Simula ng Pamamaalam ng Pinakamamahal nating “INTERNET”
Youtube Link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA5ZR_jxdXU
Please code your links mate-Kirbs
This is totally out of order!
But we can stop this!
If the masses of the internet react against this, we will set an example of what happens when one provider tries to take away our freedom. We will make it very clear that any ISP who tries to infringe upon net neutrality will see its popularity go down the drain because the users don’t accept it. And we’ll see to it that only the providers who care about safeguarding our internet freedom have our support.
Sorry, i think i have this in the wrong section.
Anyway! Spread this around.
Paalam Windows XP, huhu…
Microsoft Corp.’s operating systems run most personal computers around the globe and are a cash cow for the world’s largest software maker. But you’d never confuse a Windows user with the passionate fans of Mac OS X or even the free Linux operating system. Unless it’s someone running Windows XP, a version Microsoft wants to retire.
Fans of the six-year-old operating system set to be pulled off store shelves in June have papered the Internet with blog posts, cartoons and petitions recently. They trumpet its superiority to Windows Vista, Microsoft’s latest PC operating system, whose consumer launch last January was greeted with lukewarm reviews.
No matter how hard Microsoft works to persuade people to embrace Vista, some just can’t be wowed. They complain about Vista’s hefty hardware requirements, its less-than-peppy performance, occasional incompatibility with other programs and devices and frequent, irritating security pop-up windows.
For them, the impending disappearance of XP computers from retailers, and the phased withdrawal of technical support in coming years, is causing a minor panic.
Take, for instance, Galen Gruman. A longtime technology journalist, Gruman is more accustomed to writing about trends than starting them.
But after talking to Windows users for months, he realized his distaste for Vista and strong attachment to XP were widespread.
“It sort of hit us that, wait a minute, XP will be gone as of June 30. What are we going to do?” he said. “If no one does something, it’s going to be gone.”
So Gruman started a Save XP Web petition, gathering since January more than 100,000 signatures and thousands of comments, mostly from die-hard XP users who want Microsoft to keep selling it until the next version of Windows is released, currently targeted for 2010.
On the petition site’s comments section, some users proclaimed they will downgrade from Vista to XP — an option available in the past to businesses, but now open for the first time to consumers who buy Vista Ultimate or Business editions — if they need to buy a new computer after XP goes off the market.
Others used the comments section to rail against the very idea that Microsoft has the power to enforce the phase-out from a stable, decent product to one that many consider worse, while profiting from the move. Many threatened to leave Windows for Apple or Linux machines.
Microsoft already extended the XP deadline once, but it shows no signs it will do so again. The company has declined to meet with Gruman to consider the petition. Microsoft is aware of the petition, it said in a statement to The Associated Press, and “will continue to be guided by feedback we hear from partners and customers about what makes sense based on their needs.”
Gruman said he’d keep pressing for a meeting.
“They really believe if they just close their eyes, people will have no choice,” he said.
In fact, most people who get a new computer will end up with Vista. In 2008, 94 percent of new Windows machines for consumers worldwide will run Vista, forecasts industry research group IDC. For businesses, about 75 percent of new PCs will have Vista. (That figure takes into account companies that choose to downgrade to XP.)
Although Microsoft may not budge on selling new copies of XP, it may have to extend support for it.
Al Gillen, an IDC analyst, estimated that at the end of 2008 nearly 60 percent of consumer PCs and almost 70 percent of business PCs worldwide will still run XP. Microsoft plans to end full support — including warranty claims and free help with problems — in April 2009. The company will continue providing a more limited level of service until April 2014.
Gillen said efforts like Gruman’s grass-roots petition may not influence the software maker, but business customers’ demands should carry more clout.
“You really can’t make 69 percent of your installed base unhappy with you,” he said.
Some companies — such as Wells Manufacturing Co. in Woodstock, Ill. — are crossing their fingers that he’s right. The company, which melts scrap steel and casts iron bars, has 200 PCs that run Windows 2000 or XP. (Windows 2000 is no longer sold on PCs. Mainstream support has ended, but limited support is available through the middle of 2010.)
Wells usually replaces 50 of its PCs every 18 months. In the most recent round of purchases, Chief Information Officer Lou Peterhans said, the company stuck with XP because several of its applications don’t run well on Vista.
“There is no strong reason to go to Vista, other than eventually losing support for XP,” he said. Peterhans added that the company isn’t planning to bring in Vista computers for 18 months to two years. If Microsoft keeps to its current timetable, its next operating system, code-named Windows 7, will be on the market by then.
Tubig-Alat pang-GASOLINA sa KOTSE?
You may have heard about an invention created by a 63-year-old named John Kanzius that claims to create an alternative fuel out of salt water. Through sheer serendipity, Kanzius, a former broadcast engineer, found out something incredible — under the right conditions, salt water can burn at high temperatures.
 Image courtesy WPBF-TV Yes, you’re seeing water burn. |
Kanzius’ journey toward surprise inspiration began with a leukemia diagnosis in 2003. Faced with the prospect of debilitating chemotherapy, he decided he would try to invent a better alternative for destroying cancerous cells. What he came up with is his radio frequency generator (RFG), a machine that generates radio waves and focuses them into a concentrated area. Kanzius used the RFG to heat small metallic particles inserted into tumors, destroying the tumors without harming normal cells.
But what does cancer treatment have to do with burning salt water?
During a demonstration of the RFG, an observer noticed that it was causing water in a nearby test tube to condense. If the RFG could make water condense, it could theoretically separate salt out of seawater. Perhaps, then, it could be used to desalinize water, an issue of global proportions. The old seaman’s adage “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink” applies inland as well: Some nations are drying up and their populations suffering from thirst, yet the world is 70 percent ocean water. An effective means of removing salt from salt water could save countless lives. So it’s no surprise that Kanzius trained his RFG on the goal of salt water desalinization.
During his first test, however, he noticed a surprising side effect. When he aimed the RFG at a test tube filled with seawater, it sparked. This is not a normal reaction by water.
Kanzius tried the test again, this time lighting a paper towel and touching it to the water while the water was in the path of the RFG. He got an even bigger surprise — the test tube ignited and stayed alight while the RFG was turned on.
News of the experiment was generally met with allegations of it being a hoax, but after Penn State University chemists got their hands on the RFG and tried their own experiments, they found it was indeed true. The RFG could ignite and burn salt water. The flame could reach temperatures as high as 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit and burn as long as the RFG was on and aimed at it.
But how could salt water possibly ignite? Why don’t careless litterbugs who flick lit cigarette butts into the sea set the whole planet aflame? It all has to do with hydrogen. In its normal state, salt water has a stable composition of sodium chloride (the salt) and hydrogen and oxygen (the water). But the radio waves from Kanzius’ RFG disrupt that stability, degrading the bonds that hold the chemicals in salt water together. This releases the volatile hydrogen molecules, and the heat output from the RFG ignites them and burns them indefinitely.
So will our cars soon run on salt water instead of gasoline? Read the next page for some of the hurdles that would have to be overcome for salt water to fuel cars.
Video Gallery: Other Kinds of Cars
Solar cells use sunlight to produce electricity. But can they really generate enough energy to power a car? Learn about solar cars in this HowStuffWorks video.
