ASUU, FG 2009 AGREEMENT --- A COPY OF THE AGREEMENT.

Before I got admission into higher institution, I had been hearing of ASUU strike but never actually experienced it until I entered into the university. During my first year in school (in 2009) I had my first taste of ASUU industrial action --- a warning strike and then a full-blown strike that lasted for about three months. When it was called off and we resumed school; I had to trace my room because I couldn't remember my room number. I also noticed that some of my colleagues had forgotten their matriculation numbers.

Since then, it has been “one year, one ASUU strike” in our academic calendar. And now that I’m in my final year, ASUU unfailingly embarked on the annual fist fight with the FG. We heard that they had an agreement in 2009 before that year’s strike was called off. Nevertheless, the reason for this year’s ASUU strike was also the reason for that 2009 strike and had been the same reason for the series of ASUU strikes since that year. ASUU accuses the Federal Government of not implementing the agreement they had in 2009.

Just recently, I saw a post by +Nigerian News Portal  Portal that allegedly contains that same ASUU, FG 2009 Agreement.

Click here to view/download a copy of the ASUU/ FG 2009 Agreement.

#ASUU Strike #ASUU FG Agreement.

Instant Translation Glasses To Be Used In Tokyo Olympics.

Japan’s NTT Docomo has presented its own version of “Google glass” goggles. This pair of intelligent glasses can translate texts instantaneously. The device will help tourists to Japan read Japanese texts during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

NTT Docomo displayed this technology at the CEATEC 2013 event held in Tokyo. Meanwhile, the device is still in the prototype stage. It currently has a translation time of about five seconds, but NTT Docomo hopes to improve the speed by using a 5G network technology it also plans to provide during the Tokyo Olympics.

The glasses also have two more unique features: facial recognition software that provides, onscreen, the personal details of people in user’s line of vision; plus an ability to interact with a flat surface as if it was a touchscreen by means of a specially designed ring that records and relays user’s hand movement.

Source: The Register, TechBeat

#NTT Docomo #Face Recognition #Instant Translation #Tokyo Olympics

ADOBE HACKED, Millions of Accounts Compromised.

Photo by Mackenzie criswell

Adobe recently announced that it has been the target of a major cyber-attack in which personal information about millions of Adobe users and the source code for several adobe products were hacked.

Brad Arkin, Chief Security Officer for Adobe, posted this announcement on Thursday. He disclosed that investigations by Adobe security team reveal that the attackers accessed from Adobe systems customer IDs and encrypted passwords of 2.9 million Adobe customers, as well as customer names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers, expiration dates and other details about customer orders. The chief security officer, however, assured that the hackers did not access decrypted credit or debit card numbers.

At the moment, as a precautionary measure, Adobe is “resetting relevant customer passwords to help prevent unauthorized access to Adobe ID accounts”. Adobe will also notify the affected customers with instructions on how to protect their personal information against potential misuse.

#Adobe #Cyber-attack.

ALL MEN ARE ORIGINALLY FEMALES.

Photo By An and Zivkan

Scientists have discovered that men are created from a female blueprint and in fact, if you don’t have a sex chromosome or any one of the sex chromosomes, you come out as a girl, which is the default phenotype.

As you may already know, the real difference between men and women is that men have XY chromosomes while women have a pair of X chromosomes. It is actually a tiny gene on the Y chromosome that transforms the foetus into a male. This gene is called SRY (Sex determining Region Y). The SRY kicks in when the embryo is around six weeks old, but until then the baby could become either male or female. During gestation, the cells of the primordial gonad are in bipontential state --- they have the ability to become either male cells or female cells. It is the SRY gene that, then, initiates testis differentiation by activating DNA-binding proteins that allow these cells to differentiate and proliferate.

In other words, the SRY that gives instruction for the development of testis in the foetus and without its influence, the baby (whether having XX or XY chromosomes) will not emerge as a boy, but as a girl. Take for example, if there is by any way mutations in the SRY, the baby becomes an XY female with gonadal dysgenesis; this condition is also known as Swyer Syndrome. There is a similar condition called AIS (Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome). This is where the body of an XY-carrying embryo doesn't respond to androgenic hormones released under the influence of SRY gene. In both conditions, the foetus assumes the default position, which is female.

Nymi Bracelet Uses Heartbeat As Password.

Nymi bracelet, a Bionym product, can use your unique heartbeat as “password” to control your devices.

When the Nymi is worn for the first time, it reads the wearer’s heartbeat using an electrocardiogram sensor and configures itself to the user’s cardiac rhythm. The heartbeat of an individual is unique, just like the fingerprint. Hence, if some other person tries to use the Nymi, it locks the person out.

The Nymi continuously authenticates the identity of its user, as it wirelessly interacts with devices, until it is removed. By mere gesture, and with proximity sensor and motion detector, it lets the user interact and control his computer, smartphone, car and many more. For instance, if the user twists his wrist as he approaches his car, it will be unlocked by the Nymi.

In order to ensure the privacy and security of its user, the Nymi functions on a 3-facctor security system: the user’s Nymi bracelet, heartbeat and an Authorised Authentication Device (AAD). The AAD can be a smartphone or device registered with Nymi app.

Source: +CNET, +Nymi.

PILOTS SLEPT ON DUTY WHILE PLANE WAS IN MID-AIR.

The pilots of an Airbus A330 dozed off in the cockpit while it cruised at 30,000 feet en route to Britain.
Meanwhile, the aircraft operated on autopilot. It, however, arrived at its destination safely.

UK aviation authorities disclosed the incident to CNN. Virgin Atlantic has acknowledged that its airliner was the plane named in the UK report.

Source: CNN.

FORMER NOKIA BOSS MAY NOT GET $25.4 MILLION PAY-OFF.

Nokia’s chairman, Risto Siilasmaa, has admitted that he gave misleading information about former chief executive Stephen Elop’s pay-off.

Mr Elop’s $25.4 million pay-off sparked angry reaction in Finland, including one from the nation’s economy minister.

Mr Elop became the first non-Finn to run Nokia, in September 2010, when he left Microsoft.

Source: BBC.