Friday 31 August 2012

2012 FORMULA 1 SHELL BELGIAN GRAND PRIX

(RACE DAY)
Classified:

Pos  Driver        Team                       Time
 1.  Button        McLaren-Mercedes           1h29:08.530
 2.  Vettel        Red Bull-Renault           +    13.624
 3.  Raikkonen     Lotus-Renault              +    25.334
 4.  Hulkenberg    Force India-Mercedes       +    27.843
 5.  Massa         Ferrari                    +    29.845
 6.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault           +    31.244
 7.  Schumacher    Mercedes                   +    53.374
 8.  Vergne        Toro Rosso-Ferrari         +    58.865
 9.  Ricciardo     Toro Rosso-Ferrari         +  1:02.982
10.  Di Resta      Force India-Mercedes       +  1:03.783
11.  Rosberg       Mercedes                   +  1:05.111
12.  Senna         Williams-Renault           +  1:11.529
13.  Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari             +  1:56.119
14.  Petrov        Caterham-Renault           +     1 lap
15.  Glock         Marussia-Cosworth          +     1 lap
16.  Pic           Marussia-Cosworth          +     1 lap
17.  Kovalainen    Caterham-Renault           +     1 lap
18.  De la Rosa    HRT-Cosworth               +     1 lap

Fastest lap: Senna, 1:52.822

Not classified/retirements:

Driver        Team                         On lap
Karthikeyan   HRT-Cosworth                 30
Maldonado     Williams-Renault             5
Perez         Sauber-Ferrari               1
Alonso        Ferrari                      1
Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes             1
Grosjean      Lotus-Renault                1
(QUALIFYING)
Pos Driver             Car                  Time
 1. Jenson Button      McLaren-Mercedes     1m47.573s - Q3 
 2. Kamui Kobayashi    Sauber-Ferrari       1m47.871s - Q3
 3. Pastor Maldonado   Williams-Renault     1m47.893s - Q3
 4. Kimi Raikkonen     Lotus-Renault        1m48.205s - Q3
 5. Sergio Perez       Sauber-Ferrari       1m48.219s - Q3
 6. Fernando Alonso    Ferrari              1m48.313s - Q3
 7. Mark Webber        Red Bull-Renault     1m48.392s - Q3*
 8. Lewis Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes     1m48.394s - Q3
 9. Romain Grosjean    Lotus-Renault        1m48.538s - Q3
10. Paul di Resta      Force India-Mercedes 1m48.890s - Q3
11. Sebastian Vettel   Red Bull-Renault     1m49.722s - Q2
12. Nico Hulkenberg    Force India-Mercedes 1m49.362s - Q2
13. Michael Schumacher Mercedes             1m49.742s - Q2
14. Felipe Massa       Ferrari              1m49.588s - Q2
15. Jean-Eric Vergne   Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1m49.763s - Q2
16. Daniel Ricciardo   Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1m49.572s - Q2
17. Bruno Senna        Williams-Renault     1m49.958s - Q2
18. Nico Rosberg       Mercedes             1m50.181s - Q1*
19. Heikki Kovalainen  Caterham-Renault     1m51.739s - Q1
20. Vitaly Petrov      Caterham-Renault     1m51.967s - Q1
21. Timo Glock         Marussia-Cosworth    1m52.336s - Q1
22. Pedro de la Rosa   HRT-Cosworth         1m53.030s - Q1
23. Charles Pic        Marussia-Cosworth    1m53.493s - Q1
24. Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth         1m54.989s - Q1
    107 per cent time:                      1m56.622s
* Will take five-place penalty
(PRACTICE 3)
Pos Driver             Car                  Time       Gap
 1. Fernando Alonso    Ferrari              1m48.542s
 2. Kimi Raikkonen     Lotus-Renault        1m48.683s  + 0.141s
 3. Sergio Perez       Sauber-Ferrari       1m48.850s  + 0.308s
 4. Kamui Kobayashi    Sauber-Ferrari       1m48.863s  + 0.321s
 5. Jenson Button      McLaren-Mercedes     1m49.091s  + 0.549s
 6. Felipe Massa       Ferrari              1m49.092s  + 0.550s
 7. Mark Webber        Red Bull-Renault     1m49.164s  + 0.622s
 8. Romain Grosjean    Lotus-Renault        1m49.266s  + 0.724s
 9. Sebastian Vettel   Red Bull-Renault     1m49.292s  + 0.750s
10. Paul di Resta      Force India-Mercedes 1m49.382s  + 0.840s
11. Pastor Maldonado   Williams-Renault     1m49.561s  + 1.019s
12. Lewis Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes     1m49.615s  + 1.073s
13. Michael Schumacher Mercedes             1m49.621s  + 1.079s 
14. Nico Hulkenberg    Force India-Mercedes 1m49.674s  + 1.132s
15. Jean-Eric Vergne   Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1m49.710s  + 1.168s
16. Daniel Ricciardo   Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1m49.776s  + 1.234s
17. Bruno Senna        Williams-Renault     1m50.027s  + 1.485s
18. Heikki Kovalainen  Caterham-Renault     1m52.339s  + 3.797s
19. Charles Pic        Marussia-Cosworth    1m52.566s  + 4.024s
20. Timo Glock         Marussia-Cosworth    1m52.630s  + 4.088s
21. Vitaly Petrov      Caterham-Renault     1m52.809s  + 4.267s
22. Pedro de la Rosa   HRT-Cosworth         1m53.383s  + 4.841s
23. Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth         1m53.562s  + 5.020s
24. Nico Rosberg       Mercedes             1m58.113s  + 9.571s
(PRACTICE 2)
Second practice for the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa was a near-total washout, with not a single competitive laptime set.
Pos Driver             Car                  Time       Gap
 1. Charles Pic        Marussia-Cosworth    2m49.354s
 2. Daniel Ricciardo   Toro Rosso-Ferrari   2m49.750s  + 0.396s
 3. Fernando Alonso    Ferrari              2m50.497s  + 1.143s
 4. Paul di Resta      Force India-Mercedes 2m51.333s  + 1.979s
 5. Pastor Maldonado   Williams-Renault     2m51.660s  + 2.306s
 6. Timo Glock         Marussia-Cosworth    2m52.076s  + 2.722s
 7. Kamui Kobayashi    Sauber-Ferrari       2m53.232s  + 3.878s
 8. Jean-Eric Vergne   Toro Rosso-Ferrari   2m58.232s  + 8.878s
 9. Nico Hulkenberg    Force India-Mercedes 2m59.125s  + 9.771s
10. Sergio Perez       Sauber-Ferrari       3m12.901s  + 23.547s
11. Nico Rosberg       Mercedes
12. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 
13. Heikki Kovalainen  Caterham-Renault
14. Lewis Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes
15. Sebastian Vettel   Red Bull-Renault
16. Jenson Button      McLaren-Mercedes
17. Felipe Massa       Ferrari
18. Bruno Senna        Williams-Renault
(PRACTICE 1)
Pos Driver             Car                  Time       Gap
 1. Kamui Kobayashi    Sauber-Ferrari       2m11.389s
 2. Pastor Maldonado   Williams-Renault     2m11.941s  + 0.552s
 3. Daniel Ricciardo   Toro Rosso-Ferrari   2m12.004s  + 0.615s
 4. Jean-Eric Vergne   Toro Rosso-Ferrari   2m12.824s  + 1.435s
 5. Mark Webber        Red Bull-Renault     2m13.191s  + 1.802s
 6. Sergio Perez       Sauber-Ferrari       2m13.861s  + 2.472s
 7. Nico Rosberg       Mercedes             2m14.210s  + 2.821s
 8. Valtteri Bottas    Williams-Renault     2m14.660s  + 3.271s
 9. Sebastian Vettel   Red Bull-Renault     2m14.860s  + 3.471s
10. Michael Schumacher Mercedes             2m15.402s  + 4.013s
11. Paul di Resta      Force India-Mercedes 2m15.812s  + 4.423s
12. Timo Glock         Marussia-Cosworth    2m16.409s  + 5.020s
13. Nico Hulkenberg    Force India-Mercedes 2m16.786s  + 5.397s
14. Vitaly Petrov      Caterham-Renault     2m16.788s  + 5.399s
15. Lewis Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes     2m16.827s  + 5.438s
16. Jenson Button      McLaren-Mercedes     2m16.861s  + 5.472s
17. Charles Pic        Marussia-Cosworth    2m17.519s  + 6.130s
18. Heikki Kovalainen  Caterham-Renault     2m18.199s  + 6.810s
19. Pedro de la Rosa   HRT-Cosworth         2m19.546s  + 8.157s
20. Dani Clos          HRT-Cosworth         2m19.689s  + 8.300s
21. Romain Grosjean    Lotus-Renault        2m38.701s  + 27.312s
22. Fernando Alonso    Ferrari              2m40.749s  + 29.360s
23. Kimi Raikkonen     Lotus-Renault        2m46.580s  + 35.191s
24. Felipe Massa       Ferrari

