MikeThaiEvo

1 hour ago, Wilsonandson said:

 

As for i.d a bright yellow top with the word 'Police' on it gives it away. Why would a bogus policeman go to so much trouble disguising himself for a traffic fine?

 

For a platinum member and so many posts, you are quite naive my friend. That uniform can be purchased/obtained even on a street market in Sattahip, so don't give yourself so easy "a go" to be proud and wrong at the same time. 

There has been hundreds of scams by fake police over the past 3 years how long i'm around, from North to South, and East to West in Thailand, including few kidnapping and extortion cases, and definitely it's not OK to defend assaulting OFFICER on a bus driver. As someone stated already earlier, he didn't had right to take PHONE as the evidence (since if he was talking on phone, phone is not the evidence, GSM Provider is with a bullet-proof listing of calls), especially not in such aggressive manners. 

Active highway police officer is obligated to wear helmet with identification number, by recent law a GO-PRO attached to the helmet and at least government registered vehicle (motorbike with Royal Thai Police identification plates) which this officer didn't had.

And if you would knew law so much, let me remind you that obtaining any electronic form of someone else personal data without consent is defined 2007 by we all know who as a first degree crime - which in this case applies also to the policeman trying with force to take over the device and content where owner (the bus driver) is not obliged to give. 

1 minute ago, Brer Fox said:

I wouldn't count on that. Clerical duties likely means he has been placed on envelopes and funds distribution duties. Includes reconciliation of funds collected from regular donors and allocated as per distribution lists. He will undoubtedly make sure he remains on the list and probably move himself up a peg or two.

Seriously ?

New vision: "Through official crime towards success!" 

I think i'll throw up lunch i've just had.

Bus driver - Rare and unique to keep slowly in the left lane, not driving at the speed lane where actually bus cannot go as they do on regular basis.
Policeman - Criminal case for assault on a bus driver, abuse of power, doing a police work when he is off his duty (no offical bike plates for police, no identification) = It's a jail sentence actually not just "transfer to desk".

I have to lookup in Thai dictionary definition of words: "Justice", "Protect", "Serve", "Citizen", maybe it's wrong definition at the very own meaning of words. 

It's very clear that it will never be clear. I've bought a house when i started family in Thailand years ago. I was thrown out from my own house (which is not by the book on my name or can't be ever - even though i found over the years a loophole for future mistakes by having a BOI) and always in danger to be reported to the police when i want to come to visit my own SON! Why ? Trespassing. 

Thai Boxing ex World Champion got slashed with a sword in midday in a dispute over a dog being aggressive to his kid. In the end, he is being charged of assault. I'm pretty sure if he wanted for real to assault someone, there would be no person able to give a statement, since boxing fists are classified as lethal weapon and obviously letting himself to be so slashed was that he was respectful enough to those women, even maybe he shouldn't because now he is facing charges same as he did. Oh yes, blame alchohol... Did anyone ever saw in real professional boxer drunk don't be able to hit ? Hits harder than normal.

This poor fella... Night time, Vietnamese girls, police coming before he can runaway and he is staying in the room. Girls maybe tried to find a way to not return money they borrowed from him before or maybe desperate tried to get some. I'm pretty sure that 90% of a men if wants to be dominating and perform act of rape, can do easily, so "attempt of rape" doesn't hold the water for me. 

On 10/13/2016 at 0:19 PM, jmd8800 said:

Thread bump. I have a cheap Shuttle XS35GT with 2 hard drives. /dev/sda is 500GB and /dev/sdb is 60GB SSD.

 

/dev/sda boots to Solus Budgie.  /dev/sdb boots to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and is the main desktop. I use sdb for main desktop and save work to sda.

 

Solus is an interesting trip back in time to the Gnome 2 era. Solus Project

 

I use elementary OS on a Chromebook c720 when I travel. I've no need for anything expensive when I travel and think losing a 3 year old 200$ laptop better than losing a 500$ or more laptop.

 

I use the laptop for unexpected travel arrangements which include agoda or airline reservations involving ATM and or credit card numbers. I do not use my phone for things involving credit card numbers or online banking. I believe the cell phone security risks are far too great.

As Linux Security Admin, and over the years of being forgotten as such moved to serious web development and hosting management, i will explain to you only one thing:

Phone or a computer, it connects to a host. If a protocol of connection/host is not secured you'll end up having same security issues regardless of the platform you are using. Actually it's much more harder to break a system box of a phone (if locks are properly set) than any laptop where cache and history is keeping most of all.

Point: There is no security anymore. At least internet is not secured. Router firewall, pre-DNS, ISP gateways, Hosts on the end of the hops... it doesn't help at all. 

Example: GoDaddy who has maybe biggest infrastructure as hosting company had this year hack that resulted in 17 hours of NoHaveGoDaddy anywhere on the globe. All their data and world-wide infrastructure was down for 17 hours. I still keep all the passwords in my head or paper and pen and a safe. I dont believe in cloud or secured platforms, ever since hacking distros became public (BackTrack, KaliLinux, etc...).

