25Mbps in US is the new minimum speed for broadband

While they are preparing for the battle for net neutrality in the US, it seems that FCC has made a good progress in increasing the broadband standard to 25Mbps as the minimum speed. This is useful for the customers to surf the net even faster than before and especially for the business companies that can operate online quite faster as well with lesser lags. Of course, it may made the bad ISPs in the US cry out like a bunch of kids, indicating that this kind of bandwidth is seriously more expensive than ever and that it can attract even more hoggers out there in which tons of technical packets are hogged and  transferred more quicker and non-stop in such a crazier way than before. What will those ISPs do, huh? Charge people for browsing at such a high speed non-stop at the stupidly high price? Or maybe slow down the connection speed and break the new prototype rules FCC had recently made?
OK, we have until sometime next month before the net neutrality declaration in the US begins and we don't know what kind of evil things will the US ISPs do to their customers. There were already some trusts about classifying internet under Title II thingy which is one of the important steps of freedom for net neutrality to make things much fair. That will prove on how grown-up the ones working under Team Internet are.
Speaking of Team Internet, there are tons of companies willing to support the real net neutrality but the Team Cable is likely to be the enemy team that consists of various bad ISPs and their connections, so the battle is still going that people in the US have to do something to protect it.

Beatmania IIDX Gameplay report - January 27th

Guess that I had attempted all Level 8 Pendual songs but this is not over yet as there may be additional songs coming in to IIDX Pendual in the future and the Power of Nature and Qpronicle Chord events are still on-going.
For Qpronicle Chord, it has gone to second phase with additional stuffs but then, trying to grind on this is a tedious thing like it may be something like Lincle Kingdom event again. Qprogue and its DX counterpart are kind of worse as you can tell but all of IIDX Spada event songs are already in the game folder by the time IIDX Pendual came out. Also, there may be additional songs by Sound Holic that might have already come out recently and all you have to do is to play the game the amount of times to unlock those songs.
Other good stuff is that I had recently Easy-Assist-Cleared another Level 10 song in IIDX in Hyper. I still had problems in certain patterns of V but when going for Easy-Clear for real as the next step, things are going to be much harder than they look. The previous ones were Close The World and Ancient Scapes but I can't technically prove that to anyone since Spada Leggendaria songs are still Paseli exclusive.

Windows 10 Live Event

This one's a great event despite the previous controversy I blogged about for Windows 10 the last time but rest assured, the keylogging thingy will be gone in the final version. After this event, there may be the next build released to the public next week, followed by the mobile version next month in prototype form of course.
Features such as Continuum which is almost automatic when switching between tablet and laptop mode, Cortana, Universal App just like Android and IOS, new web browser that looks like Chrome, Cross Play between Xbox One and Windows 10 which is similar to PS4 X PS Vita via Remote Play although I don't know how will that work in addition to using Windows 10 on PC, tablets and phones for playing Xbox One games remotely, Windows 10 on mobile devices, Hololens and Holo-Studios and so on, are coming in the Windows 10 time frame.
Good thing is that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for Windows 7, 8.1 and Phone 8.1 users although I don't know if I will be ready for that in the future like upgrading from OEM Windows 7 Home Premium that came with my computer that I have to Windows 10 for instance. Next thing is that the UI is starting to look and behave like the Android UI like there are certain buttons to trigger, the notifications and other stuffs. For notification bar, it may have superceded the one on Android in which each notification has additional actions for you to choose from. Next is Office for Windows 10, Android and IOS which has the ribbon UI in the different form for smartphones but the arrangement of ribbon UI is the same for tablets. Even the new mail app for Windows 10 may happen to have the ribbon UI or something. Perhaps, it's the Outlook app that I'm talking about since it has both the mail and calendar apps. There's also the Hololens which is super-delusional, I'm telling you. You can see cool fictional things to interact with when you have the Hololens on but the others can't. Also, it takes in reality, not virtual reality so call this the AR kind of technology. You can integrate your Holo-Studios creation to the 3D Printer like de-fictionalizing your creation with that. There's the Surface Hub which may look like the Microsoft Smart TV for business use. I don't know if there will be the consumer purpose for that thing. Next, the Cross Play feature between Xbox One and Windows 10 similar to the one for Playstation 4 and Vita. Playing Xbox One games remotely on Windows 10 machines is the first step and especially that you can encounter the players who are playing the other versions of the same game. It's a shameful challenge like trying to play Xbox One or Playstation 4 games remotely on the phones or tablets as if you will need the other kind of USB connection and the controller hooked up to those mobile devices running the companion apps. Like the Playstation 4 companion app where you socialize on stuffs, this is the same for Xbox One. Also, like the Playstation 4, you can video capture stuffs easily without having to buy the external video capture device. Best of all, you can do the same for Windows 10 although there are already tons of video capture programs on PC like Bandicam for example. There's also the video capturing stuff from Steam which is the answer to Twitch.tv. Lastly, the Cortana feature which was previously in Windows Phone 8.1. It's going to be extended to Windows 10 platforms and I'm sure that even the Xbox One will have that as well.
Gaming-wise, there's going to be DirectX 12 which I already mentioned in the previous blog posts, that will be coming to Windows 10 and Xbox One for improvements. Maybe it's to get Xbox One on par with its rival but still, product wars can make us pathetic when we have become adults. Regardless of platforms or product brands, arcade gaming is still an important thing for me.
You know what pissed me off during the event? It's the connectivity interruption during the live stream and unlike MVA Jump Start or perhaps YouTube live stream, this one's a different media player service and it doesn't have various qualities to choose from. It's also sort of like some fags at home were trying to stop me from going further in nighttime events like this like they're trying to take those for trash or something.

