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google search engine hacks:

this search input gives mp3 file search results

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exploring photoshop filters

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Libel: Should it be decriminalized?

The recent ascend of 'boy' Nograles to speakership in the lower house reminds me of a not so recent media incident.

A certain 'lex adonis,' through a popular AM radio broadcast, called him the 'burlesque king' for allegedly running around in a Manila hotel undressed, a very compromising situation. According to the story, the husband of his paramour caught them in bed, hence the nude scene...ha ha!

We Filipinos, indeed have a good sense of humor, lots of creative imagination (after all, what more can most of us do? or are capable of doing these days?), but when it results in a conviction of 'libel', damn! that's a different story. 'lex' now is languishing in jail on a five year sentence handed by the courts. Besides, the woman in the story, a certain news anchor for a TV station, filed a second libel case. That makes him ineligible for a grant of 'probation'.

It appears that he waived the right to defend himself for being unable to afford a lawyer and decided to go in hiding, tried in absentia, was later arrested and jailed. He accordingly receives some 7,500 pesos monthly as a commentator's salary. The government provides you a lawyer in case you can't afford one. His salary is below the required ceiling. Therefore he is qualified to have one from the Public Attorney's Office (PAO). Why was he not advised to avail of it?

A joke taken so seriously from the other end could have very nasty consequences. Just like in the said case. Every student in criminal law can tell you that nobody can be held criminally liable for a joke. Besides, being a congressman and a majority floor leader at that( now, house speaker), who would believe that it really happened? Stating the obvious, people like him never let their guard down.

Common guys! Can't you take a joke?

On the other hand, if you got rid of the regulation, that would only give rise to irresponsible journalism. A weapon mis-used for some other ends. Sana guided din sila sa limitations in the exercise of a right. They should try to discipline their own ranks. Also, an announcer should be solidarily liable with the station/corporate entity. Hindi naman kase gagawin ng employee ang isang bagay kung hindi yun in furtherance with the stations' policy. You may exercise your rights as long as it does not offend the rights of other persons. Siguro di na natin maiwasan yun, human nature is always prone to conflict, lalo na sa politics. A very dirty and dangerous game.

Movies In the Internet

Fun how tons of movies are available for viewing in the Internet.

Websites not only offer old ones but also the latest releases. Some even offer chat rooms within a screen where we can have a virtual date with a special someone. Name it, its just a matter of search. However, is it really what we want out of the computer? Make it just another 'idiot box'?


I'm not that impressed about using the computer in such a manner. Nothing but an extension of the home entertainment center. It's not doing justice to the computer. Not quite giving it the function that it is truly capable of apart from any other machine.

I do admit there is some variation when it is brought to a level of a Virtual World. Like what I have in Kaneva , where I own a mansion and buy TV sets and program it with my play-list. While I laze in a jacuzzi having a chat with a friend. It's still entertainment taken to the nth degree spiced with a virtual room where I compose all the elements of its design based on solid primitives. That's something else. Truly magnificent!

I guess we have to let people have their way while other people may have their own way too as they see fit. It is indeed a versatile machine in a "world without strangers".

Writ of HabeasData

Video Documentary

A new remedy drafted by the Supreme Court. Its sole purpose is to protect individual privacy and integrity.

It is widely practiced in European states. Like the Germanic legislatures. It also has a long history in the Latin American countries.

With it comes the right to access, acquire, delete such data gathered from any automated process. It is basically a personal right. Which means that only the individual concerned may invoke its application. It has a mode of non-transferability.

It is as simple as. I want to know what kind of data is being accumulated about myself. To check its veracity and its use. BTW, does it include my access to porn sites?

ENTER FACEBOOK- Now, just recently an acquaintance in school invited me to register at the social networking site.

One thing that bothered me was its policy. According to the policy, "We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services and other users of Facebook, to supplement your profile."

It actually undertakes to 'datamine' all that information for transfer to their database. Some kinda "internet police structure". All done in the guise of making your "internet use safer". Crazy! It therefore takes upon itself that access rights of any user. Running counter with the provision on non-transferability nature of the habeas data writ. Through the use of technology it proposes to own all these information and worse of all claims any form of copyright related to its use.

That would be like an encroachment to another jurisdiction beyond one's domain. Unless if the domain accessed requires a prior registration with them, it appears to be highly objectionable.

What about my messenger logs? It becomes their property too? Ha haH!
The policy simply runs afoul with the writ. Meaning, it does not care about your privacy nor integrity. Which is the very evil that the writ wanted to correct.

Scary HUH?

Some Relevant Sites:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2007/11/08/facebook-social-ads/
http://community.ca.com/blogs/securityadvisor/archive/2007/11/29/facebook
http://www.ico.gov.uk/youngpeople

konstructive kriticism

I noticed that many users in BLOGGER tend to 'crowd' their starting pages with too many photographs. Sometimes you need to 'click-and-drag' the scroll bar for several times(I hate doing that). Here's an innovation.

I got the 'source codes' for photo3D.html at http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/ then having administrative privy's at http://www.forumotion.com/ , they allow you to manage HTML files in MODULES. Yes, provided you are the forum's ADMIN.

As for the codes. You may create your own custom gallery by editing the html file and changing the images using a DIRECT LINK URL. It's just a matter of EDITING(prefer to use ctrl+v & ctrl+c): DELETE the original image filenames, COPY the new filenames, PASTE, PREVIEW, then finally SUBMIT. All done. You got the 'addy' for the gallery.

