Richard Stallman website

From Richard Stallman's website, https://stallman.org/, you should be able to see more of what's bad about various technology services we have been using today. This may be due to the fact that the companies may have the guts to somewhat mistreat the users without any knowledge although I don't know if Richard Stallman's concerns may be true or not. Amazon's screwed up like hell that you may want to buy stuffs online from other websites and especially that you SHOULD NOT do cloud computing from there like you can stick on to using Windows Azure for cloud virtualization or something instead. Apple's in that list as well not because of the features in the latest Mac OSX which is Yosemite in which they have disrespected the customers' privacy with those like Spotlight for instance. We don't know if Facebook and Google have learnt the technical lessons or some sort but the betrayal tries to continue from Facebook next year or something. The recent thing to talk about will be Uber which is the Taxi service with online capability.
OK, the technology for Uber is kind of fked up that South Korea is not happy about that that they want the CEO arrested. Another problem we may be interested to look at according to Richard Stallman is regarding the privacy violation again.
And this one Richard Stallman may bring us to is this, https://gnu.org/philosophy/proprietary-surveillance.html, which contains the amount of flaws they have discovered in the technology we know and use today. We know that Windows 8 and 8.1 have privacy problem and Windows 10 may be kind of worse in terms of that but I don't know if that problem will be gone in the final version. For Android, certain brands already have the similar backdoors as well in certain devices of theirs. So, if you're using some HTC, Samsung, Coolpad or other China branded devices that contain those backdoors, you're pretty much a cyber-victim as those may allow attackers to infiltrate. There's also Carrier IQ which does the same bullshit as well. You may as well as call that Carrier IQ-less. The only way to remove it in certain HTC and Samsung devices will be to require rooting them and using some bootloader to do so. For spywares on the web, don't even try to use the Japanese and Chinese input apps from Baidu and this is somewhat a past or perhaps a recent technical warning to us on not to use them. You want to input stuffs in those languages, try the alternatives instead.
And I'm more of like a product alternative seeker than a cyber-security researcher. If you're still supporting those cyber-spying agencies, you may look like a stupid garbage to tech giants nowadays.

4th Konami Arcade Championship and other events

What's a year for Bemani without KAC? It seems that the tournament had already started from this month to two months where the finals are taking place at JAEPO or something. In addition to that, there are already newer events that are coming in such as Power of Nature which requires one of Pop N Music Lapistoria songs to be unlocked in one of Bemani games as well as a different song from the same game that is to be unlocked in a different Bemani game and so on and Qpronicle Chord Phase 1 which is another Lincle Kingdom kind of event that is tedious to complete. Perhaps, you may be better off waiting for that event to be completely over or maybe finding other ways to unlock the remaining songs like I already unlocked all remaining Tricoro songs through Discover, Bemani Ruins event. Another thing for Power of Nature event is that the songs from various Bemani games will have to be unlocked to be playable in Pop N Music Lapistoria. Pretty much, the songs from that event are likely to be composed by wac/PON. Lastly, the two bonus tracks from IIDX Spada OST Vol. 2 are finally playable in IIDX Pendual without having to buy that soundtrack CD so that you can make use of the serial code number to do so.
And as of this writing, I had already finished the arrangement of Realize Maze from Pop N Music Lapistoria although I don't happen to be interested in the series visual-wise. Also, I pretty much gave up on the Chrono Seeker event before the days of KAC Preliminary Rounds started in favor of attempting the remaining songs I need to. I won't be at the arcades again until sometime next month.

