Ang istorya sa likod ng R.F.I.D. scam
noong 2007, ang kontrata ng STRADCOM sa computerization ng LTO ay nagtapos na. Subalit dahil nakasaad sa kontrata na “HAWAK NILA SA LEEG” ang LTO, dahil sa pagtatapos ng kanilang kontrata ay dadalhin nila ang mga computer hardware at software, at ang ititira ay ang DATA lamang, nanatili ang STRADCOM sa LTO. Patuloy sa paninigil ng COMPUTER FEE kahit na ang DATA ng bawat sasakyan ay naka-encode na at wala ng dapat pang i-build up o i-data entry. Patuloy ang pagkulekta ng STRADCOM ng bayad, dahil walang kumukwestiyon, sa ilalim ng ilong ng mga motorista.
Sa kabila nito, ang pamunuan ng DOTC at ng LTO ay humingi ng mas malaking “PARTE”, ibig sabihin, patong, lagay, kickback, etc, dahil nga naman, tubong lugaw na ang STRADCOM dahil dapat tanggal na nga sila. Syempre pa, medyo nagpakipot ang pamunuan ng STRADCOM at nagmungkahi na magdagdag na lang ng mga singilin sa motorista dahil anila, mga bobo naman at hindi aangal. Kung may aangal man, kokonti lang dahil gaano na lang ba ang sisingilin eh minsanan lang naman ang bayaran isang taon. At anila, may pera ang mga motorista dahil naka-sasakyan nga. Dito na ipinatawag ng STRADCOM ang kanilang mga “money making” thinktank upang umisip ng mga paraan kung paano pa makaka-kolekta ng dagdag kita upang lalo pa silang magkamal ng salapi.
unang pinalusot ay ang tinatawag na INTER-CONNECTION FEE daw. ito ay karagdagang P70.00 pesos kapag ikaw ay nagpa-smoke belching test. Napansin ba ninyo, bukod sa P350.00, eh may naka staple pang resibo na P70.00? Me narinig ba kayong angal? me umapila ba? wala di ba. e ano nga ba yung P70.00 peso eh naka Honda CITY ka naman. chicken feed!!!
YUN ANG BASIS NG STRADCOM, walang aangal dahil barya lang ang sinisingil nila. Naunawaan nyo ba kung ano yung inter-connection fee? Malay mo nga naman diba, nadale na kayo dun pero okay lang kayo kasi nga P70.00 lang.
Teka, 8 million registered vehicle X 70.00 = 560 million pesos na walang kahirap hirap. KADA TAON HA. Malaki din pala nadudugas namin sa inyo. Aangal na ba kayo?
Pero dahil mga buwaya nga, talagang walang kabusugan. Kaya pinulong ulit ng mga hunghang ang mga evil brains para utusan na, “Pigain na natin ng husto ang mga bobong motorista, bayad naman ng bayad eh”. At dito na ipinanganak ang unang plano na “Car info sticker” kung saan didikitan ng sticker ang mga sasakyan, nakalagay dito ang mga detalye na makikita din naman sa “Certificate of Registration” o “CR”, at sisingilin nila ng P300.00 yung sticker. Di syempre sangkatutak na angal ang inabot nila. Napigilan ito, hindi napatupad. Bulilyaso! eh kasi nga walang bahid High Tech. Mantakin mo nga naman na sticker lang tapos ang impormasyon eh nasa CR na din, hindi umubra. Ipa-photocopy (reduced) na lang yung CR at idikit sa windshield, sabi ng mga pilosopo kaya na-abort yung evil plan number 1.
Pero hindi agad susuko ang evil brains ng STRADCOM, kailangang magmadali dahil dapat magkapera at ma-implement ng October. Na browse sa internet ng mga IT gurus ang tungkol sa RFID, at iminungkahi agad kahit na hindi pang vehicle talaga. Napagkasunduang, pwede, at inaprubahan agad. Ang siste, ang lalamanin lang ding impormasyon nito ay kung ano ang nakalagay sa CR, pero, may bahid high tech na, kasi R.F.I.D. na. Naintindihan nyo ba ibig sabihin ng RFID? Basahin nyo na lang sa last part.
tatlong klase ang pwedeng gamit ng RFID:
1. sa simpleng paliwanag, parang tag lang ito, barcode or product code. na ang corresponding data or information ay mare-retrieve mo sa main computer gamit ang isang reader or scanner.
