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Australian bushfires: when two degrees is the difference between life and death
by: Tim Flannery
Tuesday 10 February 2009 11.21 GMTThe day after the great fire burned through central Victoria, I drove from Sydney to Melbourne. For much of the way – indeed for hundreds of miles north of the scorched ground – smoke obscured the horizon, entering my air conditioned car and carrying with it that distinctive scent so strongly signifying death, or to Aboriginal people, cleansing.
It was as if a great cremation had taken place. I didn’t know then how many people had died in their cars and homes, or while fleeing the flames, but by the time I reached the scorched ground just north of Melbourne, the dreadful news was trickling in. At first I heard that 70 people had died, then 108. Then 170. While the precise number of victims is yet to be ascertained, the overall situation at least is now clear. Australia has suffered its worst recorded peacetime loss of life. And the trauma will be with us forever.
Save Our Mother Nature!
An Israeli boy walks into a bomb shelter in the southern city of Ashkelon January 4, 2009. Israeli troops and tanks split the Gaza Strip and ringed its main city on Sunday in an offensive against Hamas that has killed 500 Palestinians, including a growing number of civilians. Hamas kept up rocket attacks against southern Israel, defying efforts by the Middle East’s most powerful army to achieve Israeli leaders’ declared aim of removing the threat of cross-border salvoes. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL)…read more
Israel supporters respond to the cyber-attacks launched by Islamic hackers through DDoS. A group of students have developed an application that allows Israel sympathizers to use their computer resources and Internet bandwith in order to knock Palestinian websites offline.
The online group calling themselves “Help Israel Win,” is distributing a Trojan-like application that enables them to launch DDoS attacks. Installing this program onto a computer will turn it into a drone, and will place it at the disposal of the hacktivists. What differentiates this tool from regular malware is that the installation is performed voluntarily by individuals who sympathize with Israel’s efforts. …read more
The cyberwar between hackers supporting the Palestinian cause and their Israel sympathizing counter-parts continues. After compromising thousands of Israeli websites, the Jihad attackers have moved on to targeting high profile sites that belong to the U.S. military or NATO.
Four websites belonging to the United States Army’s Military District of Washington (MDW-currently offline), have been defaced by a Turkish hacker affiliated with a group called “Peace Crew.” The attacker, who identified himself as Agd_Scorp, has posted threatening messages in English. “Stop attacks u Israel and USA! You cursed nations! One day Muslims will clean the world from you!,” the pages displayed.…read more
When in a tight spot, Cristiano Ronaldo invariably escapes with a burst of speed and flash of his extraordinary footballing skill.
This time, however, even the flamboyant Manchester United star would have been grateful for simply being able to walk away in one piece.
His relief at emerging unhurt from a crash which wrecked his 200mph Ferrari will have been matched by manager Sir Alex Ferguson, who must have feared the worst when he heard his £60million-valued World Player of the Year had been in such a spectacular smash. …read more
Key features:
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support plus HSDPA 7.2Mbps
3-inch 65K-color WVGA touchscreen
Qualcomm MSM7200 528 Mhz CPU and 256 MB DDR SDRAM
3.15 MP auto focus camera with VGA video recording
Four-row full QWERTY slide-out keyboard
Wi-Fi and built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS
X-Panels interface
Optical trackpad
Exquisite and solid metallic body
Standard miniUSB port and Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
microSD memory expansion
FM radio with RDS
3.5mm standard audio jack
MS Office Mobile document editor
Opera 9.5 web browser
Excellent video playback performance
Superb audio quality
Main disadvantages:
Body is a bit on the bulky side
User interface is hardly thumb-optimized
Mediocre camera performance
No built-in accelerometer
Poor display sunlight legibility
Records low quality VGA@30fps video in 3GP format
No TV-out port
No full Flash support for the browser (hence no full-featured YouTube)
…read more
Key features:
Quad-band GSM support
3G support
Landscape 2.36″ 16M-color display of QVGA resolution
Symbian 9.2 OS, S60 UI with FP1 (sprinkled with some FP2)
369 MHz ARM 11 CPU and 128 MB of SDRAM
Wi-Fi
2 megapixel fixed focus camera with LED flash
120 MB of internal memory, microSD expansion
Standard 3.5mm audio jack
Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP support
microUSB v2.0
FM radio
Comfortable full QWERTY keypad
Convenient shortcut keys
Provider-independent VoIP support
Office document editor
Nokia Maps
User-friendly Mode Switch for swapping two homescreen setups
Great battery life
Remote Lock and Wipe feature
One-year free subscription for Files on Ovi
Main disadvantages:
Poor camera performance
Video recording maxes out at QVGA@15fps
No GPS
No RDS in the FM radio
3.5mm jack protective bud is not attached to the body
No USB cable in the retail package
No preinstalled games at all
Nokia E63 is undoubtedly a trimmed-down version of the E71 and almost a return to the E61i roots – with a 2 megapixel camera and no built-in GPS receiver. Well, the camera of the E71 was largely disappointing in the first place plus, an external Bluetooth GPS receiver is always an option, so we hardly count these as serious drawbacks.
read more:
www.gsmarena.com: nokia e63 spec
www.gsmarena.com: nokia e63 review
KUALA TERENGGANU, 7 Jan – MERIAH … Bendera Barisan Nasional (BN), Umno dan Pas menghiasi sekitar bandar ini ketika tinjauan fotoBernama di sini, hari ini.
