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Comment Do what your vendors do (Score 1) 848

1) Inflate and scramble your codes such that they are totally incomprehensible by anyone but yourself
2) Hide expiry timers in your codes as many places as possible
3) Hand over your codes and promote them as next best thing since slice bread
4) Your gullible boss merrily decide to use your code without paying you a dime
5) Secretly remove any possibility of recovering old codes by removing the codebase backup
6) Ask for huge compensation before expiry, expect to receive stuckup noses
7) The day of expiry is the point you yell PROFIT!!!!

Comment Dragonlance (Score 3, Interesting) 647

You have enough time to finish (first part of) the Dragonlance Chronicles:

Dragons of Autumn Twilight (April 1984), Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-88038-173-6)
Dragons of Winter Night (April 1985), Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-394-73975-2)
Dragons of Spring Dawning (September 1985), Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-88038-175-2)

Also, the most famous Legend of the series:

Time of the Twins (February 1986), by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-7869-1804-7)
War of the Twins (May 1986), by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-7869-1805-5)
Test of the Twins (August 1986), by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, (ISBN 0-7869-1806-3)

Must read for leisure and pleasure, if you like LoTR style fictions.

Comment Re:Great! (Score 1) 349

Well, let's see, the tally so far.

Apple is blocked from selling iPad and iPhone.

Samsung is blocked selling their tablets and phones elsewhere.

Now with a little luck within a year or two no-one is allowed to sell any smartphone or tablet anywhere in the world.

The winners will be: the Chinese manufacturers who don't care about patents and copyrights, who will just continue to produce, and sell their products all over the world on the grey markets at rock-bottom prices.

Works for me.

Nah, blackmarket prices of iPhone/iPad would be hyping up when they are getting more difficult to get, and the prices of China made tablets and phones would also raise with the absent of major competitors. The whole world would be hurting, and surely Apple would hurt much less because their products are still in very high demand thanks to their brilliant production strategy by scarcity.

It doesn't work for me.

Comment French cops are too soft (Score 1) 178

In where I live, you could be charged of national treason for reporting a police officer locking six girls in his own basement for his own pleasure and occasionally taking them out for earning money by prostitution (that how he got caught - after locking them up for two years, and two girls were already found dead).

And good luck of being caught misbehaved in public, or you would be dragged into the police station and being hit for at least two hours, even when you are a high ranking military officer yourself.

I'm risking my life telling you this. Now please excuse while I get the door, someone has been knocking my door vigorously for several minutes already...

Comment Re:This attitude makes me sick and I'm tired of it (Score 1) 1016

Go do some googling, a simple ONE PASS of 0's on the disk WILL make the data absoloutely, without question unrecoverable, anyone who tells you otherwise is in to voodoo and black magic or trying to make some profit.

There are really some voodoo and black magic that can recover data if you erase disk that way. Last time my colleague has to pay ~US$600 on his own accord to recover data on a harddisk he accidentally overwrote with a ghost image. We didn't call for rocket scientists's help, just paid a specialist and the data was back.

Also, you would like to be aware of the fault-tolerant design of modern harddisk that might replicate data in hidden storage, which might be up to 15% of the published space.

So, erase 7 times with patterns, degauss, or even physical destroy is really necessary for erasing sensitive data.

Comment Re:"Most" doesn't mean "very". (Score 1) 465

The list lacks Google too -- they have evil sides too, but they are at least trying, unlike most.

Hidden message behind Google's slogan "Don't be Evil":

"....and don't be so good neither".

(Seriously, American Express is ethical? Yep they subcontracted the bullying jobs to local gangs and goons so they could still remain clean. XD)

Comment Not exactly a turtle (Score 4, Informative) 73

It was no ordinary turtle. It is called a dragon turtle which is huge in size with a dragon head: http://www.kunde.org.tw/image3/01-book-032.jpg

Legend said that it carried strange messages on its shell. The messages looked simple (as you can see in the picture above) but people later found the complex meanings behind them.

This messages are the building blocks of most numerologies in ancient China, including Fengshui and I-Ching.

This is one of the most famous OPA (Out of Place Artifact) in China history.

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