Electric cars could power our future transportation needs. Check out this video from HowStuffWorks to see an electric car in action.
Paanong biglang naglaho ang isang lake?
Sometime in May 2007, a glacial lake in southern Chile disappeared. Chilean surveyors reported in March that the lake was its usual size, 100 feet deep and covering an area around five acres. Located in Bernardo O’Higgins Park, in the southern Andes mountains, the lake is (was) rarely visited and didn’t even have a name. When Chilean forestry officials arrived, they were surprised to find nothing more than “chunks of ice on the dry lake-bed and an enormous fissure” where the unnamed lake had once been [Source: The Guardian]. Five miles away, a river that was once more than 130 feet wide barely flowed. What could cause such a massive disturbance to make an entire lake and much of a river disappear?
 Photographer: George Wood / Agency: Dreamstime.com Scientists were at first puzzled out how a glacial lake like this one could abruptly disappear. See more global warming pictures. |
Global warming seems to be the knee-jerk response lately whenever a dramatic environmental change is observed. Indeed, global warming is a big concern for lakes, as many bodies of water are experiencing receding water levels due to a combination of low rainfall and high temperatures. In the Magallanes province, where the lake is located, the Tempano and Bernardo glaciers are shrinking, and both of those glaciers contributed water to the lake. Experts like Gino Casassa and Andres Rivera, both glaciologists, point to global warming as the cause of the glaciers’ melting. So global warming was immediately considered as a possible cause, but when investigating the lake, scientists considered several other possibilities.
One theory scientists considered was that an earthquake in the area opened a fissure in the earth, which sucked down the lake. Southern Chile experiences hundreds of small earthquakes a year, and a fairly large tremor was detected on April 21. The fissure observed in the empty lake bed could have provided an outlet for the lake water to escape, much like a stopper being pulled from a sink.
A second possibility draws in part on global warming and the melting of glaciers. Glacial lakes often develop behind natural dams called moraines, which are made of ice. Once a moraine is broken, whether by an avalanche, earthquake, warming or other event, water bursts through and the lake sometimes drains.
It took scientists several weeks before they were able to discover the answer because the site is very remote — about 4,900 feet above sea level and 1,250 miles south of Chile’s capital, Santiago. But in early July 2007, scientists got their answer.
An investigation has revealed that too much water was the problem. The melting Tempano and Bernardo glaciers filled the lake beyond the crater’s capacity. The increased pressure broke the lake’s moraine through which water flowed out, later ending up in the ocean. The lake is refilling as the chunks of ice on the lake bed melt, though Chilean scientists pointed out that global warming did have a serious effect. Glaciers naturally melt and reform, but warming is causing the Tempano and Bernardo glaciers to melt more than they should..
For some lakes, rapidly appearing or disappearing is part of a natural process. The lake in Chile did not exist 30 years ago, though, again, global warming is likely affecting the process. Some lakes, including many in Alaska and Florida’s Lake Jackson, go through a similar process regularly, disappearing and reappearing during certain seasons, or from year-to-year or decade-to-decade.
Video Gallery: Natural Disasters
and Disappearing Lakes
Drought is causing desertification around the world as essential bodies of water dry up. Find out how drought works in this HowStuffWorks video.
Learn how floods can turn a stream into a raging river and a pond into a massive lake in this video from HowStuffWorks.
The failure of the levees in New Orleans essentially turned huge parts of the city into a giant lake. This PBS video explains why the levees burst and why the levee concept may be fundamentally flawed.
In this video from Reuters, learn about what’s expected to be an active hurricane season in 2007.
Hindi kayang ipaliwanag ng Microsoft at ni Bill Gates
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the
computer which can be named as “CON”. This is something pretty
cool…and unbelievable… At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t answer
why this happened!
TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE ” CON ” FOLDER
MAGIC #2
For those of you using Windows, do the following:
1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.
is it just a really weird bug? 
?
MAGIC #3
microsoft crazy facts
This is something pretty cool and neat…and unbelievable… At
Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why
this happened!
It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out yourself…
Open Microsoft Word and type
=rand (200, 99)
And then press ENTER
then see the magic………………………….
AND TRY THIS: GOTO NOTEPAD
TYPE “Q33N”. NOW CHANGE THE FONT SIZE TO 72 AND CHANGE THE FONT TO “WINGDINGS”.
NOW SEE THE MAGIC. FOR 11/9 WTC ATTACK, THE PLANES THAT CRASHED-ONE HAD THE NUMBER “Q33N”.
NOW IF YOU WILL TRY TYPING Q33N AFTER FONT CHANGING IT WONT WORK
Tiny Brain-Like Computer Created
The most powerful computer known is the brain, and now scientists have designed a machine just a few molecules large that mimics how the brain works.
So far the device can simultaneously carry out 16 times more operations than a normal computer transistor. Researchers suggest the invention might eventually prove able to perform roughly 1,000 times more operations than a transistor.
This machine could not only serve as the foundation of a powerful computer, but also serve as the controlling element of complex gadgets such as microscopic doctors or factories, scientists added.
The device is made of a compound known as duroquinone. This molecule resembles a hexagonal plate with four cones linked to it, “like a small car,” explained researcher Anirban Bandyopadhyay, an artificial intelligence and molecular electronics scientist at the National Institute for Materials Science at Tsukuba in Japan.
Duroquinone is less than a nanometer, or a billionth of a meter large. This makes it hundreds of times smaller than a wavelength of visible light.
The machine is made of 17 duroquinone molecules. One molecule sits at the center of a ring formed by the remaining 16. The entire invention sits on a surface of gold.
How it works
Scientists operate the device by tweaking the center duroquinone with electrical pulses from an extremely sharp electrically conductive needle. The molecule and its four cones can shift around in a variety of ways depending on different properties of the pulse — say, the pulse’s strength.
Since weak chemical bonds link the center duroquinone with the surrounding 16 duroquinones, each of those shifts too. Imagine, for instance, a spider in the middle of a web made of 16 strands. If the spider moves in one direction, each thread linked to it experiences a slightly different tug from all the others.
In this way, a pulse to the central duroquinone can simultaneously transmit different instructions to each of the surrounding 16 duroquinones. The researchers say this design was inspired by that of brain cells, which can radiate branches out like a tree, with each branch used to communicate with another brain cell.
“All those connections are why the brain is so powerful,” Bandyopadhyay said.
Since duroquinone possesses four cones, each molecule essentially has four different settings. Since the central molecule can simultaneously control 16 other duroquinones, mathematically this means a single pulse at the machine can have 4^16 — or nearly 4.3 billion — different outcomes.
In comparison, a normal computer transistor can only carry out just one instruction at once, and only has two settings — 0 and 1. This means a single pulse at it can only have two different outcomes.
Putting it to work
The idea is to hook this new gadget up with other molecules — either copies of itself or different compounds other scientists have invented. For instance, researchers have created a host of machines just a molecule or so large over the last decade or two — motors, propellers, switches, elevators, sensors and so on. The new invention might offer a way to control all those other compounds to work as a whole. Indeed, Bandyopadhyay and his colleagues revealed they could hook up eight other such “molecular machines” to their invention, working together as if they were part of a miniature factory.
