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Article #2317Re: OT: My Idea of an Internet Cafe
From: Bill Bowden
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:43
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:43
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On Mar 4, 4:23 am, Pennyw...@DerryMaine.Gov wrote: > GreenXenon <glucege...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Hi: > > >I m thinking of a new type of public internet caf . This internet caf > >is in hypothetical shopping mall similar to the Brea Mall in the Brea > >city of Southern California of USA. The floors and walls are carpeted > >with black carpet throughout the mall excluding the restrooms and > >food courts where carpet would be obviously difficult to keep > >clean. > > You put so much time into this, I had to find fault :) > > Areas of conflict > > * One major hurtle is the "Patriot act" which would require verifiable user > info before accessing the computers, and the ISP requirement of retaining of > records for an extended period.http://ixxhq.bav.guidegoods.net/h/isp-data-retention01798.html > (mentioned PDF file that I can't find, would be a good read). > How does that effect places like Fed/EX that rent computers by the minute with no ID required, and accept payment in cash? -Bill > Our local libraries fought this for a few years. "you look like a George, use > #45". Now the computers are in demand, and library cards are being used to > reserve or use the computers (number is required to log on to the computers). > Just one example. > > * The TPM chip is making inroads into the general population and will be in > use in a few year. You don't have a chip, you are banned from the internet. > You spew spam, or have a worm doing it for you, your TPM # is banned from the > internet (what this chip was meant for in the first place). You own a Dell/Mac > you have the chip for sure, a selling point for my mother board was it didn't > have a TPM chip installed. > > *Your Rom HDD's are flawed, most are made of Static Ram. An example of data > retention from Static ram is this from the Amiga world. Amiga's only used > SRAM, You could load the copy protected game "Blood Money" for it excellent > audio, then do a warm boot into a program made for this and search the memory > for the audio track(s) saving them. If you were trying to hack the program > that's also an option, by searching the ram. Static ram doesn't need to be > refreshed, so data will last longer. > > I always turn my computers off for awhile to clear it out. You really don't > know what's using Static ram anymore, I understand all the CPU cache's use it > due to it's speed. > > You not going to make you money back invested into such a public internet > caf . In fact, you stand a good chance of your IP blocking you, as if I were > looking for a place to send a nasty note to that blackberry that's been > spamming me, that's the place I'd go. You;d be fighting their TOS. > > Porn collectors, and sock puppets would be frequent visitors. A mall wouldn't > stand for it either. > > Where you got it right * I set up a few dumb terminals at my place so others > could log into my Chat board. For just chat you don't need any programs to > run, just a terminal program, dumb terminals of their nature are fairly hard > to find anymore. > > Oh ya, your coin burner that's over kill, if your going to go to such an > extreme don't use fire, just polish the coins in a > tumbler, nobody will complain and maybe even appreciate it. > -- > > http://kimoracochran.com/mug-shot-day-award-29/
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