They'd rather hold a minority stake in something good than a majority stake in something crappy!
It all comes down to two things - who has the most network bandwidth, and who has the most cellular bandwidth. Or just one thing - who can deliver the most bandwidth?
FCC allocates cellular (radio frequency) bandwidth in the US. Backbone (network) bandwidth? That's strictly a matter of investing in infrastructure, so . . . who owns (or is owned by) how many politico's in power?
Okay. How does that mean your opinion should be given greater weight than my own personal experience?
Incidentally, the shoah was really nothing more than a continuation of the inquisition. As in Spain's case, a different player but the same overall goal - to fill the coffers by systematic robbery and/or murder of a specific group. As a member of that group, I tend to be just a little sensitive to yet another repetition of history.
If you're getting paid to get "Shit" done, that's sure one way to go about it.
I get paid to do productive work - not "shit". If I ever recommend using any software in the enterprise and the TOS comes back to bite 'em in the ass, just who do you suppose will end up getting pilloried for it?
I'm fairly certain that I've been downmodded for giving your software a fair shot (and, in fact, posting an overall favorable impression of it), rather than the content of that informal review.
Your software is just fine - well written, functional. Your claims that it's practically the cure for all the internet's woes are over-the-top and make you seem rather like the current POTUS. Your bellicose and acerbic posts, combined with your repeatedly posting straight binspam have given you a reputation here which even a calm, reasonable analysis cannot overcome. Your own reaction to this thread are a prime example.
I've long known that host files can solve certain problems - and nowadays, those problems are becoming more and more common. Your Host File Engine does make the task of managing a local host file on one Windows desktop easier - but that's all it does and your attitude and your bellicose, fanatical posts make it impossible to determine or even say that here. You've successfully increased the signal/noise ratio beyond the tolerance of nearly everyone here.
I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine. Have fun languishing in your self-imposed obscurity. Nearly all Slashdot users know who you are and won't even give a second thought to anything you write, suggest or say. I have, and now I'm paying the price for it. Downmod away, mods! I've said what is required and been heard by the intended recipient of my message.
Yahoo has a vested interest in making sure they're serving as many email accounts and hosting as many web pages as possible. They all represent resources, and that's important when it comes to reselling a business unit or the entire company.
I've repeatedly pointed out that they seem to ignore emails to "abuse@yahoo.com", and if you're a non-Yahoo recipient of spam from the Yahoo domain you have to surf out to this incredibly complex URL, manually separate the message header from the body and solve a CAPTCHA to report it. They may not be getting paid directly by the spammers, but the web traffic a spammer creates to use a compromised account web page to kick off a PHP-based spam campaign from Yahoo's email domain looks good on the books. It's evidence that Yahoo's hosted web servers and Yahoo's hosted email solution are heavily used and relevant. The fact that they aren't really something Yahoo can monetize doesn't get mentioned, just "Hey, look how relevant we are!".
You know, Hotmail (and presumably Live email) also impose a "ninety day cooloff" period on account cancellations. Hotmail/Live at least accept and act on emails sent to their abuse address, while Yahoo doesn't.
Read the TOS - the instant you upload or post data to Facebook (and they sure aren't alone in this), the data becomes their property. They let you use their service for free (that is, they aren't billing your credit card or waiting for your check each month), and in return you give up ownership of everything you voluntarily give to them.
You want to have some fun? Get shocked silly? Compare Gmail's TOS to Live's TOS. In my opinion, Microsoft is considerably less evil than Google (although Bing is still worthless when compared to Google search). Frankly, when I made that particular discovery I'm surprised I didn't stroke out on the spot with a heart attack. Totally not what I expected there.
Back to the main point - I'd love to believe that Slashdot readers are highly likely to have read the TOS before signing on here, at Facebook, on Twitter, via LinkedIn, . . . sadly, I doubt it. C'mon, people - at least the SysAdmins and Engineers out there should have. After all, on the job it's part of what we get paid for, yes/no?
They need to start manufacturing superior products if they intend to capture the high-end market. Otherwise, all they're doing is eliminating consumer options (in order to keep prices high?). If I'm poor and can't afford the best, latest-and-greatest technology I'm not going to save up until I can afford it, I'm going to find an inexpensive if less desirable product which fills my needs now. Saving up until you can afford what you want has not been the American way for some time now - just ask manufacturers in China, Korea and Taiwan. They've been mass-producing popular products for a while now - and even while the owners of these products loudly lament having a "foreign-manufactured piece of crap", they seem to prefer buying that piece of crap as opposed to saving up to buy (an only marginally better, if at all better) product of US manufacturing.