Tuesday 28 August 2012

ASUS Eee PC X101CH

Netbook ini saya beli dengan harga RM650.00 sahaja pada 26/8/2012. Harga pasaran sekarang ialah RM959.00. Dapat murah sebab kawan lelong dengan alasan tak sesuai dan baru berusia kira-kira dua bulan sahaja.

Specifications
Operating system         : Genuine Windows® 7 Starter, 32bit
Display                         : 10.1" LED Backlight WSVGA (1024x600) Screen
CPU                              : Intel® Atom™ N2600 (Dual Core; 1.6GHz) Processor
Memory                        : DDR3, 1 x On Board Memory, 2GB 
Storage                          :  320GB HDD, 3 GB Web Storage with Windows® 7
Wireless Data Network: WLAN 802.11 b/g/n@2.4GHz, Bluetooth V3.0
Camera                          : 0.3 MP Camera
Audio                             : High Quality Speaker
Battery                           : 3cells, 2.2Ah
Dimentions                    : 262 x 180 x 22 mm (WxDxH) 
Weight                            : 1 Kgs (w/ 3cell battery)

Sejurus selepas sampai di tangan, saya terus buat 'recovery' (macam telefon bimbit 'restore factory setting'). Cara buat recovery ialah seperti berikut:-
  1. 'Shut down the netbook'
  2. 'Switch on' dan tekan F9 berulang-ulang sehingga skrin 'window Boot Manager' muncul
  3. Pilih 'windows setup [EMS Enable]' dan tekan Enter
  4. Pilih bahasa '1. English' dan klik butang "--->"
  5. Klik butang "recovery" pada skrin 'recovery system' dan segala-galanya berjalan secara automatik.
  6. Baca dan ikut arahan sehingga semua siap dalam kira-kira 30 minit.
Lepas 'recovery' screen resolution cuma '800 x 600'. Untuk menaiktaraf screen resolution, download VGA Versi V8.14.8.1075 di sini.

Kemudian 'extract all' file yang telah di 'compress/zipped' dan klik 'setup'. Semuanya berjalan secara automatik sehingga anda disuruh 'restart'. Lepas 'restart' screen resolution ialah 1024 x 600.

Walaupun ianya ialah netbook terpakai tetapi selepas 'recovery' kini segala-galanya seperti yang baru.

Half-naked man found dead on Kuala Baram beach (Batu 1)

MIRI: An unidentified man clad only in a t-shirt was found dead at the Sarawak Maritime Training Centre (SMTC) Batu 1 Kuala Baram beach on Tuesday morning.

The victim, who is believed to be Malaysian based on his BCG inoculation mark, was found lying face down on the beach by members of the public.

His hands were tied behind his back with a pair of underwear.

Miri Police Chief ACP Mun Kock Keong told reporters they had received a call from unidentified members of public at about 8.30am informing them about the man.

“We visited the crime site and found the victim lying face down on the beach with his hands tied behind his back,” said Mun adding that based on initial investigations done on a wound found on the left side of the victim's face and the fresh blood, the victim had died within the last 24 hours.

Mun said the wound found on the victim's face was believed to have been caused by a sharp object.

“There were a pool of blood on the sand within the vicinity of the victim's body but we have yet to identify whose blood it is,” he said adding that they had yet to ascertain the identity of the victim as no personal identification documents were found on the body.

Mun said the man was about five foot two inches in height, and had a dragon tattoo mark on his back, a floral tattoo on his left arm, and a Chinese “Yin and Yang” tattoo on his right arm.
When asked whether the underwear used to tie the victim's hands was his own, Mun said he was “not sure.”

The police have classified this case as murder and are investigating it under 302 of the Penal Code.

“There has been no missing persons report made in Miri so far,” he said, adding that the police would expand the missing persons search throughout Sarawak.

Mun said the forensic team had processed the crime site and the body had been transferred to Miri General Hospital mortuary for the postmortem.

“We will only know the actual cause of death after the postmortem has been carried out,” said Mun.

Mun also urged members of the public who had any information relating to the case to contact the police, himself, or Investigation Officer ASP Zainal at 0111-2099878.
The Star
The Borneo Post

Sunday 26 August 2012

First Man on Moon Neil Armstrong Dies At 82

Neil Armstrong, the astronaut who marked an epochal achievement in exploration with "one small step" from the Apollo 11 lunar module on July 20, 1969, becoming the first person to walk on the moon, died overnight at 82.

His family announced the death in a statement but did not disclose where he died. They attributed it to "complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures."

A taciturn engineer and test pilot who was never at ease with his fame, Mr Armstrong was among the most famous Americans of the 1960s Cold War space race.

Twelve years after the Soviet Sputnik satellite reached space first, deeply alarming US officials, and after President John F. Kennedy in 1961 declared it a national priority to land an American on the moon "before this decade is out," Mr Armstrong, a former Navy fighter pilot, commanded the NASA crew that finished the job.

His trip to the moon — particularly the hair-raising final descent from lunar orbit to the treacherous surface — was history's boldest feat of aviation. Yet what the experience meant to him, what he thought of it all on an emotional level, he mostly kept to himself.

Like his boyhood idol, transatlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh, Mr Armstrong learned how uncomfortable the intrusion of global acclaim can be. And just as Lindbergh had done, he eventually shied from the public and avoided the popular media.

In time, he became almost mythical.

Mr Armstrong was "exceedingly circumspect" from a young age, and the glare of international attention "just deepened a personality trait that he already had in spades," said his authorised biographer, James Hansen, a former NASA historian.

In an interview, Hansen, author of First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, cited another "special sensitivity" that made the first man on the moon a stranger on Earth.

"I think Neil knew that this glorious thing he helped achieve for the country back in the summer of 1969 — glorious for the entire planet, really — would inexorably be diminished by the blatant commercialism of the modern world," Hansen said.

"And I think it's a nobility of his character that he just would not take part in that."

The perilous, 195-hour journey that defined Mr Armstrong's place in history — from the liftoff of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969, to the capsule's splashdown in the Pacific eight days later — riveted the world's attention, transcending cultural, political and generational divides in an era of profound social tumult and change in the United States.

As Mr Armstrong, a civilian, and his crew mates, Air Force pilots Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins, hurtled through space, television viewers around the globe witnessed a drama of spellbinding technology and daring. About a half-billion people listened to the climactic landing and watched a flickering video feed of the moon walk.

At centre stage, cool and focused, was a pragmatic, 38-year-old astronaut who would let social critics and spiritual wise men dither over the larger meaning of his voyage. When Mr. Armstrong occasionally spoke publicly about the mission in later decades, he usually did so dryly, his recollections mainly operational.

