Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Eat Beat Dead-Spike for IOS and Android

At the time of this blogging, I recently have the knowledge of the Blazblue franchise when it comes to gameplay concept and graphics. The first discovery of the franchise was that the Blazblue series was in Taito Type X2 arcade hardware with the interesting attract mode messages that are changing every second throughout the game. The opening FMV sequences are awesome and so are the consumer versions' exclusives which are fully-animated. The graphics are also interesting and especially for the gameplay. The latest one, Blazblue Central Fiction is already in the arcades in Japan and the recent update will have Act 2 sometime this month. It is said to be the last chapter in the series consisting of 3 acts.
And there's this spinoff called Eat Beat Dead-Spike for IOS and Android which is a rhythm game based on the Blazblue series. The gameplay concept is obviously better than The Rhythm of Fighters when the developers at Arc System Works are thinking correctly when it comes to making spinoff games like that. Some of the songs are taken from the deformed stories somewhere in the Story Mode ever since the first Blazblue game. The similar style is also in Blazblue Radio which is also interesting to watch on Arc System Works' official YouTube and Nico Nico Douga channels. The episodes are pretty much all there on YouTube ever since last year but without enough knowledge of Japanese language, you won't know what is going on. Songlist is based on Blazblue Chronophantasma and additional songs will be available under DLC. The name, Dead-Spike, is one of Ragna's special moves but then, he's not the only playable character in this spinoff game.

Upcoming PC hardware won't support older versions of Windows

Normally, a Windows OS is bound to last for 10 years and Windows 7 may have like a few years from now until it goes out of extended support. Unfortunately, this is bound to cause a little bit of stir and especially for business. New silicons from AMD and Intel will be using Windows 10 but as superior as they are compared to the previous and current silicons which can still run Windows 7, the real problem is going to take place at a business level. For organizations, it can take years to ensure that everything is upgraded to the new technology without causing any technical disruption to business but it can also mean that the organizations will have to familiarize with the new technology before the System Administrators and IT Professionals can decide if they want the organization to use it or not. Windows 8 and 8.1 were kind of unpleasing to the organizations that they may demand downgrades to Windows 7 similar to Windows Vista's momentum for business where Windows Vista computers are all downgraded to Windows XP. Not to mention that the system requirements are unspeakably larger for Windows 10 than before like the OS is trying to push the limits of the Windows 7 and 8.1 computers.
But then, when Windows 7 computers are available for business use, I guess that there shouldn't be any reason to downgrade them and it should be the same for the organizations to use Windows 10 in the future with the most amount of options available for Enterprise edition. It should be pleasing to the business consumers' eyes and hopefully it should be the same for normal consumers. The upgrade/migration to newer versions of Windows for normal consumers may be a quicker one but as popular as Windows 10 is along with the news articles about it, there may be mixed kinds of consumers attracted very quickly.
The upcoming PC hardware running Windows 10 is still a fine thing as if there's no particular reason to downgrade it to Windows 7 or 8.1 like it sounds kind of bullshit regardless of whatever reason you have. Even each computer may have its own lifespan and that is something you should know of.

Saturday, January 16, 2016

Twitter lawsuit over November 9th incident?

While Telegram was already aware of those attacks taking place in various regions including the one in November 9th last year that they decided to take down the accounts that have been suspected of those operations, what about the other tech giants? Are those other tech giants going to take similar actions as well? Previously, there was an announcement from White House in the US to get tech giants to fight te****ism online but with the encryption in place for certain services, it is already posing a challenge while keeping devices and services secure for good customers like us.
Unfortunately, some widow of a victim had filed a BULLSHIT LAWSUIT against Twitter over what happened in November 9th last year. Has Twitter even increased security for their service? Like WHAT KIND OF NONSENSE COMPLAINT SHE HAD FILED AGAINST TWITTER? INDEED, Twitter believes that any indecent shit like threats, violence, po***graphy, nud***, ter***ism and other indecent operations are NOT WELCOME! In other words, they deserve NO PLACE FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS LIKE TWITTER! It's like she thought that nobody was aware of the incidents or something and that those tech giants were responsible for helping bad guys out.
You know what is the new professional word I've recently seen from Neowin? That is Frivolous, which means that something doesn't make any sense or is not worthy of any importance. So this means, that Twitter took her lawsuit for a nonsense. It's "Nonsense", do you get it? Couldn't she even know that certain actions were already taken elsewhere after that incident? Why would she TAKE SUCH A STUPID ACTION like filing a lawsuit against Twitter like that? Sure, tech giants would care for whatever serious incidents that took place like that but do you expect them to take some serious actions based on those incidents? If it's a cyber-security breach incident for instance, what can a tech giant do is to do some cyber-investigation into locating the cyber-criminal's source of operation so that they can commence that cyber-criminal's command center shutdown from there once found. The investigation and actions against the incidents have already begun long time ago like it's a case they need to crack by gathering enough information on what happens and who the culprit is. It's already taking time to crack one case and especially that it's a big one.
For a public news like this, it is already unacceptable for such a news like this to exist. We can write down better news or look at better but non-recent news than this.

