grayhat

do i need to get a document from immigration showing my residency address for a car registration RENEWAL? for new registrations yes, but i forget if each year i need this for renewals..?

I believe, it is now needed an explanation of George, why he has posted the alterations of the Thai-immigration law:

- at the time the Thai-government is not able to enact a new Law (sees situation >without a real government <

- I just been back from a 30 day permission-drive and we were 16 people and had no difficulties. On the question at the Officers what’s going on with the new regulations, the answer from the boss of the border was up to the private-servant, they would have no information over any alterations????!!!!!!! I believe 2 days ago George has written one very high officer from Bangkok has confirmed the alterations and simultaneously the info’s are delivered to all borders????? (No one has heard something from these officer’s at the borders, besides the questioning from unsure 30 day permission tourists.

- it seems someone like to play a game here with the foreigners, why I couldn’t explain put maybe everyone can find out themselves

- strangely also there are no alteration of the Thai-immigration law to be found on any of the official Thai Websites.

- if laws are enacted, those must be published in order to grant the guarantor the possibility to insights. (even if it would only be published in Thai)

- Also should be exactly described what will be changed; It is if it should give an alteration like described, that doesn't involve the Tourist visa it only will involve with the 30 day permission, to remain in Thailand.

Even to enforce an old law the order must be given by the government, witch doesn’t exist yet….

Maybe George can explain me this.

Herb,

I realize you have just joined thaivisa.com a few days ago, please don't demand explanations from George or the OP Sunbelt Asia. It is not their responsibility for your visa knowledge. All the posted news articles are from sources, the discussions around these topics are the opinions of thaivisa members.

I am getting a very high pitched, high frequency noise when ever my hard disk accesses. Last week I put in a new motherboard, could this be the RAID controller built into the motherboard or the hard disk itself?

Does a truck need to be inspected each year for registration?

A Thai girl said yesterday she has to go to the doctor for her 'sun' or 'son'. I said lukeshy? No, no no.

So I'm confused what she is referring to. What is the English translation for a Thai word that sounds like sun/son? Her teeth ?

Google says mistakenly put old ad outlook on Web

Tue Mar 7, 2006 10:47 PM ET

By Eric Auchard

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Google Inc. inadvertently published outdated revenue and profit projections on its Web site after last week's meeting with Wall Street analysts, the company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday. But it stood by its refusal to issue financial projections.

The previously undisclosed presentation notes stated that Google's core advertising business was expected to grow by nearly 60 percent to $9.5 billion in 2006 but that profit margins in its mainstay AdSense business could be squeezed this year and beyond.

Google, a provider of Web search technology, said in the filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the notes stated: "To really get down to brass tacks, we're going to: Execute well on our core ads projects to help us exceed the $9.5bn target (and backfill any AdSense partner loss) and drive advertiser satisfaction."

It said in the filing that the notes had been presented early in the fourth quarter of 2005 for an internal product strategy presentation.

"These notes were not created for financial planning purposes, and should not be regarded as financial guidance. Consistent with past practice, Google is not providing revenue guidance," Google said in the filing.

Google also described as inaccurate notes that said: "AdSense margins will be squeezed in 2006 and beyond."

AdSense is an advertising program through which Google offers its pay-per-click Web search advertising system to Web publishers such as America Online or Ask.com to sell search-based advertising on their own sites.

Following its annual "Analyst Day" presentation for Wall Street at its Silicon Valley headquarters last Thursday, Google published, then retracted, a massive document containing slides with "speaker's notes" on product plans and financial targets.

The document came to light when blogger Greg Linden of Seattle picked up details from it. According to a number of bloggers who captured the original presentation, it also described an unannounced plan to offer online storage to Web users, creating a mirror image of consumer hard drives.

His original post is located at: http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/03/in-wor...te-storage.html

The bloggers said the original presentation stated: "With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc)."

Jordan Rohan, an analyst with RBC Capital in New York, calculated in a note to clients that, assuming the internal targets were made before Google signed a $450 million advertising contract renewal with AOL, then the company's internal targets are for around $10 billion in gross revenues.

That's in line with his 2006 estimate of $9.97 billion, the current high prediction on Wall Street and ahead of consensus Wall forecast of $9.65 billion, according to Reuters Estimates data.

"We believe Google management is creating unnecessary volatility by refusing to issue financial targets (intentionally). Issuing guidance is not 'evil,'" he said.

"They are certainly demonstrating a hypersenstivity to what information they do disclose," said David Garrity, director of research at brokerage Investec in New York.

Google spokeswoman Lynn Fox said on Tuesday that the company did not have any further comments on this topic. However, on Monday Fox confirmed the existence of the notes that were on the company's Web site but declined to comment on details contained in them.

Google replaced the withdrawn notes with a 94-page version of the slides in another format that had been cleansed of the notes.

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Privacy fear as Google plans 'super database'

JOHN INNES

GOOGLE, the internet giant, is planning a massive online facility that could store copies of users' hard drives - a move set to spark alarm among civil liberties campaigners.

Plans for the "GDrive", previously the subject of rumour among computer experts, were revealed accidentally after notes in a slideshow were wrongly published on Google's site.

The device would create a mirror image of data stored on consumers' computer hard drives, letting users search data stored on other computers via Google accounts.

While offering more convenient access to data, the service will stoke debate about the dangers of storing so much personal data on Google systems. Google recently squared up against the United States Justice Department, which has subpoenaed a limited set of data on Google search habits, drawing an outcry from privacy advocates.

In the presentation notes, the chief executive, Eric Schmidt, made a cryptic comment that one goal of Google was to "store 100 per cent" of consumer information".

