Consumer Affair?

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Sometimes, when you overdo the marketing… this is what happened. Thanks for Kenny for the information

Water Filter

A water filter is a device which removes impurities from water by means of a fine physical barrier, chemical processes and or biological process. Filters are used to cleanse water for irrigation, drinking water, aquariums, and swimming pools.

Water filters are primarily used to soften water and remove chemicals such as chlorine. Some people believe that the contaminants found in drinking unfiltered drinking water can be harmful to your health, even increasing the risk of developing cancer. The most common problem with unfiltered water, however, is a bad taste or smell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_purification

http://www.sweetwater.biz/

http://www.waterfilter-system.com/

Water Qualitiy Association

http://drliew.net/index.php/2006/11/16/water/#respond

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What’s FON up against?

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Network World’s Wireless in the Enterprise Newsletter, 11/08/06

What’s FON up against?

By Joanie Wexler

The FON community is a grass-roots effort whereby residential Wi-Fi users share access across their wireless networks to their broadband Internet access connections. If the idea takes off, it could usurp (or create sources of interference in) muni/metro Wi-Fi networks being subsidized by city and county governments.

The muni Wi-Fi people are very touchy when people question their business models and whether Wi-Fi, initially intended as an indoor LAN technology, will continue to scale well across wide geographies. “Just come look at all the installations that are out there already working,” they challenge in a defensive tone of voice.

Indeed, there are something like 250 to 300 community Wi-Fi networks in operation today, though only a handful are largely populated cities. And the operations of most of these networks aren’t being challenged by a second, or third, or fourth provider entering the market (can you spell “competition?”). Additional providers could potentially cause interference in Wi-Fi’s unlicensed spectrum, which offers equal access to all potential users of Wi-Fi’s 2.4GHz and 5GHz spectrum. It would be up to the providers to work these issues out among themselves.

Perhaps most interesting is whether it’s actually legal for individuals to simply choose to share their Internet access connections with anyone off the street. ISPs liken the move to “stealing” video programs over cable, which we all know is the ultimate telecom sin.

Then again, you might have any number of people within your home wirelessly sharing your Internet access connection at any given time, whom you may or may not be related to. Your ISP doesn’t know who and how many of these wireless-device toting folks are in your house (and presumably doesn’t care, so long as it can limit your overall access rate to what you’ve contracted for). Is there a difference if the party doing the sharing is inside our outside your walls?

Time – and likely a court case or two – will tell.

Just tell them that sharing is caring. But so far, do you think Malaysian will share their wi=fi network?

dota - the brutality and imbalance match

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It was a 3on4 game. But technically it’s 2on4. Me and sotongking versus the others kaki. Me Axe and him Sven with another noob teammate using Skeleton King.

Opposition were Zeus, Sniper, Abaddon and Lina. We were at the losing end. Can’t defend once our heroes died. But Axe rox in pwning Abaddon. What items required to make him invinsible?
Opposition have Dagger of Escape. Should i get 1? I have 2 Vanguards, BoT, Battle Fury and BKB. What went wrong…

Bleargh. I lost because we are outnumbered. We win because we stand up to the challenge.

More about Ms.K

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*Tit tit* (a notice on incoming short message service)

*opening*

I am dying here. Our BEST FRIEND is asking a LOT OF QUESTIONS. A LOT OF GOOD QUESTIONS.

I called him up and asked, serious? Ok. See, I told ya before. That’s why you are needed there. Oh ya, btw u sit next to her? When she asked question, a lot of people look at you? and they know u both come from same company? Goody.

Later…

Another SMS coming in.

I am dying soon. Good bye people

On the other hand when I was blogging, I read xiaxue is already not the hottest blogger in singapore. Or she still wants to be? Heard she is busy dating with her new boyfriend. I don’t want to tok much about it lor.

Taken from Network World - Free Wi-Fi.

