ALMOST! A Fire Victim..

"I merely suffered from bankruptcy, I may loose my job instantly, i merely had a broken home but there is no pain i will put other than loosing my house! I'm too much of a man to cry but the pain is to much to resist...". Probably these words were supposed to be my shout out had luck still abandon me.

ALMOST! thanks to the immediate responsed of Taytay Fire and Rescue Team and other Fire Department Team in the area, and also the presence of firewall on my neighborhood. If not on them maybe nasa kalye na kami ngayon. Now I know how does a fire victim would felt,  talagang nataranta ako non'.

I was then sleeping when my wife suddenly woke me up and said my sunog! sa kapitbahay natin. I suddenly rushed to the scene and saw my brother house na malaki na ang apoy. Medyo malayo pa ang sunog sa amin. But like they said, fire is like a monster that would eat you up alive. In an instance , we already felt yun init ng apoy, kita ko na yun dila ng apoy just at the back of bubong ng aking kapitbahay. That's when we started packing things and ready to evacuate. Halos lahat ng tao were rushed bringing their own things. Napuno ng mga gamit ang harapan ng bahay namin ready kung sakali't aabutin kami.

Lucky guys, wheew! Fire trucks started to come in. Everybody started to do their things from tabo to timba and even people i did'nt know and saw before e nakitulong narin.

And when the ground commander announced that they were now bringing the fire alarm to level 1, dun lang ako nakahinga. I saw na my wife stop crying.  Ganito pala pag may sunog, even your heart is on fire and never stop pumping!

But my sympathy is unto my neighbors, many of them were my brother's family. Hindi ko maisip kung ano ang nararamdaman nila ngayon. I hope and pray for them and their immediate recovery.

MICROSOFT'S NEW WINDOWS 8 IS ACTUALLY NOT WINDOWS!

I’m one of windows 8 enthusiast that’s why when i learned it's available, right away I downloaded it and installed the release preview version. And I’m REALLY surprised to find out that windows 8 is not actually windows! don’t get me wrong, I know it got plenty of windows code under the hood but the User-Interface in windows 8 is so different and uses in such different ways that it’s much better to think that it’s a completely new operating system that replacing the old windows.

Microsoft has chosen not to follow all those best practices that we used to know. And as a result I think there’s gonna be some real risk in windows 8 transition. In any case, you would be a fool to ignore the changes that where going to be made by windows 8 WHEN IT RELEASES IN THE MARKET this OCTOBER 26.

I listed 5 major things I discover after experimenting and stirring WINDOWS 8 that causes me headache.

1. Windows 8 has a totally new default interface: Metro UI. When I look at Metro, however, I see colors, designs, applications that can either run as a small tile or as full screen with NO WAY TO RESIZE OR MOVE WINDOWS!

2. MICROSOFT HAS DROPPED THE START BUTTON IN WINDOWS 8! Almost everyone knows the current Windows interface. It's changed over the years, but you could take someone who last touched Windows back in the Windows 95 days and drop that in front of them of Windows 7 and they'd be able to get work done.

3. A touch interface, but PC’s and laptop users can't touch it. Metro UI real point, of course, isn't for desktop users. It is design basically for tablet users.

 

4. I can't think of a single significant new improvement in Windows 8. Faster booting? A Windows Store? Live boot from a USB drive? Come on! All these features have been around in other operating systems for years, and while sure, they're nice, put them all together and at most they're worth a Windows 7 Service Patch--not a whole new operating system. 

5. I think about the poor Windows programmers. You've spent years learning .NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and now they have to learn WinRT and Jupiter/XAML.

'SHARE' AND 'LIKE' IS A VIOLATION UNDER CYBER LAW

excerpt from gma news

 Sharing something about yourself may be a violation under two existing anti-cybercrime laws, a University of the Philippines (UP) professor said at a forum. Technology law expert said in a forum that the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 and its twin, the Data Protection Act of 2011, attempt to protect all personal information and this might explicitly threaten how netizens naturally use social media.

"Whenever you say anything about something else, even about yourself, you may already be breaching a person's privacy rights. You disclose personal information," he said. The lawyer explained that "personal information" is any piece of information that can be linked to a person's identity, the revealing of which is a purported crime under the two measures.
He added that the restrictions the new cyber law has placed on how users share information online is a form of censorship.