Lizard Squad saga - From online game console service to Tor

Many of the gamers including us have already known the incident that had been on-going for days and that the services were compromised multiple times thanks to those fucking idiots who are called the members of Lizard Squad. Even if there's a political reason for those attacks, they shouldn't have done that multiple times and it's seriously wrong. Since there wasn't a proper reason for those attacks, it seems to us that they deserve to be sent to jail for this kind of cyber-stupidity. We already know what the other famous hacking groups are in which they are capable of doing advanced attacks on certain services just for the sake of freedom or something but that doesn't mean they can be FREAKING TRUSTED.
Oh, even the Tor service itself has been under attack as well but we don't care about that anymore as we already knew that it is no longer secure and it is being cyber-penetrated by those cyber-spying agencies. But sooner or later, those idiots who attacked both the Xbox Live and PSN will be arrested as they deserve for that recent attack as well. Perhaps, those spies already know what they did to Tor besides those two gaming services. Of course, their begging might be childish too like they wanted other hacking groups to leave their family alone and especially that they came crying to Mega founder for a trade of the MegaPrivacy voucher. Wish I can get that kind of voucher since I aim for higher privacy like an adult and have been taking actions online for freedom. Of course, I'm not the only one who does the action taking for price-sake. The other people are doing the same for same freedom. Even if we're not from US or any other country, we still have to fight for freedom lest our country ends up like those one day. I despise anything bad that goes against cyber-security, I despise those cyber-penetration/compromising groups like those idiots I mentioned above including SEA if you will, so the companies should do something to protect their consumers and prevent the similar incidents from happening again in the future.
So, if this cyber-stupid-ness happens again next time, then someone will do the verbal bashing on Lizard Squad for himself on the side or corner of the internet. Nobody knows how but we can assume that the bashing is actually a bunch of verbal insults thrown at the group and even then, nobody still cares for that shit.

Viber trolls on ESET for flagging their product as malware

Professionally speaking, the reason for flagging Viber as malware comes from ESET as they have detected the mysterious silent downloads of the unknown toolbars as part of the installation. Normally, you get additional crap you don't give a shit of when installing whatever software but this one seems to be on a different path as detected by ESET and thus, the trolling comes from someone behaving like a little kid on Twitter working at Viber. Does that even look like a professional tweet to us? Saying that some product sucks directly on Twitter or any other website is a wrong thing because the company behind that product or maybe someone else will have a comeback attack to you online because it sounds like a stupid troll. We should know what will probably happen for doing that and the consequences for doing it may be different too like a simple and common troll comment that sounds kind of childish will be flagged and voted down for that stupidity or maybe someone will scold you something online. That's gotta hurt if you're a kid doing all that stupid thing online and I have already seen some of the uselses trolls on YouTube that try to attack a bunch of awesome stuffs I like.
This troll from Viber on the other hand is not anything that childish but rather, a professional looking suggestion that tells users to uninstall ESET. But remember, if your professional product is flagged as malware like that by various antivirus brands, don't try to troll on those brands. Instead, you must figure out what the hell is wrong with it and try to remove the culprits found by those brands like the mysterious silent downloads of the toolbar set by Viber for example. There may be chances that those kinds of malware may be spywares set up by some corrupted agencies or perhaps some normal hackers that look like playthings to us and tech giants.
For me, I don't use Viber nor am I a security expert but it's important to know that it may look like a criticism from ESET after knowing the technical evidence found in Viber product. Will Viber do something to address that criticism or maybe continue to disrespect the customers without even knowing it?

Creating Your First 2D Game With Game Maker Jump Start

Okay, sure are new tools to learn of and especially for the various basic concepts I had never noticed. The directions in Game Maker are different than the standard mathematical concept and especially for the standard game making process in which the objects move to the right by positive x for example and it may be true. There are various documentations on other game genres and they may seem to be useful for developers in the future. Other tools include Soundation, Sfxr as well as Spine which are kind of new to me. Soundation is like the online version of the other Digital Audio Workstation and it may seem to be different than FL Studio which I have been using for music arrangement. Sfxr is for sound effect creation and Spine is the 2D character animation tool which can be useful for various game genres you may want to use for game development with Game Maker. Unfortunately, Spine is not free that you may need to buy it but there's the trial version of the tool to try out.
Collisions on the other hand, they are what I have been knowing a lot ever since that two objects that overlap by visible pixels may cause collisions and when that happens, the objects perform the various actions based on the collision event. The actions can of course be directed to other events as well in Game Maker which are the techniques I have been using. Not to mention that there are other features like Paths, Timelines, Rooms, Assets and so on.