This invention could serve as the controlling element of complex assemblies of molecular machines, Bandyopadhyay suggested. One future application for such assemblies “could be in medical science,” he told LiveScience. “Imagine taking assemblies of molecular machines and inserting them into the blood, perhaps if you wanted to destroy a tumor inside the body.”
The device currently is operated with an extremely sharp electrically conductive needle — specifically, that belonging to a scanning tunneling microscope, a bulky machine far larger than the 17 molecules in question. However, Bandyopadhyay hopes that in the future they can issue commands to their invention using molecules that deliver electric pulses instead.
The device needs to be made in vacuum conditions at extremely cold temperatures — about -321 degrees F (-196 degrees C). Bandyopadhyay said it could be operated at room temperature, however.
More powerful still
Bandyopadhyay added they could expand their device from a two-dimensional ring of 16 duroquinones around the center to a three-dimensional sphere of 1,024 duroquinones. This means it could perform 1,024 instructions at once, for 4^1024 different outcomes — a number larger than a 1 with 1,000 zeroes after it. They would control the molecule at the center of the sphere by manipulating “handles” sticking out from the core.
“We are definitely going to 3-D from 2-D immediately,” Bandyopadhyay said.
Bandyopadhyay and his colleague Somobrata Acharya detailed their findings online March 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Samsung Develops Slim 8MPx Camera Module
Samsung has already given us a mobile camera with 5 megapixels and that’s not something new. To take it a step further they decided to add a 3X optical zoom lens to the mix. Given the fact they seem to want to take the mobile camera to new levels, their latest attempt was the world’s ultra-thin CMOS camera phone module.
The module itself has dimensions of 28mm × 15.3mm × 8.5mm, which is nothing to sneeze at. With a module like this, we can expect a wider range of features from the next line-up of camera phones like face-detection, better macro and night modes and the like. More importantly, what we can hope to see with this module integrated into a handset is a camera phone with an 8-megapixel resolution. That’s definitely something we’ve been looking forward to for a while now.
The module is a key component of a mobile phone camera and with dimensions like these the next camera phone we could see from Samsung may not necessarily be as plump as the G810. We can hope.
iPhone Ready for Business, Says Gartner
Gartner has recommended “appliance-level” support status for the iPhone, once a more enterprise-friendly version of firmware and security enhancements are released by Apple. During the initial launch of the iPhone, Gartner analysts expressed concern over some security issues with the device, but recently announced enhancements, expected to be delivered in June 2008, have caused Gartner to change its recommendation.
“Appliance-level” status permits the iPhone to be used for PIM, e-mail, telephony and browsing applications. It also permits the device to be used for other dedicated functions where the software is supplied by a third party, functionality is kept to a restricted set, the software supplier offers support for a backup platform and IT development resources are not needed to program custom code locally residing on the device.
“In its initial release, the iPhone was, with few exceptions, an Internet tablet with browser-based applications as its main offering, however, the release of firmware 2.0 changes that, enabling enterprises to develop local code and create applications that do not depend on network capabilities,” said Ken Dulaney, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. “The iPhone will thus match up initially in several segments against its main smartphone competitors – BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian Series 60.”
Earlier this month Apple announced developer access to the iPhone software developer kit (SDK) and firmware 2.0, licensing of the Microsoft ActiveSync protocol suite, support for Cisco IPSEC and the addition of WPA2 security for Wi-Fi connections.
“By licensing Exchange ActiveSync and exposing its basic security policies, enterprises can provide sufficient security for iPhone during Exchange personal information manager (PIM) and e-mail use,” Dulaney said. “This will open up a huge market for the iPhone, which previously had been stymied by a lack of basic business security and application functionality. However, Apple must widen distribution and of course deliver what they have promised.”
Expansion of the iPhone into the enterprise could mean that Apple will become a mainstream supplier of client platform development tools. This could mean that other Apple products begin to appeal to end users. However, this will push enterprises to invest in technologies with which they are unfamiliar and that require training and further investment.
“Management of the iPhone outside the Exchange e-mail/PIM application will require familiarity with new products such as Apple’s iPhone Configuration Utility. And enterprises should thoroughly review the platform’s management and security options to understand how they can control any consumer elements of the platform that may pose a risk,” Mr. Dulaney said.
Amazing Full Court Shot At The Buzzer
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/639176/amazing_full_court_shot_at_the_buzzer/
He played for Luxembourg this year. He has been offered contracts by three other teams for the upcoming year. He hasn’t decided who he wants to play for yet.
Can you guys tell he’s a pretty proud big brother?
17yrs. Old ka na ba?!ANO ANG KAYA MONG GAWIN?
17-year-old hacker unlocks iPhone’s secrets
George Hotz remembers taking apart his first computer, an Apple II, when he was 4 or 5 years old.
He cracked open an answering machine, remote control, vacuum cleaner and more computers. He scavenged for more products to tinker with on trash night in his neighborhood.
Now the 17-year-old from Glen Rock, N.J., has reached the big leagues of hacking. He says he has “unlocked” the iPhone, finding a way to get around the device’s restrictions and allow it to be used not only on AT&T’s cell phone network but also on T-Mobile’s network and overseas.
“I’m talking to you on it right now,” Hotz said during an interview with The Chronicle on Friday as he traveled from an appearance on CNBC to an interview with Fox.
The feat comes two months after the highly publicized debut of the iPhone. Combining a digital media player, a camera, the Internet and a cell phone in one gadget, the iPhone represents Apple Inc.’s first foray into the mobile phone business. One of the most anticipated gadgets of the year, it’s expected to transform the industry much as the iPod and iTunes helped change the digital media market. The Cupertino technology company said it plans to sell 1 million iPhones by the end of September.
Until now, however, the iPhone has come with a catch. Because of a revenue-sharing agreement between Apple and AT&T, the iPhone operates only on AT&T’s network and requires a two-year subscription.
Hackers have spent the better part of the summer tackling that challenge. Hotz said it took him nearly 500 hours – about eight hours a day – to figure out how to make calls on his iPhone through T-Mobile. “It wasn’t to be rich,” Hotz said. “I wanted to use it with T-Mobile.”
Holz published step-by-step directions on his blog at iphonejtag.blogspot.com. Another group, known as iPhoneSimFree.com, said on its site that it also had found a way to get around Apple’s locks and connect to T-Mobile. It offered proof to Engadget, a popular technology blog, which published a video demonstration, and said it plans to sell the software. In general, scores of hackers have been working on a way to make the iPhone compatible with other services since the phone debuted.
AT&T and Apple officials declined to comment. But it’s highly doubtful Apple will let the hacking continue.
“Hackers are going to have to stay one step ahead,” said Raven Zachary, an analyst with the 451 Group research firm and the co-founder of the iPhone Developers Camp, which brought software developers together last month to brainstorm programs for the iPhone. “Each time Apple hardens the operating system to minimize unlocking, it’s going to get more difficult for the hacker community to find a workaround to unlock the iPhone.”
Since Apple and AT&T began selling the iPhone on June 29, hard-core fans have made Herculean attempts to the bend the iPhone to their will.
For security reasons, Apple allows developers to design programs for the iPhone only through the Web and not directly to the phone. That hasn’t stopped programmers from trying. One group, for instance, created a way to video conference on the iPhone, said Damien Stolarz, co-author of the forthcoming book “iPhone Hacks.”