"All existing crimes committed through technology are now cyber crimes," he said. A human rights lawyer, who was also at the forum, warned that online content producers--which can be anyone--can be sued more than once under the new cyber law. "If I publish one article against someone in [both] my blog and my print column, I can be sued twice: One before the [Regional Trial Court] and one under the Cybercrime [Prevention] Act," he said.

He said that one of the main implementation problems of online libel as indicated in the new measure is to whom the crime will be blamed on.

"Problem with the cyber libel provision is you do not know who will be held liable. In the original libel law, editors, journalists and publishers are liable. You also know the venue, the number of people subscribed to it," he said.

Even internet providers who do not originally have responsibility over content can be held liable under the new cyber law since they are the equivalent of publishers, he added.

ANTI-CYBERCRIME PREVENTION ACT OF 2012 IS NOW REAL!

Here is excerpt of the newly signed law the Republic Act No. 10175 or Anti-cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. I post this because I wanted you to be aware that this law is now a law where I am a culprit. You may ask a lawyer to interpret this but this thing will now flow in our life and in our system. You may like it or not or a portion of it but this Act is now real.

CHAPTER II
PUNISHABLE ACTS

SEC. 4. Cybercrime Offenses. — The following acts constitute the offense of cybercrime punishable under this Act:

(a) Offenses against the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer data and systems:

(1) Illegal Access. – The access to the whole or any part of a computer system without right.

(2) Illegal Interception. – The interception made by technical means without right of any non-public transmission of computer data to, from, or within a computer system including electromagnetic emissions from a computer system carrying such computer data.

(3) Data Interference. — The intentional or reckless alteration, damaging, deletion or deterioration of computer data, electronic document, or electronic data message, without right, including the introduction or transmission of viruses.

(4) System Interference. — The intentional alteration or reckless hindering or interference with the functioning of a computer or computer network by inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting, deteriorating, altering or suppressing computer data or program, electronic document, or electronic data message, without right or authority, including the introduction or transmission of viruses.

(5) Misuse of Devices.

(i) The use, production, sale, procurement, importation, distribution, or otherwise making available, without right, of:

(aa) A device, including a computer program, designed or adapted primarily for the purpose of committing any of the offenses under this Act; or

(bb) A computer password, access code, or similar data by which the whole or any part of a computer system is capable of being accessed with intent that it be used for the purpose of committing any of the offenses under this Act.

(ii) The possession of an item referred to in paragraphs 5(i)(aa) or (bb) above with intent to use said devices for the purpose of committing any of the offenses under this section.

(6) Cyber-squatting. – The acquisition of a domain name over the internet in bad faith to profit, mislead, destroy reputation, and deprive others from registering the same, if such a domain name is:

(i) Similar, identical, or confusingly similar to an existing trademark registered with the appropriate government agency at the time of the domain name registration:

(ii) Identical or in any way similar with the name of a person other than the registrant, in case of a personal name; and

(iii) Acquired without right or with intellectual property interests in it.

(b) Computer-related Offenses:

(1) Computer-related Forgery. —

(i) The input, alteration, or deletion of any computer data without right resulting in inauthentic data with the intent that it be considered or acted upon for legal purposes as if it were authentic, regardless whether or not the data is directly readable and intelligible; or

(ii) The act of knowingly using computer data which is the product of computer-related forgery as defined herein, for the purpose of perpetuating a fraudulent or dishonest design.

(2) Computer-related Fraud. — The unauthorized input, alteration, or deletion of computer data or program or interference in the functioning of a computer system, causing damage thereby with fraudulent intent: Provided, That if no

damage has yet been caused, the penalty imposable shall be one (1) degree lower.

(3) Computer-related Identity Theft. – The intentional acquisition, use, misuse, transfer, possession, alteration or deletion of identifying information belonging to another, whether natural or juridical, without right: Provided, That if no damage has yet been caused, the penalty imposable shall be one (1) degree lower.

