Until after May 2, 2008 -- FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, borrowing Mob1900's famous quite!:) -- Desi is doing lots of Cut&Paste. Cuts are good, badder than those cuts of roast lamb which many BUMmers are 11-months pregnant with expectancy since May 19, 2007 (REF: 2007.wordpress.com).
2010: D-day for the Internet as it hits "full capacity"?
Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:19PM EDT
From Yahoo! news on frontpage when you log on to Yahoo! Mail:)
Buzz up!on Yahoo!
Doom-filled warnings arrive from AT&T this week. The company says that without substantial investment in network infrastructure, the Internet will essentially run out of bandwidth in just two short years.
Blame broadband, says AT&T.
Decades of dealing with the trickle of bandwidth consumed by voice and dialup modems left AT&T twiddling its thumbs. The massive rise of DSL and cable modem service in the 2000s has had AT&T facing a monstrous increase in the volume of data transmissions. And that's set to increase another 50 times between now and 2015. That's enough, says AT&T, to all but crash the system.
In response, AT&T says it's investing $19 billion (Desi: USD!) to upgrade the backbone of the Internet, the routers, servers, and connections where the bulk of traffic is processed.
Of course, AT&T is using this breathlessness in part to point fingers beyond simple broadband use. Web video (especially high-definition video) is the most commonly mentioned bandwidth hog. AT&T says video alone will eat up 80 percent of traffic in two years vs. just 30 percent now.
One wonders how YouTube doesn't collapse under the pressure. Hmmm.
Meanwhile, many are wondering whether this is prelude to AT&T announcing (or not announcing, but doing anyway) a traffic prioritization/shaping system like Comcast has been tinkering with... and which has earned it nothing but scorn. Net neutrality (which would forbid premium pricing for certain Internet applications and destinations) is a topic that continues to be hotly debated on Capitol Hill, and telcos are anxious to kill the idea since they'd love to be able to charge additional money for different kinds of web traffic.
If the whole Internet is about to crash, well, that makes AT&T's argument all the more compelling, doesn't it?
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From the NST, of which Desi wit' gladness has seen noticeable CHANGES -- along with other mainstream media (MSM) which my fellow Bloggers, especially Howsy, have looked askance with more than a hint of disdain -- since March 9, 2008, FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. I believe the Law of Survival of The Fittest implicit in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution of the species works in the MSM too.
Thank GOoDness for tender mercies!
Malaysia is slowly but surely maturing!
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::To be continued as I C&P from NST Online later, okay! -- Miss Patience is also Ms Virtupus, as I often preach.
UPDATEd @4.59PM:
Thanks for thy patience, here's why the question was posed: Where To, Malaysia?
Page 7, NST, on Sports1 -- Football:(
2008/04/26
Perak coach's fears may come true
Steve Darby wrote to the FAM three times about his suspicions.
KUALA LUMPUR: Perak coach Steve Darby wrote to the Football Association of Malaysia on three occasions expressing his fear that match-fixing had returned to Malaysian football.
Little did he realise that his own team would be implicated as his players too, are under investigations.
Several Perak players are said to have been approached by a suspicious character and that Darby mentioned it in his letters to FAM."I can't reveal the contents of my letters because they were written in confidence." said Darby.
It is learnt that the person who approached the Perak players claimed to be working for a cable channel and when Darby heard of this, he called up the said station. It, however, denied having such a person on its payroll.
According to sources, a foreigner has also been trying to make contact with the Perak players and even visited a particular player at his home. Darby said he had some misgivings but was powerless to do anything. "While we are suspicious about the whole thing, it is difficult for us to establish hard evidence."
FAM general secretary Lt Jen (Rtd) Datuk Azzuddin Ahmad confirmed that Darby had written to them of his suspicions, the last letter being sent in August. "But we could not go further as there was no evidence," he said.
DESIDERATA: Or is it the wrong people are heading the blardy sport bodies? Wait a while, read *** Citizen-Nades for his take!
Page 10, NST, Sports2 -- Women's Sports and Fitness Foundaion Malaysia, full extract:
ACA blames translation
KUALA LUMPUR: The Anti-Corruption Agency has cleared the air on allegations
that the Women's Sports and Fitness Foundation Malaysia (WSFMM) spent RM1.4million
on entertainment as a sports event last year.
