Facebook will remove the age limit users

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, again a controversial comments on social networking-related services. Last year, he called privacy is no longer so important. This time, he proposed the elimination of age restrictions for the user up. That is, infants who are still allowed to make that red is on Facebook. As is known, the minimum age is 13 years pegguna ups. However, from a study that was released some time ago, there were 7.5 million Facebook users who are under 13 years, generally 11 years. But surely this can not be used as an excuse to open the taps for those who are under the age of 13. Children are certainly not able to protect themselves from a variety of matters relating to the world of adults who come to his Facebook page.

Mark Zuckerberg expressed his idea in a speech in California the opportunity a few days ago. According to him, he has a philosophy that education takes time to start very young. Because of restrictions that make the children under the age of 13 years have not been able to get started. By allowing them to use up, we can see what they would do. Mark also promised to make children safe on Facebook. Of course, there is a slow down of Mark Zuckerberg this reason. First, the issue of education. Certainly can not be considered that use up since the children regarded as educational. Why? Therefore, up is not the education space. Facebook is a media where information traffic through status updates, photos, videos, and even very high. Most of the information that flows up this is the consumption of adults, not children

Second, security concerns. This needs to be questioned, up user account security is very low. User privacy on Facebook is very low, almost non-existent because the privacy policy is very loose because of privacy provisions ups convoluted and very long. Some Facebook users will be very familiar with spam, scams, and other URLs that lead to adult content. It would be very dangerous if the children left to see all this. Still related to security issues, on Facebook is not a single guarantee which says that all users of Facebook will be applied to both. That is, once open the possibility of criminals, especially predators of children, to be able to find prey with the permissibility of the children to create an account on Facebook.

Third, the regulations prohibit the collection of information from children under the age of 13, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which was signed into law on October 21, 1998 and amended effective on April 21, 2000. This rule applies to commercial websites and online services directed to children under 13 years of collecting personal information from children. COPPA prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in connection with the collection, use, or disclosure of personal information from and about children on the internet. With the three reasons above, it is quite clear that the idea of ​​abolition of the age limit up users this is a pretty crazy idea from Mark Zuckerberg. Site zdnet.com mention this idea as the worst idea of ​​the caliber of Mark Zuckerberg. Although could just try to improve security, this is not a guarantee and a reason to legalize the elimination of age restrictions on users.

In relation to children or teenagers over the age of 13 years even, parents are still encouraged to see the involvement of children in the above. This is because, once again, to help users to get connected with their online friends, but not necessarily all online users who are friends. To monitor the involvement of children on up, parents are advised to perform the following steps.

1. monitor your child's facebook account
Parents should be involved in the friendship of children. It is important to be able to find out what the child is on Facebook. If you can not, for example for high school teens, watch them from their friends. This is done by 18 percent of parents in surveys to users between the ages of 13-17. Parents should not try to create an account with a fake age children. If the child has made Facebok account without the knowledge, delete that account or ask for up to remove it by filling out the report "Report of Children under the age of" provided by Facebook.

2. advantage of privacy controls
About one in five active adult users said they did not use the privacy controls that are provided to. This makes them more vulnerable to threats. personal control in order not to prevent any violations, but they are quite helpful in some degree. Parents should regulate children's personal control of what can be seen by all users up. For example, photographs of those who can see and anyone who could send a message.

3. turn off instant personalization
Facebook has added a few sites for Instant Personalization feature, which automatically will find information about the characteristics of Facebook users. I highly recommend this feature will be turned off for up user profiles are not exploited by third parties for advertising and other purposes. For parents, it is important to observe the activities of children up to avoid the problems that arise in the future, such as the abduction of children and others. Up useful, but only within certain limits. Better to prevent than disaster.

Doomsday Predictions not occur, Harold camping hide self

Newspaper in the United States reported Harold Camping is not seen since he was promoting these doomsday predictions turned out wrong. Contact telephone and e-mail to Harold Camping Family Radio is not answered. He predicted the apocalypse happens on Saturday (21 / 5) right at 18:00 in different time zones around the world. Washington Post newspaper reported telephone services to prevent suicide is opened to anticipate the possibility of people who believe in the prophecy was depressed after the doomsday predictions do not come true. A group of residents Calvary Gospel Church in Milpitas, California, held a Mass in the morning to comfort those who believe in the content of sermons Harold Camping.

''We are here because we care about these people,''wrote New York Times quoted James Bynum, which is one of the princes of the church. However, many reject the view of Christian Camping. Some even call it as''false prophet.'' Most of the atheists partying to celebrate not occur doomsday predictions. Meanwhile, a group of people who do not believe that gathered outside the headquarters of Harold Camping Family Radio International in Oakland, California, when the approximate time limit elapsed.