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Network World's Wireless in the Enterprise Newsletter, 11/06/06

New public Wi-Fi community emerges

By Joanie Wexler

Ever hear of FON? It’s a worldwide company, founded in Spain. Late last month, it passed out free Wi-Fi routers in downtown San Francisco during an event it dubbed “Freedom Friday.” Such a deal: They usually charge a whopping 5 bucks for the devices! A “freedom” day in New York is next up for later this year. FON represents just the latest twist in grass-roots efforts to distribute free or low-cost Internet access to the masses to see what creative and interesting activities might result. The idea is that home users with wireless routers share their broadband Internet access connections with others. There are three categories of users. The biggest category consists of “Linuses” (presumably a tribute to open source icon Linus Torvalds). Linuses share the Wi-Fi connection they have at home with so-called “Foneros” (other Wi-Fi users who are part of the FON community). In return, they get free Wi-Fi access wherever they find a FON access point around the world. Another category of users is called “Aliens.” These folks use a FON router but haven’t been persuaded to share their Wi-Fi connection (yet). They get charged 3 bucks a day to use the FON community’s grass-roots Wi-Fi network. Finally, users called “Bills” want to make money from sharing their Wi-Fi connections. So, instead of free roaming, they get 50% share of the fees that Aliens pay to access the FON community. FON’s wireless routers, called La Fonera, use separate Service Set Identifiers for the home user and the outside folks sharing the Internet connection to keep indoor connections secure. The issues abound, of course, from skewing current city/metro/county Wi-Fi business models to creating irate ISPs. More on these next time.strong>Wonder when will Msian community start doing so for the sake of iritate ISPs?

If you don’t know me, don’t judge me

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The same ol’ sentence as defending oneself. Go hide behind these lline anyway. Love to quote from him, that Internet is a one ass big archive. What you say, what you do and what you post will be there forever. Down to your 9 generations later on. If they still exist.

A search on the net found this

“Here are some quotes that all employees should read. It just might help them think a little different about work and life, and generate some “new found” energy. They might even replace some bad habits with positive actions and ideas.”

It’s more like denial than acceptance. Human instinct. Just to react at these statement and trying to defend themselves. Why can’t a person have such humility and take a step back, look around and view it from different angle? Is the person being so defensive when say that out?
Maybe we don’t know you cause you might have alter ego on your blog? Split Multi Personality? Or Multiple Personality Disorder? Somehow a person alter ego to hide behind the blog they owned? Is it so? Having two masks to wear? One in Real Life (RL) and another virtually on the Internet? They always say, be yourself.

Nobody should ever judge a person as only He Himself can judge when the Judgement Day comes. Right now is that everyone is laying down the images one protray in their mind from the impression you made. From the early begining of the first encounter until this very second. So, if you say being judgemental? I say I know someone who is very judgemental also.

I don’t know. I am not perfect. I am not Saint. I do have errs, and an errs makes the saint more lovely. :D
p/s: i still have 3 more draft yet to be completed. With a clear stateful mind of course. *goody can’t wait*

DotA tip of the day

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Question : How to instant kill Abaddon (Death Knight) ?

Answer : Axe Ultimate

Let’s play God

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Viral Fossil Brought Back to Life

By Martin Enserink
ScienceNOW Daily News
1 November 2006

In a controversial study, researchers have resurrected a retrovirus that infected our ancestors millions of years ago and now sits frozen in the human genome. Published online by Genome Research this week, the study may shed new light on the history of these genomic intruders, as well as their role in tumors. Although this particular virus, dubbed Phoenix, is a wimpy one, some argue that resuscitating any ancient virus is inherently risky and that the study should have undergone stricter reviews.Retroviruses have the ability to make DNA copies of their RNA genomes and incorporate these into the host’s genome. If this happens in a germ cell, the copy can be passed on to future generations. Indeed, the human genome is littered with the remnants of such human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) (ScienceNOW, 29 September 2004). So far, researchers had been unable to recover a complete, functional HERV from a human genome however; part of the reason, they assumed, was that mutations accumulated over the millennia had rendered such viruses dysfunctional.

A team led by Thierry Heidmann at the Institut Gustave Roussy in Villejuif, France, near Paris, decided to try to awaken the ancestor of an entire family of HERVs called HERV-K(HML2). To “correct” for mutations, the researchers took dozens of known HERV-K(HML2) sequences and aligned them to create a so-called “consensus” sequence. Then they converted this information into a complete viral genome.

The researchers showed that the newly crated virus could infect a variety of human cell lines and replicate. But its infectivity was extremely low, perhaps because human cells have evolved resistance against such viral invaders.

