Do you really think that anybody here believes what you say? I notice that nobody but you is defending your posts. Do you believe posting A/C actually hides or confuses anything?
Interesting. What does any of this have to do with the discussion here, Mister Alexander Peter Kowalski? Or are you just that ashamed of your identity? Perhaps you just don't want to reveal the identities of your sock puppet accounts?
I don't use such - and I don't bother moderating A/C comments because I see them all at -1. I don't post A/C because I'm not ashamed of who I am.
While it's true I've made mistakes in the past, I (unlike you) own up to them. I also don't try to hide as an A/C.
Poor child. Were you abandoned by one or both of your parents, or did you just never feel that you'd lived up to their expectations?
...in this instance, they're actually pushing towards a lucrative market. There are many professionals (myself among them) who have long wanted what we once referred to as a "stylus form-factor" PC. They existed as far back as the early '90's, but at a ridiculously high price and with no effort to write software to take advantage of the stylus form factor. Obviously, it never took off back then.
Personally, the Asus Transformer got 90% of the way to what I was looking for back in the twentieth century. Microsoft's latest offering appears to go the last 10%. I'm a Linux geek personally, but I do need to be able to run MS-Office compatible software on whatever platform I use. Microsoft's pitch -- "runs all your favorite MS software on your device of choice" is actually a powerful incentive for marketing to professionals. If they are addressing the perceived shortcomings of the tablet form factor, I suspect they may well be onto something.
Not planning on ditching my Android devices anytime soon, nor installing Windows on my Linux PC's - but I can sure see a lot of professionals doing so just for the ability to more or less seamlessly integrate their mobile devices with organization infrastructure. I may not like MS software, but nothing integrates with a Windows-based infrastructure like MS-Windows - hardware platform notwithstanding.
The author of the above mentioned software has been banned from multiple public participation websites due to intentional abuses of those forums. His repeated, vociferous cyberstalking of anybody who is in any way critical of his software's value is (to me) an indication of his mental instability; using software written by an individual who cannot be counted upon to behave in a socially acceptable manner is begging disaster.
Too bad - this is precisely this kind of situation where hostfiles can represent a good technical measure to counteract tracking behavior. It's a shame that this particular piece of software is authored by an unreliable individual. While hostfiles are a valid and effective technical countermeasure to website tracking, the author of this particular hostfile manager has often and repeatedly displayed his instability in multiple online forums. Simply google on Alexander Peter Kowalski. I believe any intelligent research will convince users that permitting software written by APK to run in kernelspace is dangerous at best. The software may or may not be just fine, but the software's author has already demonstrated that he cannot be trusted to make rational, acceptable decisions.
Fortunately, the cyberstalking behavior APK has repeatedly demonstrated is almost certainly a compulsive, involuntary behavior on his part. I have no doubt that soon he will demonstrate fully the exact instability I have pointed out here. C'mon, Allie - post a bunch of links to your past posts, or call me "bigmouth" again. I'd say pick the most bellicose and insulting of your past posts; but nearly all of your cyberstalking is consistently offensive and insulting, indicative of a juvenile intellect. Instead of contstantly reposting the same insults and invective, give us something new to gauge your mental state from.
I am assuming that the concentration of nickel in the plant is high enough to make it unpleasant to herbivores, possibly even toxic. Of course, it could merely be an adaptation to take advantage of environments which other plants have difficulty with.
In either event, I wonder if the concentration of nickel in these plants is sufficiently high to make farming them a productive mining activity?
Initially, I maintained a more neutral stance, until you started post stalking me - as you have done to several other users. You have also been spamming Slashdot, often posting your personal advertisement for your software in threads where it is completely inappropriate. My mistakes were to take a non-neutral stance and to judge your software based on the fact that you are shilling for it here on Slashdot.
I won't spampost here, nor will I post stalk you - but if I see you using these techniques, I will respond directly. "The beatings will no longer continue"? We'll see. I am aware of your point of view in this; however, I have no intention of tolerating your abuse of the Slashdot bulletin board. If I have made a mistake (and I have) I am prepared to correct it. I insist you do likewise.
The beatings may or may not continue at your discretion, of course. However, I reserve the right to respond to what I perceive clearly to be an abuse of this forum - and I still find your abuse of this forum to be intolerable. My analysis concludes that you are in fact a fairly good programmer and have written several quite interesting pieces of software. However, your inappropriate marketing techniques (offtopic "spam" posts of your advertisement for your software, immediate and vociferous post-stalking of anyone who posts a negative opinion of you, your posts or your software) are irremediably attached to the very software products you're attempting to promote.
