Research before you type blindly. Gamecubes and PS2s definitely exist, and its been a while since the Korean government lifted its moderate ban on Japanese content.
Re:credit authorization for trivial amounts
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Cashless Society
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'Trivial amount'?
How much is a trivial amount? 5 dollars? 10 dollars? I can see so many insecurities with a five-dollar spending charge without a credit card..
Suppose you lose that card, and some other person picks it up. Bingo! He could withdraw/use money in five/ten dollar increments.. Just drive to a faraway shopping mall, buy multiple things under the spending limit at multiple stores, and when you're done, chuck it in the trash and drive away.
Unless the credit card has a no-sign-when-trivial-amount limit, that's way too dangerous.
Yeah, good idea,
but its not necessarily the fact that what you're stating is a truth,
but that you have a very firm belief in what you're saying that constitutes a truth. (and vice versa)
I live at a boarding school, and I access the internet through
the school's internet server. My school provides internet access (port 80) only through a proxy server, which filters out 'unappropriate' content by Symantec's I-Gear software.
The problem with various white lists is not necessarily the technical skill involved in changing the blocked link, but the changer's willingness to do so.Especially when the the system providing the internet access is an academic institution, such internet approvals are difficult and touchy, and most often many/most requests are ignored for the sole sake of time.
What's your degree of approval for a site? What if your own morals agree with unblocking the site? On what grounds would a site be unblocked, and how would those unblocks be justified?
There are just too many subjective questions that are unanswered--The presence of censorship bothers me at my school, but I can definitely see where the attempt FOR censorship comes from, and why constant updating of a 'white list' would take too much time.
where most phonemes are written as one-vowel-one-consonant digraphs. (or was that dipthongs...)
"Boo" is simply B (|_|) and "oo" (T) linked together:
|_|
T
Great info, but two small things- Characters aren't necessarily consonant-vowel pairings,
but consonant-vowel-consonent and consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant matchings as well.
ex)
O l = 'lee' or 'yi'
O l
L = 'leen' or 'yin'
O |-
2 D = 'almb' or 'ahlm' (meaning 'meaning')
Of course, the 2 is more 'angly', and the D is actually a box, but you get the idea..
Well..does it matter if money is stolen from an orphanage or a kindergarten?
There's always something about being 'free' that is directly connected to 'charity'..these were donations, not paid fees, and that makes it important in the sense that it represented the support of OSS users.
Wouldn't a dead man's switch work? I remember seeing an article on slashdot.
You could, for instance set up a stable server that could run for months, or even years if necessary without maintainence, and then perhaps you could decrypt the information on the server and spread it throughout the internet (ex: post on slashdot).
Oh, and if you could go back in the future, no worries.
The future you will come back and warn everybody in advance.
Re:cheers to seoul
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What appeals the most is the fact that most of the people dont have pcs at home.
Not really...Pc-rooms aren't popular simply because of the fact that people don't have PCs at home-many people do, and in many, many cases I've seen people go out and play at pc-rooms rather than just playing at home-despite their p4 PCs and DSL broadband connection.
Its not the lack of PCs, or services, or anything that makes pc-rooms addictive-its the culture. I mean, aside from geeks, who has two net-connected computers in their home? One thing alot of people should understand, is that not too many people go to pc-rooms alone-its a social place. A pc-baang doesn't replace the computers Koreans have at home- it complements 'em.
i mean, in a movie theatre, where you also do not communicate much, at least the two person have something in common that was shared, besides the snuggling and making out and the occational nobody-is-around-so-lets-get-down-and-dirty. but this is horrible. you might be sitting next to eachother but in reality the two of you are further apart than if i was chatting with my gf in morse code or campbells-cans-and-string..
Ya know, I've been living in Korea for quite a while now...and I've NEVER seen these so-called 'love stations'.. Don't worry, these aren't orthodox. I've never seen one, never heard of anyone using one- infact, the first time I heard about these 'dating' devices was on this article.
Although people DO chat online ALOT in pc-baangs using cameras attached to comp. monitors, its very rare that anyone would actually leave their pc-baang to visit some other unknown person..
Another reason pc-baangs are popular is because of the networks..cmon, when you have ten friends all wanting to beat each other at SC or Diablo II or whatnot (Sadly, Korean gamers don't play CS), its much, much more easier and faster to just go to a nearby pcbaang, pay 80cents for an hour, and play with your friends- instead of having to go online at home and go online and call each other, set up connections, etc etc.
If there's one thing that I'd consider convenient but unnecessary, in Korea, it would be ordering pizza online from Pizza Hut.
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Korea does have an embargo against Japanese products (hence no PS2 or GCs there)
PS2 KoreaResearch before you type blindly. Gamecubes and PS2s definitely exist, and its been a while since the Korean government lifted its moderate ban on Japanese content.
'Trivial amount'? How much is a trivial amount? 5 dollars? 10 dollars? I can see so many insecurities with a five-dollar spending charge without a credit card..
