/Watchmen per a namesake:
"I resolved to use antiquities teachings" (hosts) "to our world today & began my path to conquest - Conquest not of men but of the evils that beset them: Fossil Fuels (antispyware), Oil (antivir), Nuclear Power (addons) are like a drug & you gentlemen along w/ foreign interests are the pushers"
It works Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET said hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) too-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts' Admin hosts+recommends APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
APK
P.S.=> Continued in #2/4... apk
"Virus scanners/Adblock software don't need admin priv to update" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Stupid, neither does my program! AV does to remove threats - Adblock addons = VASTLY INFERIOR in abilities + efficiency vs. hosts as I've proven & nobody proved me wrong to date!
---
"your software does" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
No, hosts do due to WFP/SFP!
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"won't reveal your source code" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't owe you it. I don't give away work to be stolen by others so it's misused like GOOGLE CHROME http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
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"What's stopping you from pointing my bank's web site at your private server?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
I don't keep a server. You're a security guru (not - you create no ware for security & your forensics skills = non-existent): Put it in a VM, trace it using process monitor + wireshark to prove it (don't need code) & I only put in hardcodes of fav sites @ top of hosts for speed & reliabilty - you'd spot it easily & bulk of the file is sorted blocked known bad threat origins.
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"the possibility of being caught, which would be pretty hard to catch w/ such a large hosts file, as no one can go through it manually." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
See just above!
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"What are you going to do when Windows gets rid of the hosts file completely?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
Hasn't happened!
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"They have already taken steps to make it useless in Windows 10." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
It still works there - who're you bullshitting but yourself you assbergers outism retard?
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #3/4... apk
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware. Good luck getting that removed." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
62 sources of good repute show + /. users say otherwise:
Proven safe by 57 antivirus programs in its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
Same for the 32-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
Per VirScan its installer too -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
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MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news... /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
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You tried using Computer Associates another antivirus I turned over on false positives (1/8 over time) & they were caught in ACCOUNTING SCANDALS FRAUD http://www.bing.com/search?q=c...
Reputable source (not): They had to sell off their PC security suite too (crap fraud also) LOWERING the 'threat level' on THAT program (not my hosts file engine) TO ZERO!
* YOU ARE WRONG ON EVERY ACCOUNT NOTED!
APK
P.S.=> To be continued in part #4/4... apk
"but rather than take my advise on various things, he feels that he is allowed to defame me by saying things he knows are not true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Hypocrite, I show you're projecting in my posts. What "advice" can you, an INFERIOR to me, like yourself give?
"I have offered him advise on ways to improve what he does to reduce the feeling of icky his software - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
I've shown /.'er saying differently - Show us you've done better: YOU can't - & you're "advising"? Talking out your ass on things you haven't done is what you're doing.
"posting them so often that maybe, just maybe, someone will think they are true - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
Quotes of you are true! You can't keep your word as you're replying to me yet again + projecting what I prove YOU do (AD/DNS lie).
"I don't have time for the Troll APK, and refuse to respond anymore to a post signed APK" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @04:27PM (#50858983)
No troll. I protect users for free w/ a program that speeds them up, helps reliability, & even anonymity online w/ more abilities & efficiency than ANY other 1 solution doing more w/ less - do you? No.
"Maybe I should change my signature again just to rile him up some more." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @10:07AM (#50855451) FROM http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
"Rile" me? Childish sig bs is all you've got!
"I have repeatedly refuted his assertions - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#50863109)
BS - See my last 4 posts here!
APK
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"I never admitted you were right" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:14PM (#50904323)
You PROVE I AM FOR ME part #1-#4 of your "Greatest Hits Fails"... apk
That's based on Computer Associates' bs (acc'ting fraud scandal, real reputable source (not)-> http://www.bing.com/search?q=c... ) & on an app for running programs in the background invisibly (that had its threat level lowered to ZERO/no threat) in the end.
Plus, CA had to SELL OFF their pc security suite too - it was SO BAD it was chewing up emails like mad falsely marking them as "threats" in 1 place I worked in circa 2007-2008 (they removed it & strangely SOLD IT too, lol!). Not a good sign when the shoemaker's children WON'T WEAR HIS SHOES!
* That's only 1/8 antivirus program I've done that with on 2-3 programs since 2003 or so...
(Your "experts" aren't so expert & often have to KNEEL to me in the end, every single time...)