I don't mean to denigrate foreign (in this case, Asian) manufacturers. The fact is they're quite successful at what they're doing, which means they're doing exactly what they ought to. If people don't feel the quality is up to their standards, they should return to the old way of saving up until they can afford the quality they want - and demanding that manufacturers provide the quality they perceive they deserve.
If an company can do what they need to cheaper by hiring someone from overseas - especially a disposable someone who they can use and dispose of - they're going to do exactly that. US law has forbidden indentured servitude for a long time, but the H1B visa represents a legal version of exactly that. Here, try this:
Get rid of work visas outright. If a company can't find talent here in the US, they should feel free to sponsor a foreign national for citizenship - and take away the ability to summarily deport the foreign worker when they're through with them. Instead of a revolving door of H1B visa holders, we'll end up with more US citizens - workers who will be incentivized to demand the same pay and working conditions as their peers in the workplace.
I know of a certain international business machine firm that uses (abuses) huge numbers of H1B visa holders precisely because they can get away with it. It's great for their bottom line; they get employees that are willing to accept vastly substandard wages and work unpaid overtime in sweatshop-style conditions because they know that should they even think of standing up to it they'll be shipped back to wherever they came from. Now, if these guys were on the path to citizenship, I'm sure the manufacturer in question could still discharge them (after all, they're only contractors, not employees) - but they'll have a harder time making the case that there's no local talent to be had, because there will be all of these qualified personnel right here working towards citizenship.
Oh, the firm I'm not-so-subtly talking about? They don't pay US citizens very well, either. What should have been at least a $70,000/year salary gig for me ended up being a $24.04/hour job - contractors will be paid better, but they will end up providing unpaid overtime to make up for it (I know; I went down that path with them as well).
In the end, I'm not saying we should prevent immigrants from finding work here in the US. I'm saying we should prevent visitors from allowing large enterprises to degrade compensation and work conditions for employees in the US.
He only got elected POTUS. He only thinks he's the king - and he only has delusions of godhood (or at least, Narcissistic Personality Disorder - or so I hear).
I've had similar issues with T-Mobile. The first (and only) C/S guy I talked to talked me through reprovisioning my phone - I forget exactly where, but there's an option (under "more network options"? I think), look at the available cellular provider list and select "Auto" (which is already selected, in all likelihood). Your phone will spend something less than a minute looking at local towers and reprovision your network stack.
If a reboot fixed your phone's network slowness, I get the impression the problem was on your phone, not your carrier's network. Just sayin'.
I've been evaluating APK's Hosts File Engine . . .
If you ignore all of the grandiose claims of stopping spam, disabling malware and blocking advertising, yes - running the software does create a rather large, correctly formatted hosts file, one which does include multiple custom host definitions which blackhole numerous known malware sites. By incorporating host entries for web browser favorites, the software does speed page load times by eliminating DNS lookups. In this regard, the Host File Engine performs exactly as promised, and exactly as expected. The benefits derived are from using a hosts file; the Host File Engine does significantly enhance the convenience of doing so and does result in a large but correctly formatted hosts file. While I might reasonably (and with only some effort) replicate much of this functionality with a few shell scripts in a UNIX environment, this software does perform the task well enough for users of the Windows operating system.
There are multiple benefits to using host file lookups in certain situations, and the Host File Engine does do a lot to make doing so more thorough and more convenient. Not unlike other software I've used, it's free and well worth the price.
With that said, to reap the vast majority of the benefits claimed by the system, it will be necessary to do considerably more. The Host File Engine (as its name implies) only generates a host file. Granted, a great deal of clerk-work is performed - notably in normalizing entries, ensuring that all entries are valid and correctly formatted - but if more is required (for example, enhancing the security of TOR/VPN access), a user must still ensure that appropriate host file entries are present. Host File Engine can accommodate such work but does not in and of itself actually perform this work, nor would I reasonably expect it to do so.