Whatsapp Plus banned by Whatsapp

Whatsapp Plus is said to be the third-party extension to the original Whatsapp but the extension has some flaws according to Whatsapp themselves indicating the privacy concerns for using that. What Whatsapp does is to ban the users of Whatsapp Plus perhaps for privacy safety reasons or something. Sure, there might be encryption feature in Whatsapp recently like what iMessage and FaceTime were already having the same security level but then, it looked like Whatsapp Plus has been used by millions of customers and trying to ban them all for that reason is a difficult thing.

Megatex of last year

There was obviously one realization I had in my mind, Megatex doesn't seem to be that mega-large or anything in comparison to other IT shows I attended at Singapore Expo. Other IT shows like PC Show or SITEX looked kind of large and new to me with more brands, newer computer technology and other stuffs that expanded into multiple halls. Maybe I think that Megatex is the last IT show of every year before declaring Happy New Year or something.
This one I attended last month, there wasn't anything special or new about this. Just a short exploration of this that occupied one hall before moving back home.

Beatmania IIDX & SDVX III Gameplay Report - January 21

There's not much to say about the change other than the re-arrangement of the machines and the addition of another Groove Coaster machine, making it a total of 4 this year in comparison to 3. Also, the coin insertion behavior is different this time for Beatmania IIDX machine. Instead of having 4 credits per card scan, it's 1 credit per card scan just like other Bemani game machines.
There might be additional updates for SDVX III which would have additional songs added this week with the so-called opening theme, Independent Sky by Sound Holic. What I did yesterday was to skill analyze myself again but it's not over yet as I still have one more Skill Analysis course to go to get myself reflected again. Also, for Beatmania IIDX, I had already attempted every Level 8 IIDX Tricoro songs except for some song by IOSYS that has casino stuffs as I'm completely against anything related to gambling that I avoid it like it's a plague to education. All it is left to attempt the remaining Level 8 IIDX Pendual songs but then, when it comes to on-going events like Qpronicle Chord and Power of Nature, I don't know if I will continue to make any more progress.
Speaking of Power of Nature event, I made a mistake by clicking on the button that drained down the power by certain percentage. I shouldn't have clicked on that until I reached 100% or something so it looked like I wasted my efforts. Speaking of waste of efforts, not all Level 8 IIDX songs can be cleared easily with Auto-Scratch turned off as I need to know what the patterns are like and see if there are difficult ones or not.

Recent Twitter hack with next WW?

If the on-going cyber-spying from various agencies is not that stupid or evil enough, here comes like the news of the stupidest hack I've ever seen at Neowin. This regards UPI and New York Post being compromised and after the cyber-attack, it seems that UPI had already got aware that their Twitter account was compromised and took down various tweets made by those low-leveled cyber-idiots. Of course, after this blog post or perhaps any other similar article you can find on the net, it will take some time for those idiots to be tracked down and detained or something. The tweets as entered by those hackers may look like some of the stupidest online rumor-like tweets the public had seen and this level of cyber-penetration is totally BULLSHIT! How did this become the public news like that?

Even with the strong standard security like having stronger password, there may be other technical ways for cyber-attackers to penetrate your stuffs with any motives we can guess of. I don't have time to blog more about the same cyber-spying agencies as they have been going way too far in their evil technical schemes they call the legal methods to catch the bad guys. Even with the recent service encryption by tech-giants, there may be other bullshits we can see and predict of against it as if a bunch of whiners may want to get through it because they think it may open doors to cyber-criminals that way undetected. What about normal citizens like us seeking higher privacy level? Have they even known about that besides the bad guys?

