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Re: OT: My Idea of an Internet Cafe

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From: Bill Bowden
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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