''This is probably a sad thing I have ever read, the news that there are children out there whose parents spend money funds college savings and sell their homes,''said a woman told the BBC. Camping says he knew without a doubt a piece of apocalypse that would arrive. He stated there is no backup rencangan. He had predicted doomsday in 1994. His followers later claimed prophecy refers only to intermediate stages.

Bali dance entertaining museum in london

Bali dance

Balinese gamelan and dance entertain visitors in attendance at the Horniman Museum in Bali Day event, part of a series of exhibitions in Bali: Dancing for the Gods, held from April 2011 to January 2012. More than a hundred visitors who came from Forest Hill, southeast London area, meet the Horniman Museum Gallery Square, watching the Balinese Day, according to the secretary of the Embassy in London Pensosbud Novak Between Ivanhoe Saleh to London on Sunday (05/22 / 2011). He said, in the activities of this time, held a variety of activities aimed to demonstrate the culture and art forms of Balinese Kecak dance of workshops, storytelling, as well as gamelan and Balinese dance performances.

One of the guests chuckle in awe, "This is incredible, I have never seen such fantastic musical instrument." The phrase was thrown after watching the match that brought the gamelan group Gamelan Lila Cita Bali masik, most of whose members are British society, based in London. In addition, visitors are also treated to Balinese dances performed Bhawa Lila dance groups, dance groups in London under the care of Ni Made Pujawati owned subsidiary, and mask dance are staged Prof I Wayan Dibia of the Institut Seni Indonesia, Denpasar, bringing to London specifically to support exhibition at the Horniman Museum.

activities are fully supported, including funding, by the Embassy in London has been used and the promotion of Indonesian tourism to visitors. Some of the staff was busy handing out tourism brochures and explain to visitors who want to know more about the Indonesian Embassy. Bali Day activities held throughout the day from 10 am until 5 pm and managed to suck up the attention of most visitors Horniman Museum was built in 1901, specializing in ethnographic and musical instruments from around the world.

Blood samples were able to show one's age

One time, blood samples can be used to estimate the age of a person. Testing measurement techniques over the age of blood sample done at the National Cancer Research Centre in Spain. Tests conducted by the Spanish National Cancer Center Research done by measuring the length of telomeres, located at the ends of chromosomes. Apparently, the scientists found that the telomeres associated with the speed of one's biological age. Research shows that people with shorter telomeres have a biological age is shorter than the length of telomeres. If this technique is perfect, the method of measuring age with blood will be marketed through its Life Long as it approached a variety of medical diagnostic company in Europe. We began to be marketed next year, this test costs $ 700 U.S. range for all measurements.

Various criticisms posted on this test because it can trigger people's fears about death and make people more susceptible to fraud through a drug that is claimed to extend telomeres, age alias. In addition, some protests are also associated with the possibility of insurance companies require telomere test against those who wish to have insurance to determine the tariff.

Scientists discover 10 new planet in the Milky Way galaxy

Scientists discover 10 new planet in the Milky Way galaxy, Ten new planets "floating" through the galaxies found in an international team of astronomers led by New Zealand scientists. Tenth Jupiter-sized planet that is a new discovery in the history of the Milky Way. The present invention uses software developed by computer scientists Massey University, Wellington, Australia. "They are the giant planets in our galaxy, about the size of Jupiter turned out. That submarine is a tenth planet somewhere in between us and the stars," said Ian Bond, an Astro Physics, recently. Planets are believed located about two-thirds of the centers of galaxies, located about 25,000 light years.

If they are visible to the naked eye, the planets will be dark, because they do not emit light. This planet can only be removed from the solar system since the meeting of gravity close to other planets or stars. Most likely new planets grow from collapsing ball of gas and dust, but do not have the mass to ignite the fuel and produce starlight alone. These findings led the researchers beraharap free floating Earth-sized planet could support life. Although until now the possibility was small, the planet yet detected.

Iceland's main airport closed amid volcano eruption

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Iceland closed its main international airport and canceled domestic flights Sunday as a powerful volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam 12 miles (20 kilometers) into the air.

Iceland's main airport closed amid volcano eruption

The eruption was far larger than one a year ago that caused international travel chaos — but scientists said it was unlikely to have the same widespread effect.

University of Iceland geophysicist Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson said the eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano was "much bigger and more intensive than Eyjafjallajokull," the volcano whose April 2010 eruption shut Europe's airspace for five days.

"There is a very large area in southeast Iceland where there is almost total darkness and heavy fall of ash," he said. "But it is not spreading nearly as much. The winds are not as strong as they were in Eyjafjallajokull."
He said the ash is coarser than in last year's eruption, falling to the ground more quickly.

The ash plunged areas near the volcano into darkness and covered buildings, cars and fields in a thick layer of gray soot Sunday. Civil protection workers urged residents to wear masks and stay indoors.