In a statement, it said WSFFM's auditor had wrongly translated the word persembahan, which means performance, as entertainment in the annual report.
The agency also clarified that former youth and sports minister Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said was only a patron of the foundation and was not involved in financial management .
The statement said the word persembahan was related to the opening and closing ceremonies for the National Women's Games last year attended by participants nationwide.
The event was opened by the Raja Permaisuri Agong.
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*** I am not able -- as I am techie-non-savvy unlike most of you guys! -- to C&P CitizenNades's column today. Despite a recent quick Tutorial by mGf ancient mariner, I am still all at sea! Guide you there to page 17, theSun, titled:
Were the
torchbearers worthy?
Dear ER: Can a good Samaritan among my ER C&P this wonderful piece and send it in full via Comments? "Muchos:)" an olde way of XXpressing my thanks just revived by a Friend.:) TQ, TG!
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Meanwhile, I just came back from RPK's malaysia-today.net -- Come-lah, you habitually late-comers, to BUM2008 on May 1 and speak to the KING OF BLOGEERS! -- and here's somethin' "knotty" I stole:) I know it reads like a Jungle now, let me leave for quikkie runch and come back 2 hours later to do the "make-up", OK! ~~ DEsi @1.06PM:(
Is DAP showing its true colours?
Posted by Raja Petra
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Aiyah, bilalah orang DAP nak buang otak Cina dan tukar kepada otak Malaysia? Patutlah orang Umno suruh orang DAP balek Cina. Aku dah lama nak masuk DAP tapi meluat tengok perangai Chinese Chauvinist DAP ni.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Karpal Appeals To PM For Hindraf Leaders' Release
KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 (Bernama) -- DAP Chairman Karpal Singh today appealed to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to instruct Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar to revoke the detention order on the five Hindraf leaders detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA).
Karpal said that despite the detention orders by the King, Syed Hamid could at any time under the law revoke the orders on the five leaders of the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf).
The King had on March 26 ordered for the leaders two-year detention, effective Dec 13 last year, be continued until completion.
"I would have thought, in line with the reconciliatory stance of the government in bringing about reforms, including setting up of a judicial commission for the appointment and promotion of judges, the five leaders would have been set free to rejoin their families."
In fact, the Government should, in line with this approach, repeal the ISA," said Karpal, who is also Bukit Gelugor MP, in a statement tonight.
On Dec 13 last year, the authorities detained M. Manoharan, P. Uthayakumar, V. Ganabatirau, R. Kenghadharan and K. Vasanthakumar for organising a mass rally in the federal capital and making demands for the rights of Indians in the country.
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Nik Aziz’s son was detained for more than five years. Do you know the name of this son?
There are about 90 or so ‘Muslim terrorists’ who are in their seventh year of detention.
Okay, we have five Hindraf activitists, now popularly known as the HINDRAF 5, who have been under detention for the last four months. And their names are M. Manoharan, P. Uthayakumar, V. Ganabatirau, R. Kenghadharan and K. Vasanthakumar.
Yes, that’s right, five Indians going by the name of M. Manoharan, P. Uthayakumar, V. Ganabatirau, R. Kenghadharan and K. Vasanthakumar have been under detention without trial since the last four months and we want them freed without any further delay.That’s work with me. I am all for it.
Now, can be list down the names of the other 90 or so Malaysians who have been detained for up to six to seven years?
The five Indians are called M. Manoharan, P. Uthayakumar, V. Ganabatirau, R. Kenghadharan and K. Vasanthakumar.
I want to know the names of the other 90 Malaysians -- Malays, Chinese, Indians, and other ‘natives’. Can we also list their names down? Who are they? Where are they from?
The five Indians have been under detention since Christmas last year. Some of the other 90 have been under detention for six or seven Christmases. I believe in FIFO (first in, first out) not LIFO (last in, first out).
Okay, we know that the HINDRAF 5 -- M. Manoharan, P. Uthayakumar, V. Ganabatirau, R. Kenghadharan and K. Vasanthakumar -- have been detained for the ‘crime’ of organising a massive demonstration in Kuala Lumpur on 25 November 2007.
What are the crimes of the other 90 -- whom no one cares what their names are?