I will not knowingly download or use software you've written, specifically because you have demonstrated here in this forum that you are neither stable nor trustworthy. I don't know you and can't say personally whether or not this is accurate, but it is a perception which I (and apparently several other Slashdot readers) have formed based on our experiences with you here. There is a parallel - the Reiser Filesystem was once a widely noted and even commercially adopted piece of software - right up until Hans Reiser was convicted of murder. The quality of RFS no longer matters, even though Hans Reiser is no longer directly involved with it. The reputation of RFS is now irreparably sullied. Your reputation and software are not as badly off. Begin behaving yourself and find another mechanism for advertising - you will find that even her at Slashdot, people will respond to that. Even in your post above you have proferred an olive branch, but accompanied by another pitch for your hostfile manager (yes, I know - it's a non-trivial piece of work which provides data normalization for hostfiles as well as several useful functionalities). Offtopic posts are not a reputable mode of behavior. It's still shilling. Is this truly an offer of peace, or just another chance for self promotion?
I made the mistake of labelling his hostfile manager 'malware' after he's post-stalked me (and after he'd become insulting). I reacted poorly to his behavior.
That was my mistake, and I'll own up to it here. I permitted anger to cloud my reason, and made misstatements. He has remained quite implacable in post stalking - and using invective and ad hominem freely in his offtopic posts. My behavior hasn't been perfect, far from it.
I wish you the best of luck in getting a similar admission from APK.
And just to take the bait - why would I want to "disprove 17 points of fact on great benefits using a hosts file gives users in added SPEED, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, & even ANONYMITY"? I never once argued that hostfiles have no place in modern IT infrastructure, home computing infrastructure or even modern computing - nor did I ever say or even imply that any of those points (tl;dr) are untrue. I've been very direct in pointing out your behavior is the problem - behavior which can only have originated in the mind of a terribly hurt and abused little boy.
No, no projection here. I have a wife, kids, a job - friends who like me, professional associates who respect me. I'm not the one spamming websites with infantile prattle and invective-strewn offtopic arguments. I'm not the one crying out "please love my software and me".
But you - the ultimate screen. I could truly project anything I wished onto you, because you're featureless. You continually repost "Run Forrest, Run" as though somehow it will elevate you beyond Forrest Gump's status (and it's obvious you've only seen the movie, never read the book).
Hate to burst your bubble - in the movies, downtrodden heroes always find their strength and redemption. In the real world (and even the cyberworld) the reality is a bit more harsh. If you want to find redemption, it will take more than waiting for some Hollywood deus ex machina device to fix all of the broken endings in your life. It'll take effort on your part; thought and effort. I know you're capable of these things, but until you demonstrate that, you will remain nothing more than a whimpering child, cringing from the attacks of a cruel world which somehow doesn't love you.
Five posts. I must've hit a nerve there. All anonymous, all (even the parent of this post) written by Alexander Peter Kowalski, a frightened helpless child, still the victim after all these years.
Must be terrible - even here in cyberspace, you just don't even have the strength to defend yourself. Everyone still spits on you, laughs at you. It's like high school all over again, isn't it? You must be terrified that you'll lose as badly here as you have out there in the real world. Even the few people in school who ever showed you anything like respect eventually betrayed you, didn't they? Here, you've been derided, banned, branded a troll. All you know how to do is make challenges you know you'll never have to live up to. The internet has freed you from being physically hurt. Bullies can't stuff you into a dumpster here on the internet, but even here people you perceive as your inferiors are still able to humiliate you publicly. Even the courts don't want to hear from anyone as insignificant as you - or did you actually ever get that far? The wonderful folks that make Spam Titan certainly haven't felt your wrath. Is that because you discovered that your claims are legally baseless, or did Mommy just tell you she isn't going to spend money just to salve your ego? There's the chance that you actually managed to talk to a lawyer and get told just how worthless your case is; but somehow I don't think you ever even made it that far. All you know how to do is prove that you still exist by repeatedly uttering meaningless challenges via the internet. At your best you show all of the intelligence and thoughtfulness of an eight year old child in the midst of a neverending temper tantrum. Yes, I'm sure you think it's unfair that none of us will bow down to your obviously superior intellect. That's not how this is supposed to work, is it? Here, you're supposed to be in charge, respected and admired for your intellectual prowess - but instead you're derided by people who won't even pretend to be bound by the rules you think should apply here. I do pity you. Your life in the real world must be a hell from which even the cold dark of the grave would be a welcome reprieve, and the promise of finding Shangri La here in cyberspace has turned out to be a lie. It's not a magical alternate universe where your ability to argue even after you've lost is respected and admired, but just another place where you are trivialized, marginalized. Hell, even here you have to sneak around anonymously - must be terrible for you.