A Google spokeswoman declined to comment on any specific service, but confirmed that the presentation containing the notes had been mistakenly released on the internet. "We deleted the slide notes because they were not intended for publication," she said.

"We are constantly working on ways to enhance our products and services for users, but have nothing to announce at this time."

The new service could save computer users from loss of data by keeping a "golden copy" on Google's centralised computers. However, the plan could be thwarted by privacy concerns.

Recently, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights advocate, issued a similarly stern warning to consumers to not use such facilities because it would reduce their level of privacy protection.

Google has been at the centre of privacy row in the United States. Last August, Google rejected US government efforts to access its search logs to prop up a contested 1998 law designed to protect minors from objectionable material on the internet.

Microsoft, Yahoo, and America Online have all since admitted that they have provided the government with some of that data from their logs.

The revelations triggered a privacy rights row in Washington that has placed the administration of the president, George Bush, on the defensive and has sparked at least two investigations in Congress.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research), the world's largest software maker, prematurely posted information about its much-anticipated Windows Vista operating system on one of its Web sites, the company said on Tuesday.

Microsoft disclosed information about a plan to release eight different editions of the new operating system on a company help page that was under development. The company has not made any official statements about the different versions of Windows Vista it plans to offer.

The company has since taken down the Web site and declined to confirm the information and said it will offer more details about the Vista launch, targeted for the second half of 2006, in the coming weeks.

"Microsoft recently posted a web page designed to test the Windows Vista help system that included incomplete information about the Windows Vista product line up," a Microsoft spokesman said in a statement.

"This page has since been removed as it was posted prematurely and was for testing purposes only."

The five-year gap between the upcoming Vista launch and the current Windows XP marks the longest-ever gap between upgrades for Microsoft's flagship product and the company's largest cash cow.

Various media organization saw the Web site before it was taken down and reported that Microsoft plans to offer six primary editions of Vista and an additional two variations for Europe that do not include Windows Media Player to comply with the European Union's past antitrust rulings.

Included in those listed offerings was Windows Starter 2007, a stripped-down version for emerging markets to offer an alternative for pirated software. There was also a basic and premium edition for the home as well as versions for both businesses and large corporations, according to the reports.

The Web site also listed a high-end product named Windows Vista Ultimate that targets gamers and heavy multimedia users, reports said.

Shares of Microsoft fell 26 cents to $26.44 in afternoon trade, in line with a near 1 percent decline on the Nasdaq.

I don't get out much

Type netstat -a from a command prompt or download tcpview

I was connected thru a dial-up modem when it got cut off. I have tried to reconnect since but error 777 pops up. I have tried different phonelines both at home and at work, but the same thing happens. Does my modem need to be replaced. I'm using a two-month old notebook. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing the modem driver to no avail.

Thanks

DUNS ERROR 777

777 - The connection attempt failed because the modem (or other connecting device) on the remote computer is out of order.

This error can also occur if you have installed your modem with an incorrect driver. Identify your modem chipset, PCI ID, manufacturer, and make sure you are using the correct driver.

http://anonymouse.ws/anonwww.html

or

a fresh list of proxies you can enter directly into your browser

http://www.stayinvisible.com/index.pl/proxy_list

WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers uncovered a serious flaw in the underlying technology for nearly all Internet traffic, a discovery that led to an urgent and secretive international effort to prevent global disruptions of Web surfing, e-mails and instant messages.

Internet Technology Vulnerable to Hackers

Would you like to disclose your nationality? You seem so fixed on going after anyone with anything negative to say about Thailand that I suspect you are probably Thai. Every time anyone write anything ever so slightly negative about Thailand you are there as a nail with your sarcasm. I think you should reconsider your moderator status or mellow up a bit. The referee in a soccer match does not play any of the sides, nor should a moderator on a forum. Incidentally it will be interesting to see how long you will leave this post before abusing your moderator privileges. What is your doctorate in anyway? Prostitution or go-go bars? Is there anything else in Patpong? Oh, I forgot, there is no prostitution in Thailand! Sorry!

Why so shy madsere? I'm from America, let me take a wild guess. You sound like you're from Belgium.

Lay off dr_Pat_Pong and your negative comments concerning Thailand.

Looks like you have an internet account with asianet going through their switch and router and over to Korea. Then over to MAE WEST in California, jumping onto UUNET/Worldcom's network. Some hops in Palo Alto, Sacramento, then across the country to Washington DC and on to Philadelphia.

The bottle neck is leaving Thailand as your milliseconds more than double on the way to Korea, not from Korea to the US.

Different providers route differently coming out of Thailand, some use teleglobe in the sky and some use underwater fiber to go to the west.

Is this simply inefficient routing?

It's normal to see that many hops within the backbone providers' switches/routers

I did some war driving around bangkok a few months ago. You wouldn't believe how many open wireless connections you find from big corporations and banks.

you could login , hack something or get some info  and drive away in 5 minutes out on the street.

I find war driving in Bangkok makes the traffic tolerable. Spread eagled businesses, clueless...

cut off their huevos rancheros

This is a new ID system using Java-based chip cards, which will support 32Kb of memory for data storage. The card will include the user's digitized fingerprints for biometric identification and will carry insurance, tax and welfare benefit information.

Zendesigner, the Thai government's plan is to use this as a central database.

First, 10 essential agencies will connect to the central system including those for driving licenses, passports, trading registration and land title deeds. Eventually, this will be a central database registration system covering 572 registration offices and serving both public and private organizations.

To provide the service to the public, the system will use an email address and a certificate authority (CA). The general public and businesses will be able to apply for electronic signatures for the CA service free of charge from the BORA. However, they need to have a pin code by applying at khonthai.com

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