SO - that automatic hostfile exploit of yours keeping the cops from finding your pictures of naked little boys? Or is it just that you're not important enough for the police to go after yet?
I mean, are you just some guy with severe autism, or...
Oh, wait. I get it. You need the host files so that you can buy things over the darknet. That explains your host file hack, your complete detachment from the rest of humanity. So - those hostfiles your using keep the police from finding all your kiddie porn?
They ended up pricing themselves into irrelevance. Unlike VHS and DVD, they didn't have enough entrenched market share to withstand the current breed of video distribution mechanisms, and their belief that strong DRM would let them set market pricepoint doesn't seem to have panned out quite the way they intended.
Besides, at least I could rip and watch my DVD's on my devices - I know it can be done with BluRay, but they made it unpleasant enough to deter me exactly as they (Sony) intended. Now that me and guys like me just aren't that interested, I can't say as I'm surprised how things are ending up. Must break their hearts over there at Sony, eh? Doesn't break mine.
...let me give them an electric shock (say, through the keyboard) with voltage inversely proportional to password strength. That ought to encourage the use of something stronger.
On the up side . . . if only one out of a million microbial hitchhikers actually survives on Mars, it could well be a start in the teraforming process. It'd sure screw the pooch on looking for evidence of (native) life on the red planet, but it also strikes me as step one in making it habitable by things like us.
Not sure I'd consider his stuff malware. APK's problem is that he expresses himself with all the eloquence of a drunken baboon with encephalitis.
Host files have their place - management of small networks, intranets, access to darknets, etc. APK is firmly convinced that his hostfile management system is somehow essential to fast, secure internet access. Again, if darknets are your thing, or DNS is somehow just way too insecure or unreliable for your tastes, or if something about RFC01035 is just wrong, give somebody else's product a look. APK makes it a point to threadjack every chance he gets, loads the board with unneeded invective and is in general a nuisance.
In closing - please don't feed the troll. They become dependent upon handouts and unable to function in the real world.
Wow! That's some userbase. I'm sure your software is well on its way to becoming an industry standard. Let me know when there's a set of best practices associated with it and I'll gladly consider it a worthless adjunct to just managing my own host files and/or using DNS.
'Cuz we all know how much easier and more reliable it is to manage host files instead of using DNS. If you really want speed, just download the internet and access it locally.
This is the part where APK starts posting how butt-hurt he is that everyone with an IQ over sixty can readily see he's just shilling. His product may or may not be malware; his approach to marketing by spamming/. is a sign - draw your own conclusions.
Don't listen to APK. He's trying to sell his particular brand of snake-oil. Let's face it - he's just out to substitute his (proprietary, non-standard, non-best-practices) method for DNS.
This is the part where APK starts posting how butt-hurt he is that everyone with an IQ over sixty can readily see he's just shilling. His product may or may not be malware; his approach to marketing by spamming/. is a sign - draw your own conclusions.
The whole point is that Google's popularity forces Android phone manufacturers to incorporate Google search functionality. Shouldn't this lawsuit be directed against all Google users, for making the search giant so popular?
NOTE: I'm not saying it's the best. I'm not saying it's the only one that incorporates functionality xyz. Just that it's so popular that any Android manufacturer that doesn't provide at least a way to add Google functionality is committing market suicide.
What a crock! It's not like Google is telling manufacturers "include our functionality or we'll bankrupt you". They're simply saying "Oh, you want to include our functionality because it's necessary to your marketing? This is what you have to do." It's not at all like the Microsoft Tax, which is what the class action lawsuit seems to be implying.
Actually, I (personally) get it. I run a mix of MS-Win, Linux and Android devices at home, and I consider all to be equally "insecure".
Then again, I consider myself part of the "white noise". I don't surf for kiddie-porn, don't download (excessively large) amounts of copyrighted video and audio content, and I already know how to manufacture explosives (thus not needing an updated version of The Anarchist's Cookbook). I'm actually a law-abiding US citizen - but I'm perfectly happy to function as white noise for those who believe (quite correctly) that governments everywhere should be kept on their toes - and allowed or even hastened to fall if they fail in this requirement.
Just to say - if you address all of the readers instead of the poster (me, in this case) you have a far greater opportunity of actually being heard by everyone. I think you'll agree that it takes far more thought to craft a message for the larger audience - and you're more likely to influence more who read this. It's worth the extra effort (IMHO).
With that said, I'm obliged to point out that large corporations know which side their bread is buttered on. They play ball with governments because that's how they prosper. They - a vague and undefined group - may rely upon us for their income, but they need them (the governments of the world) to keep doing what they do. I've often pointed out that corporations aren't interested in protecting our (consumers) interests, only theirs. You can't even blame them for doing so - it's why they exist, and it's what perpetuates their existence.