"I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer," he said at a millennial gathering honoring the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century. Unlike Aldrin and Collins, Mr Armstrong never published a memoir.

After flying experimental rocket planes in the 1950s at Edwards Air Force Base in California — the high-desert realm of daredevil test pilots later celebrated in author Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff — Mr Armstrong was selected for NASA's astronaut corps in 1962 and became the first US civilian to be blasted into space.

In 1966, during his only space flight other than Apollo 11, a life-threatening malfunction of his Gemini 8 vehicle caused the craft to tumble out of control in Earth orbit. It was the nation's first potentially fatal crisis in space, prompting Mr Armstrong and his crew mate, David Scott, to abort their mission and carry out NASA's first emergency reentry.

His skill and composure were put to no greater test, though, than in the anxious minutes starting at 4:05pm Eastern (US) time on Sunday, July 20, 1969. That was when the lunar module carrying Mr Armstrong and Aldrin, having separated from the Apollo 11 capsule, began its hazardous, 14.5km final descent to the moon's Sea of Tranquility.

Collins, waiting in lunar orbit, could only hope that the two would make it back.

The lunar module, or LM (pronounced lem), was dubbed "Eagle." Its 1969 computer, overtaxed during the descent and flashing alarm lights as it fell behind on its work, guided the spider-like craft most of the way to the surface.

In the last few thousand feet, however, Mr. Armstrong, looking out a window, saw that the computer had piloted Eagle beyond its targeted landing spot. The craft was headed for a massive crater surrounded by boulders as big as cars.

Mr Armstrong, as planned, took manual control of the LM at 150 metres. Standing in the cramped cockpit, piloting with a control stick and toggle switch, he maneuvered past the crater while scanning the rugged moonscape for a place to safely put down.

Although the world remembers him best for walking on the moon, Mr Armstrong recalled his time on the surface as anti-climactic, "something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable." Flying the LM was "by far the most difficult and challenging part" of the mission, he told a group of youngsters in a 2007 email exchange.

The "very high risk" descent was "extremely complex," he wrote, and guiding the craft gave him a "feeling of elation."

"Pilots take no particular joy in walking," he once remarked. "Pilots like flying."

As he and Aldrin kept descending, balanced on a cone of fire 385,000km from Earth, the LM's roaring engine kicked up a fog of moon dust, distorting Mr. Armstrong's depth perception and clouding his view of the surface.

Meanwhile, the descent engine's fuel — separate from the fuel that would later power the ascent engine on their departure from the moon — dwindled to a critical level.

"Quantity light," Aldrin warned at just under 30.5m. This meant that Mr Armstrong, according to NASA's instruments, had less than two minutes to ease the LM to the surface or he would have faced a frightful dilemma.

He would have had to abort the descent, ending the mission in failure at a cost of immense national prestige and treasure; or he would have had to risk a sort of crash landing after the fuel ran out — letting the LM fall in lunar gravity the rest of the way down, hoping the slow-motion plunge wouldn't badly damage it.

Finally, with 50 seconds to spare, the world heard Aldrin say, "Contact light," and Eagle's landing gear settled on the lunar soil. Their precarious, 12-minute decent into the unknown left Mr Armstrong's pulse pounding at twice the normal rate.

Humanity listened, transfixed. "Houston, Tranquility base here," Mr Armstrong reported. "The Eagle has landed." The response from mission control was filled with relief: "Roger, Tranquility, we copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot."

About 6 1/2 hours later, Mr Armstrong, soon to be followed by Aldrin, climbed down the ladder outside the LM's hatch as a television camera mounted on the craft transmitted his shadowy, black-and-white image to hundreds of millions of viewers.

How Mr Armstrong wound up commanding the historic flight had to do with his abilities and experience, plus a measure of good fortune.

Months earlier, when he had been named Apollo 11 commander, NASA envisioned his mission as the first lunar landing — yet no one could be sure. Three other Apollo flights had to finish preparing the way. If any of them had failed, Apollo 11 would have had to pick up the slack, leaving the momentous first landing to a later crew.

Why the space agency chose Mr Armstrong, not Aldrin, for the famous first step out of the LM had to do with the two men's personalities.

Publicly, NASA said the first-step decision was a technical one dictated by where the astronauts would be positioned in the LM's small cockpit. But in his 2001 autobiography, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., a top NASA flight official, confirmed the true reason.

Aldrin, who would struggle with alcoholism and depression after his astronaut career, was overtly opinionated and ambitious, making it clear within NASA why he thought he should be first. "Did we think Buzz was the man who would be our best representative to the world, the man who would be legend?" Kraft recalled. "We didn't."

The stoic Mr Armstrong, on the other hand, quietly held to his belief that the descent and landing, not the moon walk, would be the mission's signature achievement. And it didn't matter to him whether the Earth-bound masses thought differently.

"Neil Armstrong, reticent, soft-spoken and heroic, was our only choice," Kraft said.

As for his famous statement upon stepping off the ladder, Mr Armstrong said he didn't dwell on it much beforehand, that the idea came to him only after the landing.

He would always maintain that he had planned to say "a man." Whether the "a" was lost in transmission or Mr Armstrong misspoke has never been fully resolved. As his boots touched the lunar surface at 10:56:15pm Eastern (US) time, the world heard:

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Ever the precise engineer, Mr. Armstrong later said that if it were up to him, history would record his immortal words with an "a" inserted in parenthesis.

Neil Alden Armstrong was born August 5, 1930, outside the little farming town of Wapakoneta in western Ohio. From the morning in 1936 when his father, an auditor of county records, let him skip Sunday school so the two could go aloft in a barnstorming Ford Trimotor plane near their home, the boy was hooked on aviation.

He got his pilot's licence on his 16th birthday, before he was legally old enough to go solo in an automobile.

After a few semesters at Purdue University, he left for Navy flight training in 1949, eventually becoming the youngest pilot in his fighter squadron on the aircraft carrier USS Essex. He flew 78 combat missions in the Korean War and was shot down once before his tour of duty ended and he went back to Purdue.

After earning an aeronautical engineering degree in 1955, he joined NASA's forerunner, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and was soon rocketing in the stratosphere, pushing the boundaries of aviation in missile-like research planes.

In 1959, at the beginning of the Mercury project, which would soon blast the first American into space, NASA chose its storied "original seven" astronauts from the ranks of active-duty military fliers. Mr Armstrong, who was less than enthusiastic about the program, remained at Edwards as a civilian test pilot.

Then, in 1962, his 2-year-old daughter, Karen, died of brain cancer. Mr. Armstrong's grief "caused him to invest [his] energies in something very positive," his sister recalled in an interview with Hansen. "That's when he started into the space program."

Not long after Karen's death, when NASA recruited its second group of astronauts, about 250 test pilots applied, and Mr Armstrong was among the nine who made the cut. Most took part in the Earth-orbiting Gemini missions of the mid-1960s, refining flight procedures that would be needed later in the moon-bound Apollo program.

Mr Armstrong's harrowing Gemini 8 flight, in March 1966, was aborted hours into its three-day schedule after the spacecraft began toppling end-over-end, pinwheeling so violently that Mr Armstrong, the commander, and crew mate David Scott were in danger of blacking out, which almost surely would have been fatal.

A malfunctioning thruster was the culprit. "I gotta cage my eyeballs," Mr. Armstrong remarked, deadpan, as he and Scott, their vision blurred, struggled to cut short their flight. NASA officials were impressed by Mr Armstrong's handling of the crisis, and three years later they entrusted him with command of the ultimate mission.

After weeks of hoopla surrounding Apollo 11's return — a ticker-tape parade, a presidential dinner, a 28-city global goodwill tour — Mr Armstrong worked in NASA management for two years, then joined the University of Cincinnati's engineering faculty.

"We were not naive, but we could not have guessed what the volume and intensity of public interest would turn out to be," he said of his worldwide celebrity.

