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Valentine's for sick kids

spicy.jalapeno — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 22:13:28 +0800

Hey folks Valentine's day is in a few days. St Jude Children's Research Hospital is offering a nifty way to send a Valentine's day card to sick children! It only costs a bit of your time and Internet bandwidth.
https://www.stjude.org/get-involved/other-w...ntines-day.html

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spicy.jalapeno — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:53:14 +0800

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Free Game: F1 2015

spicy.jalapeno — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 14:41:26 +0800

https://store.steampowered.com/app/286570/F1_2015/

go go go, looks like codemasters is about to pull the game off the store

PLC Cable Questions

spicy.jalapeno — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 13:48:25 +0800

So here's the thing, I have a really old PLC. Someone wanted to change the programming in it, but they threw away all the accessories and manuals. (Smart, I know.)

I managed to find out that the original cable is an RJ45 to RS-232. Tried using an ethernet cable to connect directly to PC, no go. So now I'm thinking of buying these cables:

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Anyone ever tried something like this? I always thought that you need a converter, but seems like the converter has been miniaturized and built into the cable nowadays? Or are these scams?

Dear /k, I almost died today on my way to work.

spicy.jalapeno — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:02:17 +0800

Dear /k,

So today, I was driving to work as usual. I was driving on the highway at 80 km/h, minding my own business, again as usual. Suddenly, this car overtook me from the left. Reckon this car's speed is probably more than 120 km/h.

To said car, I'm certainly that you have a very good reason, maybe your wife is about to deliver, maybe you're about to ter-vera. Regardless of what your reason may be, I hope that you reached your destination safely and the situation resolved smoothly.

Sincerely,
spicy.jalapeno

Third World Mindset

spicy.jalapeno — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 21:46:17 +0800

High-class lives, low-level mindsets

by johan jaaffar

S. SATHISWARAN’S death on Monday shocked the nation. An office chair thrown by someone from an upper floor of the flats where he lived, struck him. He was just 15.

Why would someone do that – hurl a chair from many floors above? Was it a random act?

Or was it simply someone who thinks throwing things from high up is all right? It probably started with rubbish. Then a flower pot. And an office chair next.

We are all too familiar with the problem of objects being thrown down from high-rise buildings and hitting cars and people. But it is a tragedy waiting to happen when someone throws something heavier, like a chair, as what happened to Sathiswaran.

Just look at the way some people drive here. Or consider the state of our public toilets. Our attitude towards public property. The rubbish we throw from moving cars. The clogged drains. The polluted rivers. The list goes on.

I was having teh tarik with some friends at Precinct 8 Putrajaya recently. A car – its exhaust sounded more like that of a motorboat – parked on the road although there was plenty of proper parking space. Cars and buses had to wait behind the car before they could pass through. The driver was oblivious to that.

Perhaps we have issues pertaining to civic-mindedness. We don’t care about others. We are not showing our concern for the condition and affairs of people around us.

A minor accident at the Federal Highway I witnessed recently created a few kilometres of traffic jam. Those involved were busily arguing their innocence rather than steering their cars to the roadside.

Some think of it as a discipline problem. We simply lack the big “D”. What we learn in school does not go beyond the school gates.

Or maybe it has a lot to do with our mindset. We can boast of our First World facilities but the fact is we still have a Third World mindset if we treat public assets as nothing more than experiments in vandalising, dirtying and destroying.

I met the owner of Japan’s largest vending machine company some years back. It is fascinating that those machines are everywhere in cities and towns, and sell almost everything you can imagine – from drinks to condoms to eggs and even umbrellas!

It is an incredible world of business – the Japanese way. I agree that Japan’s vending machines can tell us a lot about the country’s culture. And of course the civility of its people.

There are more than five million vending machines in Japan, the highest number in the world. That is about one machine per 23 people at the last count. It is a US$60bil (RM240bil) business a year. As we know, Japan has a low crime rate.

If we place a vending machine in an alley in Kuala Lumpur, can it survive vandalism? It is not about crime, it is about attitude.

