2001. Touchscreen. Ran a Gecko-based UI. Thought it was way cool. Thought for sure they'd be out on the market within a year or two of that.

If it wasn't the Nokia unit, then someone else was working on something very similar.

I apparently didn't have time to troll someone TWO HUNDRED TIMES in a single day, whereas you OBVIOUSLY had time to do so, because you DID in fact do just that.

You must be weak in the head if you think that is not patently obvious to anyone observing these proceedings.

You're apparently the only person visiting this site who can't see that the TrollingForHostFiles account was created specifically in your honour, AFTER you started trolling me and crapflooding any and all threads I posted to.

And I've made absolutely no secret of TFHF's origins, which kind of deflates your sockpuppet conspiracy theories.

Oddly enough, the TFHF account already has positive karma, which means somebody's been modding up its posts in spite of the fact that it's an acknowledged alter ego. And I'm extraordinarily pleased to say that I (Zontar) have not had mod points since the TFHF account was created, so those upmods are not coming from me.

Name some of the "spots" where you've lived outside the US, and tell us a little about them.

I'd like to compare notes.

Apparently you've figured out that I don't want or need to post AC in response to your trolls, APK.

I've been having a field day finding your slimy little trails all over the Internet and exposing you for the lifelong spammer, bully, troll, crapflooder, and liar that you are.

Why should I not want to receive credit for unearthing all these wonderful facts about yourself that you've been leaving lying about for the last decade or more?

Besides, it's been giving me something to take my mind off cigarettes--I decided to quit on Monday after being a smoker for 30+ years.

This is working out really well for me, too--every time a I get a craving for a smoke, I just hit the Google again and find something new to smoke you with, instead. :D

Or maybe next time I'll switch to Bing and see what they've got on you, as well.

You started your own janitorial service? Congrats.

Well, since you asked:

Currently that's 5 Insightful mods, 1 Overrated, and 1 Troll.

I start at 1 when logged in, and I get an extra +1 for having excellent Karma.

What's "Karma", you ask? That's something you don't really need to worry about, since you are too big a coward to create an account and log in to it before posting, and even then, you need to post stuff that people think is useful, informative, insightful, which you don't seem capable of doing, so my advice is not to bother.

Specifically? Everything, except for the errors and mischaracterisations.

Your usermode app *subverts* normal process scheduling. You *bragged* about this until it was pointed out that this is a really, really bad thing to do.

All I can see is that those two individuals' websites appear to be alive and thriving.

And how you can try to portray getting kicked off Ars at least 4 times as some sort of victory is pretty silly.

But we've come to expect mischaracterisation from you much as we'd expect cowflop from the wrong end of a cow.

IOW you need to offer proof that this is what happened.

ProTip: Linking to one of your own posts does not constitute proof.

And like I've said before, as far as I can tell, every single one of your host files spamvertisements has been off-topic.

Since they are nothing but spamvertisements for a crapware host files app that nobody in his right mind wants to allow anywhere close to his system, your posts are by definition useless and off-topic. Q.E.D.

I've already made it crystal clear that I am utterly certain that you are engaging in gross mischaracterisation, as this is one of your trademarks.

Like I said before: If APK tells us that the sky is blue, I'm going to assume that this is a lie until I look out the window and see it for myself.

APK, you appear to be capable of making 2 and only 2 sorts of statements:

1. Mischaracterisations

and

2. Lies

You seem to prefer the former, I guess because in your twisted world they're more difficult for someone else to disprove.

I'll repeat what I've already said elsewhere:

1. I've yet to find a single case where one of your host files trolls was even remotely on-topic.

2. Your "host files engine" is a useless, CPU-sucking piece of crap, and I am very far from being the first one to say this. (Furthermore, you actually boast about its horrid performance as if it were something to be desired.) In addition, it overrides the Task Scheduler for no good reason whatsoever. That in my opinion qualifies it as something I would never in a million years permit anywhere near any machine that I use or administer; IOW it is for all intents and purposes malware and no amount of your ranting and raving and trolling and crapflooding is ever going to change this fact.

I grew up in the 60's, all parents behaved like that (and worse), also teachers could smack you around if you looked at them in the wrong way. In grade 5 a five foot - zero female teacher whacked me so hard she broke a yard long blackboard ruler over my backside, in front of the class. This was in semi-rural Australia but "Spare the rod, spoil the child" was a universal truth in western society, everyday 1960's discipline was clearly child abuse by today's standards but I'm not aggrieved by it, it was just something everyone accepted as a "fact of life". Sticking with the old ways is the very definition of "conservative", blind faith that "the old way is always the best way" is just nostalgia playing tricks on your mind.

Disclaimer: I have 3 grandkids, 5 and under, I was an average, imperfect parent but I rarely smacked my kids when the were growing up. My youngest daughter is a better parent than I ever was, which is the way it should be. :)

Given your recent track record with me and other Slashdotters--and the fact that Jeremy's and Jay's websites appear to be alive and well--I am going to assume that you're at least mischaracterising and most likely just outright lying.