Airport and air traffic control operator ISAVIA said Keflavik airport, the country's main hub, was closed at 0830 GMT (4:30 a.m. EDT), and would stay shut for the rest of the day.
Spokeswoman Hjordis Gudmundsdottir said the ash plume was covering Iceland, but "the good news is that it is not heading to Europe."

She said the ash was blowing northwest toward Greenland instead.
Trans-Atlantic flights were being diverted away from Iceland, and there was no indication the eruption would cause the widespread travel disruption triggered last year by ash from Eyjafjallajokull.
In April 2010, officials closed the continent's air space for five days, fearing the ash could harm jet engines. Some 10 million travelers were stranded.

The Grimsvotn volcano, which lies under the uninhabited Vatnajokull glacier about 120 miles (200 kilometers) east of the capital, Reykjavik, began erupting Saturday for the first time since 2004.
Gudmundsson said the new eruption was 10 times as powerful as that one, which lasted for several days and briefly disrupted international flights. He said the eruption was Grimsvotn's largest for 100 years.
Grimsvotn also erupted in 1998, 1996 and 1993. The eruptions have lasted between a day and several weeks.

Sparsely populated Iceland is one of the world's most volcanically active countries and eruptions are frequent. Grimsvotn and Iceland's other major volcanoes lie on the Atlantic Rift, the meeting of the Euro and American continental plates.
Eruptions often cause local flooding from melting glacier ice, but rarely cause deaths.
Gudmundsson said it was hard to predict how long the eruption would last, but there were signs it might be slowing.

"There are some signs the eruption plume is getting lower now," he said. "We may be seeing the first sign that it is starting to decline.
"In 2 or 3 days the worst should be over."

Judgment Day May 21: What is true apocalypse will happen

Judgment Day May 21: What is true apocalypse will happen: Harold Camping, the head of the Family Radio broadcasting network, has calculated that the apocalypse will begin on May 21. Do his numbers add up for a judgment day this weekend?

Ilustration

As you may have learned from one of the 2,000 billboards worldwide, May 21, 2011, is Judgment Day, upon which the righteous – which totals 3 percent of humanity – will be whisked away to the sweet hereafter, leaving the rest of us to weather five months of extreme natural disasters until Oct. 21, whereupon God destroys the entire universe and everyone left in it.

At least that's what Harold Camping says. The head of Family Radio broadcasting network, which boasts 150 outlets in the United States, has what his website calls "infallible, absolute proof" that there's no point in making plans for Memorial Day weekend. It goes like this:

Camping says that because Jesus was crucified on Friday, April 1, 33 AD, and that it takes exactly 365.2422 days for the earth to complete one orbit of the sun, we can conclude that, on April 1, 2011, Jesus was crucified exactly 722,449.07 days ago. Add 51 days to this to get to May 1, and you get a figure of 722,500.07.

Round that down to the nearest integer, and you get 722,500, which is an important number because it is the square of 5 x 17 x 10 . The number five, says Camping, represents atonement. Ten represents completeness, and 17 represents heaven. Multiply all these together – twice – and you get 722,500. Therefore the apocalypse kicks off on Saturday, May 21.

Skeptics of Camping's method might ask why the date of the end of the world is linked to that of Jesus' crucifixion, why the numbers five, 10, and 17 represent what Camping claims they represent, why they should be multiplied together, why they should then be squared, and, for that matter, why the Bible would contain esoteric numerological references predicting the end of the world in the first place. They could also point out that April 1, 33 AD was actually a Wednesday, and that, under Camping's method, April 1, 2011 gets counted twice.

Others use different methods to calculate the last day. For example, Dec. 21, 2012 marks the end of the 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, leading some people – particularly those who believe that the dating systems of pre-Columbian Americans can predict events hundreds of years in the future – to believe that the world will end on that date.

South korea trial Somali pirates

South Korea (ROK) will hold a session of five Somali pirates in the town of Busan on Monday (5/23/2011). Five pirates were arrested in a dramatic operation in the Indian Ocean pernyerbuan four months ago. They have five charges, including robbery, kidnapping and attempted murder. The pirates had threatened sentence of life imprisonment.

In recent years, the action of the Somali pirates continue to rise. In fact, the waters of Somalia is one of the world's busiest shipping lane. Actually a lot that can be pinned by a pirate ship. However, most of the freed because there is no state judge. The day before trial, to tighten security in Busan. About 100 anti-riot police on alert at the Busan District Criminal Court. Only a few people who get permits to enter the courtroom. They, also a journalist who covered the trial, must pass through metal detectors, said court spokesman, Jeon Ji-hwan.