It would be cooler to have a Virtual Gallery for the purpose. Complete with animated people and other entourage. Plus effects such as 'time-exposure' or simply said, the changing directional vectors of the sun's rays. In CAD, they call it 'raytrace'. Well..that's what is on my wish-list.

Here's the link to my photo gallery: http://rholans.forumotion.com/rome-h27.htm.
Another one I made @FREEWEBS: http://razorskarz.webs.com/page009.html This time you need to turn ON Advance Settings in order to be able to create and edit in HTML mode. Free-web accounts default in 'kiddie' mode.

Hacking Blogger Page

"A Hack is a modification of a program or device to give the user access to features otherwise were unavailable to them. "





Does using DHTML scripts come within the definition of 'hacking'?



I don't think so. It's more of a random play of exploring its effects. It is also included on 3rd party provision for added functionalities. It is the domain of the programmer and those knowledgable in scripting languages.

For us with no knowledge in the area. It is more of a child's play of trial and error.
In other words, a briliant way to waste our time.

There's a lot to learn in 'wasting time' and keeping an 'open' mind.


The script was posted on the 'footer' of the template. It gives lesser control on the built-in customizations on fonts and colors. If you will notice, the post-title is smaller than the 'post-text'. Ha haH! I'm still trying to tweak it..
It does have some desirable effects on the page.
Like they say, STATIC is BORING.
Its just cooler this way.

Pre-emptive Strikes

The Plight of Some Filipino Nurses

Filipino Nurses Face Criminal Charges
-For months, the nurses complained that they were subject to demeaning and unfair working conditions - not what they were promised when they came to America from the Philippines in search of a...

ISSUE: Does abrupt resignation warrant criminal charges?

COMMENT: The stages of most crime are either (a). Attempted; (b). Frustrated; and (c). Consummated. Meaning, not all necessarily go through that stage. They all contain the element of 'intent'. It is alleged that the patients who were under intensive care were exposed to some kind of danger. Does the exposure therefore constitute a crime that is specifically prohibited by law?

Where there any injuries involved or suffered due to a conscious and willful act?
Did it result in damage, loss, or injury?

An airline flight will always involve a certain degree of risk. It however does not stop us from traveling. Neither is exposure to that risk without a proven loss, damage, or injury demandable nor enforceable.

There is a need for a comprehensive and uniform provision regarding contracts of employment considering that a prior condition of unfairness or breach of contract were declared by the affected workers.

The contract being the root cause of a preceding conscious act.

There could possibly be some issues to be dealt with on an ethical, professional, or administrative level. The venue of which could be the Board of Examiners for certain professions. Comparable to the Supreme Court's overall disciplinary supervision and jurisdiction on all lawyers.

Definitely not on a criminal level.
Sometimes, if not most of the time, politics has it's way of corrupting systems in order to suit the interests of a favored class.

OTHER MATTERS:

Political Appointments to Sensitive Posts: On matters of appointments to Affairs of the State, it is a totally different thing. There is a need for an ACCEPTANCE from the APPOINTING POWER. Even if it is an Irrevocable Resignation. It is never final until accepted or approved.



News Item:

Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

A cynical and witty approach towards terms on an old work which has an expired copyright.
It gives us a glimpse of human nature and its truths.

Here's a few choice cuts.

ACCOMPLICE, n.
One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.
ACCUSE, v.t.
To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.
APPEAL, v.t.
In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
BIGAMY, n.
A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.
BRIDE, n.
A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
CORPORATION, n.
An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
EXCEPTION, n.
A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc. "The exception proves the rule" is an expression constantly upon the lips of the ignorant, who parrot it from one another with never a thought of its absurdity. In the Latin, "Exceptio probat regulam" means that the exception tests the rule, puts it to the proof, not confirms it. The malefactor who drew the meaning from this excellent dictum and substituted a contrary one of his own exerted an evil power which appears to be immortal.
HABEAS CORPUS.
A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.
JEALOUS, adj.
Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
JUSTICE, n.
A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
HAND, n.
A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
HAPPINESS, n.
An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
HATRED, n.
A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
PARDON, v.
To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
PATIENCE, n.
A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
PRECEDENT, n.
In Law, a previous decision, rule or practice which, in the absence of a definite statute, has whatever force and authority a Judge may choose to give it, thereby greatly simplifying his task of doing as he pleases. As there are precedents for everything, he has only to ignore those that make against his interest and accentuate those in the line of his desire. Invention of the precedent elevates the trial-at-law from the low estate of a fortuitous ordeal to the noble attitude of a dirigible arbitrament.
RECONSIDER, v.
To seek a justification for a decision already made.
UNDERSTANDING, n.
A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.

http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/

The Academy

For those who played 'STARWARS: The Republic'.

I'd like to think that 'law skewl' is like Dantoine.
After you've been given all the 'tools of the trade', it's up to you to choose which path to take.
The weapons and ammunition one acquires. These are I imagine the 'light-saber', which receives the embedded stones. The one that conveys a singular and individually unique power in your hands.

The path of evil or that of good.
The dark-side or the path of light.
We're all conscious and choosing individuals according to each of our realities.

As for the game, I played either side.
Ended up with a win.

But playing the good side gave me more joy.
Much more than the win.