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who can bet that muslim world through its organization to launch a month to boycott the terrorist business ????

ask the government to disable their business for 1 month. when ??? may be this coming ramadhan ????

PUTRAJAYA 1 April - Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak hari ini melancarkan Majlis Profesor Negara yang menggabungkan kepakaran 1,426 orang profesor dari seluruh institusi pengajian tinggi awam (IPTA) di negara ini.

Majlis tersebut berperanan membantu kerajaan dengan menyumbang input dalam pelbagai bidang khususnya untuk memperkukuhkan asas penggubalan dasar negara dan juga menjayakan Model Ekonomi Baru.

“Saya berharap Majlis Profesor Negara yang dilancarkan ini merupakan wadah untuk membina golongan Murabbi dalam konteks universiti moden yang semakin luas dan mencabar,” kata beliau pada pelancaran majlis itu di Pusat Konvensyen Antarabangsa Putrajaya (PICC) di sini.

Murabbi, satu istilah Arab yang merujuk kepada tenaga pendidik yang bukan hanya mengajarkan sesuatu ilmu tetapi juga membentuk keperibadian, sikap dan tabiat anak didiknya.

Sempena pelancaran itu, Perdana Menteri turut menyampaikan watikah pelantikan kepada tiga pemimpin tertinggi serta ketua-ketua kluster Majlis Profesor Negara.

Berikut ialah senarai pemimpin dan ketua-ketua kluster dalam Majlis Profesor Negara:

Here we have it, a massive 53 photos of the new Proton EMAS range of concepts, live from the floors of the 2010 Geneva Motor Show! Look after the jump to check out all the photos. For more details on the Proton EMAS Concept, click the link to read our previous launch story. We’ll be back with more details if there are any more to be gained from the show floor. For now, enjoy the photos!

There’s a thriving market for ‘cloned’ or ‘knock-off’ phones and computers in China, where manufacturers are already looking to produce imitations of Apple’s iPad

Enterprising Chinese companies have already started making devices that look similar to Apple’s iPad but run the Windows 7 operating system made by arch-rivals Microsoft.

Apple has not yet confirmed whether it will launch the iPad in China, fuelling potential demand for counterfeit or unofficially imported devices. Some Chinese stores are taking customer pre-orders for the iPad, and are importing the device from countries where it is officially on sale.

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SAN FRANCISCO 3 Mac - Ketika iPhone keluaran Apple Inc. menghadapi persaingan sengit dalam pasaran telefon pintar yang menguntungkan, syarikat itu mengemukakan satu tuntutan undang-undang paten terhadap pesaing utamanya atas dakwaan mencuri teknologi skrin sesentuh serta paparan-paparan lain.

Tuntutan yang difailkan Apple semalam itu, meliputi banyak model telefon yang dihasilkan pengeluar telefon Taiwan, HTC Corp. termasuk Nexus One, G1 dan myTouch 3G yang kesemuanya menggunakan sistem pengoperasian Android percuma daripada Google.

Bagaimanapun, pengguna tidak perlu bimbang sekiranya mereka ada membeli atau menggunakan telefon-telefon tersebut.

Kes melibatkan paten boleh mengambil masa berbulan-bulan atau bertahun-tahun untuk diselesaikan, sehingga kadang-kala lebih lama berbanding ‘hayat’ telefon itu sendiri dan perjanjian tentang pelesenan serta pembayaran royalti juga sering timbul.

Keputusan Apple itu menunjukkan tindakan tegas syarikat berkenaan ketika muncul banyak pesaing utama alat-alat telekomunikasi.

“Kami boleh duduk sahaja dan hanya memerhatikan pesaing mencuri ciptaan paten kami atau kami boleh berbuat sesuatu.

“Kami mengambil keputusan untuk berbuat sesuatu tentangnya,” kata Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif (CEO) Apple, Steve Jobs dalam satu kenyataan.

Apple berkata, HTC telah mencabuli 20 paten ciptaannya meliputi aspek paparan antara muka pengguna iPhone serta perkakasan.

Sesetengah daripadanya berkaitan dengan teknologi skrin sesentuh termasuk yang membolehkan peranti sesentuh mengesan lebih satu jari pada satu-satu masa serta membenarkan pengguna memfokus pada jarak jauh dan dekat dengan mengembangkan jari atau merapatkannya.

Google yang kehebatan perisiannya banyak digunakan telefon-telefon HTC, tidak disenaraikan sebagai defendan. - AP

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The Vision Centre

By understanding how animals identify
dangerous objects from harmless ones,
scientists hope to one day teach flying
robots to do the same.
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Research into how fiddler crabs see danger is helping scientists to understand how all animals, including humans, recognise which objects are a threat – and could one day help robots learn to do the same.

The research throws new light on the complex process that enables animals to learn which objects they can ignore and which they need to pay attention to.

This process, called habituation, occurs in all animals - but how it happens in natural situations is still poorly understood says Dr Jan Hemmi from The Vision Centre and the Australian National University (ANU), who conducted the study with his colleague at ANU, Dr Tobias Merkle.

“For animals, accurately learning which objects are threats and which aren’t is crucial to their survival. If they accidently ignore a predator they will be killed.”