This is salient to the current article because one of the tools used to block/censor sites deemed by a government is the almighty domain seizure. Servers are left online at their existing IP addresses but without DNS lookups they become essentially inaccessible. Using host files makes overcoming such activities trivial, and the Host File Engine accommodates this.
My conclusion - APK's Host File Engine is a good tool for managing host files under Windows. It is not in and of itself a security solution. While APK's claims for the software are vastly overblown, the software itself is useful, usable and reasonably well-written. For those who wish to access the dark web (whether for nefarious purposes or not), this software or something like it will be quite useful. It could also play a part in adopting an enhanced security stance on a Windows platform.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
Now, what the military needs with all that porn and online casinos is beyond me.
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But it was on the far side of the Moon, right?
Hey, where was DJT born? And for bonus points . . . prove it.
I'll bet that kind of thinking is what got the Apollo 13 astronauts back to Earth alive. Doing more science instead of less is just a bonus.
Careful - you seem to be discussing RealFacts instead of GoodFacts.
. . . and on your tongue?
What is a self-sealing stem bolt?
It all comes down to two things - who has the most network bandwidth, and who has the most cellular bandwidth. Or just one thing - who can deliver the most bandwidth?
FCC allocates cellular (radio frequency) bandwidth in the US. Backbone (network) bandwidth? That's strictly a matter of investing in infrastructure, so . . . who owns (or is owned by) how many politico's in power?
Sadly, another campaign promise he was unable to keep!
Incidentally, the shoah was really nothing more than a continuation of the inquisition. As in Spain's case, a different player but the same overall goal - to fill the coffers by systematic robbery and/or murder of a specific group. As a member of that group, I tend to be just a little sensitive to yet another repetition of history.
The wheel turns, does it not?
Okay, I was semantically incorrect, but functionally on-target. IANAL. Are you?
I get paid to do productive work - not "shit". If I ever recommend using any software in the enterprise and the TOS comes back to bite 'em in the ass, just who do you suppose will end up getting pilloried for it?
Your software is just fine - well written, functional. Your claims that it's practically the cure for all the internet's woes are over-the-top and make you seem rather like the current POTUS. Your bellicose and acerbic posts, combined with your repeatedly posting straight binspam have given you a reputation here which even a calm, reasonable analysis cannot overcome. Your own reaction to this thread are a prime example.
I've long known that host files can solve certain problems - and nowadays, those problems are becoming more and more common. Your Host File Engine does make the task of managing a local host file on one Windows desktop easier - but that's all it does and your attitude and your bellicose, fanatical posts make it impossible to determine or even say that here. You've successfully increased the signal/noise ratio beyond the tolerance of nearly everyone here.
I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine. Have fun languishing in your self-imposed obscurity. Nearly all Slashdot users know who you are and won't even give a second thought to anything you write, suggest or say. I have, and now I'm paying the price for it. Downmod away, mods! I've said what is required and been heard by the intended recipient of my message.
I've repeatedly pointed out that they seem to ignore emails to "abuse@yahoo.com", and if you're a non-Yahoo recipient of spam from the Yahoo domain you have to surf out to this incredibly complex URL, manually separate the message header from the body and solve a CAPTCHA to report it. They may not be getting paid directly by the spammers, but the web traffic a spammer creates to use a compromised account web page to kick off a PHP-based spam campaign from Yahoo's email domain looks good on the books. It's evidence that Yahoo's hosted web servers and Yahoo's hosted email solution are heavily used and relevant. The fact that they aren't really something Yahoo can monetize doesn't get mentioned, just "Hey, look how relevant we are!".
You know, Hotmail (and presumably Live email) also impose a "ninety day cooloff" period on account cancellations. Hotmail/Live at least accept and act on emails sent to their abuse address, while Yahoo doesn't.
You want to have some fun? Get shocked silly? Compare Gmail's TOS to Live's TOS. In my opinion, Microsoft is considerably less evil than Google (although Bing is still worthless when compared to Google search). Frankly, when I made that particular discovery I'm surprised I didn't stroke out on the spot with a heart attack. Totally not what I expected there.
Back to the main point - I'd love to believe that Slashdot readers are highly likely to have read the TOS before signing on here, at Facebook, on Twitter, via LinkedIn, . . . sadly, I doubt it. C'mon, people - at least the SysAdmins and Engineers out there should have. After all, on the job it's part of what we get paid for, yes/no?