2. o kung ito ay may microchip, pwedeng mag store ng data dito at marere-trieve din ang data gamit ang isang reader.
3. at ang pinaka delikado sa lahat, na maaring gamitin laban sa mga motorista, PWEDE KANG I-TRACK ng ahensiya. RFID ang gamit sa mga producto sa mga dept stores na medyo mahal ang item at RFID din ang gamit sa mga cargo ng freight services.
pero may pakinabang ba talaga tayo sa RFID kung ito ay gagamitin sa mga sasakyan? WALA. ang tunay na gamit ng RFID ay para sa PRODUCT TAGGING, INVENTORY, AT TRACKING. Sa mga producto para ma-track mo kung nasaan na yung location dahil kada daan nito sa isang area, nababasa ng reader ang RFID at alam na dumaan na ito. Maaaring naglalaman din ito ng info kung sino ang manufacturer, kung ano ang laman, timbang at kung saan ang destinasyon, dahil nakalagay na ito sa RFID o sa main database.
Alam ninyo, may malaking blunder ang kompanya namin dito eh, ang STRADCOM, dahil nag-implement kami ng information via TEXT lang kung saan ite-text nyo lang ang plate number, makukuha na information ng isang vehicle. Eh, imomodify lang namin yung info na binibigay ng TEXT project namin, at bigyan exclusivity sa mga enforcers lang ng LTO, nagawa na agad ang gustong gawin ng RFID System.
Di ko na nga lang masikmura ang kagarapalan ng mga amo namin na sobrang magpayaman samantalang kami ang tumatrabaho eh nangungupahan pa din kami ng bahay. Anak ng toklang, ibuking ko na lang di ba.
Eto itanong ninyo sa STRADCOM para mabuliyaso sila.
Bakit kelangan ng i-implement ngayong October?
1-kasi pinipiga sila ng isang mataas na opisyal ng LTO na tatakbo sa darating na halalan.
2-Kasi kung mapalusot nila ng October, tahimik ang november at December, pag dating ng January parang may basbas na dahil nga nasimulan na ng October. at dapat mag start na ngayong October, kasi pag sa January mag start, titirahin ng mga pulitiko, at baka tamaan pa ng ban.
Pag naka RFID ba, di na kelangan magpa stencil at magpa smoke belching pag magpapa rehistro?
Kelangan pa din. Ano yung sinasabi nilang mapapabilis na rehistro? For your info walang mase-save na time sa pagpapa-rehistro ninyo. same procedure.
ANG KATOTOHANAN:
HINDI MAPAPABILIS ANG TRAPIKO GAMIT ANG RFID (ipadetalye ninyo sa STRADCOM ito)
HINDI BIBILIS ANG REGISTRATION PROCESS NG IYONG SASAKYAN GAMIT ANG RFID (eto rin)
HINDI MAPIPIGIL NG RFID ANG MGA SMOKE BELCHERS (eto pa)
PWEDE KANG MA-TRACK KUNG NASAAN KA GAMIT ANG RFID SA IYONG SASAKYAN.
HINDI MAWAWALA ANG MGA KOLORUM GAMIT ANG R.F.I.D.
PWEDENG GAMITIN NG MGA KOTONG LTO ENFORCERS ANG R.F.I.D. (sasabihin lang ng LTO officer na sabi ng RFID hot car gamit mo)
ang bottom line. WALANG PAKINABANG ANG CAR OWNER SA RFID, O MAGING ANG LTO. SIMPLE LANG ANG PURPOSE NITO: ISANG MONEY MAKING SCHEME ANG R.F.I.D DAHIL GENERALLY, NA SURMISE NAMIN NA ANG MGA OWNER NG VEHICLE AY WALANG PAKIALAM SA KANILANG BINABAYARAN DAHIL MAY PERA SILA, AT HANDANG MAGBAYAD KAHIT ANONG SABIHIN NAMIN BASTA HINDI NILA NAIINTINDIHAN TULAD NG R.F.I.D.
HANAPAN NINYO ANG STRADCOM NG PROJECT STUDY, COMMUNICATION DOCUMENTS, SYSTEMS STUDY, SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION, IMPLEMENTATION PLANS, APPROVAL NG NATIONAL COMPUTER CENTER, AT MAGING KRITIKAL KAYO SA DATES DAHIL SINISUMULAN [A LANG NILANG GAWIN ANG MGA ITO.