Governments (IMHO) are a different matter. If there's ever going to be an opportunity to fix anything, it relies on (fat, internet-addicted, lazy) people like me to force our governments once more to behave like res publica, instead of viewing me and people like me as the opposition.
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SO - that automatic hostfile exploit of yours keeping the cops from finding your pictures of naked little boys? Or is it just that you're not important enough for the police to go after yet?
I'm pretty sure your mom regrets all those drugs she did while she was carrying you.
Oh, wait. I get it. You need the host files so that you can buy things over the darknet. That explains your host file hack, your complete detachment from the rest of humanity. So - those hostfiles your using keep the police from finding all your kiddie porn?
You'll need to do better than that.
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Besides, at least I could rip and watch my DVD's on my devices - I know it can be done with BluRay, but they made it unpleasant enough to deter me exactly as they (Sony) intended. Now that me and guys like me just aren't that interested, I can't say as I'm surprised how things are ending up. Must break their hearts over there at Sony, eh? Doesn't break mine.
You're app's a way to manage hostfiles. I've been using 'vi' for that for decades.
Who are you?
...let me give them an electric shock (say, through the keyboard) with voltage inversely proportional to password strength. That ought to encourage the use of something stronger.
X^D
On the up side . . . if only one out of a million microbial hitchhikers actually survives on Mars, it could well be a start in the teraforming process. It'd sure screw the pooch on looking for evidence of (native) life on the red planet, but it also strikes me as step one in making it habitable by things like us.
Won't you please just go away?
Host files have their place - management of small networks, intranets, access to darknets, etc. APK is firmly convinced that his hostfile management system is somehow essential to fast, secure internet access. Again, if darknets are your thing, or DNS is somehow just way too insecure or unreliable for your tastes, or if something about RFC01035 is just wrong, give somebody else's product a look. APK makes it a point to threadjack every chance he gets, loads the board with unneeded invective and is in general a nuisance.
In closing - please don't feed the troll. They become dependent upon handouts and unable to function in the real world.
None of those look like enterprise users to me.
Wow! That's some userbase. I'm sure your software is well on its way to becoming an industry standard. Let me know when there's a set of best practices associated with it and I'll gladly consider it a worthless adjunct to just managing my own host files and/or using DNS.
Got it.
Oh, I'm sorry - did I blow your cover?
Incidentally, what is DNS fool? I've never heard of the DNS fool protocol.
Keep those ad hominem attacks coming - they tell the readers here exactly what you're about (and me, baiting the troll. Way too easy!)
Stop referring to yourself in the third person. It's disingenuous (although I will admit, it's really amusing).
Tell ya what - you want to create a new standard? Fine. Get an RFC going. Until then, stop trying to break the internet for your own profit.
This is the part where APK starts posting how butt-hurt he is that everyone with an IQ over sixty can readily see he's just shilling. His product may or may not be malware; his approach to marketing by spamming /. is a sign - draw your own conclusions.
This is the part where APK starts posting how butt-hurt he is that everyone with an IQ over sixty can readily see he's just shilling. His product may or may not be malware; his approach to marketing by spamming /. is a sign - draw your own conclusions.
NOTE: I'm not saying it's the best. I'm not saying it's the only one that incorporates functionality xyz. Just that it's so popular that any Android manufacturer that doesn't provide at least a way to add Google functionality is committing market suicide.
What a crock! It's not like Google is telling manufacturers "include our functionality or we'll bankrupt you". They're simply saying "Oh, you want to include our functionality because it's necessary to your marketing? This is what you have to do." It's not at all like the Microsoft Tax, which is what the class action lawsuit seems to be implying.
Then again, I consider myself part of the "white noise". I don't surf for kiddie-porn, don't download (excessively large) amounts of copyrighted video and audio content, and I already know how to manufacture explosives (thus not needing an updated version of The Anarchist's Cookbook). I'm actually a law-abiding US citizen - but I'm perfectly happy to function as white noise for those who believe (quite correctly) that governments everywhere should be kept on their toes - and allowed or even hastened to fall if they fail in this requirement.
Moderation is about intelligence of post - not about personal agreement or disagreement.
With that said, I'm obliged to point out that large corporations know which side their bread is buttered on. They play ball with governments because that's how they prosper. They - a vague and undefined group - may rely upon us for their income, but they need them (the governments of the world) to keep doing what they do. I've often pointed out that corporations aren't interested in protecting our (consumers) interests, only theirs. You can't even blame them for doing so - it's why they exist, and it's what perpetuates their existence.
Governments (IMHO) are a different matter. If there's ever going to be an opportunity to fix anything, it relies on (fat, internet-addicted, lazy) people like me to force our governments once more to behave like res publica, instead of viewing me and people like me as the opposition.