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Sorry to hear that. But haemorrhagic fever is common in Thailand. It varies year by year, but epidemics are frequent. .

Fair go, but anonymity for surfing on Net forums is a far, far different thing than *total* anonymity. I have no misconceptions about *how* anonymous I am. There's a big difference between "anybody can find out who you are" (they can't) and "there isn't anybody who can find out who you are" (there is). It all depends on who wants you identified. If "they" want you, then "they" will identify you Net-wise. Which implies you've done something pretty naughty. I can't see that you would be striving for *total* anonymity without you'd done something naughty. I think you're entitled to do it, don't get me wrong about that, but it's a hell of a lot of work, and hardly worth it for what we do. Anyhow. This is kind of the other side of the issue in a way, about how companies can protect themselves from hacking, but it has a few points. This one is pretty relevant and discusses the extremely silly myth that you can click a button and be secure. It's very related to the OP, which suggested that a VPN should (or can) keep you *totally* anonymous. Top 10 Dumb Computer Security Notions and Myths One Tool to Defend Them All Pick the security technology, and there's someone out there convinced that it is the cure-all and the only thing needed for security utopia. It doesn't exist. While there are excellent antivirus, intrusion prevention, network monitoring and forensics tools available, none of them can do everything. Security tools are specialized, and there is no silver bullet. Focus on layered security, not a one-size-fits-all approach. .

And vice-versa. There's a guy on here who hates Brits and didn't want to live up to his deposit agreement with the landlord. Long thread ensued. In Thailand it's regular practice to pay a month's rent AND a deposit of a month's rent. Of course there are all kinds of exceptions, but that's the standard. .

Thailand went to war with Vietnam back in the 1970s. Did you ever stop to think... and then not start again? These are pictures of a MUSEUM!! .

Yes, it's okay to let your gay side come out. We understand. No. Seriously. Nice pics, good stitch to say the least. But next time, put in a few nudes, too. .

Isn't that the subject? Why else would a person want total, guaranteed anonymity from the forces who tracked Lulzsec? I don't think we're talking about hiding surfing tracks from the missus here. You don't want total security against joint US-European-Asian security agencies because you looked at a pr0n site. .

Indeed. And again? You don't HAVE to answer of course. No rule about that. .

Forever. There's no preventative aside from killing all the mosquitoes which isn't going to happen. The point is that the threat goes up and down by the number of mosquitoes around. Which depends on standing water, etc. At some times of year, the threat of dengue is worse than others, but it never is zero. .

Now you're getting' somewhere! There have been more than a couple of promising leads that ended in a Peshawar cyber shop.Plus encryption of course, which is cheap and easy. *People* make an error by getting into a habit. Somewere around 10 out of 9 people who use a Pattaya Starbucks for their "private" Net activities would be found because they keep using the same one or two of them - 500 baht to the staff, and they call the nice police the next time you go in. If you're trying to beat the CIA, you'd better fly to Hat Yai, use one Starbucks one time and get back. Next time, don't fly but drive to Phuket and ditto. But they'll trace you to the Starbucks easily enough, and they'll get all the records of what you did there and who you emailed or where you uploaded files or whatever. After that it's not cyber tag at all, you're just another human fugitive on the run. Computers don't commit crimes, they're just evidence. But again, it depends on the enormity of the crime. The fact *of* Net activity is fairly easy. Then tracing it to the origin is *reasonably* easy. After that, it's more like regular detective work. If necessary, they go to the cyber shop and, um, conduct inquiries. There's a bit on this in the 9/11 Commission report, on the bin Laden folk using Net commo. And the (fairly) recent Russian spy network in the US was almost *all* on the Internet. That was their downfall, not because the Americans traced it all back to Moscow (which they did) but US agents convinced a couple of the Russians that they were high qualified repair people who could fix their broken laptops. After that, it was just gathering evidence until time to wrap it up. .

That just means they have one additional step to narrow it down from two suspects instead of one. You might have said "be born as a twin," same thing. Or "steal a set of licence plates". Spoofing and IP hiding and cloning are pretty standard hacker tools. .