Over the ensuing decades, Mr Armstrong, a solitary figure, warded off reporters' efforts to penetrate his privacy until most gave up or lost interest. Unhappy with faculty unionism, he resigned from the university in 1979 and spent the rest of his working life in business, amassing personal wealth as an investor and a member of corporate boards.

Although he was loathe to exploit his fame, Mr. Armstrong signed on as a pitchman for Chrysler in his waning months as a professor, appearing in ads for the nearly bankrupt automaker, including one that aired during the Super Bowl in January 1979.

He said he agreed to the deal mainly because it involved an engineering consultancy and because he wanted to help a beleaguered US company buffeted by imports and rising foreign oil prices. The arrangement was short-lived, however, and afterward Mr Armstrong repeatedly turned down opportunities to endorse products.

Hansen, now an aerospace historian at Auburn University, said Mr. Armstrong felt awkward taking credit for the collective success of 400,000 employees of the space agency and its Apollo contractors. In 2003, Hansen recorded 55 hours of interviews with Mr Armstrong after years of coaxing him to cooperate on a biography.

He was not a recluse, as some labeled him. In 1986, for instance, he was vice chairman of the commission that investigated the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

But that was a rare step into the spotlight. As a rule, Mr Armsrong was extremely choosey about his public appearances, limiting them mostly to aerospace-related commemorative events and to other usually low-key gatherings that piqued his interest, such as meetings of scientific and technical societies.

"The lunar Lindbergh," he was dubbed for his refusal to grant interviews to journalists. His remoteness also irked some NASA officials, who had vainly hoped that Mr Armstrong would become a forceful public advocate for the funding of space exploration.

"How long must it take before I can cease to be known as a spaceman?" he once pleaded. Yet by the time he retired in 2002, to leisurely travel and enjoy his grandchildren, the "First Man" finally had outlived the nation's fascination with him, and he could often walk down a street in blissful anonymity.

His 38-year marriage to the former Janet Shearon ended in divorce in 1994. Later that year, he married Carol Knight, a widowed mother of two teenagers. Besides his wife, survivors include two sons from his first marriage, Eric and Mark; two stepchildren; a brother; a sister; and 10 grandchildren.

"Looking back, we were really very privileged to live in that thin slice of history where we changed how man looks at himself, and what he might become, and where he might go," Mr. Armstrong said in a 2001 NASA oral history project. "So I'm very thankful."

The Washington Post

Friday 17 August 2012

Sabah Sarawak Menuntut Kembali Kemerdekaan

Samada anda tahu atau tidak, salah satu sebab Tunku Abdul Rahman memohon supaya Sabah dan Sarawak bergabung membentuk satu persyarikatan bernegara ialah kerana Malaya adalah sebuah negara miskin setelah kekayaannya dirompak habis oleh British. Dia hilang akal bagaimana selamatkan bangsanya yang hanya tahu mengagung-agungkan bangsanya. Apabila tiba giliran Tun Abdul Razak sebagai Perdana Menteri beberapa perancangan dalam hal pertanian yang dibuat. Tapi menemui kegagalan.

Sehingga hari ini, jumlah kekayaan Sabah yang dirompak Malaya tidak kurang daripada RM40 billion setiap tahun. Bagaimana ini boleh terjadi? Sebabnya ialah setelah UMNO berjaya bubarkan USNO, maka mudahlah dia pecah-pecahkan pemimpin KDM. Pemimpin yang lemah dan inginkan kedudukan sokong UMNO dan syaratnya harus ikut arahan pemimpin Malaya dalam UMNO.

Walau macamana pun perkara yang kurang bijak itu tidak selamanya menguasai pemikiran rakyat Sabah. Hari ini Perjanjian Malaysia dan sejarah pembentukan Malaysia bukan lagi perkara yang harus disorokkan oleh Malaya. Lebih-lebih lagi kerana ketamakan dan gila kuasa pemimpin Malaya, hari ini mereka telah terpecah kepada beberapa kumpulan.

Perpecahan itu menyebabkan mereka lemah. Peluang bagi masyarakat China dan India bersatu untuk memperjuangkan bangsa mereka yang juga ditindas orang-orang melayu selama ini. DAP sebagai rakan dalam PR mendapat perhatian bukan saja rakyat China dan India, tetapi juga sesetengah masyarakat melayu yang kecewa dengan bangsanya sendiri. Anwar sangat takut dengan kemenangan besar DAP di Malaya. PKR sudah kalah dengan DAP di Sarawak, walau pun dalam PRU 13 parlimen Sarawak. Hanya Sabah tempatnya bergantung. Untuk mengurangkan kekuatan DAP, PKR cuba berbaik-baik dengan SAPP. PKR akan meletakkan calon SAPP dalam parlimen yang seharusnya diduduki DAP. Sebab itu PKR setuju SAPP dapat tanding 40 kerusi DUN. Apa yang penting bagi PKR ialah kerusi MP. Pastinya PKR akan letakkan calonnya dalam kerusi MP untuk membolehkan dia menguasai kekayaan Sabah. Bagaimana? Dia akan membuat undang-undang di Parlimen sebagaimana cara UMNO Malaya rampas petroleum melalui Petronas dan kapal terbang nomand. Wakil parlimen di Sabah terpaksa ikut menyokong untuk selamatkan periuk nasi masing-masing. Mangsa adalah rakyat Sabah. Jelas, PKR berusaha mengekang sokongan masyarakat China dan India kepada DAP untuk mengelakkan DAP memerintah Malaya. Tapi masyarakat ini tidak sebodoh yang disangka PKR.

Kemenangan PR di Malaya dan kemenangan STAR di Sabah dan Sarawak adalah mimpi ngeri bagi PR. Sudah tentu 7 Agenda Borneo dilaksanakan tanpa restu kerajaan PR. Kenapa? Malaya tidak ada hak sedikit pun terhadap kemerdekaan Sabah dan Sarawak. Kemerdekaan Sabah dan Sarawak diiktiraf negara-negara komenwealth dan PBB, BUKAN malaya. Jika Malaya menjadi batu api untuk membuat huru hara terhadap negara Sabah dan Sarawak, ke dua-dua negara ini berhak mendapat bantuan PBB yang mengiktiraf kemerdekaannya. Sebagai sebuah negara merdeka, pemimpin Sabah dan Sarawak berhak membuat keputusan termasuk membalakangkan istana sekiranya pihak istana terus mengikut telunjuk malaya yang hanya sebagai rakan kongsi dalam Malaysia.

Mimpi ngeri PR adalah bagaimana kerajaannya menyelesaikan hutang-hutangnya kepada bank dunia, sekiranya dasar kabotaj dihapuskan, hasil petroleum dimiliki sepenuhnya oleh Sabah dan Sarawak, cukai sudah dimiliki Sabah dan Sarawak sementara tanah-tanah syarikat di Sabah bukan lagi milik syarikat tapi milik sepenuhnya kerajaan STAR Sabah dan Sarawak. Tanah-tanah itu nanti hanya disewakan kepada syarikat. Untuk selamatkan Malaya, mau tak mau PKR berusaha merampas 25 kerusi Parlimen Sabah walau pun malaya mempunyai 165 kerusi Parlimen. Sebab itulah saya katakan 25 kerusi emas parlimen Sabah itu sangat penting kepada parti Malaya.

Saudara.... kita telah pelihara malaya dan tuan-tuannya hampir 49 tahun. Apa yang kita dapat? Anjing, kalau diberi makan oleh tuannya, ia akan kibas-kibaskan ekornya sebagai isyarat terima kasih. Tapi malaya, tidak pernah terfikir untuk berterima kasih kepada Sabah dan Sarawak. Malah dia mengangap, malaya adala tuan kita...