Too bad. I'll bet you thought the ability to scratch together a hostfile editor made you a real programmer, eh? Too bad nobody will ever take you seriously. Too bad your software is just a worthless kludge (unless you need to hit up the dark markets, that is). Too bad nobody registered here has any respect for you whatsoever. Just Anonymous Cowards - but I'm pretty sure that's just you, typing madly as fast as you can to create the illusion that you're not actually all alone, friendless, unrespected, unloved. Your imaginary lovers, to be sure.
Yes, too bad. I suppose there are a lot of things that went into this. I suppose we can't even blame you; only pity you. I'm guessing you have no friends out in the real world. It must be hard, doubly hard, to learn some basic programming skills, work hard on writing stuff only to have the world tell you why it's useless. Most of us could fall back on friends, learn to do better, but you - all you can do is scream and yell impotently on the reddits and the slashdots of the internet. Tell me, do you suffer from some physical disability? The level of vitriol you bring to the boards tells me you probably are helpless to defend yourself in the real world. It must be terrible to be almost as impotent here in the online world, the one place where you actually had a chance at being a peer, an equal; only to be relegated even here to the status of a punchline. They took your lunch money and beat you up in school. College was even worse - watching guys with more muscles or more money or just better looks get all the girls, everyone laughing at the geek. Worst was the real world - nobody even pretending that you belonged, nobody ever willing to let you prove that you could actually be important.
How am I doing so far? Tell ya what - log in as a registered user here at Slashdot before you post replies, I'm sure people here will respect that act by itself. Just don't expect us to fall all over ourselves showering you with praise because your magnum opus software project is of no value to the vast majority of the other registered users her at Slashdot. Be ready to read a lot of unpleasant posts. Behave like an adult, you'll be treated like one. Behave like a child, you'll be marginalized and ignored just like you have been all your life.
I see you've actually written quite a bit of software, some of it quite good. Too bad you're suffering schizophrenia. Are you this guy? The Start64 malware site shows the following:
Company: Panisz Peter
Address: Kossuth Lajos u. 51 Dunabogdany 2023 HU
Phone: +36.203367173
Fax: +36.203367173
But I think he's living at his mother Jan Kowalski's basement at:
Alexander Peter Kowalski
903 East Division Street
Syracuse, N.Y. 13208
Apartment #1, Lower Level
At least, that's where he wants users of his hostfile manager to send him money.
Slashdot Mirror
At First National Bank and Trust.
Do you really think that anybody here believes what you say? I notice that nobody but you is defending your posts. Do you believe posting A/C actually hides or confuses anything?
I don't use such - and I don't bother moderating A/C comments because I see them all at -1. I don't post A/C because I'm not ashamed of who I am.
While it's true I've made mistakes in the past, I (unlike you) own up to them. I also don't try to hide as an A/C.
Poor child. Were you abandoned by one or both of your parents, or did you just never feel that you'd lived up to their expectations?
You want to be treated like a peer? Use a registered login like one. Otherwise you can remain a second-class netizen.
Do you suffer from deep-seated identity issues as well as mania?
It would seem I've profiled you very accurately. It's not voluntary for you, is it? It's some kind of compulsion you can't stop. Too bad.
Personally, the Asus Transformer got 90% of the way to what I was looking for back in the twentieth century. Microsoft's latest offering appears to go the last 10%. I'm a Linux geek personally, but I do need to be able to run MS-Office compatible software on whatever platform I use. Microsoft's pitch -- "runs all your favorite MS software on your device of choice" is actually a powerful incentive for marketing to professionals. If they are addressing the perceived shortcomings of the tablet form factor, I suspect they may well be onto something.
Not planning on ditching my Android devices anytime soon, nor installing Windows on my Linux PC's - but I can sure see a lot of professionals doing so just for the ability to more or less seamlessly integrate their mobile devices with organization infrastructure. I may not like MS software, but nothing integrates with a Windows-based infrastructure like MS-Windows - hardware platform notwithstanding.
