Apologies to bitminter miners if you upgraded to cgminer 3.3.3 which uniquely only broke this pool. I will be releasing a hotfix release today, 3.3.4, designed to mainly address this issue (if you are building from git the fix is already available).
I do not like to sound or read so nasty but after a long list of poor btc companies and the like I am tired.
Feel free to write your own mining client. Nothing stops you. Everything is open source. It is called 'fix it yourself, if you're not happy of the software GIVEN to you'.
ckolivas is one of the most generous person to share his technical skills freely to the whole community. If he did receive 1 BTC per cgminer copy used or just received a small donation for each hour spent to improve cgminer for the benefits of all his users, he would be awesomely rich.
The hero title he has is well merited. In my mind, he is playing an important role for mainstream BTC adoption with his contribution.
I hope that you calm down a bit, realised that you might have overreacted and offer him your sincere apologizes.
The recent pool bad luck has nothing to do with cgminer.
we'll be back at it - just normal variance. 