Hotz, who is driving with his parents to the Rochester Institute of Technology today to start his college career, had planned to spend the summer replacing the clutch on his green Mitsubishi and building a hot air balloon with his friends.
The car remains in pieces in the backyard. And though he bought some fabric, he abandoned the hot air balloon project to focus on the iPhone. Staying up by drinking vast amounts of Red Bull, Mountain Dew and other drinks, he purposely destroyed one iPhone to figure out how the pieces operated. Keeping one iPhone, he is selling another unlocked iPhone on eBay.
His parents occasionally worried he was spending so much time on the iPhone.
“We’re proud of him. He worked all summer on it, so we’re glad it was fruitful,” said Hotz’s father, also named George Hotz and a high school technology coordinator. “There are worse things teenage kids could be doing.”
Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/08/25/MNSARP0MN.DTL
Ang mga FUTURE GADGETS!
Want a glimpse of tomorrow’s high-tech gadgets? There’s only one place to turn. No, we don’t mean Star Trek. Or Battlestar Galactica. Or Logan’s Run. Definitely not Logan’s Run. We mean the people who actually design tomorrow’s high-tech gadgets. People like Glen Clifton, head man at ID-One, the award-winning design firm out of Austin, Texas. Or Darrin Caddes, vice president of design at Plantronics, the first name in communications headsets. Looking for a window into our gear-happy future, we asked Clifton and Caddes and dozens of other designers if they’d share just one or two of their latest prototypes. Some were less than willing, wary of sharing secrets with the competition, but after a nudge or two, others finally gave up the goods. Here’s the best of the lot, from a new-age cell phone to a PC that doubles as a living-room lamp.
Flexus 03
The Concept You’ve never seen a slide phone quite like this. Unlike today’s models, the Flexus slides on a curve. It arcs ever so slightly in two directions—away from your cheek if you’re taking a call—which means it’s easier to open, easier to hold, and easier to talk on. That sliding face is made of tinted glass, offering a backlit LCD screen, and there’s a mini-trackball for quick navigation. But those are merely the details. Most important, it’s drop-dead gorgeous.
Designer Pantech and Design 3
23/6 Mobile PC
The Concept What if your notebook was half the size but still gave you everything you needed—for work and for play? This concept PC from Antenna Design is a full Microsoft Windows machine only slightly larger than a CD jewel case. Open the lid and you’ve got a 7-inch OLED screen and basic controls for playing DVDs and games. Open another panel and you’ve got a full-size keyboard.
Designer Antenna Design and Fujitsu
Ubicycle
The Concept The Dutch will love it. Ubicycle does for bikes what Zipcar did for cars—only it’s far more efficient. Continuum’s modular bike rack is no larger than a parking space, yet it stores up to 14 cycles. The idea is to spread these racks around town, near offices, schools, mass-transit hubs, and popular neighborhoods. When you need a bike, you simply take one, unlocking it—wirelessly— with an RFID card. The rack’s canopy even includes a solar panel, which powers the wireless RFID system.
Designer Continuum
Petal Server
The Concept No, it’s not a new-age Frisbee. It’s a home server that seamlessly syncs with any number of sleek handheld PCs. Each of those silver “petals” is actually a portable device that might do anything from taking pictures and videos to sending e-mail and making phone calls. Mom, Dad, Sis, and Junior grab their handhelds on the way out the door, and at the end of the day, when they return these devices to the server, any new data is automatically uploaded to the family network.
Designer ID-One
TurnTable PC
The Concept The problem with mini-PCs? There’s no room for the ports, keys, and controls you find on larger machines. But there might be a solution. What if you could twist the top of your handheld to reveal all those extra goodies on a panel underneath? That’s the trick with this prototype from Fujitsu. Screen size is maximized for things such as photos, videos, and Web surfing. Overall size is minimized. And there’s still room for USB ports.
Designer Fujitsu
Lina Crib
The Concept How many nights did you spend hovering over the crib—just to make sure the baby was still breathing? Equipped with various biological sensors, each charged with monitoring your child’s health, the Lina Crib puts an end to those sleepless nights. The sensors track everything from temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure to motion, sounds, and smells. You know which smells we mean. The crib could send real-time alerts to parents, but it could also shuttle information into a central database for long-term analysis. Sound like parental overkill? The Lina is perfect for hospitals, too.
Designer ID-One
Fireone
The Concept Musicians are known for their style. But recording equipment? Forget it—unless you like piles of dials. The sleek FireOne digital audio controller, from Frontier and Tascam, shatters that stereotype. This audio-control device plugs into a PC, giving garage-band guitar players an easy way of playing, pausing, and scrubbing through backing tracks while flailing away on the old Stratocaster. All you really need is one big knob. And we hope it goes to 11.
Designer Jam-Proactive
Bijoux
The Concept Who says headsets are less than fashionable? These Plantronics prototypes look more like jewelry than the geeky gear worn by your average telemarketer. Each headset consists of two tiny earpieces and a microphone-equipped necklace. Everything operates wirelessly, and when you’re done talking, you can slip the earpieces into the necklace for safekeeping.
Designer Plantronics
Shoji
The Concept Open offices are great for collaboration, but sometimes you need a little something between you and your co-workers—and we’re not talking about a stony silence. Enter the Shoji. This PC’s unusual vertical shape evokes Japanese wood-and-paper screens, creating an elegant partition between you and your coworkers. The key word here is elegant. Your coworkers aren’t stuck staring at cables and fan gratings.
Designer Ziba Design
Ammo Box
The Concept Now this is the ultimate gaming -machine. With its Ammo Box prototype, ID-One envisions a -machine that plays any and all games—Windows games, Xbox games, Nintendo games, PlayStation 3 games, and anything else the kids are hungry for. This portable, ruggedized machine includes a modular CPU bay reminiscent of an old eight-track tape deck. In much the same way that 1970s car stereos accepted all sorts of bad music, the Ammo accepts all sorts of specialized CPUs. Wanna play a Windows game? Plug in an x86 CPU. Tired of Windows titles? Plug in an Xbox chip.
Designer ID-One
Scotty
The Concept Who says PCs are deskbound? The Scotty is a home PC that doubles as a living-room lamp, blending seamlessly with the surrounding décor. Acting as a kind of media server, it shares content with other devices around the home—wirelessly, of course—but it can also act on its own, playing music or displaying data. Normally, that front LED screen gives off a soft lamp-like light. But it could also, say, turn red if you’ve just received
a new e-mail.
Designer ID-One
Onyx
The Concept This combination cell phone/media player—a collaborative project between design firm Pilotfish and Synaptics, original makers of the iPod’s touch-sensitive controls—has no hardware buttons or number keys. Instead, it offers a touch screen that displays controls as needed. Certain controls pop up if you’re talking to a friend. Others appear when you’re watching a video. And so on. The screen recognizes taps, but it also responds to “gestured” commands. You can send a message simply by “swiping” it off the screen. Sound familiar? Are these the companies behind the Apple iPhone?
Designer Pilotfish and Synaptics
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Man With Twin Living Inside Him — A Medical Mystery Classic
Sanju Bhagat’s stomach was once so swollen he looked nine months pregnant and could barely breathe.
Living in the city of Nagpur, India, Bhagat said he’d felt self-conscious his whole life about his big belly. But one night in June 1999, his problem erupted into something much larger than cosmetic worry.