And almost exactly as predicted.
(cue the ad hominem attacks by A/C a.k.a. APK)
Too bad - this is precisely this kind of situation where hostfiles can represent a good technical measure to counteract tracking behavior. It's a shame that this particular piece of software is authored by an unreliable individual. While hostfiles are a valid and effective technical countermeasure to website tracking, the author of this particular hostfile manager has often and repeatedly displayed his instability in multiple online forums. Simply google on Alexander Peter Kowalski. I believe any intelligent research will convince users that permitting software written by APK to run in kernelspace is dangerous at best. The software may or may not be just fine, but the software's author has already demonstrated that he cannot be trusted to make rational, acceptable decisions.
Fortunately, the cyberstalking behavior APK has repeatedly demonstrated is almost certainly a compulsive, involuntary behavior on his part. I have no doubt that soon he will demonstrate fully the exact instability I have pointed out here. C'mon, Allie - post a bunch of links to your past posts, or call me "bigmouth" again. I'd say pick the most bellicose and insulting of your past posts; but nearly all of your cyberstalking is consistently offensive and insulting, indicative of a juvenile intellect. Instead of contstantly reposting the same insults and invective, give us something new to gauge your mental state from.
In either event, I wonder if the concentration of nickel in these plants is sufficiently high to make farming them a productive mining activity?
I won't spampost here, nor will I post stalk you - but if I see you using these techniques, I will respond directly. "The beatings will no longer continue"? We'll see. I am aware of your point of view in this; however, I have no intention of tolerating your abuse of the Slashdot bulletin board. If I have made a mistake (and I have) I am prepared to correct it. I insist you do likewise.
The beatings may or may not continue at your discretion, of course. However, I reserve the right to respond to what I perceive clearly to be an abuse of this forum - and I still find your abuse of this forum to be intolerable. My analysis concludes that you are in fact a fairly good programmer and have written several quite interesting pieces of software. However, your inappropriate marketing techniques (offtopic "spam" posts of your advertisement for your software, immediate and vociferous post-stalking of anyone who posts a negative opinion of you, your posts or your software) are irremediably attached to the very software products you're attempting to promote.
I will not knowingly download or use software you've written, specifically because you have demonstrated here in this forum that you are neither stable nor trustworthy. I don't know you and can't say personally whether or not this is accurate, but it is a perception which I (and apparently several other Slashdot readers) have formed based on our experiences with you here. There is a parallel - the Reiser Filesystem was once a widely noted and even commercially adopted piece of software - right up until Hans Reiser was convicted of murder. The quality of RFS no longer matters, even though Hans Reiser is no longer directly involved with it. The reputation of RFS is now irreparably sullied. Your reputation and software are not as badly off. Begin behaving yourself and find another mechanism for advertising - you will find that even her at Slashdot, people will respond to that. Even in your post above you have proferred an olive branch, but accompanied by another pitch for your hostfile manager (yes, I know - it's a non-trivial piece of work which provides data normalization for hostfiles as well as several useful functionalities). Offtopic posts are not a reputable mode of behavior. It's still shilling. Is this truly an offer of peace, or just another chance for self promotion?
I made the mistake of labelling his hostfile manager 'malware' after he's post-stalked me (and after he'd become insulting). I reacted poorly to his behavior.
That was my mistake, and I'll own up to it here. I permitted anger to cloud my reason, and made misstatements. He has remained quite implacable in post stalking - and using invective and ad hominem freely in his offtopic posts. My behavior hasn't been perfect, far from it.
I wish you the best of luck in getting a similar admission from APK.
And just to take the bait - why would I want to "disprove 17 points of fact on great benefits using a hosts file gives users in added SPEED, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, & even ANONYMITY"? I never once argued that hostfiles have no place in modern IT infrastructure, home computing infrastructure or even modern computing - nor did I ever say or even imply that any of those points (tl;dr) are untrue. I've been very direct in pointing out your behavior is the problem - behavior which can only have originated in the mind of a terribly hurt and abused little boy.
But you - the ultimate screen. I could truly project anything I wished onto you, because you're featureless. You continually repost "Run Forrest, Run" as though somehow it will elevate you beyond Forrest Gump's status (and it's obvious you've only seen the movie, never read the book).