"We do our best to maintain security and order because the trial is an international spotlight," he said. Unusual aspect of this trial is a jury panel consisting of 12 persons. They are entitled to file a decision. However, judges do not have to follow the advice. One pirate named Husseen Abdulahi Maxamuud pleaded guilty to all charges. Verdict against him would be read on 1 June. While the verdict for four colleagues will read on Friday (27/05/2011). Navy special forces stormed a freighter Samho Jewelry South Korea on 21 January. Pirates seized the ship for six days. Besides successfully captured five pirates, South Korean special forces also killed eight other pirates.

The crew, which numbered 21 people, survived despite the ship's captain, Hae Seok-kyun (58), hit by gunfire. After experiencing some operations, the condition is now stable Seok. Seok will provide written testimony to be read out in court. According to the investigation team, some pirates are also involved in the hijacking of another ship in South Korea, Samho Dream. The ship weighs 300,000 tons, and 24 crew freed by ransom 9 million U.S. dollars (USD 76.8 billion). Although piracy in Somali waters often happens, the perpetrators are rarely brought to justice. Last March, the United States court sentenced to life imprisonment plus 80 years to five Somali pirates. They attacked U.S. Navy ships stationed in the anti-piracy patrol.

A month later, a Somali pirate sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role merchant ship and crew hostage for 71 days. In early May, the Spanish courts fell into 439 years in prison for two Somali pirates hijacked a fishing vessel in 2009. Meanwhile, the Malaysian army arrested seven suspected pirates who seize Malaysian tanker. In that country, they are under sentence of death.

Driving on facebook, Saudi woman detained

Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested a woman who campaigned against the ban on driving for his nation, as reported by AP, on Saturday (05/21/2011).

Together with a group of other women, Manal Al-Sharif to make a page up called "Teach me to drive so I can protect myself." To complement it, Al-Sharif upload their pictures behind the wheel at the top and the video was learning to drive through Youtube. "This is a volunteer campaign to help children in this country learn to drive. At least we can use it in emergencies," he said in the video. According to human rights activist, Walid Abou al-Kheir, Al-Sharif was detained by the Islamic police, but released several hours later.

Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world that forbids women to drive a car. Rules that apply both to citizens of Saudi women and foreign women. The ban makes Saudi families employ a driver. Anyone who can not afford to hire a driver must rely on male family members to drive them to school, work, shop, and went into the kitchen. Campaigns that encourage Al-Sharif and his colleagues focused on the importance of driving ability for women, especially for poor families or in an emergency. Al-Sharif to the argument that women are driving closer to the temptation because it lets them mingle with strange men, like police and mechanics.

Indeed, the company al-Sharif, to be driving, women may avoid sexual harassment of drivers, also to maintain the honor. Through too much, they encouraged women to "bulk driving" on June 17. More than 12,000 people who open an account that provides support for this movement. To encourage his people, Al-Sharif shows you how to drive, while colleague recording the scene. When driving, Al-Sharif said that not all Saudi women to be "queen" that is able to hire a driver. Emphasizing, capable of driving can save lives, even the honor of women.

Al-Sharif said that learning to drive at age 30 when he was in New Hampshire, USA. "Sometimes we're embarrassed when I could not get a taxi to take us to the office," he said. He stressed that the movement was not to challenge the government or against the law. "We just want to live as citizens as a whole, with no shame attached to the driver every day We're just. Want to get the simplest of our rights."

10 Bomb shakes Baghdad

illustration

As many as 10 bombs destroying Baghdad and its surroundings on Sunday (05/22/2011). This attack killed 13 people and wounding 53 others, as published in the Iraqi Interior Ministry official.

At least 10 bombs exploded when Iraq started to go to work and serve as a reminder that Iraq still face danger even if the level of violence has begun to decline. At least seven policemen were killed in the attack in a row. The rebels often target police as security with the aim of destroying stability. The worst attack occurred on Sunday morning in the town of Taji, located 20 kilometers from Baghdad. Some police check the location of the bomb that exploded when a convoy of U.S. military vehicles passed. That's when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd. Five policemen and two civilians were killed in the blast. While 19 people were injured, including 15 police.

Several hours earlier, a series of explosions rocked Baghdad. Most of the location of the explosion is a Shiite neighborhood. The first bomb, around 07.00 am, exploded in a parking lot on the Sadr City area and wounded five people and destroying several cars. "We were awakened by the explosion Glass shattered the front window of our house .. My sister hit by broken glass," said Namiq Khazal, who lives about 150 yards from the point of explosion. "On the way to the hospital, I saw many people injured and damaged cars," he added. A few minutes later, still in Sadr City, a bomb hidden under a pile of garbage exploded. One person was killed and five others injured.

While in the field of Bayaa, the morning calm broken when five bombs exploded in turn. The first bomb exploded targeting a police patrol. A minute later another bomb exploded in the shops in the area. Followed by two bombs planted on the highway. Finally, a vehicle bomb exploded at an intersection. A series of bombings in this Bayaa killed five people, including two policemen. While 15 others were injured. Until now there has been no immediate claim for responsibility for the bombings.

