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Started by Tsutarja August 10th, 2013 5:25 AM
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Tsutarja

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Internet's an essential service really.
And this statement really comes true to a lot of services we use as well, especially monetary transactions. I remember one time I went to a convenience store to buy a drink. I didn't have cash on me at the time, but had my debit card; their internet connection must have been down or something because no cards were being taken at the time I was there.

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And this statement really comes true to a lot of services we use as well, especially monetary transactions. I remember one time I went to a convenience store to buy a drink. I didn't have cash on me at the time, but had my debit card; their internet connection must have been down or something because no cards were being taken at the time I was there.
I think you got a point here, Zach. Sometimes I looked at the ATM room with curiosity, and find out that in the top of the ATM room (if it's being outside of the mall, that is) there is some sort of antenna pointing out somewhere, I think it must be linked to the internet access to get the data of the customer's bank amount. Even taking money from the ATM requires internet, apparently. Plus, making airplane ticket transaction directly won't be possible without it, too.

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Without the internet, it would be impossible to do everything that we're doing right at this moment, especially making this post and connecting with many of you.

Not to mention, sooner or later we might not be using physical credit cards and use virtual ones. Like how Apple Pay is being used to store your credit card information securely inside your iPhone.

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It's also within the internet at my school that student information changes occur. Without the internet, changes can't be made, and there's no backup either.

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Guys, I wouldn't get too wound up about the internet taking over everything (which it won't, really). Aside from the fact that it won't rule our lives 100% any time soon, is it really worth it to get upset, angry, or overall terrified of it taking over a lot of things when it won't ruin our lives?

I've learned that enjoying life is entirely up to the person who's in charge of it, entirely up to the way the person thinks. If you're in a position where you control your life or at least most of it, then you're in charge of how much you enjoy it. And you're certainly in charge of the way you think.

Therefore, it's up to you on how you handle the effects internet is having on things, as well as how technology is changing things. Just because things are done on the internet or stored entirely on it doesn't mean a disaster is guaranteed to happen no matter what, and everything will be lost forever. It doesn't mean things are going to occur that will damage life beyond repair for sure.

Besides, the internet is having good effects on things that the media (which is responsible for why people are panicking over this and constantly fearful of many things) blatantly overlooks due to the possibility that it would cause ratings to sink into a bottomless abyss.

For example, doing certain things online saves paper, therefore helping the environment and saving trees. That also saves time and things are done quicker that way.

I don't intend to get off topic, but I think everyone's being a bit too skeptical and ignoring the benefits we're getting out of this.

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No one said that the internet was taking over though. O_o

We were just mentioning how the internet is a necessity to most things in life, but I'm sure there are certain things that will never require usage of the internet; I'm fairly certain we won't need internet for putting gas into our vehicles. :P

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No one said that the internet was taking over though. O_o

We were just mentioning how the internet is a necessity to most things in life, but I'm sure there are certain things that will never require usage of the internet; I'm fairly certain we won't need internet for putting gas into our vehicles. :P
We do need the internet to be able to pay by credit card, however!
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We were just mentioning how the internet is a necessity to most things in life, but I'm sure there are certain things that will never require usage of the internet; I'm fairly certain we won't need internet for putting gas into our vehicles. :P
Don't know why, but the first thing that came to my mind when I read this, was "region locked cars". {XD}

The basic idea would be to piss people off restrict certain cars to certain areas. If you want to refill gas, it first checks wheather you're in the certain area and if not, it's not going to work. Depending how far you're away it could do other things, like calling the police, or something.
That could be usefull for business cars or if you're traveling in an unsecure area, where your car could easily be stolen.
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Don't know why, but the first thing that came to my mind when I read this, was "region locked cars". {XD}

The basic idea would be to piss people off restrict certain cars to certain areas. If you want to refill gas, it first checks wheather you're in the certain area and if not, it's not going to work. Depending how far you're away it could do other things, like calling the police, or something.
That could be usefull for business cars or if you're traveling in an unsecure area, where your car could easily be stolen.
That would cause a problem though, if for one instance, one rich person wants to bring his/her car all the way to different country together, and finding out that refilling the gas there just won't work. Even though so far, I doubt it if they would bring it there, but still, that's one of the reason why I'm not fond of region locks in any kind, so far, so I'm glad that it's not the necessity on refilling gas, yet.

This reminds me a bit, I do recall there is a restaurant, which when I started to order stuff, the waitress just apply it on their smartphone of some sort to collect it to the chef to cook, and for the cashier too. I personally find this quite tech-savvy for a restaurant, because it's not common seeing restaurant applying techs as their systems.