Facebook's new privacy policy is postponed?

Whatapps had already enabled encryption for their service that protects users' privacy using the TextSecure technology but it looks like the lessons given to Facebook look like the pieces of lies. The new privacy policy planned by Facebook is about using photos and data of the users for the sake of advertisement or any other technical bullshit motive we can guess of and in return, allowing the companies behind their websites that are linked to Facebook to do the same. You think that Microsoft is going to do this bullshit in their accord next month with this policy? What about the other tech giants that are on Microsoft's side, huh?
The new plan will be effective starting next month but it seems that the same Dutch privacy watchdog, CBP has order Facebook to delay it as part of the investigation of the current one. The investigation can take months but even then, the privacy of the Facebook users is already violated with like what, no stronger encryption protection plans or something. You know what, they've fu**** it up, and it may be why they're told by CBP to delay this new bullshit!

Dutch privacy watchdog threatens Google with $18.5M fine

While it may look like Google is doing right with Android 5.0 or something, it cannot be the same with the other services run by that company. The data collection is still on-going for those services and it looks like Google is doing bad things like always and nobody knows on when will Google stop doing evil. Another doubt about Google is regarding the real Net Neutrality in the US. Sure, there may be those normal retards who don't even want that it and that's fucking stupid but the stupider ones happen to be those working at those evil ISPs in the US who come up with stupid lies against the Title II Net Neutrality in which they have their stupidly false claims about it.
Speaking of the on-going illegal data collection which is privacy invasion, it seems that Dutch privacy watchdog is threatening Google with a serious fine if they don't stop the privacy violation of the customers. There is also the breakup of Google in Europe perhaps to ensure that certain people want to be forgotten online although there may be downside that that movement is mis-done.
Be aware of what's going on, will you? You think that telling us to calm down and stop worrying about privacy violation is going to be that useful like telling us that there's nothing to hide? What about the tech giants' concerns? Maybe your concerns are not the same as ours? And if you continue to support that sort of corruption, perhaps, those evil ISPs are likely to be your examples. Sure, Microsoft is getting support from other tech giants when it comes to fighting data requests and it has been on-going although the battle is not over yet so there's nothing new I can blog about as I previously blogged about that.

Playstation 4 in China to launch in January

Times after the launch of Xbox One in China which was successful although there were censorship laws there that there should be games with no violence whatsoever. This should be the same for the Playstation 4 that will be launched in January next year in China. Of course, the price of Playstation 4 for China is much lower than the one for Xbox One.

Bike delivery by Amazon

Delivery by drone is a more complicated idea as untrained remote controllers may not know what they're doing when moving the drones containing the items straight to the users' destination. Another complication is the size of the flying drone as well as the amount of noise it can make which may be annoying to various places like the national parks and public libraries. How does a drone carry various goods to the users like that? The last problem is that there may be places that have the anti-drone weapons planned for operation in the near-future that are designed to take down the enemy drones or something so that the enemies are prevented from knowing the core of the base. So, this idea isn't going to be that great overall as it sounds quite complicated that Amazon has scrapped it.
So sticking back to other ways of deliveries, Amazon has come up with the bike delivery method that delivers goods with bikes. Of course, ti may be a hard work for delivery people riding the bikes containing the large amount of goods to the destination and especially for the look of the place. At least, it's a better idea than using drones to deliver the goods.
Another truth is that US Federal Aviation Administration doesn't approve the use of drones for purposes like that and various complications as I think of may likely to be the reasons for that. Other companies like Uber and Google are doing the same kinds of deliveries as well in which Uber does bike delivery besides the car delivery and the bike delivery service began way back in April.

Street Fighter V controversy?