AT ILALABAN NILA ITO NG DIKDIKAN, MAGHABOL NA KAYO SA KORTE IKA NGA NILA. NAGSIMULA NA SILA NG COMMERCIAL SA TV DAHIL SA TINDI NG OPPOSITION DITO. KAILANGAN NILANG ILUTANG ANG STRADCOM. BAKIT SUMUGAL ANG STRADCOM AT INEXPOSE ANG KANILANG TAHIMIK NA OPERATION EH KUMIKITA NA NGA SILA NG WALANG INGAY? DAHIL SA 2.8 BILLION NA KIKITAIN SA PROYEKTO SA LOOB LANG NG ISANG TAON AT DAHIL SA PRESSURE SA TAAS NA I-IMPLEMENT NA ITO, PARA MAKUHA NA ANG PATONG.
Sabi nga ng ABS-CBN, AKO ANG SIMULA. Makialam tayo. Pigilin natin ang pagpapatupad nito. I-forward sa lahat ng kaibigan niyong may saksakyan at sana ay makarating sa inyong mga kongresista, sa mga senador, sa mga taga DOTC, taga LTO, at sa malacañang.
kung may oras ka pa, panoorin mo kung ano talaga ang gamit ng RFID
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=yNPDgudPmXE& feature=related
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=4Zj7txoDxbE& feature=related
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=hPqUUR5OFJg& feature=related
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=_Oa1GxctjRA
o kung gusto mo, mag youtube ka (alam mo ba kung ano ang youtube?) at i-search mo ang RFID
o, eto ang sabi ng wikipedia
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader.
Most RFID tags contain at least two parts. One is an integrated circuit for storing and processing information, modulating and demodulating a radio-frequency (RF) signal, and other specialized functions. The second is an antenna for receiving and transmitting the signal.
There are generally three types of RFID tags: active RFID tags, which contain a battery and can transmit signals autonomously, passive RFID tags, which have no battery and require an external source to provoke signal transmission and battery assisted passive (BAP) which require an external source to wake up but have significant higher forward link capability providing great read range.
Today, RFID is used in enterprise supply chain management to improve the efficiency of inventory tracking and management.
eto naman ang sabi ng http://www.rfidjour nal.com/article/ articleview/ 1339/1/129/
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a generic term that is used to describe a system that transmits the identity (in the form of a unique serial number) of an object or person wirelessly, using radio waves. It’s grouped under the broad category of automatic identification technologies.
Auto-ID technologies include bar codes, optical character readers and some biometric technologies, such as retinal scans. The auto-ID technologies have been used to reduce the amount of time and labor needed to input data manually and to improve data accuracy.
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After getting home i immediately installed the router, and it was already activated and ready to use! I guess smartbro is really committed to improve their service. After configuring the router i immediately browsed speedtest.net and got this:
Speedtest Result
What can i say? 3.8mpbs! I wasn’t satisfied, so i did a direct download, and it gave me 300+ kbps speed, nice!. And then the last test(which i think was the most important one) was downloading via a torrent client, and speed ranged from 100kbps-170kbps, of course that depends on the seeds. Not bad eh for 999 a month!!!!
Thank you Smartbro!
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// This code is a method in my controller
// and called through ajax(using jquery)
// and returns result in json format
// I also created a library so i can easily load the
// zend framework and attain a neat code as possible
$isbn = $this->input->post("isbn");
// we need to first load the zend
// library, specifically the Books library
$this->load->library('zend', 'Zend/Gdata/Books');
$this->zend->load('Zend/Gdata/Books');
// create new instance of the zend books object
$books = new Zend_Gdata_Books();
// we will query book information by passing a
// query string to google api which looks like this
// http://books.google.com/books?isbn:0738531367
$query = $books->newVolumeQuery();
$query->setQuery("isbn:$isbn");
// the code below invokes
// the query and gets the result
$feed = $books->getVolumeFeed($query);
// this is a flag, so obviously when no result is returned,
// 0 will trigger that on my front end
$data['result'] = "0";
foreach ($feed as $entry):
// some entry was found
$data['result'] = "1";
// some of the entry results are returned through
// an array object, so to easily extract
// just implode it and separate by a
// character, in my case i used a comma(,)
$data['authors'] = implode(", ",$entry->getCreators());
$data['description'] = implode(", ",$entry->getDescriptions());
$data['publishers'] = implode(', ',$entry->getPublishers());
$data['identifiers'] = implode(', ',$entry->getIdentifiers());
$data['category'] = implode(",", $entry->getSubjects());
$data['book_title'] = $entry->getTitle()->text;
$x = $entry->getThumbnailLink();
// there are times that $entry->getThumbnailLink() returns
// a null value, thus $x below is not an object
// so use @ to escape possible errors in the codes below
$data['book_image'] = @$x->href;
$data['volume_id'] = $entry->getVolumeId();
$data['year_published'] = implode(',' , $entry->getDates());
$x = $entry->getFormats();
$pages = @$x[0];
$type = @$x[1];
$data['pages'] = $pages->text;
$x = $entry->getIdentifiers();
$data['isbn10'] = str_replace("ISBN:", "",@$x[1]->text);
$data['isbn13'] = str_replace("ISBN:", "",@$x[2]->text);
endforeach;
// return result in json format
echo json_encode($data);
I will try to post soon on how to setup the Zend Framework library.