Indonesia's Govt Projects Growth at 6.5 - 6.9 Pct

The government has projected the domestic economy to expand by a range of 6.5-6.9 percent in 2012, or slightly higher than the economic growth forecast of 6.3 percent set under the 2011 state budget.

Strong domestic consumption, solid investment inflows and improving export performance are expected to remain the engine of economic growth next year. The improving export performance will be inseparable from the good prospects of the world economy after it saw years of slowdown.

"In 2012, the government believes that the global economy will be getting more prospective. For Indonesia, it will of course have a good impact on the national economy. Therefore, we are optimistic that the economy will accelerate to a level of 6.5-6.9 percent," Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo said when explaining the frame of macro economy and fiscal policy of 2012 at a plenary meeting with the House of Representatives (DPR) here on Friday.

To support the attainment of the 2012 economic growth, Agus Martowardojo said the government also had adopted a number of strategic policies, including increasing the competitive edge of domestic industry, strengthening domestic consumption and improving the investment climate both in the financial sector and the real sector.

In addition, he said the government would also pay special attention to the development of infrastructure facilities both in urban and rural areas. Among the sectors that will be high on the list of the government’s priorities next year will be energy and electricity, transportation, communication, health, and education.

"The government will strive to increase funding support from banks or non-bank financial institutions, capital market, foreign and domestic capital investment, capital spending from the central and regional governments, state-owned and regional government-owned companies," Agus said.

Despite the good prospects of the economic performance in 2012, a lot of global and domestic challenges still had yet to be monitored closely, he said. Among the global challenges were unequal global economic recovery, continuing crisis in Europe, global currency war and potential hike in the world oil price that would affect inflation.

"On the domestic side, fundamental improvement is needed in the investment climate to increase direct investment performance to support real sector performance and open access to new employment," he said.

For its part, the government would strengthen the country’s economic fundamentals by creating policies that would support strong economic expansion and encouraging sustainable macro-economic stability.

"The government would also conduct total evaluation and create innovations and new policies in various economic dimensions, such as on regulatory aspects, business procedures, legal, taxation, land acquisition, bureaucratic performance and infrastructure conditions," he said.

Deputy Minister of National Development Planning Lukita Dinasyah Tuwo said recently the Indonesian economy might grow 7 percent in 2012. He said the current economic conditions were very conducive to the acceleration of national economic growth.

Among the indicators of conducive economic conditions were rising per capita income hitting a record high of US$3,005 and foreign exchange reserves rising to US$105 billion. Lukita said 2012 was one of the gateways to accelerate and expand the national economic growth, adding 2009 and 2010 were the years of national economic recovery from the global economic crisis and 2011 was the year of speeding up the national economic growth.

Bank Indonesia Governor Darmin Nasution said early this year he believed the prospect of the Indonesian economy would remain strong, with gross domestic product (GDP) expected to reach 6.3 percent in 2011 and 2012.

"The GDP in 2011 and 2012 is expected to grow at a brisk 6.3 percent each, particularly fueled by domestic demand and accelerated investment," he said.

Bank Indonesia has predicted the Indonesian economic growth will show an upward trend until 2015, from 6.0-6.5 percent in 2011, to 6.1-6.6 percent in 2012, 6.2-7.1 percent in 2013, 6.3-7.3 percent in 2014, and 6.5-7.5 percent in 2015.

Head of Bank Indonesia Monetary Policy Bureau Sugeng said recently the high growth must be accompanied by the government’s efforts to reduce dependence on imported goods so that the inflation rate accompanying the growth would not be high.

In its annual economic report published recently, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines, will grow 5.5 percent in 2011 and 5.7 percent in 2012. Indonesia and Vietnam are expected to expand more than 6 percent for the two-year period.

PT Bank Muamalat Finance and Operations Director Hendiarto has predicted the Indonesian economy would continue to pick up in 2012 thanks to rising foreign investment in the domestic capital market. "I am optimistic that Indonesia will remain an attractive place to invest in view of the high reference interest rate," he said.

The rupiah’s strengthening which left far behind the government-set target of Rp9,250 per dollar suggested that foreign investors had great interests in investing in Asia, Indonesia in particular. The Indonesian economy grew by 6.5 percent in the first quarter of 2011, particularly driven by strong consumption and exports.

Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo said on Thursday the national economic growth was lower than that of Vietnam 6.8 percent, Singapore 8.5 percent, and China 9.7 percent but it was higher than that of South Korea 4.2 percent.

The minister said the first-quarter economic growth was 55.7 percent contributed by public consumption. Meanwhile, investment grew 31.3 percent, exports 27.5 percent and imports 29.5 percent compared to the same period last year.