Hi all,

so happy to see this topic in Thailand!

I was always a fan of Vanilla stuff, so for me Home/Personal use

Slackware Distro 64bit 14.1

Hosting Environments ALL:

CentOS 6.x

:)

In server, hosting and VPS solutions I preffer to have deployed CentOS or RH release. Showed like the most stable and most easy to configure (security, services, migration...) and all my servers are under CentOS (Currently 6.3)

In home use (Personal) i use Slackware distro for more then 10 years, because its the most native, and stable distro in Linux. Comes with Vanilla kernel, and no tweaks from other idiots.

In testing environment i use BackTrack Linux as the best penetration-testing tool.

What I'd really like to see is an unbiased perspective on what is happening within the Thai government, the various parties reactions, and what is fomenting the protests this time. Anybody got a clue? And please dispense with any sarcasm, inaccurate information, or bias. I really think that the foreign community should understand what is going on and why -- from an outside point of view.

Thaksin runaway to Cambodia after the major incident 7 years ago. Now he's passport and staying there is near end, so his sister, current Prime Minister made a paper without asking anyone maybe one month ago to let her brother come back to Thailand (so called Amnesty Bill). After people find out about that yellow people start gathering in Bangkok and make protest with speech that last all night one night in Bangkok. 2 days after that Amnesty Bill is declined (they withdraw all signatures) and she was crying like a baby on national tv (Prime Minister who cries, very nice), and she was hoping that everything will be ok. But Amnesty Bill is not actually rejected, its just prolonged for 3 months until be voted again. And her elections are coming this Thursday, so now people want to destroy Thaksin regime (his sister). And red people are now getting money from government so they can destroy yellow one, also the police, military and everyone, so Thaksin regime can stay in Government (his shadow sister). Understand ?

People nowadays often mix up in their life love, passion and respect with fall in love and lust. I have to say i'm lucky man to have simple traditional Thai lady with what i have love, respect, passion and happiness. We live together, we sleep together, we fight together, and soon we will have kid together... True love and respect is about sharing. People today are to selfish to know or learn how to do that...

Best regards,

Mike

I think You should really take some advice about spending time with yourself to see what is your problem really. Even in Europe when u come in to Jewelry shop, Levis, or even grocery shop like 7-11 u will hear the same annoying doorbell with sensor on the doors, not in the back. So problem is not in the doorbell, problem is within the people who are distracted with the doorbell, and not with the reason why they came to 7-11. I spend usually 2-5 minutes in 7-11, and while im looking what to buy, being concentrated to that, makes me not to be distracted by the doorbell. Don't get me wrong, but its personallity issue, not RULE about DOORBELLs.

Best regards.

When i first time come to Thailand i took TR Visa on 6 months with 3 entries. They asked me to put on my account in that time 200.000 THB so i can get the Visa. Soon as i have arrived on the airport they asked me how long i plan to stay, what is my purpose and business in Thailand, why i took Visa on 6 months, blah blah blah, while my friend just pass everything (with same Visa) without one question, and it was FIRST TIME. Recently i had a visit from a policeman to the house where my future wife and me are living, with many unreal questions, even if i'm not anymore on TR Visa. It's quite normal to have headache from Thai's IO on the airport, street, house (after few years of being local here) but it really depends on Your luck and their mood, not on the actually suspicios or not. This is land of smilies, but their smiles make our money. So just always be polite, talk straight and set them a story they cannot put down. Easy if u're communicative.
Give them a same "smile" back

Are You all so much limited and caveman based people ? Listen my good advice, and try to use brain in future. I know You people all like to have Your cash inside Your pockets, so only You know where is it, but today is a lot easier way of transfering funds. Open moneybookers and neteller online account. Go to the nearest bank in Thailand and open account, or just transfer the money to Your PERSONAL Moneybookers or Neteller account in 2 smaller amounts (for example 5500$). They will not charge You for the service with comission, they just charge the fee of using their service (read policy and terms for both companies), take the rest of the cash (19.000$) put in Your pocket, sit on a plane, go home, and then open account back in US, login to Your accounts, and transfer funds back to the new account. You need:

1. Good will
2. Sim card here and sim card there (for verification of the adding/removing cards-accounts online)

3. Valid document (passport) - You will submit to both agencies picture where all corners are visible and letters are clear, same same like Your picture in passport

And voila

Very easy, reliable and with trace in any time (what date, who, time, amount, fee) in your e-mail, login panel on their website and paper form.

Best regards,

Mike

P.S. I have learned in Thailand over-time that You can trust only Yourself, and it's much more better if You don't talk with the BANK in Thailand or anyone about serious amounts of money. You will easily not lose money, maybe You lose yourself on the way home. Try to work this out without other people. There is a lot of legal ways nowadays that doesn't include people and Your money going to other hands.