Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Technology companies drifting away from data request

The brave thing is that many of the big IT technology companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo and so on are drifting away from the data requests coming from the government agencies probably due to lots of illegal cyber-surveillance going on even today coming from them that may have annoyed many customers and other companies that they have decided to plan to level-up the security level in even stronger ways. However, such plans like those should be done at the fast and right time if they want to gain some respect from the customers regarding better security for privacy.
The downside of this plan is that the criminals may make use of this security level for illegal activities undetected. When that happens, there should be search warrant like always no matter how hard. What is so difficult about the search warrant ever since the past? A search warrant for investigation is like a firewall exception.

Privacy Badger

OK, I already have the plugins for Firefox like Adblock Edge, Cookie Monster, Disconnect, DuckDuckGo Plus, Ghostery & HTTPS-Everywhere but this one may seem to look like a prototype extra. So, am I getting unnecessary add-ons or what for the sake of higher privacy level? What over-protects you is the NoScript and the other one that prevents whatever request. With those add-ons enabled, you won't be able to go to the popular websites you visit to everyday such as the video sharing sites, social networking sites, etc.
At this level, Privacy Badger is nowhere as good as the add-ons I'm already using for Firefox not because it is at the alpha phase.

Monday, May 5, 2014

The Tech Expo by Harvey Norman

Sure are loads of computers, tablets, earpieces, phones and so on but that's the same IT technological side at The Tech Expo by Harvey Norman but I had discovered other new things there. It ranged from house furnitures mixed with some technology as well as the mosquito trap and the mini-projectors costing $400-700+. Even though the mini projectors are quite tiny, they can be expensive as hell. But do you probably want to buy those projectors so that you can project whatever you want? I may recommend the normal-sized portable projectors for such presentations like that.
And of course, I may have an emergency wish of buying one mosquito trap at any time as needed as those stupid flies have been following me for no reasons.

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Sailor Zombie AKB48 Arcade Edition

OK, this is like the weirdest or wackiest idea I have ever seen. Idols from the popular idol group being turned into zombies and you have some weapon to purify them like turning them back to normal? In addition, there may be monsters to deal with with the same weapon and there's some weird/strange rhythm game element in this game. I don't know how the gameplay works on the music side but there should be something to shoot at to the beat.
The gun controller is the freaking ship weapon controller similar to the ones from the previous Namco lightgun games taking place inside the spaceship. What kind of concept/idea is that from Bandai Namco? Were they thinking wrongly or what? Or maybe, you're in the vehicle equipped with those weapons, shooting zombies and driving at the same time? I don't know if this is the flaw or perhaps the good move for me but this licensed game was recently released in the arcades in Japan.
Perhaps the game based on the popular idol group may look quite interesting but this is not the first game Bandai Namco was involved. There were previous games on the PSP and PS Vita about having a date with one of the idols but then, implementing the real life idols in the game like that is not quite easy as if there may be too much of real life graphics and FMVs going on. Perhaps you may be better off communicating with the fictional idols as a producer and that is something Bandai Namco is going in the right direction.

Touhou 14.3 in May 11

Another Touhou spinoff besides the fighting games and Shoot The Bullet series, this one's the Spell Capture kind of game based on the Spell Capture mode in Imperishable Night where you have to capture the spellcards one by one. Each spellcard may take place in each battle and just like Shoot The Bullet series, there may be like tons of Spellcards to deal with.
When you start the game, you can choose whichever kind of bomb-like self-defense you want and then use those self-defenses for survival. I guess that getting hit will fail the scene similar to Shoot The Bullet series.

OnePlus One will be available widely in June

*Sigh* The disappointment is still here with the on-going Invite System but there will be large range of invites making things easier to purchase the phone. The pricing goes from $299 for 16GB and $349 for 64GB model. These phones are likely to be released sometime in May and june with the larger batch of invites. Once the product is widely released in June, there may be less trouble in getting people invited to purchase this device.

Google to stop scanning students' Gmail accounts for ads

Previously, the one behind the Windows 8 leak was already arrested this year as if the email scanning thing from Microsoft was over or something but it seems that Google is finally doing this right this time by stopping scanning students' Gmail accounts for advertisements. I don't know if those are personal or educational but even then, it is twice as better for the company to stop this scanning bullshit! Another bullshit reversal is the fact that Google will stop scanning business and governments' Gmail accounts for the same bullshit as well. What about the normal users like us, huh? What about the encryption of Gmail services like Google is planning? Well, it's going to take time for necessary resources and solutions to fulfill this plan but leaking out the plans can cause the spying agencies to know and then try to make the encryption thingy backfire.