APK
P.S.=> LOL, you'll TRY ANYTHING, won't you? No biggie - I just crush you @ every single turn everytime you do... apk
Been playing since release... It has crashed a few times, but I've not lost anything/much, and it has been infrequent enough not to care too much. If I unplug my earphones, I lose all sound and have to restart the game which is a bit lame. Some of the mouse movements in menus are clunky. It randomly lost all mouse movement at one point also.
About the only "bug" I've noticed that is truly annoying is that when I am in the Armor Workshop, and I have some awesome stuff I am wearing, and some stuff I want to scrap for parts, it will sometimes seemingly decide that if I am going to scrap my some armor, I should also scrap my good stuff also, even though I definitely didn't say to do that. My solution is for now, either not to scrap any armour, and just store it someplace for later, or make damn sure I save it every time I decide I want to scrap armour, take off all my good stuff and put it somewhere else, then scrap what I have in my inventory. Annoying to be sure.
On another note, there is of course some dumb AI every now and again which can be frustrating... Like sneaking around disarming landmines, and having your AI follower, just run in all over the place blowing all the mine and you up to kingdom come, several times... Then blocking your retreat when facing off against a a boss... I'll admit to trying to kill her several times in frustration.
In all I wouldn't say it is too buggy, but they really need to figure out the UI stuff with the Armour Workshop, I assume they'll patch it at some point.
"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Where'd I say it? Show us (not illogic logic but where I literally said it). I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007
http://forums.tweaktown.com/wi...
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there in my security guide.
Fact: You shoot your mouth off lying about it & me, hmmm?
(It's your mentally damaged goods assburgers brain acting up trying to put words in my mouth I never said? Yes...)
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Where did I say I don't use DNS too?
Clue: I do & detailed it for you AGAIN (via my std. post on DNS vs. hosts) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
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"You must really suck at programming" - by Coren22 on Monday November 23, 2015
What've you programmed? Other /.'ers disagree:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
"No complaints from me, I like APK's spam. Reminds me to use a host file. Also, his stuff is free." - by aaaaaaargh! (1150173) on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @09:31AM (#50947415)
APK
P.S.=> Con't. in 2/6... apk
"figured out why privilege escalation's a bad thing?" - by Coren22 on Tuesday September 22, 2015
How else can I programmatically update hosts itself?
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"it requires elevation to write hosts" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday September 23, 2015
Hypocrite later admits it!
Even MalwareBytes AntiMalware DEMANDS it or it can't do a job fully like many security tools!
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"Needing admin privileges every time a program updates is poor design" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Mine doesn't to get new data to update hosts vs. threats. Only hosts itself updates need it vs. WFP/SFP. Users set it too. It's not programmatic impersonation.
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"90's tech to fight modern war" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Ozymandias/Watchmen per a namesake:
"I resolved to apply antiquities teachings" (hosts) "to our world today & began my path to conquest - Conquest not of men but of the evils that beset them: Fossil Fuels (antispyware), Oil (antivir), Nuclear Power (addons) are like a drug & you gentlemen along w/ foreign interests are the pushers"
It works Aryeh Goretsky NOD32/ESET hosts = good security-> http://it.slashdot.org/comment...
Oliver Day (Symantec) too-> http://www.securityfocus.com/c...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts' Admin hosts + RECOMMENDS my APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit-> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl...
APK
P.S.=> Con't. in #3/6... apk
"I guess we should avoid your crap, it looks like it is marked as malware." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:52PM (#50850445)
62 reputable sources + /. users say different:
Safe by 57 antivirus programs in 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
the 32-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
Per VirScan (installer too)-> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
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MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
(& he certified my source http://slashdot.org/comments.p... - he wouldn't host it, much less recommend it, minus that...) /.'ers say my work is good too:
"his hosts program is actually pretty good" - by xenotransplant (4179011) on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:34PM (#50287195)
"I like your host file system." - by Karmashock (2415832) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @03:57PM (#50489401)
"APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works." - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015 @11:30AM (#50736071)
"his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources" by alexgieg (948359) on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:57AM (#50596461)
"No complaints from me, I like APK's spam. Reminds me to use a host file. Also, his stuff is free." - by aaaaaaargh! (1150173) on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @09:31AM (#50947415)
APK
P.S.=> Con't in part #4/6... apk
"His newest post is trying to refute that MiTM attack opportunity his software provides" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 18, 2015
I DISPROVED it: Hardcoded favs users provide themselves are REVERSE DNS verified & my program filters 5,500++ false positives:
1.) Search engines
2.) Antivirus (e.g. updaters)
3.) Security community sites
4.) Captchas, brower home pages + download pages
5.) Ebay/Amazon (shopper & banking)
(Security community I get hosts data from do false positives filters in current data + removal lists).