I asked the company owner the secret behind the proliferation of vending machines in Japan. He has a simple answer: “Japanese need them.”

Sadly in our case, even if we need them, we won’t appreciate them.

Civility is simply an act of being civil, which entails politeness and courtesy in behaviour and speech. It comes with being respectful, kind, considerate and nice.

There has been serious discourse on the erosion of civility in today’s world. Modernity has changed humankind. The rat race and the necessity to survive have changed the rules of engagement. We have become survivalists in the true sense of the word.

When the character Gordon Gekko (played with menacing exactitude by Michael Douglas) in the 1987 movie Wall Street promotes greed as good, it summarises the gung-ho decade of hubris and capitalism.

The character Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson at his pernicious best) is awfully crass in As Good As It Gets (1997) but he isn’t alone in the world. There are many Udalls around us – and they are a nightmare to neighbours and society. We have to live with them.

It is sad that technology is not entirely changing us for the better. Social media is a classic example. It is supposed to be a tool to bring us to the next level, to inform and communicate and to make this world a better place. But just read the kind of comments posted on it.

We have never been this disrespectful towards others. We are using the latest devices but with a mindset trapped in the old, primitive and tribal ways.

If we had been more civic-minded, Sathiswaran would still be alive.

Johan Jaaffar was a journalist, editor and for some years chairman of a media company, and is passionate about all things literature and the arts. The views expressed here are entirely his own.

Source: https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/columnis...ivicmindedness/

#FakeNews

spicy.jalapeno — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:47:23 +0800

'Fake news' crutch used by SE Asian leaders to control media, critics charge

MANILA/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Governments across Southeast Asia have a history of using laws and the judiciary to curb press freedoms - now, they have found a handy crutch to lean on as they intensify clampdowns: U.S. President Donald Trump’s “fake news” mantra.

Most worrying to media rights advocates is that several countries are promoting new legislation or expanding existing regulations to make publishing fake news an offense. The fear is that, rather than focusing on false stories published on social media, authoritarian leaders will use the new laws to target legitimate news outlets that are critical of them.

“When the leadership of the United States consistently targets legitimate media reporting as fake, it opens the way for leaders the world over to do the same,” said Shawn Crispin, who represents the Committee to Protect Journalists in the region. “It’s a dangerous trend that is giving authoritarian and democratic regimes alike justification for targeting or shutting down reporting they don’t like.”

The term “fake news” has entered the lexicon of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), whose leaders commended the work done by their governments in countering its spread in a statement issued at the end of a November summit.

Like everywhere else, Southeast Asia does sometimes have a problem with information on social media that is intentionally false. But there is little sign that the problem has been anywhere as bad as it was, for example, in the run-up to the November 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Last week, after the Philippines’ corporate regulator revoked the operating license of Rappler, a news site whose scrutiny of President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on drugs has been a thorn in his side, Duterte told reporters it was “a fake news outlet” that had been “throwing trash and shit all along”.

Duterte denied influencing the regulator’s decision, which was followed by the justice minister ordering an investigation into Rappler for possible criminal liability and the National Bureau of Investigation summoning its CEO to answer a complaint related to cyber-crime.

John Nery, associate editor and a columnist at the Philippine Daily Inquirer, which has also come under attack from the government, said “fake news” is now glibly used by people who don’t like what they hear.

“Unfortunately for us, those parties include the government of the Philippines. So it is used to intimidate,” he said.

Anti-fake news legislation, which would impose fines and prison terms of up to 20 years for spreading false information, is under consideration in the Philippines.

Philippines presidential spokesman Harry Roque said the legislation was being promoted by two senators not the Duterte administration.

Asked if the government felt the need to regulate fake news, Roque said: “We believe in free market place of ideas.”

“LIKE POISON OR A GUN”

Strongman Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen regularly accuses critical media outlets of spreading “fake news”.