(c) Content-related Offenses:

(1) Cybersex. — The willful engagement, maintenance, control, or operation, directly or indirectly, of any lascivious exhibition of sexual organs or sexual activity, with the aid of a computer system, for favor or consideration.

(2) Child Pornography. — The unlawful or prohibited acts defined and punishable by Republic Act No. 9775 or the Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009, committed through a computer system: Provided, That the penalty to be imposed shall be (1) one degree higher than that provided for in Republic Act No. 9775.

(3) Unsolicited Commercial Communications. — The transmission of commercial electronic communication with the use of computer system which seek to advertise, sell, or offer for sale products and services are prohibited unless:

(i) There is prior affirmative consent from the recipient; or

(ii) The primary intent of the communication is for service and/or administrative announcements from the sender to its existing users, subscribers or customers; or

(iii) The following conditions are present:

(aa) The commercial electronic communication contains a simple, valid, and reliable way for the recipient to reject. receipt of further commercial electronic messages (opt-out) from the same source;

(bb) The commercial electronic communication does not purposely disguise the source of the electronic message; and

(cc) The commercial electronic communication does not purposely include misleading information in any part of the message in order to induce the recipients to read the message.

(4) Libel. — The unlawful or prohibited acts of libel as defined in Article 355 of the Revised Penal Code, as amended, committed through a computer system or any other similar means which may be devised in the future.

SEC. 5. Other Offenses. — The following acts shall also constitute an offense:

(a) Aiding or Abetting in the Commission of Cybercrime. – Any person who willfully abets or aids in the commission of any of the offenses enumerated in this Act shall be held liable.

(b) Attempt in the Commission of Cybercrime. — Any person who willfully attempts to commit any of the offenses enumerated in this Act shall be held liable.

QUESTIONS RARELY ANSWER

Here are some questions uncommonly answer by people perhaps unaware or maybe unfamiliar to them, in Tagalog term they called it ‘MA at PA’ (Malay ko at Pakialam ko).  But I would like to share it to you and the answer of an anonymous and reliable respondent who simply had a lot of mingling on the subjects.

Question: How can you differentiate a girlfriend and a mistress?
 
 Answer: The difference is financial. Girlfriends are independent and can assert their independence by spending their own money. If you’re totally dependent, wala ka na (That’s it). 

Question: You’ve talked to a lot of mistresses. Can you tell us one particularly memorable story? 

Answer: There was one woman who never called herself a mistress. She used the word “playmate” to describe her relationship with the man, who was then married. When the man and his wife separated, he asked her to be with him, but she refused. She said they were only playmates. She knows she will never marry the man.
And then the woman also became the victim of a mistress. It turns out her husband was also seeing another woman. That’s what made her stop seeing her playmate. She said she didn’t want a place in hell. 

Question: Did she believe it was a sin? 

Answer: For 25 years the woman did not take communion, and everyone kept asking her why. Finally one night, she told her story to her parish priest, over dinner. The priest gave her an absolution and called her story “a beautiful love story.”
I know a devout Catholic went to the priest to ask for forgiveness because of adultery. The priest said she couldn’t be forgiven because the affair was still ongoing. 

Question: Who is the most successful mistress? 

A lot. These are the women who are recognized by the man’s family and accepted by society. 

Question: Are mistresses happy? 

Answer: I think so. Why would they stay? 

Question: Even without marriage? 

Answer: Mistresses should know it will never happen. 

Question: Why won’t some husbands ever leave their wives? 

Answer: These men want to be in their comfort zone. A place where they are on familiar ground, and there is no need to uproot one’s self or learn new rules. They’re in a place where they are used to the house help, and they know where the bathroom is. They know the bad side of their wives and they know how to dominate them. Men want to have their cake and eat it, too. It is very rare for a Filipino man to leave his first wife to marry his mistress. 

Question: Do mistresses feel the man loves them more?
Answer: Yes. A classmate of mine was head of an NGO that monitored sex and pornography on TV. During the course of their research they talked to little girls whose mothers watched television. Do you know what their mothers told them? They said they wanted to be the mistresses on TV instead of the wives. On TV, the wives are always shown wearing dusters, cleaning and suffering while the man goes off with his mistress in the sexy dress. 

