Garbage-cast X Time Warner Cable merger dropped

The fight against the merger was really strong in this one but the fight for the freedom is still not over yet as there is still news about the TPP from EFF, Fight For The Future, ACLU, etc. It was a great news for the people in the US as the merger deal was officially cancelled. The merger plan was extremely controversial at the time as it might have a serious negative impact to the competition and customer service. Of course, lots of people opposed this plan as it might be twice as worse like as if that Garbage-cast might have tons of evil power to do whatever they want against their customers on their accord. They might have tempered with the customer service on the web by changing people's names in a childish manner as if those working there were like childish trolls or something the last time but the cancellation of the merger plan was a lesson they should learn.

Iphone security update

Previously, I might have blogged things about the IOS 7 or perhaps IOS 8 due to improved hardware and software security or something and it might be the same for Andorid 5.0 and above although the performance isn't the great and that the security doesn't have total equality at first. For the later version of Android Lollipop, it has made sure that this strong security is made optional for better performance and especially that it had caused other technical issues when this version came out. For IOS 7 and 8, well the improved security such as the encryption thingy remains turned on by default and it still poses the difficulty for government agencies like tracking down your phone in case you're a victim or something or perhaps tracking down the stolen phone of yours that you may want to disable it remotely.
Of course, for latest update for Android Lollipop that makes that security optional, it may be difficult to track down Android devices running that unless that security is turned off.
Having hardware security so strong like that can let cyber-criminals use those devices undetected similar to using other services that bring the similar security power like Tor for instance in which those services ensure that the cyber-criminals use it without getting tracked. It's one of the serious disadvantages of having such a very strong security just for the sake of privacy which is one of the advantages for good users like us. Does it look it's attracting both childish and professional trolls? Yes, it may sound like that but for those seeking higher security and better privacy, such kinds of trolls are going to get them annoyed.
So, I guess that this may look like a repeat subject without nothing new to blog about according to some article I saw on Neowin.

Jubeat Prop First Play

Again, the whole game center was filled with people and the preparation of the new Time Crisis game was pretty much on the way last Saturday. Unfortunately, it looked like it was really late for my energy to catch up and that the worse thing was that I forgot where the headphone jack would be for the Jubeat arcade machines so I played it without the use of the earpiece I have. I guess that it was already 2-3 years ever since I last played Jubeat as the most recent plays of mine were from Beatmania IIDX and Sound Voltex which I was getting close to completing my goals or something.
For Jubeat Prop, there is the player leveling up system similar to Maimai, Groove Coaster and of course Project Diva Arcade. There may be additional songs available the more you play and level up but in addition to that, there are also in-game objectives to clear as well. Sort of like the achievements but this time, you get to see the ones in the game in addition to seeing the ones on the game's official website. Also, like other Bemani games where each folder represents each mix/style or something, Jubeat Prop recently has one upon browsing through the Music Select screen. From there, I may have the similar goal in attempting the songs from Jubeat Saucer, Saucer Fulfill and Copious Append. It will take me months or something to level up my play skills from there but even then, I'm still at 4Dan and nobody knows when will I level up even further. I actually had attempted 5Dan in Beatmania IIDX the last time but I failed. Such failure might make me think of the similar failure risk should I attempt and fail the Skill Analyzer Level 5 courses in Sound Voltex due to higher difficulty.
In addition, there are additional stuffs coming up like more songs for Bemani games as part of the on-going events and after this blog post, I already know that Gitadora Tri-Boost recently came out in the arcades with the Session Combo thingy that is similar to Maimai series that has the Synchronization Combo. It looks much funner that way as you're rocking out together like a rock band.
Like always, every year a sequel comes out, be prepared to make adjustments before you even start playing it for the first time as certaint things may be reset when you migrate from the previous game to the current one.

Lawsuit filed against Bell Canada for privacy violation

The implementation of the technical betrayal was planned all along two years ago by Bell Canada but it looked like Bell Canada is not one of the betrayals out there. There are other companies in the west that do the same shit to their customers via apps, devices or perhaps the services that violate people's privacy for the sake of advertising. Even the opt-out option is a big fat lie as well as the illegal tracking still continues.
The lawsuit is in preliminary stages and if successful, it may be a huge blow to Bell Canada and we hope that the American customers may do the same thing to the US ISPs that try to violate their privacy if there's something made by those ISPs that try to violate one. Sure, there is one mobile app by Verizon that does so but who's going to report that in a smart way since only knuckleheads use that app?
This is made into a report by Canadian Privacy Commission based on the amount of complaints they had received and many firms there are encouraging the customers of Bell Canada to file the same lawsuit as well.

Sound Voltex Gameplay Report - April 14

I guess that that was the time I was no longer busy or something after declaring that that was all the stuff I worked on by then. So, the progress continued on that day in attempting the remaining songs from Sound Voltex Booth and Gravity Wars but then, more songs are like approaching in the present and future times as discovered from Twitter or perhaps the game's official website.
Unfortunately, there was the E-Amusement Global website that went up and running and upon logging in again at eagate.573.jp, I was asked a question to confirm the region. At that time, I wasn't able to answer but then, it appeared that the E-Amusement Global website isn't that big so getting hyped about Bemani games released globally is kind of useless. Maybe childish fags in the west continue to attack certain Bemani games in which they claim that those games are the ripoffs of the western rhythm games when they didn't do any research whatsoever. You can probably imagine that that is one of the reasons on why there won't be anymore Bemani games released officially outside of Asia in the arcades or something but then, when it comes to rhythm game series evolution, it obviously involves everything, the cabinet, the gameplay, the controller, the internal machine that runs the entire game and so on. It's not the easy thing although rhythm games are already popular in the arcades and mobile devices like tons of people already have the experience that way.
And at this rate, the only way to recheck the Skill Analyzer thingy will be from the game itself as I don't like technical lies like you can tell one lie indicating that you're from Japan or something to get those stuffs but then who the hell worries about getting found out anyway?