He said foreign investors’ confidence in the Indonesian economy remained high as reflected by strong foreign capital inflows. Positive sentiments in the global stock exchanges had caused the share composite index (IHGS) to strengthen and prompted the rupiah to record the highest appreciation among the regional currencies.

"In April alone, capital inflows in the state bond market reached Rp9.85 trillion, the share market Rp17.5 trillion and SBI (Bank Indonesia Certificates) Rp9.71 trillion," he said.

Meanwhile, acting chief of the Fiscal Policy Board at the Finance Ministry Bambang Brodjonegoro said the balance of payment would still record a significant surplus in the second quarter of 2011. The surplus would originate both from current transactions and capital and financial transactions.

He stated the current transactions in the first quarter of 2011 recorded a surplus of US$1.9 billion and the figure was expected to reach US$4.4 billion throughout this year. The capital and financial transactions meanwhile recorded a surplus of US$6.2 billion in the first quarter of 2011, fueled by foreign direct investment and portfolio investment.

Oil Tanker Terror Hijacks Easy, Attacks Complex

Supertankers — the hulking, slow-moving ships that transport half the world's oil — have few defenses against terrorist hijackers like those envisioned by Osama bin Laden, security experts said Saturday.

Al-Qaida operatives with enough training could easily manage to capture ships carrying millions of gallons of oil or liquefied natural gas. All they would have to do is imitate the tactics of Somali pirates who already use small boats to overpower tanker crews in mostly remote locations, the experts said. Few supertankers have armed guards, due to gun import laws and the risk of accidental gunfire igniting explosive cargos.

But once terrorists captured a supertanker, it wouldn't be so easy to sow the economic chaos and costly environmental destruction bin Laden desired and outlined in secret files captured from his Pakistan hideout. It's actually extremely complex to blow up a supertanker or even sink it near heavily guarded oil shipping lanes like the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal or the Strait of Hormuz at the end of the Persian Gulf.

"It would only be a risk if they could sail it undetected and had worked out how to blow it up, which is pretty complicated," said Graeme Gibbon-Brooks, the head of Dryad Maritime Intelligence.

The FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a confidential warning to authorities and the energy industry Friday that al-Qaida was seeking information on the size and construction of tankers.

The newly revealed plot showed that while bin Laden was scheming about the next strike to kill thousands of Americans, he also believed an attack on the oil industry in "non-Muslim waters" could create a worldwide economic panic that would send oil prices soaring and hurt Westerners at the gas pump.

Other bin Laden documents revealed that the terror group identified New York, Washington, Los Angeles and Chicago as important cities that should be attacked. Al-Qaida also identified key dates for those attacks, including the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Christmas, July 4th and during Obama's State of the Union address in January.

Oil already is a known target. On Saturday, a truck tanker carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan exploded in northwestern Pakistan as people tried to siphon off fuel, killing 15. Fourteen other NATO oil trucks were damaged in a bombing at a nearby border town, but no one was hurt.

The hundreds of seafaring oil tankers that travel across the planet daily are theoretically capable of igniting massive fires with the capability for extensive destruction.

Intelligence gathered from bin Laden's hideout revealed that al-Qaida realized the tankers would have to be boarded so explosives could be planted inside them. Security experts say, however, blowing them up would be difficult because the tankers have double hulls and compartmentalized holds that prevent oil spills in groundings and can withstand direct hits from rocket propelled grenades.

Plus, getting enough explosives aboard the tankers would mean using more speedboats than Somali hijackers normally do to take over the ships and hold crews hostage, Gibbon-Brooks said.

Somali pirates have already captured five supertankers, proving that men with little training and basic weapons can easily seize the giant ships. Supertankers move slowly when fully loaded, can be longer than three football fields and generally only have around 20 unarmed crew onboard.

Although the size of the ships makes them vulnerable, their slow speed also makes it harder for terrorists to sneak one into a port or a narrow shipping passage. Ships are closely tracked via satellite and any unexplained deviations from their travel plans would immediately raise alarms.

While al-Qaida's most brazen sea attack was on the USS Cole in Yemen, the explosives that knocked a hole in the destroyer and killed 17 sailors in 2000 would not sink a double-hulled oil tanker. Other marine attacks have been botched. An attempt to blow up the USS The Sullivans warship failed in 2000 when the plotters overloaded their speedboat with explosives and it sank en route to the mission.

The 2002 suicide bombing of a tanker off the coast of Yemen damaged the ship but didn't sink it. And last year a suicide bomber only slightly damaged the Japanese tanker M. Star in the Straits of Hormuz, which handles 40 percent of the world's tanker traffic. An obscure al-Qaida-linked group claimed responsibility.