An ambulance rushed the 36-year-old farmer to the hospital. Doctors thought he might have a giant tumor, so they decided to operate and remove the source of the bulge in his belly.
“Basically, the tumor was so big that it was pressing on his diaphragm and that’s why he was very breathless,” said Dr. Ajay Mehta of Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai. “Because of the sheer size of the tumor, it makes it difficult [to operate]. We anticipated a lot of problems.”
Mehta said that he can usually spot a tumor just after he begins an operation. But while operating on Bhagat, Mehta saw something he had never encountered. As he cut deeper into Bhagat’s stomach, gallons of fluid spilled out — and then something extraordinary happened.
“To my surprise and horror, I could shake hands with somebody inside,” he said. “It was a bit shocking for me.”
Removing the Mutated Body
One doctor recalled that day in the operating room.
“He just put his hand inside and he said there are a lot of bones inside,” she said. “First, one limb came out, then another limb came out. Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair.”
Inside Bhagat’s stomach was a strange, half-formed creature that had feet and hands that were very developed. Its fingernails were quite long.
“We were horrified. We were confused and amazed,” Mehta said.
A Mutated Body Within a Body
At first glance, it may look as if Bhagat had given birth. Actually, Mehta had removed the mutated body of Bhagat’s twin brother from his stomach. Bhagat, they discovered, had one of the world’s most bizarre medical conditions — fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin’s blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene.
According to Mehta, there are fewer than 90 cases of fetus in fetu recorded in medical literature.
Soure:
Video
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2347587
I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer
· Scientist has made synthetic chromosome
· Breakthrough could combat global warming
* Ed Pilkington in New York
* The Guardian
* Saturday October 6 2007
Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth.
The announcement, which is expected within weeks and could come as early as Monday at the annual meeting of his scientific institute in San Diego, California, will herald a giant leap forward in the development of designer genomes. It is certain to provoke heated debate about the ethics of creating new species and could unlock the door to new energy sources and techniques to combat global warming.
Mr Venter told the Guardian he thought this landmark would be “a very important philosophical step in the history of our species. We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before”.
The Guardian can reveal that a team of 20 top scientists assembled by Mr Venter, led by the Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith, has already constructed a synthetic chromosome, a feat of virtuoso bio-engineering never previously achieved. Using lab-made chemicals, they have painstakingly stitched together a chromosome that is 381 genes long and contains 580,000 base pairs of genetic code.
The DNA sequence is based on the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium which the team pared down to the bare essentials needed to support life, removing a fifth of its genetic make-up. The wholly synthetically reconstructed chromosome, which the team have christened Mycoplasma laboratorium, has been watermarked with inks for easy recognition.
It is then transplanted into a living bacterial cell and in the final stage of the process it is expected to take control of the cell and in effect become a new life form. The team of scientists has already successfully transplanted the genome of one type of bacterium into the cell of another, effectively changing the cell’s species. Mr Venter said he was “100% confident” the same technique would work for the artificially created chromosome.
The new life form will depend for its ability to replicate itself and metabolise on the molecular machinery of the cell into which it has been injected, and in that sense it will not be a wholly synthetic life form. However, its DNA will be artificial, and it is the DNA that controls the cell and is credited with being the building block of life.
Mr Venter said he had carried out an ethical review before completing the experiment. “We feel that this is good science,” he said. He has further heightened the controversy surrounding his potential breakthrough by applying for a patent for the synthetic bacterium.
Pat Mooney, director of a Canadian bioethics organisation, ETC group, said the move was an enormous challenge to society to debate the risks involved. “Governments, and society in general, is way behind the ball. This is a wake-up call – what does it mean to create new life forms in a test-tube?”
He said Mr Venter was creating a “chassis on which you could build almost anything. It could be a contribution to humanity such as new drugs or a huge threat to humanity such as bio-weapons”.
Mr Venter believes designer genomes have enormous positive potential if properly regulated. In the long-term, he hopes they could lead to alternative energy sources previously unthinkable. Bacteria could be created, he speculates, that could help mop up excessive carbon dioxide, thus contributing to the solution to global warming, or produce fuels such as butane or propane made entirely from sugar.
“We are not afraid to take on things that are important just because they stimulate thinking,” he said. “We are dealing in big ideas. We are trying to create a new value system for life. When dealing at this scale, you can’t expect everybody to be happy.” 
Saudi Arabia covered with snow in coldest winter for 20 years
ABU DHABI, January 11 (RIA Novosti) – Northern parts of Saudi Arabia are covered with snow with schools, mosques and administrative bodies paralyzed, local media reported Friday.
The oil-rich kingdom is being hit with subzero temperatures and snow storms with freezing winds of up to 50 km/h (30mp/h). Some regions have been experiencing problems with water supplies as pipes have frozen, and livestock has died from the cold.
The Saudi Gazette reported late in December that the winter was expected to last 89 days, with temperatures reaching below zero. National media said the winter is the coldest in the country for 20 years.
Morning and afternoon prayers are being combined in many mosques because of the morning cold and some schools will reopen later than scheduled.
The bad weather is fun for children and teenagers, however, who have been making snowballs and building snowmen with enthusiasm.
The End of Privacy, NSA gearing up to watch you online!
Amid the controversy brewing in the Senate over Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reform, the Bush administration appears to have changed its strategy and is devising a bold new plan that would strip away FISA protections in favor of a system of wholesale government monitoring of every American’s Internet activities. Now the National Director of Intelligence is predicting a disastrous cyber-terrorist attack on the U.S. if this scheme isn’t instituted.
It is no secret that the Bush administration has already been spying on the e-mail, voice-over-IP, and other Internet exchanges between American citizens since as early as and possibly earlier than September 11, 2001. The National Security Agency has set up shop in the hubs of major telecom corporations, notably AT&T, installing equipment that makes copies of the contents of all Internet traffic, routing it to a government database and then using natural language parsing technology to sift through and analyze the data using undisclosed search criteria. It has done this without judicial oversight and obviously without the consent of the millions of Americans under surveillance. Given any rational interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, its mass spying operation is illegal and unconstitutional.
But now the administration wants to make these illegal activities legal. And why is that? According to National Director of Intelligence Mike McConnell, who is now drafting the proposal, an attack on a single U.S. bank by the 9/11 terrorists would have had a far more serious impact on the U.S. economy than the destruction of the Twin Towers. “My prediction is that we’re going to screw around with this until something horrendous happens,” said McConnell. So the way to prevent this from happening, he claims, is to give the government the power to spy at will on the content of all e-mails, file transfers and Web searches.
McConnell’s prediction of something “horrendous” happening unless we grant government this authority has a tone similar to that of the fear-mongering call to arms against terrorism that President Bush sounded before taking us to war in Iraq. Now, Americans are about to be asked to surrender their Fourth Amendment rights because of a vague and unsupported prediction of the dangers and costs of cyber-terrorism.