]]>As i scanned through the log files, i found this “Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use ‘LimitInternalRecursion’ to increase the limit if necessary. Use ‘LogLevel debug’ to get a backtrace.“. I googled for possible answers with regards to this error and later i found out that it has something to do with the rewrite module of apache where it keeps pointing to an unreachable destination/location maybe to a non-existing image, css file, or some media within the server. So then i checked my html and they were pointing all to existing locations, until i debugged my css file and found that i was referencing to an image that i FORGOT TO UPLOAD. Yes, an image caused this very pesky problem that in some point i thought of giving up on working with the project.
It took me over 3 days to figure out the problem(with the help of my boss of course). It’s crazy to think how a very simple mistake could mess up everything. It’s very stressful to encounter problems which almost no one has encountered, but to be part of the few who have, i think it’s an honor to maybe help somebody who might encounter one in the future.
]]>The biggest mistake made by Mr. Kerr when D’Antoni left was to hire a coach who preaches defense and yank at players when they make a mistake (Terry Porter). I always wanted Alvin Gentry to take over Mike D’Antoni since he assisted the latter for the past 4 successful seasons where the team made it twice in the conference finals. The team slowed down and was just a couple of games above .500 before the all-star break!!
There’s a bunch of What If’s this season which includes “What if Amare Stoudemire didn’t injured his eye?” or the best probably is “What if they traded Amare for Tyrus Thomas”. I still wanted Amare to be traded, this guy only cares for himself and will always throw his teamates out of the bus when the team is underachieving.
Players they should keep: I still believe they can still make a final push next season with the right players on the team who cares for nothing else but winning. Keep Steve Nash, Grant Hill, Goran Dragic, Jared Dudly, Louis Amundson, and Leandro Barbosa. We need Steve’s floor leadership he can still average 15 points and 10 assists per game and he was our two time MVP. Grant Hill is a curse to any team, he has not made it into the 2nd round of the playoffs! But this guy’s work ethics is just tremendous for an old guy. He wants to win and will take the minimum offer, so keep this guy. Goran Dragic has showed brilliance in the past couple of games, he’s the future point guard so let him learn along with Nash. Jared Dudly is a competitor, an aggressive player on defense, not too athletic but knows the game very well. Leandro Barbosa, if this team wants to continue running then this guy has to be in the mix. LB has shown consistency this year, and that’s very amazing for a person who just lost his mother prior to the start of the season. Last but of course not the least, Amundson. This guy is a workhorse and is tough, he still needs to make his freethrows though.
Let go of this guys: Matt Barnes, Stromile Swift, Alando Tucker. Matt Barnes’ inconsistency has been hurting this team. He always cry for missed layup’s believing that he’s always fouled. Let this guy go some other team will be interested on him. Stromile Swift has the skills, but not about sure on the ethics of this guy. When he got to Phoenix in the middle of the season from the Nets, he was out of shape, i want to give this guy a chance but for now i still believe he must go somewhere else. Alando Tucker has been a dissapointment, he’s got his moments but another team deserves this guy, we’re loaded in the guard position and he doesn’t shoot the ball that well and with consistency.
