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Re: OT: My Idea of an Internet Cafe

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From: Pennywise
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:23
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 GreenXenon <glucegen1x@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).

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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