Hate to burst your bubble - in the movies, downtrodden heroes always find their strength and redemption. In the real world (and even the cyberworld) the reality is a bit more harsh. If you want to find redemption, it will take more than waiting for some Hollywood deus ex machina device to fix all of the broken endings in your life. It'll take effort on your part; thought and effort. I know you're capable of these things, but until you demonstrate that, you will remain nothing more than a whimpering child, cringing from the attacks of a cruel world which somehow doesn't love you.
Must be terrible - even here in cyberspace, you just don't even have the strength to defend yourself. Everyone still spits on you, laughs at you. It's like high school all over again, isn't it? You must be terrified that you'll lose as badly here as you have out there in the real world. Even the few people in school who ever showed you anything like respect eventually betrayed you, didn't they? Here, you've been derided, banned, branded a troll. All you know how to do is make challenges you know you'll never have to live up to. The internet has freed you from being physically hurt. Bullies can't stuff you into a dumpster here on the internet, but even here people you perceive as your inferiors are still able to humiliate you publicly. Even the courts don't want to hear from anyone as insignificant as you - or did you actually ever get that far? The wonderful folks that make Spam Titan certainly haven't felt your wrath. Is that because you discovered that your claims are legally baseless, or did Mommy just tell you she isn't going to spend money just to salve your ego? There's the chance that you actually managed to talk to a lawyer and get told just how worthless your case is; but somehow I don't think you ever even made it that far. All you know how to do is prove that you still exist by repeatedly uttering meaningless challenges via the internet. At your best you show all of the intelligence and thoughtfulness of an eight year old child in the midst of a neverending temper tantrum. Yes, I'm sure you think it's unfair that none of us will bow down to your obviously superior intellect. That's not how this is supposed to work, is it? Here, you're supposed to be in charge, respected and admired for your intellectual prowess - but instead you're derided by people who won't even pretend to be bound by the rules you think should apply here. I do pity you. Your life in the real world must be a hell from which even the cold dark of the grave would be a welcome reprieve, and the promise of finding Shangri La here in cyberspace has turned out to be a lie. It's not a magical alternate universe where your ability to argue even after you've lost is respected and admired, but just another place where you are trivialized, marginalized. Hell, even here you have to sneak around anonymously - must be terrible for you.
Yes, too bad. I suppose there are a lot of things that went into this. I suppose we can't even blame you; only pity you. I'm guessing you have no friends out in the real world. It must be hard, doubly hard, to learn some basic programming skills, work hard on writing stuff only to have the world tell you why it's useless. Most of us could fall back on friends, learn to do better, but you - all you can do is scream and yell impotently on the reddits and the slashdots of the internet. Tell me, do you suffer from some physical disability? The level of vitriol you bring to the boards tells me you probably are helpless to defend yourself in the real world. It must be terrible to be almost as impotent here in the online world, the one place where you actually had a chance at being a peer, an equal; only to be relegated even here to the status of a punchline. They took your lunch money and beat you up in school. College was even worse - watching guys with more muscles or more money or just better looks get all the girls, everyone laughing at the geek. Worst was the real world - nobody even pretending that you belonged, nobody ever willing to let you prove that you could actually be important.
How am I doing so far? Tell ya what - log in as a registered user here at Slashdot before you post replies, I'm sure people here will respect that act by itself. Just don't expect us to fall all over ourselves showering you with praise because your magnum opus software project is of no value to the vast majority of the other registered users her at Slashdot. Be ready to read a lot of unpleasant posts. Behave like an adult, you'll be treated like one. Behave like a child, you'll be marginalized and ignored just like you have been all your life.
Are you this guy? The Start64 malware site shows the following:
But I think he's living at his mother Jan Kowalski's basement at:
At least, that's where he wants users of his hostfile manager to send him money.
But I think he's living at his mother Jan Kowalski's basement at:
At least, that's where he wants users of his hostfile manager to send him money.
But I think he's living at his mother Jan Kowalski's basement at:
At least, that's where he wants users of his hostfile manager to send him money.
But I think he's living at his mother Jan Kowalski's basement at:
At least, that's where he wants users of his hostfile manager to send him money.
But I think he's living at his mother Jan Kowalski's basement at:
At least, that's where he wants users of his hostfile manager to send him money.
But I think he's living at his mother Jan Kowalski's basement at:
At least, that's where he wants users of his hostfile manager to send him money.
But I think he's living at his mother Jan Kowalski's basement at:
At least, that's where he wants users of his hostfile manager to send him money.
But I think he's living at his mother Jan Kowalski's basement at:
At least, that's where he wants users of his hostfile manager to send him money.