The analogy with the campaign to frighten us into war with Iraq gets even stronger when it becomes evident that along with the establishing of American forces in Iraq, the cyber-security McConnell is calling for was, all along, part of the strategic plan, devised by dick Cheney and several other present and former high-level Bush administration officials, to establish America as the world’s supreme superpower. This plan, known as the Project for the New American Century, unequivocally recognized “an imperative” for government to not only secure the Internet against cyber-attacks but also to control and use it offensively against its adversaries. The Project for the New American Century also maintained that “the process of transformation” it envisioned (which included the militarization and control of the Internet) was “likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor.” All that appears to be lacking to make the analogy complete is the “horrendous” cyber-attack — the chilling analog of the 9/11 attacks — that McConnell now predicts.
Apparently, the Bush administration had hoped to continue its mass surveillance program in secret, but as many as 40 civil suits were filed against AT&T and other telecoms, threatening to blow the government’s illegal spying activities wide open. Unable to have these cases dismissed in appellate court by once again playing the national security card, the administration drafted and tried to push through Congress a version of the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 that gave retroactive immunity to telecom corporations for their assistance in helping the government spy en mass on Americans without a court warrant. The administration’s plan was to use Congress’ passage of this provision of immunity to nullify any cause of civil action against the telecoms, thereby pre-empting the exposure of the administration’s own illegal activities.
Two versions of the FISA bill emerged, one from the Senate Intelligence Committee drafted largely by Cheney himself, which contained the immunity provision, and another from the Senate Judiciary Committee that did not contain the provision. Although Senate Majority leader Harry Reid inauspiciously chose the former to bring to the Senate floor, the bill was surrounded by much controversy. There had been well organized grassroots pressure to stop it from passing, and the House had already passed a version that did not include the retroactive immunity provision. Thus, in the face of a filibuster threat by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Reid postponed the discussion until the January 2008 session.
Now Reid has tried to put off the FISA Amendments Act once again by asking Republicans to extend, for one more month, the Protect America Act of 2007, an interim FISA reform act that is due to sunset in February. However, Cheney has urged Congress to pass his version of the FISA Amendments Act now. “We can always revisit a law that’s on the books. That’s part of the job of the elected branches of government,” Cheney said. “But there is no sound reason to pass critical legislation … and slap an expiration date on it.”
Cheney’s point about the possibility of later revisiting the FISA Amendments Act after it becomes law may foreshadow replacing it in the coming months with a law based on McConnell’s plan, which is due to emerge in February. This would mark a gradual descent into divesting Americans entirely of their Fourth Amendment right to privacy — first by blocking their ability to sue the telecoms for violating their privacy and then by giving the government the same legal protection. After all, the FISA Amendments Act still requires the government to get warrants for spying on American citizens even if it does not afford adequate judicial oversight in enforcing this mandate. McConnell’s proposal, on the other hand, would make no bones about spying on Americans without warrants, thereby contradicting any meaningful FISA reform.
President Bush has already made clear he would veto any FISA bill that did not give retroactive immunity to the telecoms. However, if McConnell’s soon to be unveiled spy-at-will plan is turned into law, a separate law giving retroactive immunity to the telecoms would be unnecessary. All Bush and Cheney would need to do to protect themselves from criminal liability would be to make the new spy-at-will law retroactive in effect from the inception of the illegal NSA surveillance program. This would also be sufficient to deflate the civil suits filed against the telecoms because the past illegal spying activities that these companies conducted on behalf of the government would then become “legal.” Indeed, the Bush administration has already done this sort of legal retro-dating and nullifying of civil rights and gotten it through Congress. For example, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 conveniently gave Bush the power to decide whether someone — including himself — is guilty of torture, irrespective of the Geneva Conventions, and it made this authority retroactive to Nov. 26, 1997.
Whatever the final disposition of FISA in the coming weeks or months, the administration is now bracing to take a much more aggressive posture that would seek abridgement of civil liberties in its usual fashion: by fear-mongering and warnings that our homeland will be attacked by terrorists (this time of the menacing hacker variety) unless we the people surrender our Fourth Amendment right to privacy and give government the authority to inspect even our most personal and intimate messages.
It would be a mistake to underestimate the resolve of the Bush administration. But it would be a bigger mistake for Americans not to stand united against this familiar pattern of government scare tactics and manipulation. There are grave dangers to the survival of democracy posed by allowing any present or future government unfettered access to all of our private electronic communications. These dangers must be carefully weighed against the dubious and unproven benefits that granting such an awesome power to government might have on fending off cyber-attacks.
New Camera can tell exactly whats in your pockets….
A British company called ThruVision has developed a camera that can detect items such as guns, drugs and explosives under people’s clothes without, for better or worse, being able to see their genitals. It holds a lot of promise for places like airport security checkpoint but stands to open up a huge can of privacy-hating worms elsewhere.
The camera is called the T5000, and it sees objects based on the Terahertz, or T-rays, that they emit. The camera works because all people and objects emit low-level electromagnetic radiation. Every material emits a different signature of Terahertz wave, which lies between infrared and microwaves on the electromagnetic spectrum. That means it can tell the difference between cocaine and flour but won’t show the distinct outline of your danglers.
It’s all well and good, but with the camera working from over 80 feet away you’ve got to wonder how long it’ll be before a city starts installing these cameras on the street and arresting anybody walking around with drugs in their pockets. Where is the privacy line drawn? Will that make people safer or just make it feel like we’re living in a totalitarian police state? It’s tricky. Boy, I can’t wait. The future is now, and it’s unsettling!
Hackers and Scientology?
A group called “anonymous” is saying they are going to destroy Scientology by shuting down their websites. It’s their right to do what they want without hurting anyone. they people they get into their scheme are stupid and deserve to get their money taken away. I think this is just going to make them stronger. All this useless energy that could be used against the Abrahamic religions that are threatening this world.
found this too
I assume this is what ur talking aboutThere is some crap posted on digg.com if you wanna check it out im not about to post it.
The site is still up; so i dont get it.
Site they took down
www.whatisscientology.org has address 205.180.15.195
www.scientologyreligion.org has address 68.178.153.22
www.narconon.org has address 66.254.66.111 (partially)
www.scientology.de has address 198.95.10.136
www.cienciologia.org.mx has address 198.95.10.233
www.scientologie.tm.fr has address 198.95.10.204
www.scientology.org.au has address 202.138.222.246
www.scientology.org.za has address 65.255.206.18
www.scientologywedding.org has address 70.87.86.98
Metal Detectors and Night-Vision Goggles Now Used To Catch Pirates
Earlier this year Twentieth Century Fox came to the conclusion that Canada is the home of camcorder pirates. According to their research, over 50% off all camcorder recorded movies originate from Canada. These statistics are more fiction than fact of course, but they caused a widespread panic.Movie theaters in Canada are now taking extreme measures to cut down this figure, even if this means less comfort for their paying customers.
Serge Corriveau, Director of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association, highlighted some of the measures they’ve taken and told CBC: “Having people searching knapsacks and people going up and down the aisles once the movie’s started to see if they can spot somebody camcording. You can see also people with night-vision goggles searching through the crowd trying to see if they can find something.” Corriveau added that metal detectors will also be used in theaters across Canada, specifically for pre-screenings.
And if this isn’t enough, CMPDA have also introduced a reward program for theater employees. Catching pirates is a lucrative business now, as they can earn upto $500 CAD if they identify a person who’s trying to record a movie on his phone or camcorder. More details can be found in the “theater employee camcorder training guide“.