Presumably something personal. I actually saw that Focus show in passing, he certainly wasn't wailing and crying. I think suicide just wipes out all respect for everything you've done in your life, almost no exceptions except maybe painfully terminal cases who know they are in their last rational days or hours. .

I think it's totally silly. Some of the Hitler-subtitle spoofs are witty, but part of the wit is that it is Hitler. I'm not sure how you can look at that and think "Thaksin spoof". I guess all these satires are doomed. It seems the people who own the movie issue takedown notices to Yahoo every time they find one.

If you have a residence visa in Thailand, you report once a year to show you're still, well, residing. It is for lifetime, and it's a red book, about passport size. Thai authorities don't pay any interest on the money in the bank, because they don't require any money in the bank. It requires no money in the bank. It's very similar to a US green card, although in the US you don't have to report annually any more. Don't mix up the Philippines residency and Thai non-residency, which you're kind of doing. There are very important differences. Or... isn't it great the Thai authorities are not as niggardly about resident visas for people who don't work as Australia? I'd say it's all horses for courses. The thing is that the Thais (and the Australians) aren't much convinced that retired people do much for the country, and the Philippines folks are. That outlook is pretty important to the procedures. .

Well, okay, I grant you that THAT has never happened on Pattaya Talk before. .

The typing is what gets me. In Hollywood, you have to type about the equivalent of this post to do what I already do with a mouse click or a hot key. "Open the gate!" "Yes sir" clickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clickety "Gates's open!" "Start the coffee maker!" clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clicketyclickety clickety "10 minutes to hot latte, sir!" .

You CAN NOT hide your presence or what you have done on the Internet. Is there some reason you didn't quote me saying that? Answer: Yes, there's an excellent reason. Because I didn't say it. Since you're posting here about how it's so easy to not get caught, it's obvious you aren't important enough to look for. If you ever are, you will be found out. If you're going to do something really, really bad, my advice would be to do it in "real life". If you do it on, or through the Net, you're just making it easy for them. .

Did you see the sign language interpreter in the small window? .

What always seems to work is to copy the YouTube URL *up to* the first "&" . That's about as simple as a youtube url gets. So you start out with something like this: http:// www.youtube. com/ watch?v=-fmCoUjOMXU&feature=feedlik Take out the first "&" and everything after it. http:// www.youtube. com/ watch?v=-fmCoUjOMXU Paste that straight into your post, nothing fancy. One confusing thing is that YouTube will offer you an "embed link". That is the one you do NOT want. .

Tell it to the Anonymous guys eating at the Greybar Hotel. Tell it to Kevin Mitnick. Tell it to the Stuxnet uploaders. Your claims are quite fantastical. Literally. You can hide everything you do on the net - in your dreams. .

Do you mean that big mural kind-of thing? It's the 1940 war against Vichy France slash Indochina. I think the mural is ... how can I put this?... for illustration purposes more than historical. There was a bit of nasty battling in the "war" but most of that was at sea. There were like 60 Thai casualties in the whole war. That's when the Victory Monument went up in Bangkok. (Where's a "rolling eyes" icon when you need it?) .

Flights are those little plastic (usually) thingmys that go at the south end of a north-bound dart to make it go straight. A wing, if you will. (changing pictures) .

Heh. Well, people bad-mouth Britain, and bad-mouth its leaders and some people bad-mouth all citizens as trash, as we see. All that said, I've not heard anyone accuse Britain of having an Empire. One thing about the English language, just like the Empire, is that it has a clear past tense. .

Why are you debating whether to buy in Pattaya? .

Yes. Right. AND there were one or two other... oh, probably just nit-picking but other events. The Shanghai International Settlement for example. Treaty of Nanking. Opium and silk trading. You know, nothing BIG, just a few million lives ruined, probably shouldn't mention them. Again: What is wrong or un-factual with the single statement that the Chinese in general are not in any manner grateful for the British Empire? .

Fire the makeup artist!!