OK, sure are many fighter games out there on Playstation 3 and Vita in addition to the arcades. Some of those are pretty much on the PC and Xbox 360 in addition to Playstation 3 and the arcades but now, it looks like things are starting to change with Sony console exclusivity. Many of those like Under Night In Birth Exe:Late, Guilty Gear Xrd Sign, Arcana Heart 3 Love Max, Blazblue Chrono Phantasma, Chaos Code and of course, Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax, are likely to be on Sony consoles. It may not be because the Xbox series consoles are like struggling in Japan or something but rather, the contents may not be suitable for western releases. If you probably long for those releases in the western regions in addition to Asia releases, good for us although not all people may appreciate such kinds of those games previously released in the arcades before their console ports. Of course, there may be other arcade fighters we don't know of and especially that there may be newer ones coming in next year and it should be the same for SF V.
Speaking of SF V, it looks like there may be controversies regarding the bad business techniques from Capcom. Wasn't the on-disc DLC bullshit quite controversial enough for them? Why isn't there the Xbox One release? This franchise is not like those fighting games I mentioned above. It is a popular franchise globally. It doesn't matter which platform you're playing those on! Why is this missing out various ports like the Xbox One and arcade ports? That's not the right thing Capcom Japan does! There was USF IV on PC, consoles and of course the arcades but outside of Japan, the arcades are still having SSF IV instead. Combined with all editions, the whole SF IV is sold in millions of copies.
But then, it looks like the producer had budget issues last year or something but that doesn't mean they can make games with no money. So is it Microsoft's fault for whatever they had done for Xbox One that many of those games are Playstation exclusives? What about the gamers outside of Japan, is there any platform equality whatsoever like there will be Xbox One release in addition to Playstation 4 and PC releases outside that? This target platform plan is misleading all the way up to the global ass!
And what's unnecessary is the Playstation 4 release of USF IV. What's the point of this is there's no graphical remakes whatsoever for Ultra edition? At least for the upcoming SF V, the graphics are kind of new although things still look like SF IV by the way. There may be opponents bouncing on the ground when knocked away and of course, the scenery damage like other previous fighting games including stage transition. What else? There are some lightings and reflections to the effects but then, realistic effects are expected when fighters throw off their projectiles. Other impressions include the Cross-Play feature which is easily implemented for Nintendo and Sony consoles although the Microsoft one is kind of difficult or something in which you'll need your Windows 8 or 8.1 device connected to Xbox 360 or One for such kind of Cross-Play gaming.
Lastly, you should be playing like a grown up gamer, not throwing profanities or saying stupid things at anyone for nothing. Such kinds of behaviors like the system-war thingy for example may make you pathetic like Angry Joe already mentioned in his rant. Speaking of that rant, the official trailer is pretty much in the Playstation official account which may be fine but what's not fine is the trailer video posted by others on YouTube. Such videos posted by others were flagged on Capcom Japan's own accord and that is unspeakably stupid. Why the decision on making this Sony console exclusive in addition to the PC release in the first place? I mean this is not like those fighting games I mentioned above but such business decisions to the other fans may be wrong and bullshit.
Oh, there's going to be SF V involvement in the Capcom Cup in a few days? Who knows what the reactions will be like when they see this? At least, this is less controversial overall than the on-disc DLC bullshit.

Customers sue Comcast for turning home routers into public hotspots

Well, if that wasn't quite offensive enough against the freedom of everything in America, it seems that that Devilcast is doing things even worse than ever that you may end up bashing on it on the back of their vans, trucks or whatever in the digital way. The home routers as people in America know of have been tampered with and turned into public Wi-Fi hotspots like the whole town or neighborhood is like a zoo or perhaps a land of the devils from hell. This bullshit is basically the complete violation and invasion of customers' privacy and it's seriously a technical damage to the environment like I can imagine that they're violating the Environmental Protection Act with the stupidest technical plan everyone in the globe has ever seen. How do you opt-out of this bullshit though? Well, only the Crapcast customers should know and find a way to opt-out if available. Otherwise, it may be assumed that there's no way to do so like this kind of bullshit continues to be worse in every way every time.
And the worse imagination of ours is that they may be really an ignorant company to their customers and any complaint is equal to them giving the complainers the middle fingers, telling them to stop whining or something although the customer service is still terrible. Nobody knows when will these evil plans come to an end so that the customers can leave in peace.

