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Friday, January 28, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Six killed in Kohat attack
The sources said the employees of the MOL company were on their way to Kohat in two official vans under the escort of the FC soldiers when they came under attack near Dar Malak village.
Three FC men and the gas company’s driver and an employee were killed on the spot while two FC men sustained injuries. One of them died at the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Lachi and another was rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital in Kohat.
The dead were identified as Havaldar Ali Zaman, Lance Naik Salim Khan, Lance Naik Amal Daraz, Sepoy Younas Khan, company driver Amir Janan and worker Muhammad Hafeez. The injured FC man was Sepoy Sirajuddin.
District Police Officer, Kohat, Mubarak Zaib Khan, said that the militants also kidnapped two employees of the MOL company, adding that large contingents of police and FC had cordoned off the area to arrest the fleeing militants. The identity of the kidnapped employees could not be ascertained.
Section 144 implemented in Kohat after Peshawar
Section 144 implemented in Kohat after Peshawar. Piling and Show off of weapons is banned. It is implemented for keeping peace in Kohat
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
50 suspects rounded up in Kohat search operation
KOHAT: In the wake of recent wave of terrorism in country, Police launched a search operation and arrested 50 suspects from different areas of the city and its surrounding.
On the directives of Deputy Inspector General Kohat Region, Police began a wide search operation in Kohat and Hangu against terrorists to avoid the any untoward incident. Under the supervision of District Police Officer Mubarak Zaib, special teams of Police and Elite forces raided in different areas including Billi Tang, Jerma, Khuwasi Banda, Dhal Behzadi, Lachi Shiekhan, Ublan, Ghomghol, Jungle Kheel, Main Ghari and Gumbat and arrested 40 suspects.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Kohat Jobs
Worship place dispute: 11 granted bail
Our correspondent
KOHAT: A court on Tuesday granted bail to 11 accused belonging to Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat in a case pertaining to the possession of Ahmadi community’s place of worship in Kohat. Additional District and Sessions Judge, Naveed Ahmed granted bail to former member of the National Assembly Javed Ibrahim Paracha, Muhammad Saeed, Muhammad Fayyaz Haideri, Muhammad Hafeez, Muhammad Qasim, Muhammad Asim, Muhammad Yaqoob, Amjad Khan, Muhammad Ali, Obaidullah Anwar and Qari Fateh Muhammad. The place of worship of the Ahmadi community situated in the Mustafa bazaar in Kohat city had been closed down in 1974. Some activists of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat had tried to build a mosque at the site a few days ago. A case was registered at the City Police Station on December 17, 2010 against the move.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The News
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Inter-Collegiate Tournaments: Asweff distributes prizes among
Winners
Inter-collegiate tournaments were held under the auspices of the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, at
In Badminton Boys Tournaments,
In Table Tennis Boys Tournament, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) Model College Chashma clinched first prize while
In Badminton Girls Tournaments,
In Basket Ball Girls Tournament, Bahria College G-8 got first prize while
In Cricket, F.G Sir Syed Secondary School Rawalpindi got first prize, F.G Boys Technical High School Tariqabad, Rawalpindi and 502 model College Rawalpindi secured second and third prizes respectively.—APP
Sketch of failed Kohat suicide bomber released
The News:
The 22-year-old unidentified man riding a bicycle was shot at by a pro-government tribal elder Salamat Khan Orakzai before being killed by the security forces. The failed bomber was apparently trying to blow himself up near the vehicle of the tribal elder.
The administration buried the body of the bomber in the city graveyard after completing legal formalities and issued his sketch. The authorities have appealed the people to provide information about the bomber on phone numbers 0334-8875602 and 0946-9490069.
The News:
The 22-year-old unidentified man riding a bicycle was shot at by a pro-government tribal elder Salamat Khan Orakzai before being killed by the security forces. The failed bomber was apparently trying to blow himself up near the vehicle of the tribal elder.
The administration buried the body of the bomber in the city graveyard after completing legal formalities and issued his sketch. The authorities have appealed the people to provide information about the bomber on phone numbers 0334-8875602 and 0946-9490069.
