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Re: OT: My Idea of an Internet Cafe

#2325
From: GreenXenon
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 07:11
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On Mar 3, 9:58 pm, richard <mem...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 19:56:13 -0800 (PST), GreenXenon wrote:
> > Hi:
>
> > I’m thinking of a new type of public internet café. This internet café
> > 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.
>
> Well from what I read, flaws are abundant in your scheme.
> Free dialup? Yeah right. That's only going to invite a variety of problems
> to wit you will be held legally responsible. It would be only to easy for
> someone to upload a virus into a government machine, which gets traced back
> to you, and you wind up in jail.
>
> It would be better, for you, to have the machines all routed through a
> central point. The users enter, pay a buck for usage and a password.
> Said password is unique to that user. Now when trouble comes knocking on
> your door, you can track down which machine was used, by whom, and send
> that idiot to jail.
>
> You have a router connected to an ISP which gives you a static IP.
> By charging for usage, you cover your costs to connect.
> Oh and then there is the rent on the property. Let's say $5,000 a month as
> an example. $165 a day. Unless you have more than 20 customers a day,
> you're gonna be out of business in a heartbeat.
>
> 10 years ago, yeah maybe it would fly. Now with cellphones having internet
> access, who needs a damn cafe?


The PCs are built in such a way that the only thing they can do is act
as chat machines. Hence, all they can do is access the said type of
chat rooms that fit A to S on #11 of the list. Simply put, it is
impossible to produce or transmit malware with this type of PC. This
entire PC is text-only and is meant only to access chat rooms. No
other activity.

No offense but please read the entire post before responding.

My 1st message pretty much solves all the legal problems you
discussed.

Once again, the only purpose of this hypothetical type of PC is to
access chat rooms.

However, you are correct about the money issue.
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