After those attempts, al-Qaida decided attackers have to board a ship and blow it up from the inside, according to documents seized by U.S. special forces from the compound where bin Laden was killed nearly three weeks ago.

Despite the difficulties, warnings abound that several groups have the capability to pull off a terror attack on a supertanker, especially in Asian waters. The al-Qaida-affiliated Abu Sayyaf militia remotely detonated a bomb on a ferry in Manila Bay in the Philippines in 2004, igniting an inferno that killed 116 people.

Small cargo barges and fishing boats have been attacked by militants, some of whom have taken diving lessons that Filipino authorities suspect were preludes to maritime attacks. In March 2010, Singapore's navy raised its security alert, warning that an unspecified terrorist group was planning attacks on oil tankers and other vessels in the Malacca Strait, which separates Malaysia from the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

While authorities fear that al-Qaida may link up with the Somali pirates who have become so adept at hijacking cargo ships, experts say the chance of any such alliance is remote because the pirates are in the hijacking business for the multimillion-dollar ransoms they get from holding ship crews hostage. If the pirates started working with terrorists, that could seriously hurt their business, said Roger Middleton, a piracy expert with London's Chatham House think tank.

"They're multimillionaires running a very important business and don't want to see that jeopardized by too much politics," he said.

To counter attacks, tanker owners have begun putting barbed wire around ship guardrails and installing firehoses that can launch high pressure jets of water at attackers. They are also installing bulletproof glass around ship bridges and accommodation quarters, a vessel's two most vulnerable areas, said Chris Austen, the head of Maritime and Underwater Security Consultants.

Some shipping companies also insist their tankers travel through pirate-infested waters only in convoys, added Crispian Cuss, program director at Olive Group, one of the biggest security companies working in the Middle East.

If hijackers decide they can't get onboard and steer a ship toward a target without detection, they might try to seize a vessel in port — but that would be much risker given the global port security measures in effect in the last decade.

The al-Qaida plot found in bin Laden's hideout also mentioned attacking oil facilities, but most oil terminals are considered strategic installations — meaning they are protected by roving coast guard boats, radar, divers who conduct inspections and heavy security. Brazil, for example, is justifying the cost of developing a nuclear submarine to protect its vast offshore oil fields.

Security levels vary, but the ports that terrorists value the most generally have the heaviest protection, Cuss said. "A port in Sudan is not going to have the same level of security as Houston," he said.

The latest plots show that bin Laden was clearly thinking about the economic consequences of his attacks and might even have been planning a devastating oil spill, said Tim Hart, a maritime security analyst at Maritime and Underwater Security Consultants. That means Western security forces might have to take strong action sometime at sea.

In 2007, a Japanese tanker was hijacked carrying 40,000 tons of benzene, a highly explosive chemical. Intelligence officials feared at first that terrorists might try to crash the tanker into an offshore oil platform or use it as a gigantic bomb. In the end, it proved to be just another attack by pirates seeking ransom.

Naval forces were, however, ready attack the ship and blow it up at sea if it approached populated areas, a Western diplomat confirmed, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

Palm fate in the hands of Hewlett packard (HP)

Palm fate in the hands of hewlett packard (HP) finally clear after a declared completed the acquisition on Thursday (01/07/2010). Platform WebOS which is the most advanced portfolio of man-made Palm will use the HP to the various product lines.

"Palm will retain responsibilities in software development and product-based WebOS WebOS from smartphone (smart phone) to your PC slate (tablet) and netbooks, "said the official pernyataaan Palm HP business units.'ll Be under the Personal Systems Group, HP and is expected HP's market share increase in business smart phones and other mobile devices valued at 100 billion U.S. dollars.

This confirms speculation that HP would make a WebOS platform as the main business of mobile devices (mobile devices), such as a PDA that never developed and the tablet / slate which is still a prototype stage. Working closely with Microsoft to use Windows platform on smart phones and tablets are also becoming blurred.

For information, Palm agreed to take over HP's worth of 1.2 billion U.S. dollars last April 28 after the company continued to experience losses. Although pioneered the smart phone product through the Palm Treo, Palm finally failed to compete with Apple and BlackBerry smart phone market. Palm also has tried to enter the netbook market, but failed before issuing its first product. 

wimax internet expense cuts promised 40 percent

PT First Media Tbk internet that promise to lower rates 40 percent in the next three months based 4G operator services through Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), the newly formed, Sitra Wimax Tea. Jerome, Chief Marketing Officer of Sitra explain cheaper rates Internet users can be found as Wimax is data-based technology that works on a broadband spectrum as Wi-Fi. But wider coverage and faster transmission capacity of 75 Mbps. "We officially launched its WiMAX 4G Sitra brand starting on Monday (28 / 6) During the three months from now, people are given the opportunity to try out WiMax services .. After that we were officially sell it commercially," said Jerome, as reported by Kontan site on Monday ( 28 / 6 / 2010).

