Not A Command & Conquer Game Anymore: Cyberwars & Why China Hacked Google
Reuters indicates that China says is winning over Cyberwars over US: “Why does the Western press always blame China (for cyber-attacks)?”… “Because it’s true.” As Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research for McAfee, would say on the highly sophisticated hacking attack on Google: We have never ever, outside of the defense industry, seen commercial...
Read MoreOn A Game Of Thrones, AJ Perez & Death
[SPOILER ALERT: Don't read if you haven't watched HBO's Game of Thrones Yet] GRRM’s A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One is finally showing on TV. My officemate would sum the first episode up quite nicely. @mikevillar Any show that ends with incest and a child being pushed out a tower window is damn worth watching. ALSO BEHEADINGS! #GameofThrones Personally, I had expected...
Read MoreDeath of the Lowly Jeepney?
Rico just bashed the lowly Jeepney. The jeepney is a national icon, a showcase of Filipino creativity and, as mentioned before, ingenuity. But it’s also a symbol of the inefficiency and chaos that plagues not only Metro Manila, but the entire Philippines. Wikipedia’s entry would validate Rico’s article: A recent study published in a Metro Manila newspaper compared the fuel use of...
Read MoreQuick, Someone Make A Better Mobile Pinoy Facebook
Comscore says Filipino’s are heavy Facebook Users: In terms of unique online visitors to Facebook.com, the report found that the Philippines emerged as the top market with nearly 93 percent of its online population visiting the social media site during February 2011. Might be due to the fact the Filipinos value the Collective/community spirit: Unlike westerners who value individualism,...
Read MoreEat All You Can P149? Something’s Fishy.
After a reunion party, my old Highschool buddies and I went to Eastwood to relax and chit-chat a bit more. We had not thought about really eating but as we sat down at the “Something Fishy” restaurant, we asked the waiter, “How much is the buffet?” “P149.” He said. Thinking we just misheard it (like it was P449 or P559), we asked again, “How...
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