CRI FM channel to help boost Pak-China ties: Masood Khan -BEIJING, Jan 16 (APP):
Kohat (Khyder Pakhtunkhwa) from Monday.The launch of the FM
Channel initially from five major cities of Pakistan is a milestone in all weather relations, as both Pakistan and China have decided to celebrate 2011 as the year of Friendship.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Google was the world’s most dangerous website in 2010
Trend Micro, the company at the forefront of virus and malware protection published its end of year review, detailing its “Most Dangerous” items with Google topping the list as the world’s most dangerous website.
When end of year lists are published, you expect there to be lists of smartphones, gadgets and the crazy happenings at giant companies like Apple and Microsoft. When defining Google’s role as the world’s most dangerous website, Trend Micro notes that Google’s tremendous popularity has led cybercriminals to use the search engine specifically to launch blackhat SEO schemes that will direct users to malware threats and dangerous advertisments via Adsense.
WordPress was chosen as the most dangerous website software, specifically for its fragility if left unpatched. If WordPress is not patched regularly, attackers are able to infiltrate websites and steal information, using the compromised websites to form part of redirection chains which helped serve malware or form part of blackhat SEO schemes.
Interestingly, Apple’s OS X was labelled as the riskiest operating system, thanks largely to the company’s desire to keep bugs secret and increasingly long patch cycles. In November, Apple issued a 650MB update patching numerous vulnerabilities, an update that came some five months after the previous patch.
The world’s riskiest social network? That’s easy – it’s Facebook. The social network has 600 million users and is of course going to be subject to a number of phishing scams and attempt account hacks. Survey scams, KOOBFACE malware attacks came to the world’s most popular website as attackers attempted to prey on those who didn’t know how to adequately protect themselves.
The list makes interesting reading, going on to list the world’s riskiest domains, file formats and internet protocols. Given the size of Google’s search portals, we aren’t surprised it ranks as the most dangerous website of 2010. Google will actively change its algorithms to thwart spammers and attackers but techniques constantly evolve to circumvent these measures.
Will Google and Facebook be knocked from their positions at the end of 2011? Something tells us they won’t.
How To Steal And Get Rich
My eight year old daughter is crying right now. She’s trying to draw manga-style comic book figures.
“The eyes look stupid!” she says, “and the arms look flimsy!” My oldest tries to calm her down, “Mollie, I’m three years older than you. Thats why my characters look so good,” she says, but somehow that doesn’t work and it doesn’t help when my oldest says, “Mollie, guess what, I finished drawing on the whole pad? Aren’t these pretty?”
I tell my youngest, “Mollie, look on the Internet and see how other artists do their eyes and arms. I bet there are some Manga artists who even have videos on how to do it.”
She says, “but that’s copying. I don’t want to copy. I refuse.”
So I tell her my favorite quote from Picasso, “Good artists copy. Great artists steal.” And my oldest says, “that would mean HE stole.” And I tell her that’s right but still my youngest refuses to listen. She says, “I don’t want to copy. I want to do something completely original.” But that’s impossible. Just about every idea worked on now is a result of the following recursive formula:
NI(X) = NI(1) + NI(2 )+ NI(3)… + MI
Where “NI” = “new idea” and NI1, NI2, etc equals various new ideas as of yesterday. And “MI” which could be a tiny component of the whole equation, is “My improvement”. Which, again, might be minimal, or zero, at best.
Examples:
- telescope. Galileo stole the telescope. He took the original invention by Hans Lippershey, made it a bit longer and more powerful and gets full credit 400 years later for the invention.
- telephone. Who invented the telephone? Well, Alexander Graham Bell of course? But only after the looked at the failed patent Antonio Meucci filed in 1874 (Meucci was too poor to send in the $10 patent charge. So…patent denied. Enter Bell).
- relativity. Einstein stole part of the theory of relativity from Poincare. Poincare published countless papers on relativity that Einstein had studied before his own first book on relativity. Einstein cited hundreds of sources but didn’t mention Poincare once. Do the research but there are several instances of direct plagiarism in his initial book on relativity.
