Fine. I downvoted you, and it's no longer anonymous. I downvoted you because both of your comments were filled with passionate garbage rather than any well-reasoned thought. I'd be willing to bet other downvoters were not simply cowardly Microsoft brown-nosers.
Its hard to stay calm if you were relying on no-ip's services for very legitimate purposes. Maybe the action coming from Microsoft is whats garbage - not the resulting emotional outbursts.
Apparently the sheer abuse of power entailed by Microsoft hijacking and disrupting the inbound traffic of a lot of innocent no-ip customers to track the few C&C servers is entirely lost on you.
If something like that is to be done it should be done by a state body, not a private corporation. What gives them the right to spy on innocent peoples traffic?
Did the judges even understand the nature of the power they were granting Microsoft? Couldn't it have been handled differently?
kordless is right - you still don't get the point. People aren't downvoting you because they like what Microsoft did (or Apple, in one of your more recent outburts). People are downvoting you because your comments contained little intelligent thought and were passionate outburts, and people on this forum tend to look down on that. This most recent comment, however, is a good one. Instead of just blaming downvotes on other people's ignorance, look at the way you communicate. You replied to my comment 3 times over the course of several hours when I wasn't even online. Why? You started calling people Microsoft brown-nosers and Apple brown-nosers. Why? It was childish and immature. You got downvoted because people didn't like the way you were acting, not because of your opinion.
Which ever way you cut it technically speaking Microsoft runs the biggest botnet because they have control all the computers running Windows upgrade, and if they can't shut them down, they might as well fix them.
Whether you like it or not for better or worse a botnet is an economic resource whose value is not lost on Microsoft and sooner or later they are going to come up with a wheeze to exploit them.
You are missing the point. He said why he downvoted you and you replied with a general rationalization on why he should agree with you, when that's entirely NOT the point. You'll catch more flies with honey than you will with vinegar. We probably all agree with you in some fashion, just not the way you put it.
And, just in case YOU can't figure it out, the blaming statements you are making are due to the use of 'you' in your comment.
I read the statement on the Microsoft blog, before coming to see the comments and that blog statement IS smug, self preening, self-congratulary tripe created by a lawyer and a company who want to ingratiate themselves with government for whatever agenda they have in mind.
That blog entry is not targeted at computer users, it is targeted at the government.