Spotlight App on Mac OSX Yosemite

Oh man, why? In terms of security power, how did Apple screw up Mac OSX Yosemite like that with the real technical betrayals like your personal data is collected and stored on the servers for some unknown bullshit for usage of certain services on this OS like Spotlight? This is something I should have blogged earlier and this is going to be a reminder of the Unity search feature with Amazon for Unity 7 for Ubuntu which will be corrected with Unity 8 in terms of security that makes Amazon not only the search engine to choose from as Amazon for Unity 7 search engine is the default one but at least you can get out of Unity easily by choosing the alternative interface for Ubuntu like I'm already using or perhaps the Windows 8 and 8.1 search feature in the Start Screen which does the same bullshit as what Spotlight in Mac OSX Yosemite does.
This is starting to get worse for Spotlight for Mac OSX Yosemite as it is seriously vulnerable for any cyber-criminals to use it to steal your stuffs or something. That is absolutely stupid! Who the hell leaves the app, OS or service so vulnerable that it attracts cyber-criminals to intrude the Mac users like that? Is someone on the side of the customers or perhaps, the cyber-criminals? You may ask yourself or someone on who at Apple does he side with?
Perhaps, there may be guides on how to opt-out of this bullshit for Mac OSX Yosemite just like you can with Ubuntu 12.xx onwards but for those using Windows 8 or 8.1 for desktops or laptops, perhaps, the alternative will be to use the 3rd-party start menu, not the start screen even if the Start button is there.

Gogo Inflight Internet - Fake SSL certificates

Having to use any gadget for anything including web browsing in the flight may be a serious distraction to the air traffic but this security flaw as used by Gogo was making things even worse by attacking users like that. However, there was a statement by Gogo in the update that they were trying to improve the bandwidth but we don't know if the situation is solved or not. Perhaps, is the statement a total lie or what? And this security bullshit with fake SSL certificates designed with the similar bullshit motive is bullshit as well! If you happen to be on the Gogo equipped plane, it may be best that you stop using YOUR GADGETS ONLINE at all times. Or even best, don't even use them at all lest the accidents happen because of that.

Hour of Code

Hour of Code was the educational event organized by the US President globally to encourage people in all ages to learn on how to write the code. Whether you're a pre-tertiary school student, a post-tertiary school student like you're already an employee or perhaps a university student, you should be able to join this event not in case you have forgotten on coding but the better thing is that you should be able to learn other programming languages you have not learnt before. It may be a must for those studying Computer Science but it should be the same for Computer Engineers as well since there may be subjects related to programming in addition to various Computer Science related subjects.
Many companies were involved in the event such organizers, tutors, etc. although there might be idiots at Microsoft Learning or something teaching people on how to make the game that is something like that stupid Fl**py Bird through coding and other ways of game creations such as Construct2 for example which was educationally part of MVA Jump Starts. Stop teaching me in making that kind of casual game! I don't appreciate gameplay that is both unusual and terrible at the same time. It can be unusual which is fine and I have seen games like that but making it stupidly terrible is as a no-no as that stupid Fl***y Bird is unacceptable! Stop that bullshit! It's a bad influence on learners unless you want to organize the stupidest gaming creation class you call it the perfect one that teaches you on how to make terrible gameplay, plagiarize people's contents and then tell people to clone and advertise that shit.
But in the end, there may be other parts of Microsoft I still can trust including Microsoft Virtual Academy which is something I'm still supporting and I had learnt other programming languages like Javascript for instance. There was also the lesson on coding with Disney's Frozen but the interface was making coding way too easy for fun as if you probably want to redo this lesson the hard way. But doing that the hard way might give you even harder time to figure out as if the patterns might look more complicated to make than you had done the previous coding exercises on forming patterns.
It was a fun event I had joined but my studies never end that I'll keep on self-learning stuffs.

Samsung Smart TV with Tizen OS

The technology may look quite new this year with foldable devices, edged phones, curved TVs and so on but it may look like we still prefer the rectangular flat shaped TVs and monitors like always as they may seem to be useful to see every parts of the scene at once and having curved screens may pose a challenge. At least, the phones with folded edges may look like the new unique features but foldable devices may result in the extension of the so-called group, Bendgate, which was established since the Iphone 6 days due to the situation of the bended phones. That group is kind of irritating and that you should avoid joining it as they are likely to do whatever it takes to attack certain types of people things and that.
This year's CES with Samsung may feature those mentioned above including the new Smart TVs running Tizen OS as well as the support for Playstation Now for those smart TVs in which you can play PS3 games on them provided that you will need the Dualshock 4. Unfortunately, even with the Tizen OS as the alternative, there may still be security fears of backdoors embedded in Smart TVs that you may have to find other ways of using Playstation Now service. Not to mention that the UHD TVs are extremely expensive and they still don't provide retina-like display whatsoever like you still can see the dots when seeing closer. There's also Just Dance Now for those TVs as well with the use of Smart Remote and Samsung mobile devices. Wait, Samsung mobile devices for that game? It's kind of stupid to use your phones as the Wii-Remote like controller for dance games. You think this is experimental like that? Lastly, there may be games that make use of multiple screens like what the Wii U does.
Perhaps, it may be senseful in running other OSes on TVs instead of Android as not all Android games can be playable on Android TV devices and it's a difficult thing to get those playable on TV like that unless you have the third-party game controllers for that.