The theater owners sure do all they can to please their customers. A few days ago we reported about a 19 year old girl who was arrested by the police after she recorded a 20 second clip from the movie “Transformers” that she wanted to show to her little brother.
Thanks to the night-vision goggles I guess…
Welcome Rizalians,
Hi and hello sa lahat ng visitors ng site na ito. My name is Raine Kim Yu, i’m the creator and the moderator of this site, which i dedicate to all RIZALIANS, to my most LOVED & VALUED Teachers of Rizal High School an to my CRUSH & INSPIRATION.
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I will be posting more within this week. I’m kinda sleepy na, hehe…enjoy visiting!
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“Lord, thank you so much for her and for everything…”
About Rizal High School
Rizal High School (abbreviation: RHS), located at Dr. Sixto Antonio Avenue, Caniogan, Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines, is acclaimed as the Largest Secondary School in the World since 1993 by the Guinness Book of World Records in terms of student population. To date, it remains to be the premier school with the biggest enrollment worldwide.
Named after the Philippine national hero, Dr. Jose P. Rizal, Rizal High School owes its fame and glory to its thousands of graduates who have contributed much to the socio-economic progress of the Philippines. Through its portals have passed men and women who hold/have held distinguished positions in the government and private sectors. Some of these notable figures include former Senator Neptali Gonzales, former Senator Jovito Salonga, former Senator Rene Saguisag, Maestro Lucio San Pedro, and National Artist Carlos Botong Francisco to mention a few. In the school year 2000-2001, Rizal High School had an overwhelming population of 22,959. This is a far cry from its initial enrollment of 28 students way back when it opened on October 1, 1902 during the incumbency of Governor Ambrocio Flores. The students came from the five neighboring towns including the Pasig proper. Then, intermediate classes were under the supervision and administration of the secondary school principal. At present, Miss Josephine M. Cruz, an alumna and a Rizal High School teacher once, is the school current and youngest Principal to date. The school has recently celebrated its centennial in 2002.History
Pasig Secondary School The first secondary school in the province of Rizal known as the Pasig Secondary School was formally established on October 1, 1902 during the incumbency of Governor Ambrosio Flores with an enrollment of 28 pupils. The students came from five neighboring towns including Pasig proper. The enrollment increased to 45 pupils in November, 65 in December and 88 in January and February in 1903, all intermediate pupils. The pupils were taught in a room of a rented building, 30 meters by 30 meters. The cost of the rent was $15, local currency, the amount paid from the provincial fund. At the beginning, the Provincial Board was against the establishment of a provincial school in Pasig. Pasig is near Manila. The provincial aid therefore was very limited. The increase in financial support by the provincial government was subject to the condition that the pupils from adjoining towns would prefer attending classes in the provincial school rather than seeking enrollment in Manila. Immediately after the military post occupied by American soldiers was vacated, it was turned over to the provincial government for the use of the Pasig Secondary School in November 1903. The building, although quite spacious, was old and dilapidated with a badly damaged roof. The teachers assigned to this school were all Americans, namely, Messrs. Laughlin, Click and Scruton. The Superintendent of Schools was Mr. Charles Rummel. The military post was vacated when a new building was constructed sometime in 1902 during the administration of Governor Jose Tupas. The basement of the building was used as a woodworking shop. This was the time when a first year class was organized. Since 1905 steps had been made to acquire a spacious site for this secondary school. It was however only in 1913-1914 when a site made of ten lots containing 63,707.41 square meters was acquired through expropriation proceedings from several landowners. The estimated value of the site was P38,540. It was surveyed on November 8, 1928 and registered on October 27, 1931 under Certificate of Title No. 4553. Soon, after the acquisition of the site, a modern, reinforced concrete and modified Standard Plan No. 20 school building was constructed. This was in 1914 during the tenure of Governor Mariano Melendres. The building was completed and occupied in 1915.
Change of Name
The name of Pasig Secondary School was changed to Rizal High School sometime in 1907 when a first year class of eleven pupils was organized and when the province was already putting up the greater bulk of the financial support for the school. The change to the present name Rizal High School was made sometime in 1915 when the new building was completed and occupied by the school. For many years since its establishment in 1902, the intermediate classes were under the supervision and administration of the secondary school principal. These classes were considered preparatory department of the secondary school. The gradual change in administration started with the school year 1902-1921. The complete separation of the intermediate classes as a preparatory department to the high school took effect during the school year 1924-1925. The first graduating class of this school was that of 1918. Of the 30 fourth year students for the month of March, 27 qualified for graduation. Two of the graduates who later distinguished themselves in their chosen professions were U.P. Professor Cecilio Lopez and Dr. Elpidio Alcantara. The first principal of the Pasig Secondary School was Mr. Steward Laughlin who also served as one of its earliest teachers. The first Filipino principal was Mr. Marcelino Bautista who served during the school year 1929-1930, followed by Mr. Ricardo Castro in 1930-1935, Mr. Aquilino Carino in 1935-1935, Mr. Eufrocino Malonzo in 1936-1939. The years preceding the Second World War saw Mr. Eliseo Tayao as principal of the Rizal High School (1939-41). The school was closed for sometime and was reopened with Mr. Cesario Bandong. Nippongo was included in the curriculum as a required subject during his time.
Classes After Liberation Period
The carpet-bombing employed by the American Liberation Forces destroyed the Rizal High School building and grounds. Classes therefore were reorganized in 1945 at the Pasig Elementary School by Mr. Paterno Santiago (later to become principal of Morong High School). He took charge of the administration of the Rizal High School for about a month when he gave way to Mr. Cesario Bandong who served as principal until 1950. The reconstruction of the Rizal High School was started on February 4, 1948 out of the War Damage Fund in the amount of P101,445.49 during the incumbency of Governor Sixto Antonio. The reconstruction was completed on August 15, 1949. Mr. Demetrio M. Suguitan took over from Mr. Bandong (1950-1960). Mrs. Modesta T. Javier became the principal in 1960-1974; Mr. Cesar S. Tiangco came in 1975 up to January 1980. Miss Diana C. Santos became principal from 1980 until 1999. Now the school is under the management of Miss Josephine M. Cruz.
FACILITIES
Vicente P. Eusebio Building
Established in the year 2006-07, the building is now occupied by the special science classes of the ESEP program by the DepEd or the Department of Education.
Amang Building
It is now one of the oldest building in the campus. It is currently occupied by the second year students.
Main Building
Also known as the Computer Building which was inagurated last December 2000, this five&six-story edifice houses the Adminstration Office, the Library and Computer Rooms for use by the third and fouth year students. The Library now has Internet access for reseach activities. The sides of this u-shaped buildinghouses the homerooms of the fourth year students. This building replaces the older two-story Main Building.
Isidro Rodriguez Building
The left wing of the Isidro Rodriguez Building was once home to the Rizal Technological College. Is was inaugurated in 1974. Stretching its long halls beside the Marikina River, the IR Right Wing is occupied by the Home Economics electives on the first and second floors and a canteen on the first floor. The HE Department Office is located above the canteen and the Math Department is at the right end of the third floor while Science Department is on the second floor. Today, the right wing is used as rooms for the TLE electives and the left wing is used as homerooms for third year students. Canteens are located at the ground floors of both left and right wings. And a cooperative store was built for the convenience of the students’ needs for their projects (e.g. soaps, tissues, papers, etc.).