Pilihan raya kecil pada 17 Jan ini menyaksikan calon Barisan Nasional Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh ditentang calon PAS Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut dan calon Bebas Azharudin Mamat @ Adam.-fotoBERNAMA
ps.: to all voters, choose wisely.
pss.: to all candidates, start campaigning.
ASUS has once again expanded its Eee product portfolio with the addition of the highly anticipated touchscreen T91 and T101H. Both systems have been designed to provide some new features in the world of netbook computers, offering users a choice for an Atom-powered tablet PC with touchscreen capabilities. Expected to be showcased at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, the two Eee PCs have been built to provide 8.9-inch and 10-inch displays, as most of the other netbooks on the market.
On the technical specification side, the new T91 comes with an 8.9-inch LED-backlit touchscreen display. It is expected to boast the computing power of Intel’s Atom Z520 processor and will become available with both a GPS and TV tuner, raising the stakes a bit, when compared to other netbooks currently available on the market. The Eee PC T91 measures 225mm x 164mm x 25.2 – 28.4mm and weighs 2.2 pounds, and it will be running on Microsoft’s Windows XP Home SP3 operating system.…read more
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Belasungkawa.
Baginda Tuanku Jaafar Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman yang dipertuan besar negeri sembilan mangkat 11.45 pagi td (27-Disember-2008) di Hospital Tuanku Jjaafar.
Alfatihah.
His Majesty Tuanku Jaafar Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, the ruler of negeri sembilan past away this morning at 11.45 am (27-december-2008) at Tuanku Jaafar Hospital, Negeri Sembilan.
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ROME, Feb. 7, 2007 – They died young and, by the looks of it, in love. Two 5,000-year-old skeletons found locked in an embrace near the city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale “Romeo and Juliet” have sparked theories the remains of a far more ancient love story have been found.(source)
“forever love” exists indeed.
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Source: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/94388
Wartawan internet paling ramai dipenjara
Dec 5, 08 2:16pmWartawan dalam talian dan penulis blog kini lebih ramai mendiami penjara di seluruh dunia berbanding petugas media bukan Internet, lapor satu pertubuhan kebebasan media hari ini.
Jawatankuasa Melindungi Wartawan (CPJ), dalam bancian mutakhirnya, mendapati 45 peratus petugas media yang ditahan terdiri daripada editor dan wartawan dalam talian, serta pengendali blog.
“Wartawan dalam talian membentuk kumpulan profesional (media) buat pertama kali dalam bancian penjara CPJ,” kata pengarah eksekutif pertubuhan yang berpangkalan di New York itu, Joel Simon.
Daripada 125 wartawan yang dipenjara tahun ini, sekurang- kurangnya 56 wartawan Internet – pertama kali mengatasi wartawan akhbar yang mengalami nasib serupa.
Pemberita dalam talian yang pertama dikenakan hukuman penjara pada 1997.
Kumpulan berikutnya, 53 orang, terdiri editor akhbar, wartawan mdia cetak dan jurugambar.
Tahun lepas, 127 wartawan dihukum penjara di seluruh dunia.
Tambah Simon, sejak dua tahun lepas, pertubuhannya bersama syarikat Internet, pelabur dan kumpulan hak asasi berjuang mendesak kerajaan agar membuka ruang kebebasan di alam siber.
Dalam tempoh tersebut, kumpulan itu membentuk Global Network Initiative atau Inisiatif Jaringan Sejagat yang menyediakan garis panduan kepada syarikat-syarikat telekomunikasi dan Internet menjaga hak kebebasan di dunia maya.
Yahoo, Google dan Microsoft termasuk dalam jaringan tersebut, tambah CPJ.
Menurut laporan itu lagi, China masih lagi negara yang paling ramai memenjarakan wartawan diikuti oleh Cuba, Burma, Eritrea dan Uzbekistan daripada 29 negara yang berbuat demikian.
Kelima-lima negara ini terus-menerus berbuat demikian sepanjang penelitian CPJ, laporan itu dipetik.
the word “freedom of speech” is no longer suitable for the reporter that has been prison, it should be “prison of speech”.
takziah buat siti nurhaliza dan suami atas berita pemergian ayah mertua siti.
Al-fatihah
Source :
www.utusan.com.my
www.utusan.com.my