Firefox for IOS

The lack of the IOS version of the browser is probably due to the fact that the third-party web browser rendering engines are disallowed by Apple compared to Firefox for Android. The strange thing is that even the third-party browsers are making use of IOS rendering engine which may mean Safari but with different skin. However, it seems that things are changed and that Mozilla is planning to bring the IOS version of Firefox with its own different engine although I may assume that it targets IOS 7 and above that I still have yet to but the newer IOS device. Problem against that is that the Ipod Touch at minimum price is still expensive at $200+. Good thing is that there's cloud synchronization of bookmarks, preferences, favorites and other stuffs in the IOS version as well just like the desktop version. What you can't synchronize however, is the addons because not all addons are available on mobile version of the same web browser.

Comcast X Time Warner acquisition bullshit (With bullshit promotion?)

You can pretty much know that whatever that is said in the advertisements organized by that Idiotcast is total lies and bullshit. That may be because they may be trying to ruin the hell out of net neutrality in the US and their company has been the most dispised one by US customers for terrible customer service. So, who are the only supporters left, huh? The staff and other companies related to that abomination?
This has been the stupid way to treat the customers as if they've been ill-treating and ignoring the hell out of their customers with the awful service they foolishly call it the good and friendly one which their useless claims are absolute bullshit! For those who are not the customers of that horrible US ISP, good for them because whether the users use that ISP or the other, they have already dispised Shitcast to the core and that the opposition of the merging process is getting strong coming from people around the globe.
Even if this may affect the US citizens, it is still a global news that people around the globe may know what's going on and such abomination like the poor customer service for example is something people don't like.

Changes to Virtualand at Bugis Junction - December 2nd

If the rumors and annoucements are true, some of the game machines were already transferred to the other Virtualand game centers. Two of SDVX machines would be moved to Century Square Virtualand arcade in which someone must have fulfilled my unexpected dream of SDVX available for play at Century Square as if those machines were placed next to Dance Evolution arcade machines. The LCD Beatmania IIDX machine was transferred to Nex at Serangoon. Other than the machine transfers, there are like already multiple methods in inserting credits for today's Bemani music games although we prefer using the card method for credit insertion as inserting through coins is a serious pain in the game machines' butts.
Other weird dreams had involved the dis-functional and different sized arcade game machines and especially when the methods of playing them were totally unknown. Not to mention that I somewhat went to small-ass arcade centers in those dreams with no signs of rhythm games whatsoever. There might be other game genres I'm familar with in those dreams though. Speaking of dis-functional machines, even the computers in my dreams were my definition of malfunction.

Shinco Spad-miniQ obtained

Hmm, the technical specs are somewhat the same as another tablet which is Onda V818 Mini Quad Core that uses the different brand. However, the knowledge about HC Shinco is that it is likely to be a local brand that started in the late 90s in which they were manufacturing DVD players and other media players but nowadays, they're manufacturing mobile devices. If this tablet may look like the locally published version of that China tablet, perhaps it may be appealing to the customer service if there was a minor modification like brand change and nothing else, you don't want that. There might be local forums about this and I'm not sure if they could be used as evidence of product comparison. However, rip-off with major difference or completely original, it can't probably mean that the product is bad unless it is done poorly on the main portions of it. The original tablet which is Onda V818 Mini has the firmware support in which you can upgrade that tablet but I'm not sure if you can do the same to Spad-miniQ as according to Hardwarezone forum, it may seem that Shinco doesn't offer their version of that.
Decent thing about this tablet is that it is the clone of the Ipad Mini and that it offers UHD video playback and quad-core CPU but those were the only special parts of the technical specifications and not anything else. The highest resolution for video filming will be Full-HD resolution.
Then, about the inside. It is unfortunate that not all Android 4.2 and 4.3 devices support the Miracast so this tablet's a fat chance for me for the lack of that but at least I did have the HDMI cable along with HDMI to mini-HDMI thingy so that I can hook that up to the TV. As part of the promotion, the tablet also came with Power Bank, Mini USB to USB extender cable, power adapter which didn't work at all, external 3G/4G which makes the internal mobile device design kind of bullshit for the lack of internal one as most of them should already have the SIM card slot with 3G/4G/5G inside of them and of course, the mini-USB to USB cable. As the power adapter that came with it didn't work on me, I can probably use my previous Android device's power adapter for charging this new one with that mini-USB to USB cable although it may be risky that way for using anything like that for non-Samsung devices.
Unfortunately, there was some touch screen problem when I bought this tablet as if your touch point's surrounding area would be tapped too. It's not the hard tapping or hard holding that was causing the problem, it was something else I don't know that caused it. The moment I started to use the tablet, the problem was already there and that can ruin my opportunity to play games on this tablet. However, there should be a solution for this by making contact with the company directly as the staffs at Singapore Expo were apparently doing promotions and sales of Shinco products.

