Your stalking flatters me, APK.

Yes.

Not that it was ever better.

Seriously, just look at how many domain names they are using. There's ebay.com, ebaystatic.com, ebayrtm.com, ebayobjects.com. It's absurd. Every category is a separate subdomain. Click on an item and you get URLs that apparently substitute '=' with 'Z' and '&' with 'QQ'.

Just looking at the whole thing makes you sick if you have any sense of clean design.

Abusing semantics is not a fix, it's a workaround. To amateurs it may look the same because of equal outcome. It's not.

Yeah, but noone argued that. The point is the sheer stupidity of abandoning the usefulness of DNS for a locally held hosts file. You even stir some totally uncalled-for phobia by referencing DNS poisoning or compromised DNS servers to make your "point".

But of course, if I were also too stupid to setup a local resolver, then I would come up with such crude ideas as well. Each according to his abilities I guess.

Just try to think about what happens when a server is using CNAMEs pointing to host names with multiple addresses for load-balancing reasons or changes addresses, how you are going to track that manually and how much time you waste doing that instead of spending _milliseconds_ to do it the right way.

I'm not even mentioning the time you spend defending this ridiculous ideas of yours and the lifetime you lose by boiling your blood because you are too stubborn to acknowledge your lack of technical understanding.

And regarding URLs, this is one: http://www.slashdot.org/

This is not one: www.slashdot.org, this is a host name. URLs contain host names. DNS is used to resolve host names, not URLs. I hope those details don't confuse you too much.

If you're replying, please keep it to personal attacks. Those are funny. You faking know-how, not so much.

That's a load of crap.

After I told you how idiotic it is to use the hosts file for "blocking" you come back and tell me how to use it to "speed up" DNS? Are you living in the 60s or what?

Also, you don't resolve URLs. Go read up what a URL actually is.

Please, never reply to one of my posts again with your junk advice.

Yeah, but only if you leave out any hidden costs such as worrying about the confidentiality of your data or actuall data leakage. Cost is a stupid argument if you ignore parts of it.

Seriously, what's your point? That you cannot gain local privileges other than logging in? You are really really naive.

Yeah, because there never was a remote exploit in a non-root application. *rolls eyes*

Yeah, well. You won the logic game. Congratulations.

Your statement just doesn't have any relevance to reality anymore.