I don't mean to denigrate foreign (in this case, Asian) manufacturers. The fact is they're quite successful at what they're doing, which means they're doing exactly what they ought to. If people don't feel the quality is up to their standards, they should return to the old way of saving up until they can afford the quality they want - and demanding that manufacturers provide the quality they perceive they deserve.
Get rid of work visas outright. If a company can't find talent here in the US, they should feel free to sponsor a foreign national for citizenship - and take away the ability to summarily deport the foreign worker when they're through with them. Instead of a revolving door of H1B visa holders, we'll end up with more US citizens - workers who will be incentivized to demand the same pay and working conditions as their peers in the workplace.
I know of a certain international business machine firm that uses (abuses) huge numbers of H1B visa holders precisely because they can get away with it. It's great for their bottom line; they get employees that are willing to accept vastly substandard wages and work unpaid overtime in sweatshop-style conditions because they know that should they even think of standing up to it they'll be shipped back to wherever they came from. Now, if these guys were on the path to citizenship, I'm sure the manufacturer in question could still discharge them (after all, they're only contractors, not employees) - but they'll have a harder time making the case that there's no local talent to be had, because there will be all of these qualified personnel right here working towards citizenship.
Oh, the firm I'm not-so-subtly talking about? They don't pay US citizens very well, either. What should have been at least a $70,000/year salary gig for me ended up being a $24.04/hour job - contractors will be paid better, but they will end up providing unpaid overtime to make up for it (I know; I went down that path with them as well). In the end, I'm not saying we should prevent immigrants from finding work here in the US. I'm saying we should prevent visitors from allowing large enterprises to degrade compensation and work conditions for employees in the US.
Yes, I'm sure "I was only joking!" might've worked better that "I was only following orders!" at Nuremberg
No, it's just that (as a Jew myself) I've checked them out. I'll accept the evidence of my own eyes over your opinion.
Infowars? Breitbbart?
Sounds like McDonalds is sucking air, right enough!
Well, it's still 99% in English. Not proof, but a definite indicator.
He only got elected POTUS. He only thinks he's the king - and he only has delusions of godhood (or at least, Narcissistic Personality Disorder - or so I hear).
If a reboot fixed your phone's network slowness, I get the impression the problem was on your phone, not your carrier's network. Just sayin'.
If you ignore all of the grandiose claims of stopping spam, disabling malware and blocking advertising, yes - running the software does create a rather large, correctly formatted hosts file, one which does include multiple custom host definitions which blackhole numerous known malware sites. By incorporating host entries for web browser favorites, the software does speed page load times by eliminating DNS lookups. In this regard, the Host File Engine performs exactly as promised, and exactly as expected. The benefits derived are from using a hosts file; the Host File Engine does significantly enhance the convenience of doing so and does result in a large but correctly formatted hosts file. While I might reasonably (and with only some effort) replicate much of this functionality with a few shell scripts in a UNIX environment, this software does perform the task well enough for users of the Windows operating system.
There are multiple benefits to using host file lookups in certain situations, and the Host File Engine does do a lot to make doing so more thorough and more convenient. Not unlike other software I've used, it's free and well worth the price.
With that said, to reap the vast majority of the benefits claimed by the system, it will be necessary to do considerably more. The Host File Engine (as its name implies) only generates a host file. Granted, a great deal of clerk-work is performed - notably in normalizing entries, ensuring that all entries are valid and correctly formatted - but if more is required (for example, enhancing the security of TOR/VPN access), a user must still ensure that appropriate host file entries are present. Host File Engine can accommodate such work but does not in and of itself actually perform this work, nor would I reasonably expect it to do so.
This is salient to the current article because one of the tools used to block/censor sites deemed by a government is the almighty domain seizure. Servers are left online at their existing IP addresses but without DNS lookups they become essentially inaccessible. Using host files makes overcoming such activities trivial, and the Host File Engine accommodates this.
My conclusion - APK's Host File Engine is a good tool for managing host files under Windows. It is not in and of itself a security solution. While APK's claims for the software are vastly overblown, the software itself is useful, usable and reasonably well-written. For those who wish to access the dark web (whether for nefarious purposes or not), this software or something like it will be quite useful. It could also play a part in adopting an enhanced security stance on a Windows platform.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
Now, what the military needs with all that porn and online casinos is beyond me.