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PERJANJIAN MALAYSIA 1963 PERLU DISEMAK SEMULA menurut Capt. Joseph Wilfred Lakai

Perjanjian Malaysia adalah satu perjanjian yang terikat yang telah ditandatangani oleh beberapa perwakilan daripada lima pihak iaitu United kingdom of Great Britain, dan Ireland Utara, Persekutuan Malaya, Borneo Utara (Sabah), Sarawak dan Singapura. Objektif utama perjanjian tersebut adalah berhubung dengan pembentukan Persekutuan Malaysia di antara Malaya, Borneo Utara (Sabah), Sarawak dan Singapura sebagai rakan kongsi yang sama.

Kemasukan United Kingdom sebagai satu gabungan dan penandatangan terhadap perjanjian tersebut adalah sebagai bapa penjaga terutama bagi Negeri-negeri Borneo Sabah dan Sarawak dan juga Negeri Singapura dimana kedaulatan dan bidang kuasa masih berkuat kuasa. Ia juga boleh dikatakan bahawa United Kingdom adalah satu-satunya pemerhati utama terhadap perjanjian tersebut untuk melihat apabila penyerahan terakhir kedaulatan dan bidang kuasa terhadap Sabah, Sarawak dan Negeri Singapura supaya syarat utama, seperti hak perlindungan Sabah yang mana dipersetujui untuk disekutukan dengan Malaya bagi membentuk Persekutuan Malaysia dapat diperhatikan, digabungkan, dilaksanakan dan dihormati.

Perjanjian Malaysia digabungkan dengan berbagai-bagai dokumen (seperti yang terkandung) termasuklah Rang Undang-Undang Malaysia, kini ialah Akta Malaysia 1963. Gabungan dokumen-dokumen ini termasuklah syarat penyertaan dan peraturan perlembagaan terhadap Sabah dan Sarawak dirujuk untuk membentuk Malaysia.

Perjanjian Malaysia juga mesti tertakluk kepada kemahuan penandatangan sebelum keputusan muktamad dipersetujui. Hasrat tersebut termasuklah pengetahuan keempat-empat penandatangan perjanjian tersebut iaitu Persekutuan Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak dan Singapura sewaktu membentuk Malaysia sebagai rakan kongsi yang sama. Oleh itu, Malaysia telah disifatkan oleh berbagai pihak sebagai satu gabungan bagi rakan-rakan kongsi bersama-sama bersatu padu untuk membentuk sebuah Negara baru tetapi dengan ciri-ciri masing-masing.

Apabila Singapura telah dikeluarkan daripada Persekutuan Malaysia pada tahun 1965, persoalan yang terus bangkit ialah apa telah terjadi dengan Perjanjian Malaysia yang telah ditandatangani oleh semua pihak. Ketiadaan Singapura secara langsung telah mengakibatkan perjanjian perlembagaan tersebut termasuklah kedudukan Perlembagaan Sabah dan Sarawak di dalam Persekutuan Malaysia.

Perjanjian Malaysia adalah tidak sah lagi dan dari segi undang-undang Persekutuan Malaysia adalah tidak sah kerana pembuangan Singapura iaitu salah satu penandatangan terhadap perjanjian di atas yang mana telah mengakibatkan asal-usul Persekutuan itu sendiri. Samada Perjanjian Malaysia atau Perlembagaan Persekutuan Malaysia tidak menyediakan terhadap pembuangan mana-mana rakan kongsi di dalam Persekutuan Malaysia.

Adakah Perdana Menteri atau Parlimen Malaysia mempunyai kuasa untuk mengeluarkan Singapura tidak seharusnya berdasarkan kepada resolusi dalam Parlimen Malaysia di mana membenarkan (sepatutnya tidak) kesemua 104 Ahli-ahli Parlimen dari kesebelasan (11) Negeri-negeri Malaya untuk menentukan, yang mana ini adalah bertentangan dengan kumpulan minority iaitu 36 Ahli-ahli Parlimen dari Sabah dan Sarawak.

Walaupun Sabah dan Sarawak tidak bersetuju dengan pembuangan tersebut (yang mana diragui sama ada mereka diberi peluang sedemikian) Negeri-negeri Malaya masih dapat memperolehi 2/3 majoriti atau lebih bagi membuat keputusan terhadap Sabah dan Sarawak yang tidak bersetuju tentang pembuangan adalah satu kehampaan.

Kesebelasan buah negeri-negeri Malaya tidak harus mempunyai hak samada Singapura boleh atau tidak dikeluarkan daripada Persekutuan Malaysia. Ini disebabkan Negara Malaysia tidak dibentuk oleh negeri-negeri tersebut sahaja. Melalui Perjanjian Malaysia, setiap negeri yang menandatangani Perjanjian tersebut adalah sebagai pasangan (partner) yang mempunyai hak-hak yang sama.

Mereka telah membentuk Malaysia bersama-sama dengan Singapura, Sabah dan Sarawak. Oleh sebab keempat-empat buah negeri penandatangan Perjanjian Malaysia telah menandatangani perjanjian itu sebagai pasangan persendirian dan bebas daripada ahli yang lain (pasangan bebas) maka adalah sesuai, bahawa setiap penandatangan itu mempunyai undi yang sama (iaitu satu undi setiap negeri) untuk menentukan samada sesebuah negeri itu harus dikeluarkan daripada Persekutuan Malaysia.

Penyertaan itu boleh dibuat melalui ketua pemimpin negeri masing-masing. Dalam hal ini, setiap negeri Malaya tidak seharusnya mempunyai hak atau kuasa untuk menentukan nasib Singapura dalam Persekutuan Malaysia. Kerana mereka hanya mempunyai hak satu undi sahaja sepertimana yang telah ditentukan oleh Persekutuan Malaysia, Sabah dan Sarawak juga mempunyai satu undi tiap-tiap satu.

Pandangan ini selaras dengan status mereka sebagai penandatangan Perjanjian Malaysia yang bebas dan sebagai persendirian. Dengan itu, keputusan untuk mengeluarkan Singapura daripada Persekutuan Malaysia, seharusnya terletak kepada ketiga-tiga penandatangan Perjanjian tersebut, iaitu setiap satu pasangan penandatangan mempunyai hak atau kuasa mengundi yang sama.

Penyingkiran Singapura telah memberikan kesan kepada satu perkara yang mustahak dimana Sabah dan Sarawak telah benar-benar merundingkannya sebelum mereka bersetuju untuk membentuk Malaysia. Oleh itu, kegagalan untuk meminta persetujuan daripada Sabah dan Sarawak telah memberikan kesan kepada perwakilan mereka dalam Dewan Parlimen. Misalnya, untuk membuat pindaan terhadap apa sahaja keistimewaan khas yang diberikan kepada Sabah sepertimana yang termaktub dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan, Parlimen hendaklah mendapat sokongan undi dua pertiga daripada ahli-ahli Parlimen.

Sebenarnya, sebelum penyingkiran Singapura, kesemua ahli dari Semenanjung Malaysia tidak boleh membentuk dua pertiga majoriti, kecuali mendapat sokongan daripada Sabah, Sarawak atau Singapura. Walaubagaimanapun, setelah Singapura disingkir, tidak lagi perlu bagi Semenanjung Malaysia untuk mendapat sokongan daripada Sabah dan Sarawak sebab mereka sekarang boleh mendapat sokongan dua pertiga atau lebih di Dewan Parlimen.

Ini bermakna, mereka dengan mudah membuat pindaan atau penggubalan Perlembagaan bila-bila masa mereka suka. “Dengan penyingkiran SIngapura maka kembalilah komposisi monopoli etnik Melayu Semenanjung. Episode ini adalah satu bukti yang jelas kegagalan Sistem Persekutuan dan perpaduan Negara.” (rujukan: “Reflection on the Malaysia Constitution” oleh Shafruddin Hashim dalam ALIRAN 1986. Oleh Sebab inilah seharusnya terdapat penyemakan atau penelitian syarat-syarat kemasukan Sabah dan Sarawak ke Malaysia. Namun, sabah telah tidak diberitahu semasa Singapura telah dikeluarkan dari Persekutuan Malaysia.