Neptali Gonzales Building
The Nepatali Gonzales Building was named after RHS’ illustrious alumnus, Senate President Neptali Gonzales. The building which has 24 classrooms became an operational in 1999. Some P18.5 million, which came from the CDF of the senator, was spent for this four-story building.
Rizal High School Museum & Alumni HallInagurated this 2005, this three story building houses the museum (at the ground floor), Alumni Hall (at the second and third floors), the school clinic (at the ground floor beside the museum), the office of discipline (at the second floor), and the office of the Araling Panlipunan Department(at the ground floor also).
Caruncho GymnasiumThis gymnasium was repaired and air-conditioned under the supervision and budget of Pasig City during the administration of former Mayor Vicente Eusebio. This gymnasium also houses the MAPEH Department, its clubs and organizations. The gymnasium is also the place where almost all of the school programs are held.
Science BuildingThis is where the Rizalians usually held their science classes from first year to fourth year. This three-story building houses the office of the Principal, six science laboratories, one speech laboratory and the science department office.
Univrsities Taking Away Christian Rights
They aren’t the only ones but they push society against us. You have to see this video:
http://www.silencingchristians.com/video4.aspx
It’s amazing. Students are literally being forced into classes that make them read verses from the Koran! This is outrageous. Somehow turning people away from faith is supposed to be tolerance.
SPOON for FILIPINOS
So,he has to change his eating habit and need to buy twenty pesos worth of a spoon and fifty pesos plastic fake Tupperware for his “Lugaw” baon to work.
He couldn’t agree on the suggestions that fortified instant noodles being promoted by the government be substituted for rice, which is eaten during breakfast, lunch and dinner in the Philippines. “It’s not the same,” he said. “Besides, I get stomach ache after eating three packs of these noodles.”
While some authorities even quipped that it would probably be good for Filipinos to cut back on rice to lose weight, the joke is lost among millions of Filipinos who rely on rice, the Philippines’ staple food, to fill their growling stomachs.
The situation is worse for poor Filipinos, who often times only eat rice with some salt to ease their hunger. These people in Malacanang are crazy, He said, about their appeals of government officials for Filipinos to cut back on rice consumption. Rice is the only thing that the poor can consume to fill their stomachs and they want to cut that back.
My Kumpare have gotten used to eating rice without viands because of high prices of meats and fish, so asking them to cut back on their rice intake would be just too much. Suggestions for Filipinos to turn to brown rice instead because it’s more nutritious and more filling are also raising eyebrows, since the less-popular variety is more expensive. A kilo of brown rice costs 50 pesos, which can already buy about two kilos of the white variety sold by the government.
Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap triggered the alarm about the country’s precarious rice supply when he asked restaurants to reduce the amount of rice served to customers. He said that large amount of rice were being wasted everyday in the Philippines. People should not waste food, Yap said as he made repeated calls for Filipinos to eat less rice.My Kumpare have said that there is no single grain of rice wasted in his household.Who the Hell is wasting the rice?It’s not Condolessa.
While insisting that there is no shortage in the Philippines, Yap admitted that prices are high because of a tight supply in the world market. Yap said that with the onset of the harvest season in April and May, increases in rice prices were expected to slow down. Jaime Tadeo, peasant leader and a rice technician during the rule of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the 1980s, said the April and May harvest will only yield supply enough for two months. “We are harvesting a total of 6.6 million metric tonsfor one whole year, while our consumption is almost 1 million metric tons a month,”. “With the tight supply of rice in the world market, we are in serious trouble.” He blamed the government’s policy of importing rice to ensure food security instead of boosting local production as the main culprit behind the predicament the country faces.
How could Joc-Joc Bolante sleep at night in his detention cell?This rice crisis are all his fault because he ran away with all the money that belongs to the farmers.
Persecution of Christians Continues
Persecution of Christians is nothing new. These new brand of athiest like Christopher Hitchens and Richardo Dawkins and Sam Harris and Hillary Clinton think they’re clever, but they’re only doing what God prophesied in the Gospel, and what’s been going on for 2,000 years.
FROM:
http://ignorantchristian.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/persecution-of-christians-continues/
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, perhaps the best WM based phone out there!
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is one of the most exciting Windows Mobile phones since the Blackjack 2 and the (phantom) i-mate 9502. With a 800×480 pixel display, it is probably going to be the new reference in terms of productivity and entertainment. Users can control it the way they want: Touch screen, joystick or via the elegant Arc slider QWERTY keyboard. Finally, it has WiFi, 3.5G and assisted-GPS – features that will make a big difference, given that web browsing and location based are popular apps these days.
Highlights
* 3” touch display 800×480 pixels
* QWERTY keyboard
* GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 + HSDPA (3G)
* WiFi, Bluetooth
* Windows Mobile
* Touch screen
* 3.2 megapixel camera with Auto-focus
* Joystick navigation
* Assisted GPS
* Bluetooth, WiFi
* 110 x 53 x 16.7 mm, 145g
* The Sony Ericsson XPERIA™ X1 will be available in “selected markets” from the second half of 2008.
Read more :
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/02/10/sony.ericsson.xperia.x1/
and
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_xperia_x1-2246.php
US Department of Defense Is Building the MATRIX!
Everyone who watched the Matrix trilogy
was at least impressed by the complex
virtual reality developed by sentient
robots, if not by the many philosophical
elements. The concept of artificial
intelligence overthrowing or enslaving
mankind had previously been touched on
by hundreds of science fiction stories,
but this trilogy was a truly meaningful
depiction of the idea.
It seems that the US Department of
Defense is trying to build such a
matrix, an alternate reality holding a
complex matrix with billions of
individual “nodes” to reflect every man,
woman and child in the real world.
Called the Sentient World Simulation
(SWS), it will be a “synthetic mirror of
the real world with automated continuous
calibration with respect to current
real-world information”, according to a
concept paper for the project.
I am no conspiracy theory adept myself,
but this idea is kind of scary. No, they
won’t kidnap people and place them into
the virtual reality to harness their
electrical impulses, but the main
purpose sounds kind of fishy too.
“SWS provides an environment for testing
Psychological Operations (PSYOP),” the
paper reads, so that military leaders
can “develop and test multiple courses
of action to anticipate and shape
behaviors of adversaries, neutrals, and
partners”.
The applications don’t stop here, as
this virtual copy of our planet will
also include replicas of financial
institutions, utilities, media outlets
and street corner shops. All these will
be used to test various theories
regarding economics and human
psychology, to predict how individuals
and mobs will respond to various stressors.
“The idea is to generate alternative
futures with outcomes based on
interactions between multiple sides,”
said Purdue University professor Alok
Chaturvedi, co-author of the SWS concept
paper.
For now, Purdue’s labs for Synthetic
Environment for Analysis and
Simulations, or SEAS – the platform
underlying SWS say the applications are
used by corporations like pharmaceutical
giant Eli Lilly and defense contractor
Lockheed Martin to visualize the nodes
and scenarios in text boxes and graphs,
or as icons set against geographical maps.
There’s one thing that makes me think
the US government is really involved in
this “Matrix” and that is the fact that
Chaturvedi has received millions of
dollars in grants from the military and
the National Science Foundation to
develop SEAS.