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I really don't mind instances of businesses going tech-savvy like above, but what I do mind is when there's no backup plan (or a way to be old-fashioned) should something go wrong.

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So I finally got Android 5.0 on my Nexus 7 last night. I've been using it today, though, and I'm not really impressed. It may look nice, but it's really awkward to use, especially the lock screen. I've also been getting a lot of lag when doing things. I'm considering going back to Kitkat by flashing a Jellybean stock image, then unlocking my bootloader and installing CM11.

If I'm going to downgrade, I might as well root and put on a version of Android I like.
I've unlocked my Nexus 7's bootloader already and tried out the Lollipop ROM Google had up for testing. So far that's been good for me, although I probably should have waited until now to get a more official release of Lollipop. :P

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Now I'm confused, I thought Android Lollipop has already been released? I have been planning to get a Kitkat Android phone, but hearing about this, I think I'll change my mind soon.

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I wonder what encryption the iPhone uses for credit card information... anything decent would be a battery drain, and it's likely backdoor'd openly by Apple for "recovery purposes" or whathaveyou.

I recall a data breach sustained by Target some years ago, where they said "at least some X amount" was compromised... all of it was compromised. Corporations are so ignorant with technology that they'd neglect to hash credit card numbers, PINs, and CCRs, but even with Apple and their credit storage thing it seems they're not so much ignorant as they are careless. I think they know their customers either won't notice or won't care.

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Security is something you can't neglect, when dealing with sensitive info. Sure, general data is needless of protection, but most everyone has something that is well worth protecting through some security measures.

I'm really glad TrueCrypt is still floating around. I really like how it has the ability to take combinations of keys as files, is capable of volume management (not that it's really needed, what with tarballs and ISOs), and has a plethora of encryption algorithms to choose from. As far as its security goes, I read a binary audit and saw nothing out of the ordinary, and besides... didn't Snowden use 7.1a undetected until he blew the whistle on the NSA? I seriously doubt it's not secure. If you're paranoid you could replicate the audit done (repeat the steps), but even I think that may be a little much. It really depends on what you're encrypting, and a lot of places aren't to be trusted anyway...
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Security and privacy is the reason I look carefully at those checkmarks when installing apps on my devices. ;)

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The best security tool has been, and always will be, user discretion.
And it's user discretion at times that may want to make someone smash their computer if it gets a virus; that's what happens when you download suspicious content! :P

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And it's user discretion at times that may want to make someone smash their computer if it gets a virus; that's what happens when you download suspicious content! :P
It may make them want to smash their computer, but poor user discretion also has a side-effect that not many people realize: it leads their go-to IT people to want to use percussive maintenance on end-users that consistently exercises poor user discretion!
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So many times I've done really poor decisions in terms of installing stuff, not my pridest moments, haha.

Speaking of that, all day I've been getting FAP_____.tmp files poping up on my desktop every now and then. So far its at 23 files. Keep on deleting them, and they keep coming. Only thing I think could caused this, is that I'm trying to Customize my Windows more, and I tried doing "ViStart" to get a Windows 10 or other themed start menu. It worked, but the starter selction was meh and couldn't find the places to put the files for more themes. Popped up at start earlier.

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So many times I've done really poor decisions in terms of installing stuff, not my pridest moments, haha.

Speaking of that, all day I've been getting FAP_____.tmp files poping up on my desktop every now and then. So far its at 23 files. Keep on deleting them, and they keep coming. Only thing I think could caused this, is that I'm trying to Customize my Windows more, and I tried doing "ViStart" to get a Windows 10 or other themed start menu. It worked, but the starter selction was meh and couldn't find the places to put the files for more themes. Popped up at start earlier.

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ViStart, eh? I used to use one when I used Windows XP in my PC back then, because I want to have Vista-lookalike Start menu because I don't have Vista PC/laptops yet. but eventually stopped using it after a few months, but I forgot why did I stopped using it. It was a decent software, regardless.

Oh, and I have looked it up, and apparently the cause of FAP____.tmp is from Adobe Flash Player stuffs, not from the ViStart. Maybe uninstalling the Flash and reinstalling it afterwards might solve it.

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ViStart, eh? I used to use one when I used Windows XP in my PC back then, because I want to have Vista-lookalike Start menu because I don't have Vista PC/laptops yet. but eventually stopped using it after a few months, but I forgot why did I stopped using it. It was a decent software, regardless.

Oh, and I have looked it up, and apparently the cause of FAP____.tmp is from Adobe Flash Player stuffs, not from the ViStart. Maybe uninstalling the Flash and reinstalling it afterwards might solve it.
Really? It's always Flash! Haha I'll try that.