Amnesic Incognito Live System Version 2.0

It is way too obvious that you will be on cyber-spying agencies lists for using this OS and the Tor browser but actions to be taken will depend on what you're doing with this OS while your name and data information are still on those lists. How did those agencies manage to get those information of the users who use this OS on the list despite the amount of security for private use? A major problem is that this OS along with its Tor technology have been used by many bad guys besides the good guys and deep within the Tor technology is the Dark Web which is unspeakably evil in general if you ask. And as this is the live OS, pretty much every modification will be reverted or something. You could have used the other Linux OSes instead and Firefox, Chrome or any other third-party web browser is a better bet than the Tor browser including its mobile variant.
The new version as mentioned in the title of this blog post may support more hardware as well as backported software so you can get internet access with Wi-Fi along with sound support through hardware for instance and lastly, the software updates to keep current. This is due to the OS being based on Debian 8 which has new Linux Kernel. The release date is sometime in late this month and even then, there are already better Linux OSes to use as this one and its Tor technology are notorious for being used by bad guys in addition to good guys.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Windows 10 upgrade prompt update

If there's one kind of user you can't encourage to upgrade to Windows 10 for whatever reason, it's the privacy advocate that has the fear of security compromises. Of course there may be childish trolls trying to think and talk in a negative way about privacy advocates over Windows 10 stuff and especially that they think that Windows 7 and 8.1 users are not caring for the new technology on the outside or something. There have been tools that allow you to remove the Windows 10 installation files stored on the Windows 7 or 8.1 partition as well as to block upgrades to Windows 10. Maybe some hardware incompatibility, performance drop or other issues were the reasons against the upgrades to Windows 10 but I think that privacy is like the number one issue for me unless the edition of Windows 10 is Enterprise. Other reasons may regard things like some updates may break the OS or something like your computer is not able to boot up or some sort because of that or maybe new things are not performing well or anything like that.
The challenge between users and Microsoft continues with various workarounds that disable the updates along with newer updates that download the same Windows 10 installation files by undoing those workarounds and restoring certain stuffs done by those workarounds.

NVIDIA graphics card driver security bug

This one's a privacy violation bug in the graphics card driver as encountered by some university student when he tried to start up Diablo III on his computer. As he started the game, instead of the black screen, there was a screenshot of some adult site being displayed in the browser's private mode with some garbled graphics on the screen. That probably happened hours before launching the game or maybe the website itself could be something else that opened up automatically upon launching the game. This poses a big problem and what if you get caught with such stuffs opened unexpectedly without your consent like how will you explain that it is a security bug in the video card driver?
The truth is that the framebuffer from the web browser is still in the GPU memory and after launching the game, it makes use of that previous framebuffer like it transfer that framebuffer from one application to another. I don't know if the previous application like the web browser reopens again after being closed upon launching the game.
The student eventually wrote a program that erases the GPU memory once he's finished with it for a clean experience but normally, unlike the normal RAM in which you can clean up with some third-party software, it is not the same for VIDEO RAM. I don't know how did he write that program that allows you to erase some unknown garbage from the video RAM but it may look like a future opportunity for us.
NVIDIA has been already aware of this bug but they still have yet to fix it according to that student.

Thursday, January 7, 2016

T-Mobile violating Net Neutrality rules

I appreciate the concern the EFF has when it comes to corporate selfishness like they don't truly care for the real rules and policies as well as the customers. Net Neutrality in the US was already passed last year but it might seem that the ISPs in the US were freaking out like whiny kids over it that they decided to declare another similar war in court.
Whether Binge On is turned on or not, the devices powered by that ISP are throttled down to 1.5Mbps no matter what you do on the net such as streaming a video, downloading a file or other stuff like that and especially that the customers are not the Binge On members. Without options for customers to sign up or opt-in for the service, it is considered a violation of the Net Neutrality rules according to EFF.
Maybe there should be an idea on using foreign ISPs but that may be a risky move and it's best to use the fiber service Google uses for better connection speed if possible.

Amazon Echo security rant

The Internet of Things may seem to be the interesting technology to power your home in the future but the security level is awful to say the least and especially that the devices that operate through voice commands like those powered by Siri, Google Now, Cortana or similar service where your voice commands are stored. Based on whatever you say, the device using that kind of technology will do something acording to it but sometimes, there may be technical flaws like the Amazon Echo has.
As if your conserveration is mistaken for a voice command for instance, the Amazon Echo device will act upon hearing it. This makes Amazon Echo an annoying busybody device as if your private conservation at home is disrespected by it. Maybe it's a technical flaw that Amazon will need to fix it so that it can be on par with Siri, Google Now and Cortana. Another problem is that there's no sense of security for voice command storage system or something that the attackers can gain access to the device and make crappy commands to it. I don't know if that may be true or not or maybe a different problem is that the voice commands are stored on the servers permanently without removal intentions.
While the Xbox One Kinect can be spared, the Amazon Echo won't be spared for this kind of security flaw. It may be a shame that you can't even remove Cortana completely from Windows 10 over privacy reasons but you could have gotten a third-party Windows Start Menu if that's what you're concerned with. Also, you're like testing privacy advocates like us all over by simply buying Amazon Echo like it's one of the cool technological IOT devices. You should have bought something else that falls under the same category as Amazon Echo and it doesn't violate privacy whatsoever.