“I think it’s pretty exciting,” says John Coffin, who studies retroviruses at Tufts University in Boston. Phoenix may shed new light on how HERVs became part of the human genome and what role they play there, he says; it may also be a tool to study endogenous retroviruses’ alleged role in tumor progression.

Others worry that the study sets a dangerous precedent. Although it was approved by the French research ministry’s Genetic Engineering Committee, Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, says any work involving the potential reconstruction of an extinct or eradicated infectious agent should be subject to a special review at the national or international level. What’s more, he says, because the researchers couldn’t be absolutely sure about Phoenix’s infectivity, the study should have been carried out under Biosafety level 4 conditions–the best-protected labs available–instead of the level 3 conditions utilized.

In the field, the wisdom of reviving endogenous retroviruses has long been debated, says Johannes Löwer, president of the Paul Ehrlich Institute in Langen, Germany, who decided against the idea himself. But Heidmann contends the risks in his study were extremely low. The virus was genetically modified in such a way that it could replicate only once, he explains, and a previous study had suggested it would have weak infectivity.

Copied from sciencemag.com, notice how the we are playing god lately? but of course, all the sci-fi thriller movies always say that when they do experiments or studies, the risk is minimal. But then things go out in hand. And yadda yadda yadda.

Dude, I’m having a deja-vu right now.

A short update - on blogger meet last Saturday

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Short I would say. I had a call during my breakfast/lunch at Air Panas with my braders, sotongking, Gary and Steven. (dota and blow water mia kaki). Call from DiGi, unknown caller. Ehm. I pick up and he straight away ask me where am u?. I told him setapak lor. He asked me wanna yum char or not. I say ok. Then, he say come LM. I say ..wookie, but who r u? the boss tiu kao me, i’m Rojaks lar tiu..

So, sotongking was keen to meet the ham hai aceone. He asked if aceone going or not. I say should be la and if he wanna cum, i go pick him up later as I need to do something to my car. later, we arrive there much much way very late. Due to the traffic jam and my slowness. Anyway, I meet up with the usual taugehs except two new face. Leng chais wor i tell u. The yeng tao one sit next to me and i asked “who r u jek?” I am Nelson he replied. I exclaimed, Ah Nel is it? so, that’s how I knew who is Ah Nel adi.

Later, i saw another lengchai sit there quietly tok tok, curious hor, I ask him how to call his name. He smile smile say Gua Si Linpeh and I suddenly say .. orrr.. u the one FFK is it? but then he damn 9 generous u know. Becoz u guys lar.. i need to say tenkiu for sapport 9 9 Olin mia brand. He buy all of us drinks that day lor.
Tenkiu all.

Together Gather - We need a new maid

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We need a new maid.

You, Me, We, Dinner, SOON.
We have set up a committee which consist of the best.. These people consist of my boss wingz (well if he is not participating he will fatt lan char), HizeCool, Lin Peh, Kenny Rawks, Jolene, 9393, Aceone and… em em … i know i missed out some of the committees but i cant help it if they ffk me for meetings….Anyway does it sound good? But, before we can even think about it… we need some people with some expertise. to make things….. Perfect…
This is Hizecool (right), Aceone(left) and Kenny (middle) with their outfit
So there's dinner and there's this place where we gather together.. what do you think? We already have part of the crew set up as above. But we just lack this few;
1. a Graphic Designer 2. Games Coordinator/Committee 3. Emcee
What?? you mean you dont believe me ar? you think i sin ka you ar? ohhh…. like that la now… ok .. well you can proceed to all the weblink above, including mine just to prove that we're serious and sincere. We dont have any physical preference but my boss does. Heck, who cares what he wants anyways. Most importantly, we do have to emphasize that it is voluntary based because we are all freaking poor. For those who are really interested, please email rojaks.wingz@gmail.com

In any case you wanna comply to my bosses wishes, you will have to be something like the below because he has a fetish for that. And, if you like, you can also send a photo of yourself exactly dressed like this…… Remember, have to lift skirt up geh.. even more authentic if your bulu kaki sticking out thru the socks… he has the kinks for that*psst* Kthxbai and of course looking forward to hear from you soon. *Ed Note: Inline with the committee members, I do hope that you guys willing to take the time and effort to make the party "Together Gather" a successful event of the year. Write it up to rojaks.wingz@gmail.com and tell him why he should pick you. :p

 

 

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