Kegagalan untuk mendapat persetujuan atau memberitahu Sabah itu dengan sendirinya telah melanggar Perjanjian Malaysia, dimana Sabah telah diketepikan untuk mengambil bahagian dalam Malaysia dimana ia sendiri adalah rakan kongsi yang sama. Perbincangan mengenai penyingkiran Singapura adalah sangat mustahak bagi Sabah kerana Lee Kuan Yew lah yang telah bertungkus lumus untuk mengambil hati pemimpin-pemimpin Borneo dengan tujuan supaya mereka akan menyertai pembentukan Persekutuan Malaysia.

Pada waktu perhimpunan Persatuan Ahli-ahli Parlimen Komanwealth di Singapura pada Julai, 1961, pemimpin Borneo (Tidak ada British yang hadir) telah menemui Lee Kuan Yew, Seorang penyokong kuat idea Malaysia, Lee Kuan Yew telah menggunakan kebijaksanaannya untuk mendesak pemimpin-pemimpin Borneo supaya mereka menyokong cadangan Tunku (rujukan: Interview of Datuk Ong Kee Hui oleh J.P Ongkili dalam bukunya, Nation-building in Malaysia, 1946-1974). Tentu sekali, Persekutuan Malaya dan Singapura lebih memihak kewujudan Malaysia daripada Sabah dan Sarawak.

Misalnya dalam satu ucapanya dalam ‘Foreign Correspondents’ Association of South-East Asia’ di Singapura pada 27hb May, 1961, Tunku telah mengatakan bahawa, Malaya tidak akan sanggup bersendirian dan telah mencadangkan bahawa tidak lama kemudian Malaya seharusnya akan mengadakan persefahaman dengan British dan Singapura, Sabah (Borneo Utara), Brunei dan Sarawak (Ongkili, 1985).

Lee Kuan Yew, telah membuat satu kenyataan pada tahun 1961 bahwa “gabungan akan berlaku bukan atas sebab kehendak Parti Tindakan Rakyat atau disebabkan kehendak Kerajaan Perikatan Persekutuan. Tetapi perkara itu tidak dapat dielakkan seolah-olah seperti matahari yang terbit dan terbenam” (Ongkili, 1985) Sebanyak sedikit, pembentukan Malaysia adalah juga kehendak British.

‘The Times’ telah melaporkan pada 28hb Julai 1961, “Keinginan strategik British di kawasan ini adalah juga diingini oleh Austtralia dan New Zealand yang juga akan membentuk polisi yang sama (Ongkili, 1985). ‘Kawasan’ yang dimaksudkan itu ialah Asia-Tenggara Selatan dan maksud ‘polisi yang sama’ ialah dalam bentuk Malaysia dimana, mungkin, mereka akan dapat mengekalkan pengaruh mereka walaupun terdapatnya kesan-kesan nasionalisme mula timbul di kalangan negeri-negeri di bawah pemerintahan koloni dan desakan daripada pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu untuk memberi kemerdekaan kepada negeri-negeri jajahan koloni tersebut.

Pengerusi Suruhanjaya COBBOLD telah memberi pandangan yang penting. Beliau telah mengatakan bahawa, “daripada mula lagi, Malaysia seharusnya dianggap oleh semua yang berkenaan sebagai satu gabungan ahli yang samarata, bergabung untuk mempercepatkan matlamat yang sama untuk membentuk sebuah Negara tetapi mengekalkan ciri-ciri tersendiri negeri-negeri berkenaan. Jika sekiranya sebarang cubaan oleh Malaysia untuk ‘mengambil alih’ sempadan-sempadan Borneo oleh Persekutuan Malaysia dan menenggelamkan ciri-ciri tersendiri Borneo Utara dan Sarawak, maka pendapat saya, Malaysia secara umunya tidak boleh diterima atau Berjaya.” (Ongkili, 1985, Nation-building in Malaysia 1946-1974).

Dalam keadaan yang sebenar, ‘hakisan’ secara perlahan-perlahan terhadap perlindungan terhadap negeri-negeri Borneo oleh Kerajaan Persekutuan, seolah-olah satu tindakan yang menghapuskan siri-siri tersendiri negeri-negeri tersebut. Oleh sebab itu, jika sekiranya Perjanjian Malaysia tidak sah, maka Malaysia sebagai sebuah Negara juga adalah tidak sah dan kehilangan kesahihan entitinya. Malaysia telah dan masih beroperasi selama 48 tahun selepas penyingkiran Singapura. Sepertimana yang telah dipertikaikan, perkembangan politik sepanjang masa tersebut telah tidak membenarkan pihak-pihak dalam Perjanjian Malaysia itu untuk mengkaji kembali atau mempersoalkan isu-isu tersebut.

Pada hari ini, kedaan politik bertukar kearah keburukan, adalah mustahak sekali dan mendesak untuk mengkaji semula syarat-syarat Perjanjian Malaysia. Yakni memberi kesahihan kembali kepada perjanjian itu adalah sangat mustahak.

*Written by Capt. Joseph Wilfred Lakai is a Murut experienced Test Pilot. He is also a Mechanical Engineer graduated from Caltech USA, He engineered The United Borneo Front (UBF)

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Thursday 16 August 2012

Gigi ku retak lagi...

Semalam (15/8/2012) saya terpaksa cabut sebiji lagi gigi geraham sebab retak. Doktor gigi kata setakat semalam tidak ada cara lain untuk merawat gigi yang retak selain daripada CABUT. Huhuhu...
Patah ketika dicabut, nasib baik boleh dikeluarkan yang selebihnya...
Dua tahun yang lalu pada 30/09/2010 sebiji gigi geraham saya juga di cabut disebabkan retak. Agaknya kenapa gigi kita retak? Doktor gigi pun tak boleh bagi jawapan yang pasti. Menurut doktor yang mencabut gigi saya, kemungkinan gigi saya retak ketika saya 'buat otot'.
Gigi ini juga retak dan dicabut pada 30/9/2010
'Buat otot' yang dimaksudkan ialah ketika saya menjalani senaman angkat berat untuk membina otot badan. Kena perli doktor..., otot jadi tapi gigi hilang. Hwahwahwa...

Simptom-simptom yang saya alami ketika gigi telah retak ialah:-
  1. Gigi terasa ngilu ketika meminum air sejuk. Bila sudah kritikal, minum air pada suhu bilik (room temperature) pun terasa ngilu.
  2. Kadang-kadang bila tergigit benda keras terasa sakit mengejut tetapi sakitnya hilang dalam masa yang singkat.
  3. Sakit bila gigi tersebut diketuk dengan objek keras.
  4. Sakit bila doktor tiup gigi tersebut dengan angin.
  5. Sakit bila doktor cucuk/korek gigi tersebut.
Kalau nak sahkan bahawa gigi tersebut retak, jumpa doktor gigi sebab mungkin simptomnya serupa dengan gigi sensitif. Hahaha...
Pain killer yang doktor bagi, makan bila sakit (metenamic acid 500mg)

Wednesday 15 August 2012

Johari Pain kini dikenali Joe Ariffin di laman facebook

Sehari sebelum penerjun negara, Pandelela Rinong beraksi dalam acara akhir 10m platform wanita, si Johari Pain telah berjanji mengeratkan tut...nya jika Pandelela berjaya mendapat pingat di sukan olimpik.

Namun setelah Pandelela berjaya mendapat pingat gansa untuk negara, akaun facebooknya telah lenyap untuk beberapa hari.

Kini beliau kembali dengan nama barunya iaitu Joe Ariffin. Gambar di sebelah diambil dari laman facebooknya dan dia telah selamat 'mengerat'. Betul kah apa yang saya baca?