Beatmania IIDX Gameplay Report - March

Hmm, I could have gotten my schedules even better but before there was time when I attempted Expert Mode, I had already attempted most of the songs up to Level 9 from Lincle, Tricoro and Pendual before even attempting the other songs. Not to mention that I Easy-Cleared V with the Auto-Scratch On in Hyper with improved skill level but the real step in clearing that song in the future will be to clear it with Auto-Scratch Off.
Then, moving on to March which was last month, I attempted the Expert Mode and needless to say, some of the courses have Level 10 songs in Hyper in which I have no match for. Not to mention that the machines were like in Okay condition but for Guitarfreaks machine, some of the buttons were damaged for both controllers but thankfully, everything was fixed on time after that that I didn't even care. There's no need to know who the culprit is nor anyone cares about finding out because these technical problems last for a short time like nobody cares.
Of course, for the Qpronicle Chord, it's another controversial event for me besides the Chrono Seeker one. What's controversial about Qpronicle Chord is that the Qpro character which represents you is longing for something indecent and at the end of the first chapter, he's pretty much sent flying in the sky for that by one of the former boss characters from IIDX Tricoro. You can read on what the characters say in Qpronicle Chord cutscenes if you know much Japanese language if you want to know what's going on. The controversy is the same for the Step Up Mode story as well. These surely make IIDX Pendual look like it's a game suited for ages 17 onwards compared to the previous IIDX games. Was Konami looking like a spoilt brat company or something for that indecent crap? No, it might be for the sake of the bullshit fanservice like I may steer away from some indecent IIDX Pendual boss songs like that after sometime.

Introduction to Technology of IOT webinar

I was glad that the connection went well this event time recently in which the event took place several days ago starting from 3AM to 4AM. Yes, 3AM to 4AM for some unusual reason in which the organizer decided to start the webinar at lunch time in his office or something. This is about the Internet of Things which may be the interesting topic to look at but then, there might be way too many slides to talk about on time for the 1-hour webinar like that but the workaround for him would be to present stuffs about this in some public conference like he'll do the same presentation of the first part of his webinar presentation next month and I hope that he'll have covered everything on time. This is the second part he organized several days ago and it's going towards the technological parts of Internet of Things while the first part of the webinar which he'll be presenting again next month is the one for business. The third part is the IOT Business Plan in which how the companies will develop their own IOT stuffs for probably enterprise use, home use and so on. Overall, the webinar is not about IPv6 stuff like it's kind of off-topic to GogoNet Community. Why would he organize the webinar like that with a topic that isn't related to IPv6 while he's a manager of that community? The thing is, there may be people who come from GogoNet Community as well as the one from IOT-INC so expect many business people watching this webinar just like other events I attended. Many of those events are leaving me speechless but I'm still going to blog about what I can recall. Thankfully, I have some screenshots of that webinar in case I forget but to respect privacy or whatever, I'm not going to show them here.
There may be slides in which we get familiar with the networking OSI Model but when it came to IOT, the one he showed looked very detailed. Other things he talked about included the software-defined and hardware-defined products which looked kind of understandable. From the software aspects, the coding may represent the instructions on what the machine is supposed to do but it must match the anticipation to keep things current. Any difference is probably due to some faults or maybe the update requirement. Speaking of firmware update, some networking components will be needed and especially that you should know that on the hardware aspects, the device is pretty much an embedded system. Embedded systems are what we know of in general but I guess that even the anticipated specifications should be the same for the hardware aspect like it shouldn't take up so much power that may cause itself or everything to shut off due to overheating issues or maybe it's exceeding the amount of electrical power where the prediction may say that some components may be the sensitive victims of overheating issues that such hardware instruction will be executed for the sake of damage prevention. For External System in which he talked about, there are Analytics, External Data, Business and IOT product systems. Analytics and External Data may be somewhat important for the business technically and especially for Data Security and Privacy he mentioned as well.
Then, about Software Defined Product, it consists of Task Programming Language, Control and Sensing and Real-Time Computing. Task Programming Language looked kind of mathematical according to his slides and the Control and Sensing looked like some kind of electronics diagram on how things would work based on the programming and output will be stored via Real-Time Computing.
On the hardware side, how do the developers of those embedded systems get the actual data instead of spending time like trying to guess like a trial-and-error method? Lastly would be the Network Fabric he talked about as well like how the networking worked on the IOT device but then, that was the time he had to end the webinar because he went out of time and besides, the presentation had about 100+ slides and that would be too much to present on time even if he had to speed up or something.
And sometime after the webinar, I guess that I was free or something like that was all the stuffs I worked on but there may be things to keep in mind that certain of those stuffs were still in incomplete state due to incomplete resources of something and besides, I finally started to beta-test Windows 10 this month although there might be annoying bugs that annoyed the hell out of me compared to other OSes I beta-tested last time. But don't think it's over for my blogs. There will be future IT related events to attend and blog about as well to keep myself active.