Find a way to trade this players: Shaquille O’neal, Amare Stoudemire, Robin Lopez, Jason Richardson. Shaq has been awesome this season passing several players in the scoring title of all time. But this guy cannot run and i bet he will slower next season which will hurt the run and gun. He is also a problem on the pick and roll defense. This guy should play for the Cavs, they need him. Amare Stoudemire is a beast, on offense and is questionable on defense. The suns should have traded him for Tyrus Thomas when the Bulls was willing to, they could have been in the 5th or 6th place waiting for the playoffs to start. Robin Lopez is a bust. This guy cannot play defense for players who penetrates, he’s good at making sure he fouls them. But yea, he’s just a rookie, i’ll give that to him. Jason Richardson, I am not really sure about this guy but i feel like he doesn’t have the right ingredients to be part of this team, see how lebron james blocked his 360 dunk? Jeez…
This offseason will be crucial, with the economy this bad, the Banker owner of this team will probably do everything to keep attandance at full the next season (which might mean Amare will stay, he draws fans). If ever they trade Nash, i hope he goes to New York, it’d be cool to cheer for that team next.
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]]>When i was a kid i use to gather with my friends and prepare our caroling instruments mostly composed of pair of stones, tambourine made of bottle tops and the most common one, our small hands. Those days were probably the most memorable part of my childhood even if i have to sneak around my parents because they won’t allow me to roam around at night.
Right now as I am writing this blog, a group of guys, around 20yrs old and up came to carol and i said “sorry caroling is for kids, i only allow kids to sing Christmas carols here”. Sounds inappropriate eh? But that’s how i believe it. I remembered before when i was still living with my parents there came a number of adults caroling, and when my mother told me to give them 5 pesos they retorted saying “nge singko lang?”(”Five pesos only?”) and so i said “yes that’s what we can afford” and a moment later a pair of kids followed them a girl and a boy i think 5 to 7 years of age and gave them 2 pesos after singing one song and they were so happy that they were so loud to sing “Thank you, thank you ang mabait ninyo, thank you”. So now you understand why i don’t like adults doing the caroling, not unless they’ll do it for free.
Christmas probably is the most enjoying season of the year being with your family and friends singing songs from your rented videoke machine waiting for 12am of December 25th. Although i don’t really go to church frequently – maybe because i don’t believe in religion, but i do believe in GOD more than anyone else- , i still believe that it’s worth celebrating Christmas(not XMas!) more than the way we celebrate our birthday or even the new year. Advance Merry Christmas everyone!
]]>Whatever programming language you maybe using(except i think the assembly language), you’d probably have been using or used the control structures IF, FOR, WHILE, FOREACH etc… I have written several applications/websites using various programming languages and my favorite so far is VB 6.0 and VB.NET when it comes to control structures.
A simple VB IF statement would look this, which I call it the IF, THEN, ELSE structure:
Dim MyNBATeam = "SUNS"
If MyNBATeam <> "SUNS" Then
MessageBox.Show("You're a Kobe lover")
Me.Close()
Else
MessageBox.Show("Let's run and gun")
FormX.Show()
End If
Neat eh? If we convert that to PHP normally we would do it like this:
$my_nba_team = "SUNS";
if ($my_nba_team == "SUNS"){
echo "You're a Kobe lover";
return;
}
else{
echo "Let's run and gun";
header("location: somepage.php");
}
So to make PHP look like that of the VB structure let’s change that to this:
$my_nba_team = "SUNS";
if ($my_nba_team == "SUNS"):
echo "You're a Kobe lover";
return;
else:
echo "Let's run and gun";
header("location: somepage.php");
endif;
Notice on how we eliminated the pesky curly braces? You probably have noticed that the opening curly brace({) was replaced by a colon(:) and the closing curly brace was replaced by endif; and remember also that when having compound statements inside your if and else, you don’t need to fence them with opening and curly braces. That will probably save you time when debugging nested IF’s.
You can also do the same thing with other control structures:
//FOR LOOP
$odds = array();
$evens = array();
for ($i=1; $i<50; $i++):
if(!($i % 2)):
array_push($evens, $i);
else
array_push($odds, $i);
endif;
endfor;
//WHILE LOOP
while ( 1 == 1 ):
if (date("Y") == 2011 ):
echo "I am getting, older";
break;
endif;
endwhile;
//FOREACH
foreach($teams->result() as $team):
if($team->name == "SUNS"):
echo "keep running";
echo "BEAT L.A";
endif;
endforeach;
It’s always nice to have a neatly written code, saves us time in the future and we will not give headaches to those who’s going to trace your code – in short, be a blessing.
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Some videos below:
I miss you like sunday morning…
Portrait of My Love
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