From: Dustin Cook on
"Ant" <not(a)home.today> wrote in
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> "Dustin Cook" wrote:
>
>> "Ant" wrote:
>>> I just found out that I'm older than Dustin Cook's dad. With regard
>>> to computers, I've been operating/programming them since 1974.
>>
>> 4 years prior to my even existing. :) Not that it matters much. In 8
>> more years, I'll be older than my Dad.
>
> Is he going to be stuck in time? Hang on a minute, are you saying he
> was only 8 or 9 years old when you were born?

No. He passed away at age 40. I'm almost 33 now. So in 8 years, I will be
older than him; as he's dead and isn't aging anymore...It's just one of
those things you don't expect, then one day.. it happens.

>> I don't think I ever tried to say I'd be doing this longer than you
>> Ant. :)
>
> You never know, you may end up doing that - or does being an old geek
> not appeal?

the geek doesn't bother me as much as it did in school; intelligence has
nice rewards, but at the same time it's a double edged sword. I had a
sinking feeling when I was a kid messing around computers how things
would be when I got older. And for the most part, things worked out as I
expected them too. Very disappointing, but predictable.

If you wound up with a family and the nice house and pickett fence and
all that jazz then you beat the norm. Being a geek usually includes
antisocialism; and for me, it will eventually be my undoing. heh, the
irony of the whole situation is I more than likely will be directly
responsible; perhaps on purpose even.

So to sum it up, if getting older (60s, 70s) or however old you are,
under present conditions does not appeal to me.


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From: Dustin Cook on
~BD~ <BoaterDave(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in
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> Ant wrote:
>> "Dustin Cook" wrote:
>>
>>> "Ant" wrote:
>>>> I just found out that I'm older than Dustin Cook's dad. With regard
>>>> to computers, I've been operating/programming them since 1974.
>>>
>>> 4 years prior to my even existing. :) Not that it matters much. In 8
>>> more years, I'll be older than my Dad.
>>
>> Is he going to be stuck in time? Hang on a minute, are you saying he
>> was only 8 or 9 years old when you were born?
>>
>>> I don't think I ever tried to say I'd be doing this longer than you
>>> Ant. :)
>>
>> You never know, you may end up doing that - or does being an old geek
>> not appeal?
>>
>>
>
> I may be wrong, but I think Dustin's dad died at an early age (40?).
>
> It's always sad to lose a loved one.

Car accident.. yea...




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"Hrrngh! Someday I'm going to hurl this...er...roll this...hrrngh.. nudge
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From: Dustin Cook on
~BD~ <BoaterDave(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in news:YqGdnco-
IZNfyyfWnZ2dnUVZ8kdi4p2d(a)bt.com:

> David H. Lipman wrote:
>> From: "FromTheRafters"<erratic(a)nomail.afraid.org>
>>
>> | "~BD~"<BoaterDave(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
>> | news:v9adnYvt7piHOiTWnZ2dnUVZ7tudnZ2d(a)bt.com...
>>
>>>> I do not believe he/she is involved in Cybercrime in any way. /Those/
>>>> are the 'bad guys' in which I am interested.
>>
>> | Software piracy isn't cybercrime?
>>
>>
>> Bindo !!
>>
>> IP theft of the Internet is indeed a "cybercrime".
>>
>
> It is exactly what TRT accused Malwarebytes of doing - and they did!

Excuse me? Please explain exactly what you mean by this...




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From: Dustin Cook on
~BD~ <BoaterDave(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in
news:poKdnaAEyoqN7yfWnZ2dnUVZ8u6dnZ2d(a)bt.com:

> David H. Lipman wrote:
>> From: "~BD~"<BoaterDave(a)hotmail.co.uk>
>>
>> | David H. Lipman wrote:
>>
>> | To be clear:
>>
>>>> They *blocked access* to an IP and had signature detection for his
>>>> plagiarized utility. Not
>>>> a crime in any sense of the word.
>>
>> | That, dear Sir, is a matter of opinion ...... IMO.
>>
>> It is NOT an opinion. Even if (and this is a big if) the personnel
>> at Malwarebytes were wrong, it does not rise to the level of a crime.
>
> In *your* view!
>
>>
>> The fact is I know the personnel in the Malwarebytes staff and I know
>> what they know and they have seen the proof that Butts has been
>> plagiarizing the works of their peers. The information they have
>> seen goes well BEYOND the information that is publicly available.
>
> I /really/ do not like secrets.