Suppose you lose that card, and some other person picks it up. Bingo! He could withdraw/use money in five/ten dollar increments.. Just drive to a faraway shopping mall, buy multiple things under the spending limit at multiple stores, and when you're done, chuck it in the trash and drive away.
Unless the credit card has a no-sign-when-trivial-amount limit, that's way too dangerous.
Yeah, good idea, but its not necessarily the fact that what you're stating is a truth, but that you have a very firm belief in what you're saying that constitutes a truth. (and vice versa)
I live at a boarding school, and I access the internet through the school's internet server.
My school provides internet access (port 80) only through a proxy server, which filters out 'unappropriate' content by Symantec's I-Gear software.
The problem with various white lists is not necessarily the technical skill involved in changing the blocked link,
but the changer's willingness to do so.Especially when the the system providing the internet access is an academic institution, such internet approvals are difficult and touchy, and most often many/most requests are ignored for the sole sake of time.
What's your degree of approval for a site? What if your own morals agree with unblocking the site? On what grounds would a site be unblocked, and how would those unblocks be justified?
There are just too many subjective questions that are unanswered--The presence of censorship bothers me at my school, but I can definitely see where the attempt FOR censorship comes from, and why constant updating of a 'white list' would take too much time.
where most phonemes are written as one-vowel-one-consonant digraphs. (or was that dipthongs...)
"Boo" is simply B (|_|) and "oo" (T) linked together:
|_|
T
Great info, but two small things- Characters aren't necessarily consonant-vowel pairings,
but consonant-vowel-consonent and consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant matchings as well.
ex)
O l = 'lee' or 'yi'
O l
L = 'leen' or 'yin'
O |-
2 D = 'almb' or 'ahlm' (meaning 'meaning')
Of course, the 2 is more 'angly', and the D is actually a box, but you get the idea..
Oh, and 'boo' would be
|=| or
T
|_|
|_|
___
|
Well..does it matter if money is stolen from an orphanage or a kindergarten?
There's always something about being 'free' that is directly connected to 'charity'..these were donations, not paid fees, and that makes it important in the sense that it represented the support of OSS users.
>I try to go with natural stuff when I can. But I know that we buy this kind of modern food all the time, without even knowing it.
Natural stuff? What do you mean by natural stuff?
Seedless grapes, seedless bananas, and seedless oranges classify as 'unnatural' fruits, don't they?
Bicycles.
With ceramic wheels, and super-strong magnets attached to the forks.
Just make sure you pedal fast enough to levitate.
Wouldn't a dead man's switch work? I remember seeing an article on slashdot.
You could, for instance set up a stable server that could run for months, or even years if necessary without maintainence, and then perhaps you could
decrypt the information on the server and spread it throughout the internet (ex: post on slashdot).
Oh, and if you could go back in the future, no worries.
The future you will come back and warn everybody in advance.
What appeals the most is the fact that most of the people dont have pcs at home.
Not really...Pc-rooms aren't popular simply because of the fact that people don't have PCs at home-many people do, and in many, many cases I've seen people go out and play at pc-rooms rather than just playing at home-despite their p4 PCs and DSL broadband connection.
Its not the lack of PCs, or services, or anything that makes pc-rooms addictive-its the culture.
I mean, aside from geeks, who has two net-connected computers in their home? One thing alot of people should understand, is that not too many people go to pc-rooms alone-its a social place.
A pc-baang doesn't replace the computers Koreans have at home- it complements 'em.
gawd... that is just SO wrong in so many ways.
i mean, in a movie theatre, where you also do not communicate much, at least the two person have something in common that was shared, besides the snuggling and making out and the occational nobody-is-around-so-lets-get-down-and-dirty. but this is horrible. you might be sitting next to eachother but in reality the two of you are further apart than if i was chatting with my gf in morse code or campbells-cans-and-string..
Ya know, I've been living in Korea for quite a while now...and I've NEVER seen these so-called 'love stations'..
Don't worry, these aren't orthodox. I've never seen one, never heard of anyone using one- infact, the first time I heard about these 'dating' devices was on this article.
Although people DO chat online ALOT in pc-baangs using cameras attached to comp. monitors, its very rare that anyone would actually leave their pc-baang to visit some other unknown person..
Another reason pc-baangs are popular is because of the networks..cmon, when you have ten friends all wanting to beat each other at SC or Diablo II or whatnot (Sadly, Korean gamers don't play CS), its much, much more easier and faster to just go to a nearby pcbaang, pay 80cents for an hour, and play with your friends-
instead of having to go online at home and go online and call each other, set up connections, etc etc.
If there's one thing that I'd consider convenient but unnecessary, in Korea, it would be ordering pizza online from Pizza Hut.
...merely twice the price of a plain black stapler...
..$29 bucks for a red stapler?
And sell at one-half the price on ebay...uh..yeeaah.
So, do you like Michael Bolton?