“Humans have the same issue – everything is constantly moving around us and we need to learn to ignore events that are not important. This study may help us find out how that’s done.”

Understanding how animals learn which objects they need to be wary of could be used in the future to improve robots and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), he adds.

“A big difference between robots and animals is that animals are constantly learning about their surroundings – more and more, scientists are trying to incorporate this learning process into robots.”

According to Dr Hemmi, the fiddler crab was an ideal model animal with which to test the process of habituation in a natural situation, as it is possible to accurately work out what the animals are able to see while making a decision.

The crabs are constantly threatened by birds flying overhead and people visiting the beach. After around ten minutes crabs can become accustomed to people near them, but will still run to their burrows when birds fly overhead, he adds.

In order to test how the crabs distinguish threatening birds from harmless objects, Dr Hemmi and Dr Merkle made dummy predators fly overhead every two to three minutes, but not attack.

The crabs initially ran away from this stimulus, but after a dummy predator approached the crabs from a close by position around ten times, the crabs adjusted to its presence and stopped heading for their burrows.
However, as soon as the dummy predator was moved farther away to outside their field of vision and then approached, they reacted as if it was a threat once more - and ran for home.

This suggests that identifying whether an object is a predator or harmless not only depends on what the object looks like and what it’s doing at a certain point in time, but also its history, says Dr Hemmi.

“How much of a threat they feel an object poses depends on where the stimulus came from and what it’s doing now.”

The crabs never became accustomed to dummy predators flying in from outside their field of vision, suggesting that if they don’t know an object’s history they will assume it’s dangerous, he adds.

“If an object remains in their field of vision, then they know where it’s been and it appears they assume it won’t hurt them as it hasn’t done this before. When it comes from somewhere they can’t see, they have no idea of its past and can’t tell whether it’s a threat or not, so will always head for home.”

The crabs displayed an advanced ability to filter threats from harmless objects, and became accustomed to the dummy predator while still running from real bird predators that were flying overhead during the experiment.
Dr Hemmi and Dr Merkle hope to use the fiddler crab to understand the detailed mechanisms and pathways that control the process of habituation.

“Seeing how crabs respond to objects that remain in their field of vision, but are moving around, will give us more insight into how this learning process works.”

The paper ‘High stimulus specificity characterizes anti-predator habituation under natural conditions’ by Jan M. Hemmi and Tobias Merkle was published early online on 23 September 2009 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Studies.

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We have located the first iPhone worm, dubbed as Ikee. It’s currently spreading in the wild, but it’s only able to infect devices that have been “jailbroken” by their owners. Jailbreaking removes iPhone’s protection mechanisms, allowing users to run any software they want.

Affected users will find that their iPhone wallpaper has been altered to a picture of Rick Astley (of Rickroll fame) and the message “ikee is never going to give you up”.

The worm targets users who have jailbroken their phone but have not changed their default root login password. It will search for vulnerable iPhones by scanning a handful of IP ranges — most of which are in Australia. At the moment, we have no confirmed reports of Ikee outside of Australia.

After Ikee infects a phone, it disables the SSH service, preventing reinfection.

To protect your jailbroken iPhone, change your root password. Here’s how.

The creator of the worm has released full source code of the four existing variants of this worm. This means that there will quickly be more variants, and they might have nastier payload than just changing your wallpaper or might try password cracking to gain access to devices where the default password has been changed.

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Security solutions firm F-Secure Malaysia says greater vigilance is needed as the use of social networking is gathering pace compared to e-mail.

F-Secure Malaysia senior security response manager, Chia Wing Fei, said the company noted the significant shift from e-mail to instant communication channels provided by social networking sites. “This trend has important security implications as this means greater vigilance is required against links and messages sent from hacked accounts.”

“According to statistics from research firm Nielsen, the number of users on social networking and other community sites increased by 31 per cent in the period August 2008 — August 2009, while e-mail use increased by 21 per cent,” said Chia. “It may be too early to pronounce that e-mail is dead but the figures do highlight a growing trend.”

“Cyber criminals have already responded to the changing patterns of communication by focusing more activity on popular social networks,” he said.

Learning to be Skeptical

“Instead of logging in and out of the Internet to send their e-mail, many people are no

w constantly online with their computers and mobile phones,” Chia said. “Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have grown rapidly as people are making use of the constant stream of fast communications that they enable.”

“E-mail account addresses can be faked and people are used to getting mail from ‘unknown’ persons, so they are sceptical of links sent via e-mail,” he said. “It is often more difficult to recognise when a member of their social network has been hacked.’

“People have not yet learned to be sceptical of the links forwarded by their ‘friends’ in social networks, which can lead to infection from malware or to websites promoting rogue products,” he said.

He said cyber criminals sought opportunities to make money from hacking Facebook and other social networking accounts, where the high level of personal trust within communities of friends provided an ideal cover for scams and for spreading malware.

“Instant communications are fun, personal and useful but everyone should also be aware of the new security risks involved,” said Chia. “Links sent from hacked accounts and requests for financial help from so-called friends are bound to increase as social networking sites become ever more popular.”

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