You have military experience, you should understand the need for secrets.
I don't understand what your issue is here...

>>
>> Additionally, if one was to go by your faulty logic, Butts would be
>> acting criminally for blocking access to PCTipp Magazine, an
>> organization within the International Data Group (IDG). The worlds
>> largest publisher.
>>
>
> You now seem to be telling me that, in your opinion, his tools (or
> some of them) *are* effecting the normal operation of a computer on
> line.

If you choose to run his installer, it's going to replace your hosts file
with a modified one from him. If you do that, you will lose access to
malwarebytes, bughunter, and a slew of other helpful sites. Not because
the sites are bad, but because they've exposed him for the scoundrel he
is and it's his way of payback.

It's the way he works. For some of us, we get a domain! (Leythos), and
others get a short porno flic dedicated to them. Obviously the intent is
to inrage and slander anybody he doesn't agree with.

Do you feel it's correct in any way for him to be posting a fake porno
where he says I star in it? If he's willing to do that, what makes you
think *anything* he's claimed we've done has any validity to it
whatsoever?

> Yet you and your peers have done *nothing* about this as far as I can
> tell. Is that the case?

Some of us have sent cease and desist letters with varying results.
Remove-it was once called Spyerase. Pcbutts claims he sold it (a batch
file.. right... heh), and thats why it's been renamed to Remove-It.

In the USA, it takes money to have justice served and wrongs righted.
Pcbutts knows this. Criminals always have the advantage. As the software
he's stealing isn't for profit, it's unrealistic to expect anyone to
cough up the immense amount of funds to sue him; just for him to turn
around and do it again. And he would, he has each and every time we've
caught him for something. Did you check the pcbutts and rot13 search
query yet? You should. One version of the original software was marked,
pcbutts didn't know about them; arguing with us here for days on how he
put them there, but couldn't tell is what they meant. heh, a few days
after this, I was permitted to explain what the marker was, and how to
read it. :)

You really should look this thread up David, your giving the benefit of
the doubt to the wrong person. Pcbutts has you for a sucker.




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this boulder right down a cliff." - Goblin Warrior

From: Dustin Cook on
~BD~ <BoaterDave(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in
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> JD wrote:
>> ~BD~ wrote:
>>> JD wrote:
>>> >
>>> > You said: "In the past, I did try out all the tools." Hmmm. That's
>>> > interesting.
>>> >
>>> > Which tools specifically did you try out?
>>>
>>> All of them - I think (but could be mistaken. I was a long time ago)
>>>
>>> > Can you go to this web page?: http://www.mvps.org/
>>>
>>> I can - and have been, often!
>>>
>>
>> Bye Bye Boater Dave. I don't have the time to play your little game.
>> The more you reply, the more you sound just like Butts.
>>
>> Obviously you're not paying attention to what everyone else thinks of
>> Butts. And it's a HE. Stop referring to it as he/she.
>>
>> And if you'd run all the tools from Butts page, you wouldn't be able
>> to go to the web page I posted because Butts installs a HOSTS file
>> that blocks that web page along with many other legitimate web pages.
>>
>> Two lines from the HOSTS file installed by the Butt's Remove-It
>> software:
>>
>> # [Thieves and trolls]
>> 127.0.0.1 www.mvps.org
>> 127.0.0.1 mvps.org
>>
>> No need to reply to me, I'm done with you! 8-)
>>
>
> You assume I am still using the same machine - fuckwit!
>

His point however stands. If pcbutts were actually an mvp; why would he
want your computer to no longer access the sites related?

Before you keep calling us fuckwits, you need to do your homework. Jenn
doesn't think your a troll, but alot of us are pretty sure you are. Your
methods of investigation wouldn't be tolerated in any military setting I
know of... so I don't understand why you think they would be here?


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"Hrrngh! Someday I'm going to hurl this...er...roll this...hrrngh.. nudge
this boulder right down a cliff." - Goblin Warrior