Dari pengamatan saya di laman facebooknya, dia masih tak serik-serik lagi dan masih mempersendakan Pandelela khasnya serta orang Sarawak amnya.

Di bawah ialah 'print screen' yang sempat saya ambil.
16/8/2012 - Tukar nama dari Joe Ariffin ke Johari Bin Pain
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Tuesday 14 August 2012

The Best Bits of Mr. Bean

About Section 114A

What is Section 114A?

Section 114A is the second of two amendments made to Malaysia’s Evidence Act 1950.

Law Minister Nazri Aziz tabled the second amendment, formally known as Evidence (Amendment) (No2) Act 2012, in Dewan Rakyat on 18 April. James Dawos Mamit supported the motion, and Section 114A was passed after the second and third reading. On 9 May, Dewan Negara passed the amendment.

The amendment was gazetted on 31 July 2012. This means the law is now operational.

What is the purpose of Section 114A?

Section 114A deals with allegedly illicit or harmful content on the Internet. In short, the amendment enables law enforcement officials to swiftly hold someone accountable for publishing seditious, defamatory, or libelous content online.

How does Section 114A affect you?

Titled “Presumption of Fact in Publication”, Section 114A holds the following people accountable for publishing content online:
  1. those who own, administrate, or edit websites open to public contributors, such as online forums or blogs;
  2. those who provide webhosting services or Internet access; and
  3. those own the computer or mobile device used to publish content online.
In other words, if allegedly defamatory content is traced back to your username, electronic device, and/or WiFi network, Section 114A presumes you are guilty of publishing illicit content on the Internet.

But what if you were the victim of identity theft and a hacker wrongfully used your Twitter or Facebook account to post defamatory content?

Under Section 114A, you are still considered guilty until proven innocent.

What is wrong with Section 114A?

Section 114A is problematic for a number of reasons:
  1. It disproportionately burdens average Internet users who are wrongfully accused of publishing seditious or defamatory content.
  2. It makes Internet intermediaries–parties that provide online community forums, blogging and hosting services–liable for content that is published through their services.
  3. It allows hackers and cyber criminals to be free by making the person whose account/computer is hacked liable for any content/data which might have changed.
  4. It is a bad law passed in haste and does not take into account public interest and participation.
To get more details on how Section 114A could affect you, check out the infographic below:
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How will Section 114A affect the freedom of expression?

Section 114A threatens the right to freedom of expression. Internet users may resort to self-censorship to avoid false accusations made under Section 114A. Bloggers, for example, may excessively censor comments made by their readers.  As a result, Section 114A inadvertently stifles public discussion about pertinent political or social issues and protects public authorities, such as the State, from public scrutiny.

Visit THIS page to get a more detailed look at the text and implications of Section 114A.

To find out more on the campaign, Click HERE

How To support the campaign?
  • If you own a website or blog, upload the Internet BlackOut pop-up and display it for 24 hours.
  • If you own a FaceBook profile, upload Stop 114A Badge and its banner as the cover photo.
  • If you own a Twitter account, upload Stop 114A Badge as your avatar and spread the word via hash tag #Stop114A.

114A条文是什么?
What is Section 114A?
114A条文是《1950马来西亚证据法令》两项修正条文中的第二项。首相署部长纳兹里阿兹于4月18日向国会下议院提呈《2012年证据法令修正 法案》进行一读,并获得马来西亚旅游部副部长詹姆士道达沃斯支持。第114A条文顺利通过二读和三读,并于5月9日于国会上议院通过。

114A条文的目的是什么?
What is the purpose of Section 114A?
第114A条文针对涉嫌在互联网上发布非法和有害内容的行为。简言之,此修正法案让司法执行人员能够迅速地逮捕涉嫌在互联网发布煽动性、诽谤性或污蔑性内容的人士。

114A条文作了哪些不当的假设?
What does Section 114A presume?
在“假设性的事实”下,114A条文将在互联网上发布信息的责任归咎于下列人士:
(一)          拥有、管理、或编辑对公众开放言论空间的网页,如各类论坛或部落格的相关人士;
(二)          提供网络伺服器或上网服务的相关人士;及
(三)          用以发布相关内容的电脑或仪器的持有人。
换句话说,任何涉嫌诽谤的内容如果来自你的用户名(username)、你所拥有的电子仪器、及/或无线网络(WIFI),114A条文将预先假定你犯上在互联网上发布非法内容的罪名。
若你的身份被盗用或骇客非法使用你推特或面子书帐号发布具诽谤性内容,你将面对什么后果呢?
在第114A条文下,你将被认定有罪,除非你能证明自己是清白的。

114A条文有哪些不妥之处?
What is wrong with Section 114A?
第114A条文之所以构成问题是基于下列种种原因:
(一)         它把错误的将大部分(在互联网)发布煽动性或诽谤性内容的责任放在普通网民身上。
(二)         它让提供或管理网上论坛、部落格和伺服器的中介单位,必须为所有(在其所提供的服务范围内)刊载的内容负起法律责任。
(三)         它将互联网罪行的责任转嫁到受害者身上,世道入侵民众互联网户口或电脑并修改其内容及数据资料的骇客或网络罪犯得以免于承担(法律)责任。
(四)         它是仓促通过及不考虑公众利益及公众参与的一项糟糕的法律。

114A法令如何影响言论自由?
How will Section 114A affect the freedom of expression?
第114A条文威胁了言论自由的权利。网民需常自我审查以避免在此条文下被错误提控。比方说,部落客需大量审查读者的留言。因此,第114A条文间接钳制了大众针对政治或社会课题的言论自由,并保护了政府当局以免于公众的监控。
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Monday 13 August 2012

MLM jana wang di laman facebook

2 tahun yang lalu pada May 31, 2010, seorang yang dikenali sebagai Angel telah menjemput saya untuk menjana pendapatan melalui facebook. Menurut beliau caranya mudah saja dan berikut adalah perbualan di antara saya dan Angel.:-
Lepas itu dia bagi pula akaun Maybank dia sebagai bukti bahawa duit masuk secara online.
Nombor akaunnya saya 'delete'
Selepas perbualan tersebut, saya tidak berminat disebabkan duit yang akan saya dapat itu sebenarnya adalah dengan cara menipu dan mencuri. Konsepnya mudah sahaja.
  1. Kalau nak mulakan perniagaan mencuri duit orang ramai, anda kena daftar dengan siapa-siapa yang telah bedaftar dengan MLM tersebut dan bayar yuran pendaftaran sebanyak RM100 (ini lah pendapatan dia).
  2. Lepas daftar anda boleh mula berniaga mencuri duit dengan mencari mangsa (orang ramai) supaya daftar dengan anda dan yurannya juga RM100.00 (dan ini pula adalah pendapatan anda)
  3. Seterusnya benda yang sama akan berulang kepada sesiapa yang berminat untuk menipu dan mencuri duit. Siapa tak dapat cari 'downline' rugi RM100.00 saja. Kalau dapat seorang saja, kira tiada untung atau rugi sebab dah dapat balik modal.
Saya tidak pasti kegiatan mencuri wang terang-terangan ini masih wujud lagi atau tidak, namum hari ini seseorang telah menjemput saya untuk menjana pandapatan di laman facebook lagi. Bezanya dengan sebelum ini ialah, MLM ini tak perlu buat apa dan hanya dengan yuran pendaftaran sebanyak RM90.00 anda mampu menjana ribuan ringgit dalam masa singkat. Kalau nak tahu lebih lanjut baca di SINI.
Asal duit, apa-apa pun orang sanggup buat...
Saya bukan nak mempromosikan MLM sebegini, namun fikir masak-masak sebelum mencuba. MLM terbaru ini saya belum baca lagi dan tak ingin nak tahu dengan lebih lanjut. Bagi saya 'tiada kejayaan tanpa usaha' dan yang penting ianya bukan dengan cara menipu dan mencuri...