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Aiyah, bilalah orang DAP nak buang otak Cina dan tukar kepada otak Malaysia? Patutlah orang Umno suruh orang DAP balek Cina. Aku dah lama nak masuk DAP tapi meluat tengok perangai Chinese Chauvinist DAP ni.
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DESIDERATA: Sdr RPK has asked some pertinent questions of DAP leaders and I advise my ER to visit MT to read the post in full, to do the writer Justice. I'm not gonna pamper you (you're not a babe, or are you?) copying the 'hole thingy for thee.:( Lazy BUMmers!
BUT Desi says there is some HOPE yet. Here are two blobs of Sunshine -- even UMNO Youth leaders can change! And have the humility to apologise! And an independent news portal malaysiakini.com has also the decency and responsibility to tender an Apology for some slipshod reporting!
We all learn. Even Desi learns for covering Che'Gu Bard's Press Conference which I wrote about in an earlier Post (will check Date, OK!) and taking his word as "final" and credible without hearing the other side. The only mitigating factor for YL Chong is I was then writing as a Blogger, not a fulltime reporter, BUT THAT"S NOT A GOOD EXCUSE. I too apologise to my Esteemed Readers!
Page 10, NST, a Poltician's AP, partial extract only:
2008/04/26
'I'm sad I upset non-Malays'
KUALA LUMPUR: Umno Youth chief Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein yesterday apologised for drawing a kris at the Umno general assembly in 2005 and 2006, acknowledging that the act had upset non-Malays.
"Today, we saw many things being talked about in earnest among the delegates," he said after chairing the first Barisan Nasional youth meeting since the general election last month.
"This included the issue of the Panca Warisan kris. I told them, I am responsible for what happened if it had in any way affected our performance.
"I apologise if this has affected anybody. I apologise to the non-Malays if they felt afraid of the symbol.
"To the Malays, I also apologise because I cannot defend the symbol of our heritage."
Hishammuddin said the issue was not as big as it was made out to be.
"But the reality is such, and I am not someone who is so filled with pride or arrogance that I cannot accept this fact.
"This is a sad lesson. However, if the dictates of politics are such, then we as leaders must embrace it and place our position in the Barisan Nasional above all else."
The Panca Warisan kris, which is kept at the Umno Youth headquarters, is ceremoniously carried into the hall at the start of every Umno general assembly.
In the past, the Umno Youth chief would, at the start of the assembly, unsheath the blade and kiss it before holding it up in the air. The kris would then be placed on a pedestal.
The raising and kissing of the kris at the assembly in 2005 and 2006 created an uproar among non-Malays, particularly those in MCA and Gerakan.
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Page 10, NST, an Online New Portal's AP, full extract:
Malaysiakini says sorry to Khairy
KUALA LUMPUR: News portal Malaysiakini yesterday apologised to Rembau MP Khairy Jamaluddin over reports that he had initially lost the parliamentary seat, which he won by 5,726 votes.
The Umno Youth deputy chief wrote to Malaysiakini disputing the reports of a recount of votes on polling night in the Rembau parliamentary constituency.
His letter, which was published in full, said reports of him first losing and then winning the seat, after a recount, were false and baseless.
Khairy said in his letter that he was present at the main counting centre on the night of March 8.
"At no point did I lose an initial count and, as such, at no time was there a need for a recount.
"The total number of votes cast in favour of my opponent, Badrul Hisham Shaharin from Parti Keadilan Rakyat, did not at any time warrant a recount as provided for under the Elections (Conduct of Elections) Regulations 1981.
"I was declared winner by 5,746 votes after the first and only count," he said.
In response, Malaysiakini said it was told by Badrul on election night that there would be a recount.
It said Badrul subsequently said there was a recount at a press conference.
"However, we have come to know now that such a recount did not take place.
"As such, we would like to apologise to Khairy for publishing that assertion in our subsequent stories," it said.
Meanwhile, in Seremban, Badrul, a PKR supreme council member, filed an election petition at the High Court yesterday to declare the election result void.
The petition was filed through his lawyers from Shearn Delamore & Co at 3pm.
The main grouse was that there was non-compliance with election regulations and that the total number of ballot papers issued for the four state seats under the Rembau constituency did not tally with the total issued for the parliamentary seat.
Under the Election Offences Act 1954, the High Court has to come up with a decision on the election petition six months from the date the petition was filed.
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