In his latest attack on Saturday, he backed Trump for announcing “fake news” awards. “I think President Donald Trump has correctly created an award that he just announced in recent days, the Fake News Award,” he said. “And in Cambodia there is also this type of media.”

Huy Vannak, undersecretary of state in Cambodia’s Interior Ministry, told Reuters: “Everyone, including ordinary citizens, has to fight against fake news because fake news is like poison or a gun and it can kill our beautiful society.”In Malaysia, Prime Minister Najib Razak has accused opponents of using the media to spread fake news on a scandal over state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).

1MDB is being investigated in at least six countries for money-laundering and misappropriation of funds, including an alleged $681 million transfer into Najib’s personal account. The U.S. Department of Justice filed several lawsuits last year to seize more than $1.7 billion in assets believed to have been stolen from the sovereign fund that was set up by Najib.

The prime minister denies any wrongdoing.

Najib’s government has suspended media and blocked websites that hounded him over 1MDB, and - with elections looming - he recently launched a website to counter “fake news”.

The government of Singapore, where curbs on free speech have often been criticized by human rights advocates, is planning legislation to tackle fake online information it says could threaten national security.

Singapore’s Straits Times newspaper this month cited seven cases of “fake news” that came up in a parliament discussion: three were about other countries and one was about an image of ‘halal pork’ allegedly being sold in supermarkets that went viral in 2007.

Law and Home Affairs Minister Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam told lawmakers that combating falsehoods is not contrary to the exercise of freedom of speech but, rather, it “enables freedom of speech to be meaningfully exercised”.

A Singapore government spokesperson, asked to comment, referred Reuters to Shanmugam’s speech and to a paper presented to parliament that said “the dissemination of deliberate falsehoods ... attacks the very heart of democracy” and, if unchecked, undermines faith in the country and its institutions.

LOCKING UP REPORTERS
Thailand already has a cyber-security law under which the spread of false information carries a jail sentence of up to seven years, and the military government strictly enforces lese majeste laws that shield the royal family from insult.

Still, junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha has warned that tough action will be taken to enforce laws against “fake news and hate speech”.

Myanmar has assailed foreign news organizations for “fake news” about a military crackdown in Rakhine state that triggered the exodus of more than 650,000 Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh.

It has detained at least 29 journalists since Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi came to power in 2016. Among them are two Reuters reporters who had covered the crisis in Rakhine and are being investigated for alleged breaches of the Official Secrets Act.

Philip Bowring, a former editor of the news magazine Far Eastern Economic Review, which closed in 2009, said “fake news” is “a convenient phrase” for governments that would in any case find ways to crimp press freedom. He sees the mantra as “just a new gimmick” that allows governments to justify their behavior.

Additional reporting by John Chalmers in JAKARTA, Matthew Tostevin in BANGKOK, Chan Thul Prak in PHNOM PENH, Praveen Menon in KUALA LUMPUR and Jack Kim in SINGAPORE; Writing by John Chalmers; Editing by Martin Howell

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asia-med...e-idUSKBN1FB0F8

HP Pavilion 14 Stuck at HP Screen

spicy.jalapeno — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:29:37 +0800

Hi, I have a HP Pavilion 14, Windows 10, i5-4200U, 8GB RAM.

So yesterday, when I was not around, a power outage occurred. Then when I tried to turn it on again, it would keep spinning on the HP screen.

So far, I've tried the following:

1. Hard reset (hold down power button)
2. Did some tests using HP Diagnostics Tools, all passed (Strangely if I exit this it shows Boot Device Not Found, Please Install an OS on your hard disk, Hard Disk (3F0))
3. Reset BIOS (Did not work, something about not found)
4. Proceeded to download one from HP website, completed all steps without a hitch
5. Tried to use HP's System Recovery, didn't work (Required device not found/not connected)
6. Spent about half a day creating a USB Boot Disk, this did get me past that HP loading screen, but leads to a black screen

Argh, I'm at my wit's end here. What could the problem possibly be?

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spicy.jalapeno — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:34:01 +0800

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