Friday 10 August 2012

Great Wall collapses after heavy rain

Beijing: A section of China's ancient and global attraction, Great Wall, has collapsed in the current round of rains.

Repair work is underway for a section of the Great Wall in north China's Hebei province that collapsed after days of continuous rain, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

The wall collapsed when strong currents of water from the mountains crushed the Dajingmen section of the Great Wall in Zhangjiakou following days of continuous rain, an official with the city's Qiaoxi district said.

Experts have cleared the fallen section, which extends 36 meters, and reinforced other loose sections to prevent further collapses.

Cracks were also spotted on other parts of the wall near the collapsed section.

Cultural relic's protection experts are making proposals to repair the damaged areas.

The Dajingmen section of the Great Wall was built during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and has endured years of erosion, which also contributed to the collapse, experts said.

A great amount of rainfall has battered China since the rainy season began, causing widespread flooding in the vast country.

Pandelela Rinong raih gangsa di Olympic London 2012

Setelah dikejutkan oleh penerjun terburuk Jerman Stephan Feck semalam dengan tanpa memungut sebarang mata dalam acara terjun papan anjal 3m, hari ini negara kita dikejutkan pula oleh penerjun kelahiran Sarawak yang menyumbang gangsa di temasya Olympik London 2012.
Beliau yang dimaksudkan ialah Pandelela Rinong, berusia 19 tahun dalam acara kegemarannya iaitu terjun platform wanita 10m individu. Beliau mengumpul 329.20 mata di belakang penerjun dari China, Chen Ruolin yang mempertahankan gelarannya dengan 422.30 mata. Pingat perak menjadi milik penerjun Australia Brittany Broben dengan 366.50 mata.
Pandelela memulakan terjunan pertama dengan hambar ekoran kesilapan dengan memungut 58.50 mata sahaja daripada acara 'forward 3 1/2 somersault'. Beliau kemudian bangkit dengan mengumpul 78.30 daripada acara 'back 2 1/2 somersault', 64 (Armstand back double somersault) dan 76.80 (back 1/2 somersault 1 1/2 twist).
Pandelela akan mendapat ganjaran wang tunai sebanyak RM150,000 di bawah skim hadiah ganjaran sukan (Shakam) Kementerian Belia dan Sukan dan mendapat pencen seumur hidup sebanyak RM2,000.00 sebulan.
Di sebalik kejayaan Pandelela semalam, ada juga insan yang memandang rendah serta mempersenda kemampuan atlit negara di laman sosial facebook seperti di bawah. Orang tersebut dikenali sebagai Johari Pain dan berikut adalah buktinya...

Thursday 9 August 2012

Diver (Stephan Feck) scores 0.0s in 2012 Olympic

Click HERE to view the video clip.

Stephan Feck probably didn't plan on finishing last in the men's 3-meter springboard diving preliminaries, but he most certainly did not plan on his dive becoming an Internet viral sensation, earning the title of "Worst Olympic Dive."

Feck's embarrassing performance at the Aquatics Centre will likely go down as one of the worst flops of the 2012 London

Monday 6 August 2012

10 Info Tentang Bayi Yang Anda Perlu Tahu

  1. Sekitar usia 3 bulan, bayi mula menelan air ketuban dan mengeluarkannya kembali sebagai air kencing. Ini untuk melatih sistem pencernaan dan perkumuhannya.
  2. Bayi boleh menangis sejak di dalam perut lagi. Sekitar usianya 3 bulan, peti suara sudah mula terbentuk dan bayi sudah mula menangis tetapi dalam diam.
  3. Seawal usia 4 bulan, bayi mula meneroka ruang di sekelilingnya. Dia mula bermain dgn tali pusatnya, menghisap ibu jarinya sendiri, berenang-renang, menendang sekelilingnya dan berpusing-pusing di dalam kantungnya. Tetapi lazimnya ibu yang baru pertama kali hamil tidak akan menyedari pergerakan bayi sehigga usianya 5 bulan.
  4. Ketika usianya memasuki 4 bulan, bayi akan mula tersedu untuk melatih sistem pernafasan. Bila bayi tersedu, ibu dapat merasakan getaran halus atau denyut halus di perut.
  5. Pada usia 5 bulan, bayi mula memberi reaksi kepada bunyi di luar perut ibunya dan akan menutup telinga dengan tangannya sendiri apabila mendengar bunyi kuat.
  6. Sekitar usia 6 bulan, memori bayi mula terbentuk dan bayi dapat mengingati dan mengenali suara ibu bapanya dan mula meneroka anggota tubuh badannya.
  7. Seperti kita, bayi di dalam perut juga bermimpi seawal usianya 7 bulan. Aktiviti bermimpi ini akan melatih perkembangan otak bayi.
  8. Apabila otaknya sudah terbentuk, bayi akan dapat merasai kesakitan sejak di dalam rahim lagi. Apabila ibu tertekan atau stress, emosinya juga terganggu dan menyekat perkembangan mentalnya.
  9. Sebaik sahaja deria rasanya terbentuk, bayi juga dapat merasa makanan yang dimakan oleh ibunya dan boleh mengerutkan dahinya dan memuncungkan mulutnya sebagi reaksi kepada rasa pelik makanan yang dimakan oleh ibu.
  10. Sebaik sahaja lahir, pertama kali bayi membuka mata, anak matanya akan membesar untuk menampakkan kecomelannya untuk memikat hati orang di sekeliling terutama ibu bapanya. Sebab itulah bayi nampak comel.
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Sunday 5 August 2012

Nyamuk Memilih Darah Untuk Dihisap Berdasarkan Bau Manusia

Dalam satu penyelidikan, ahli entomologi melakukan kajian untuk menentukan apakah serangga kecil ini memilih mangsanya atau hanya menghisap darah secara rawak.

Hasil dari kajian tersebut ternyata menunjukkan bahawa nyamuk memilih mangsa yang darahnya akan dihisap. Nyamuk memilih mangsanya berdasarkan bau manusia yang nikmat iaitu yang berbau masam dan berbau kolesterol.

“Nyamuk menggunakan bau untuk menganalisa seseorang yang menarik dan yang tidak menarik untuk menemukan darah mana yang lebih sedap bagi mereka,” jelas Jerry Butler, pakar entimologi dari University of Florida.

Butler menjelaskan, nyamuk telah berevolusi dan bertahan hidup, bahkan dengan perkembangan yang pesat. Nyamuk memiliki kemampuan untuk memilih mangsa terbaik untuk dihisap darahnya, iaitu dengan deria bau yang tajam.

Manusia dapat menarik kedatangan nyamuk yang berada jauh dari mereka hanya dengan bau nafasnya. Setiap kali manusia menghembuskan nafas, karbon dioksida dan bau lainnya bercampur untuk menghasilkan signal yang bergerak melalui udara.

Signal-signal tersebut akan memberitahu nyamuk bahawa terdapat darah yang merupakan makanan lazat.

Menurut Butler, nyamuk terbang dengan pola zigzag. Kemudian koloni serangga kecil ini akan menemui pusat bau di udara dengan mengandalkan penglihatan dan sensor panas.

Dari kajian yang dilakukan Butler diketahui bahawa nyamuk sebenarnya memerlukan kolesterol dan vitamin B, tetapi serangga kecil itu tidak mampu menghasilkannya sendiri.

“Oleh kerana itu, nyamuk akan mencari mangsa yang kaya akan sumber-sumber tersebut. Bau-bau seperti bau masam adalah sangat menarik bagi nyamuk,” jelas Butler.

Butler mengatakan, bahan-bahan yang digunakan untuk melembutkan dan menghaluskan kulit boleh menjadi umpan yang kuat bagi nyamuk. Bahkan, bahan-bahan dalam kosmetik tertentu dikatakan sangat menarik bagi nyamuk.
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