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"won't demonstrate security of his product be exposing the source (someone might steal it!)" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 18, 2015
I don't give away work to be stolen OR misused like GOOGLE CHROME http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
"the secretary at MalwareBytes took a look at his source code and said it looked all good to them" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 18, 2015
My ware went thru code verification by Mr. Steven Burn of Malwarebytes' hpHosts
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
A competent coder & BEST security researcher I know of FROM THE BEST ANTIMALWARE THERE IS http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
NOT a secretary!
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YOU BLEW IT ON ADMIN PRIV TOO: My program doesn't require it hosts does (WFP/SFP): my program protects hosts beyond it!
I.E.-> I run manually minus admin priv & drag result to hosts naming it "hosts" overwriting original.
Only auto update needs it (WFP/SFP) & users set it themselves in program shortcut: Not programmatic impersonation.
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DNS introduces a SECURITY ISSUE RIDDLED SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE & doesn't secure down to endpoints on a LAN -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
How I use remote filtering DNS combined w/ hosts is there showing many DNS security issues hosts overcome.
APK
P.S.=> Con't in part #5/6... apk
"Virus scanners/Adblock software don't need admin priv to update" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Neither does my program. AV does to remove threats - Adblock addons = Vastly INFERIOR in abilities + efficiency vs. hosts as I proved & no one proved me wrong to date!
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"your software does" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
No hosts do (WFP/SFP) - Intake update of new hosts data doesn't!
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"won't reveal your source code" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
I don't owe you it. I don't give away work to be stolen OR misused like GOOGLE CHROME http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
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"What's stopping you from pointing my bank's web site at your private server?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
I don't keep a server. Security guru (not - you create no ware for security & your forensics skills = non-existent): Put it in a VM, trace it via process monitor + wireshark (don't need code)!
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"the possibility of being caught, which would be pretty hard to catch w/ such a large hosts file, as no one can go through it manually." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
I put hardcoded fav sites @ top of hosts for speed & reliabilty - spotted easily & bulk of hosts = sorted blocked known bad threats provided by the security community (filtered vs. 5,500++ false positive possibles in my program & by current security community data).
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"What are you going to do when Windows gets rid of the hosts file completely?" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
Hasn't happened!
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"They have already taken steps to make it useless in Windows 10." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 10, 2015
It works there!
Telemetry's killed 10 by itself: VISTA = Win10 = Win8 = flops - who're you fooling other than yourself?
APK
P.S.=> Con't. in #6/6... apk
Coren22 'eats his words' vs. me 2x yet again:
"introduces risk you are relying on a 3rd party to update a hosts file potentially opening you up to MITM attacks" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 17, 2015
How? My prog puts entries in as non-blocking to hostnames on ones users give it as favs to speed up @ TOP of hosts REVERSE DNS VERIFIED!
(For more speed, & reliability + security - in RAM as 1st resolver queried = faster & more secure vs. remote DNS w/ all its security issues in Kaminsky flaw, DNSChanger malware IP stack settings, routers bushwhacked in DNS settings, rogue DNS, Open DNS servers abused by malware. It aids in reliability vs. redirects).
YOU'D SPOT IT INSTANTLY @ TOP OF CUSTOM HOSTS & can easily edit anything you want out!
(Rest = known bad sites from 10 reputable security community sites for blocking - the MAJORITY of what's in my hosts files!)
+ my sources do removal lists vs. false positives & helped me create a "FP" filter in my program (5,500++ of them)!
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"maybe one day you can get a score 5 comment" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 17, 2015
See subject & ~ 12 +5 upmods: "Eat your words" (1st one: You tried using what I post there against me to FAIL):
+5 'modded up' posts by "yours truly" (11):
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://science.slashdot.org/co...
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/c...
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/c...
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
"You believe you are getting the better of me" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday November 17, 2015
YOU GOT THE BEST OF YOURSELF in fails & lies about me. Your immature signatures about me SCREAM you're butthurt - Did it to yourself.
APK
P.S.=> You fail Coren22... apk