Question: So if I form a partylist for mistresses, will I get enough votes? 

Answer: A lot of our politicians won when it was revealed that they had mistresses. 

Question: Are mistresses homewreckers?
 
Answer: It’s a stereotype. It may not be her intention but that’s what the public perception is. 

Question: Why do men need mistresses? 

Answer: I asked that question in the Rotary Club. A man said, “You know why we do it? We do it ‘cause we can get away with it.” It’s the forbidden fruit. The allure of mistresses in the shadows, that’s her mystery. 

A man I know also said, “It’s nice to wake up with a beautiful face beside me.”
At one point in a woman’s life she has to choose whether she wants to keep her face or her figure. When a woman is thin her face is compromised, it’s sunken. But if she wants a younger-looking face with no wrinkles that means she has to choose to be fat. Mahirap maging babae. (It’s hard to be a woman). 

Question: So it is normal to have a mistress?
 
Yes. Even taxi drivers have mistresses. She might have a carinderia or be a labandera who washes his clothes for him. Madudunong ang mga taxi driver (Taxi drivers are smart). During a marriage, the husband and wife can experience a sexual death. The wife bears children, finds other sources of fulfillment, her body gets bigger…that is when men look for others. But you’ll be surprised. A lot of mistresses are not as pretty or as accomplished as the wife. 

Question: Why is this so? 

Answer: Because mistresses don’t argue.  Here’s a quote from someone: “At the end of the day I don’t need a bright woman to argue with, I just want a pretty girl who will shut up when she needs to shut up.” Men want somebody, someone who is low-maintenance emotionally. Men who have reached their Viagra stage especially lose a lot of confidence, and need women who try to restore it.
I know of a heterosexual, not bisexual, man who left his wife and kids for a transsexual, even if he knew she underwent a sex change. The transsexual told me it had nothing to do with sex. She simply fulfilled all his psychological needs.
Essentially, every man is a narcissist, especially mama’s boys. And Filipino men are all mama’s boys.
A typical Filipino man is always dominated by women throughout his life. First, he is dominated by his mother, then a girlfriend, then his wife, then his daughter, then his mistress, then maybe a “chimay,” if he is a “chimay” killer, then by Mama Mary when he is old, gray and dying. Who is at fault in the relationship, the man or the mistresses?
The men are to blame, not the mistresses. The Philippines is the only country left where people still go to Mass every Sunday, and pews are filled from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and yet it is the also the only country where mistresses are freely flaunted. Also, we are the only country left without a divorce law. 

Question: So without the Catholic church, life wouldn’t be as sweet as this. 

Yes, the “forbidden fruit.” 

Question: If there is divorce do you think people will still have mistresses? 

Answer: Even in America where there is divorce, there are still mistresses. Divorce will never work here because men will be required to pay alimony. There are more men in Congress than women. Husbands can get away without paying a cent. During the Japanese occupation we had divorce in the country. The movie “Rosario” was about a woman ahead of her time in that period. She slept around, smoked and flirted. As punishment, she was exiled to Hong Kong for three years. Those were the days.
I still wonder why women’s groups like Gabriela don’t try harder to change the laws. The laws concerning concubinage and adultery favor the man. Men are only guilty if they are caught having an affair under scandalous circumstances, and it still has to be proven. For women, adultery is an automatic crime.
Women in Congress don’t want to change the laws because it’s against the church. And there is always the question of, “What will happen to the children?” It is usually the wives who don’t want to leave a marriage because of the children, not the husbands. 

Question: What about mistresses who don’t get anything much financially from the men? 

Answer: I don’t know. True love? 

They say numbers 1 and 3 usually end up on the same side, as with numbers 2 and 4. Does that mean the minimum for a Filipino man is 4? 

Maybe even more. 

What is the ending for mistresses? 
The same as a wife’s. You’ll fall out of love. The currents come and go.
You grow tired of each other, the man becomes cruel.  You can experience sensory fatigue or sexual death, or he becomes boring or poor or sick. You just go with the flow. There are no rules. It’s a wise mistress who realizes that like everything, there’s an ending. Wise mistresses are the most successful mistresses. They know that husbands don’t belong to them.