According to Jerome, the presence of Wimax will change the competitive landscape of data access in Indonesia the same. So that would force the players that lower prices have access to quality data but that still was. For information, before the auction begins bidder BWA estimate internet tariffs will drop from Rp 750,000 to 1 Mbps per month, Rp 300,000 and Rp 500,000 for 1 Mbps per month. "For now the new Sitra provides higher quality, but cost the same. Because the regulation of BWA just asked us to provide access to data ranging from 256 Kbps," he said. Sitra will take care of the zone of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA), which last year won by tender of First Media and North Jakarta. But for the early stages, Sitra's Wimax will be present in Jakarta, Banten, Depok, Bekasi, and Tangerang first.

"We provide funding of about USD 236 billion just to get licenses and fees (BHP), the frequency of the first year. As for infrastructure development, investment is more than that, "he said, refusing to elaborate further

ATM hijack two new techniques

Still fresh in the memory of how the crime with the skimming technique to rake in money at an ATM customer's widespread in Indonesia. Due to piracy techniques reap losses due to bank ATMs to replace funds lost pelangannya crime. ATM Skimming through to profit from customers because it is done by way of stealing an ATM card PIN as the entrance of the transaction. In fact, there is piracy ATM that is not less dangerous technique to use software hacking techniques.

A hacker from IOActive, a leading digital security company based in the U.S. and Britain, will reveal two new techniques hijack ATM at Black Hat USA conference that is scheduled to be held in Sin City in late July 2010. He will present his paper "Jackpotting Automated Teller Machine."

"I am always happy to see the scene in Terminator 2 when John Connor went to the ATM and then brought her into the card reader device Atari and taking money from an ATM machine," said Jack in the Black Hat site. "I think I can do the same." Jack promised to bring two new models of ATM machines among the types of ATM machines used by some banks today to show. According to this technique can release large amounts of money from an ATM, either directly or remotely.

Initially, the discovery of techniques will be demonstrated in the same conference in Las Vegas last year. However, the plan failed at the last minute with the excuse of non-issues technically outside the control that he called at that time. IOActive said that the techniques used by bad guys berpoetensi to deplete ATM. It also has warned ATM manufacturers to anticipate weaknesses. Besides stating ATM plowing techniques, he also will present how to protect the ATM machine from a potential crime.

Blackberry outlets available throughout Indonesia

Official Outlet BlackBerry is now available not only in big cities, but also in various districts in cities across Indonesia. Research In Motion has added outlets in various cities by working with partners in retail sales and service partners.

"Customers can now buy a smartphone BlackBerry at convenient locations throughout Indonesia. The addition of retail distribution channels will further enhance accessibility to the BlackBerry solution "Research In Motion said in a statement on Wednesday (06/23/2010) received Kompas.com, . To find the outlet nearest you or check the number of outlets in the city that you want RIM has provided a search feature on their site in http://id.blackberry.com/dealer . Enter city outlet option only to perform a search option available. To perform a more detailed pencarina also available piliha desired operator and the name of the dealers who distribute.

"Customers no longer need to worry about the quality of their BlackBerry smartphones that are purchased from authorized retail channels. They can also enjoy professional customer service and special promotions from time to time," said RIM. Previously, RIM had received complaints because BlackBerry devices sold in the market is not functioning properly. Many devices are contraband, so there is no guarantee of quality. The presence of an official outlet semakain also anticipate many problems. RIM also has established an authorized service centers in several cities in Indonesia to provide after-sales service more quickly.

Blackberry finally scored record sales

Research In Motion (RIM), Canada, maker of the BlackBerry, claims to have scored record sales in the first quarter of this fiscal year. The company is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, has revealed has shipped 11.2 million devices in the quarter ended on 29 May, an increase compared to same period the previous year which only 10.5 million units. With the result, RIM's record first-quarter net profit amounted to 769 million dollars, up 19.5 percent compared with the same quarter last year, while revenues grew 24 percent to 4.24 billion U.S. dollars. These results are still below the revenue estimates RIM.

The number of service users the BlackBerry is expected to grow 4.9 million subscribers during the first quarter, or about the size of the total customer additions in the previous quarter. The number of service users BlackBerry is currently estimated to reach 46 million subscribers. "We believe that the various products attract new Blackberry, which was launched in the coming months will create significant opportunities to accelerate the growth of RIM," said Co-CEO of RIM, Jim Balsillie in a statement on Thursday (24/06/2010).

Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that RIM is developing a touch screen smart phone with-out keyboard and a tablet computer slides to widescreen support services for the BlackBerry. Such a move is likely designed to prevent market BlackBerry taken by the iPhone and Apple iPad creations as well as mobile devices that use the Android operating system owned by Google .