- Search. Google. Not quite a “steal” in the sense of the above but the entire concept of a “search engine” was dead and over by the time Google hit the scene. My little story on this: A company called “Oingo” came calling one of my partners one day in 2000 or 2001. I forget which year, that’s how little impact it made on me. They were working on some algorithm for matching ads with web pages on search engines, or something like that. They needed funding badly. We almost could’ve named our price. I said, because I was the resident genius, “No way. Isn’t the entire search engine business dead?” Somehow they survived, changed their name to Applied Semantics and were bought by a tiny search engine company with no revenues called Google. The Oingo algorithm became “Adsense” which accounts for 99% of Google’s revenues. The Applied Semantics deal would’ve been worth about $1bb – $2bb by now. Suffice to say, Google built on the backs of everyone from Lycos to Oingo to Altavista, etc.
- Superman. “Captain Marvel”, which was first put out by Fawcett Comics in 1940 was of course a direct ripoff of “Superman” and yet became very successful.
And Superman himself may have been a plagiarism of sorts. 5 years before the first “Superman” came out, Jerry Siegel (Superman’s creator) reviewed the book “Gladiator” about a boy growing up in rural America who had super powers.
Siegel claimed in 1940 that Gladiator had not been an inspiration. He did not at that point note his 1932 review of the book.
- Decl of Independence. Thomas Jefferson directly plagiarized John Locke when he wrote the Declaration of Independence. James Madison even admitted later: “The object was to assert, not to discover truths.”
- Chess. Bobby Fischer learned Russian when he was 14 years old so he could steal ideas from the Russian chessplayers in the magazine “64”. He used those opening ideas to win the US Championship at the age of 15 in the mid 1950s.
- Art. Roy Lichtenstein directly stole from the cartoon strip “True Romance” to repackage and then resell for (now) millions.
- Star Wars. Whether you call it inspiration or plagiarism, George Lucas took ideas from everything from Taoism to Asimov’s Foundation series, to Joseph cambell, Greek Mythology, King Arthur, etc.
- Vonnegut. Kurt Vonnegut said he “cheerfully ripped off” the plot of Brave New World for his novel, “Player Piano”- and Aldous Huxley, in turn, stole it from Eugene Zamatian’s We
- Groupon and every other business. Almost all current successful internet businesses are the result of lifting (and improving) the ideas from past businesses. Groupon is a direct descendant of the failed Paul Allen company, Mercata (remember?). Facebook (remember Geocities? Or, heaven forbid, Tripod). And why didn’t the “World Wide Web Worm:” succeed (the first search engine that I can think of).
- Comedy. In standup comedy, stealing (or improving on) routines has been common. Robin Williams was constantly accused of this early in his career and his reply was that he was so stream of consciousness he sometimes had no idea where the ideas were coming from (i.e., they were coming from his friends even minutes after their acts). Bill Cosby has admitted stealing some jokes from George Carlin, Rosie O’Donnell was known to borrow from Jerry Seinfeld early in their careers. Sam Kinison has accused Bill Hicks of joke thievery who, in turn, has accused Denis Leary of stealing parts of his routine.
- 3AM. I personally think Comedy Central’s show “Insomnia” is somewhat a ripoff of my III:am idea for HBO (particularly since I pitched the idea to Comedy Central first).
Unfortunately, stealing is not a shortcut to success. Stealing is THE ONLY PATH to success.
How do you steal? Try this.
- Pick a field you are passionate about: whether its blogging, romance novel writing, comedy, internet entrepreneurship, art, cooking, cancer research, etc.
- Read everything you can about the field. Here’s what you have to read minimally:
- At least the history of that field from 1800 on. Try to read at least 10 different sources on the history
- All of the latest blogs in the field. Try to have 100 different sources here.
- All the basic techniques the current leading experts in the field use. Read all of their biographies or autobiographies.
- Pick your five favorite sources in the field. For instance, if I wanted to write a novel: I’d pick my five favorite novelists. If I wanted to start a business in “local Internet” I’d pick my five favorite local Internet companies. If I wanted to blog, I’d pick my five favorite bloggers. If I wanted to be a management consultant, I’d steal directly from Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, etc.
- Get one element that you like from each source. What element do you think stands out that makes them a success.
- Add your own improvement. Or not. You can even start out with a direct copy and throw in your twist at the end.
- Ignore all the haters. The more people hate you, the more money you will make. Trust me on that.
I’m hoping Mollie grows up and learns how to be just as good a thief as her dad.
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