SITEX - November of this year

This is probably a big one and especially that there were tons of new things there that took place at Singapore Expo at the end of last month. There might be newer tons of computers, mobile devices and especially for the newer tech brands and new educational schools for same certified courses in addition to Rangers products, earpieces, printers, speakers, headphones, projectors and so on. Of course, there was some gaming show taking place at Alienware booth with some cool-ass computers which were extremely expensive. Alienware Area 51 is one of the examples of the coolness. Inside, the slots were slanted and especially for the fact that there would be internal water cooling pumps connected to the CPU. Hard drives, SSDs and the rest of the components were on the opposite side and not slanted.
There were also security cameras, door locks and networked ones by Samsung which were more than what I saw at Funan Digitalife Mall the last time. Like always, those things were not easy to set up like you would need some sort of engineering skills to do it.
Other discoveries included the 3D printer that allowed you to print figures of the characters or maybe some public facility and of course, Lithan Hall Academy which is another school that provides certified courses. Unlike others like New Horizons or something, this one provides WDA funding discount for whatever certified courses you want to take. And even then, they are seriously expensive to me.
The downside of IT shows like this is that there may also be booths that are brought from Sim Lim Square or something as if those shops are promoting the products there from Sim Lim Square regardless of the brands. There are also other China and Korean brands as well but it may look like Sim Lim Square is the only place to buy those mobile devices from.
There was one company that provided cheaper phone calls and that there was no expiry for prepaid SIM-cards whatsoever. Kind of useful for overseas trips and especially that it still makes use of your current mobile number so that nobody can suspect that you've changed your phone number. The only downside is the local calls in which sticking back to whatever ISP you're currently using is still recommended for that.
But it's not over yet as I happened to have bought something from there.

OnePlus One in India uses the local OS, Micromax OS

India's mobile devices have been using the local OS which is based on Android and OnePlus One will be the next one to use it instead of Cyanogenmod. This is probably due to Cyanogen having a deal with Micromax which has been producing the custom OSes on Android devices in India. The device will be released tomorrow in India and will be available exclusively through Amazon with invites again.
Such kind of business strategy from OnePlus had become a controversial way through all the bullshit invites that nobody wanted in the first place like trying to get such a phone like this. I don't know if Jolla can do better job than this when it comes to announcing their upcoming tablet with a different OS.

Online analytics system, Gigya, compromised by SEA

Well, we probably can't tolerate what those research-less assholes did to Microsoft the last time while Microsoft was already planning to increase the security level for Outlook and Onedrive. Like how many times do I have to mention those two recently encrypted services? There were already rants of mine about that cyber-compromising group from Syria and yet they have the guts to attack a different company this time which is Gigya.
Gigya is the online analytics system that tracks user behavior for marketing purposes and many companies have been using it perhaps for the sake to see how many users are using their products and services and so for so that they can share the usage results within the organization or something.
CERTAIN SITES like Logitech, Dell UK, PC World, etc. were compromised last month! Who knows if they were quickly restored? And Syrian Electronic Army or SEA is some group that nobody supports for their research-less bullshit attacks the last time and nobody knows what the next target will be in the future.