Twitterbug

I dont know how i missed this but here's the news, a few days ago some guy called Bora Kirka found out a bug with twitter. well twitter has tons of bugs whats so big about this bug? well, this bug allowed anyone to force any one to follow their accounts. Getting followers on twitter is like the main idea behind twitter, so this bug was very very serious. If you do not get what i mean, read this quote

"A Turkish guy named Bora Kırca figared out accidently that if you tweet "accept username", for example billgates, then bill gates will follow you.
it's so stupid; but true." - gizmodo

well radical eh? so for a few hours after gizmodo and some other blogs posted about it, [i was sleeping]
people were being forced followed by people so its like lady gaga following John Li or Barack Obama following Alibaba.When Twitter found out they went nuts, everyone's follow numbers shot to zero, and Bora's Twitter account was suspended. But how did he find this thing in the first place?
Bora LOVED this group called ACCEPT and he decided to  twit this [ ACCEPT PWNT ] instead of that twit appearing, a person called pwnt started following him ! well how crazy is that? well after experimenting for awhile, he told his girlfriend and posted a blogpost regarding that and soon twitter was messed-up. imagine bill gates, obama, lady gaga, adam lambert following some guy you never heard of.

Twitter's Response

. Their official line so far is written like a bug report:

"We identified and resolved a bug that permitted a user to "force" other users to follow them. We're now working to rollback all abuse of the bug that took place. Follower/following numbers are currently at 0; we're aware and this too should shortly be resolved."



It seems obvious that this bug had been lingering for a while, and that it was just a matter of time before someone caught it. It also seems obvious that Twitter should have caught it before rolling the "ACCEPT" feature into the main site.

So for hours people had the power to force people to follow them.


In the end, Twitter will clean this up. But the fear will, and should, remain: What if this was a little worse? What if a command gave people access to others' Twitter accounts beyond the ability to force a follow? This was an inconvenience; that would have been a disaster.

So this was how a band called ACCEPT nearly destroyed twitter.Twitter sure is delicate.

Exam Tips.

Seeing that its the exam season again and most people around the world are taking their MYEs, me included. I find it appropriate to post some tips from all around the web to help you in your exams and hopefully, get higher marks or scores, whatever you like to call them. Anyway here are some of the tips with their respective credits given.

1. Eat a cooked egg with the yolk. Yolk is known to help increase brain and memorization productivity.

2. Sit with both feet flat on the ground. Although this may seem really simple, 90 percent of people sit with their legs crossed, or one foot slightly/fully off the ground the majority of the time. Sitting with both feet flat on the ground helps blood flow to the brain, and it is also less distracting. 

3. When you are reading, use your finger to guide your eyes. The faster you move your finger, the faster your eyes move. Even though it may seem like you're skipping words fast, your brain puts together the missing words. Humans are logical. Not only does using a finger increase your reading speed by 300% +, but it also helps keep people focused. Most students tend to doze off in the middle of reading, but using a finger will help keep you focused. 

From the facebook group http://www.facebook.com/pages/3-simple-tricks-to-memorize-EVERYTHING-for-an-exam-in-10-minutes/117807758252874?v=wall 

oh and here's a few tips from yours truly. SLEEP EARLY. whoever invented the phrase burn midnight oil to revise had'nt tried it before. scientific studies had  shown that you are more likely to remember what you have learned if you have had a good night’s sleep. oh and renember to be positive revising and doing the exam. negative thoughts will only demotivate you . Last of all, renember to at least flip your files or textbooks a lil because u cannot answer what u have no idea about. And GOOD LUCK. 

The Great Oil Spill

You might have heard about the British petrolum's oil rig exploding and leaking tons of oil into the US gulf.

well you might have also heard about how british petrolum is trying to fix the leak and what effects the oil spill is having on the wildlife there. Well, just incase u had'nt heard about those yet, im here to bring you up to speed on all these stuff. 

OK. On April 20th, there was an explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon, in which 11 staff died.

2 days later, the rig sank,80km from the south east of Venice. The riser pipe that had connected the rig to the wellhead now lies fractured on the seabed a mile below, spewing out oil at a rate at some 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gallons, a day. The spill threatens economic and ecological disaster on Gulf Coast tourist beaches, wildlife refuges and fishing grounds. Well if the effects are so grave what is BP doing to try to contain it? well it has considered serveral options like using a oil spill containment dome. and building another rig to drain all the oil but that will take serveral months to build and it would be too late by then. so here's the details to the dome.

At the leak site, the device will be lowered by cable to the site of the leak. Once at the seafloor, underwater robots will place it on top of the larger of two remaining leaks.


* The chamber, 40 feet tall, 24 feet wide and 14 feet deep has steel shelf-like "mud flaps" on the side to ensure it doesn't sink more than 15 feet into the mud.

* The funnel-like top of the chamber will be connected to a drill pipe inside a larger pipe, or riser. That mechanism will then be connected to Transocean's Deepwater Enterprise drillship, which is capable of processing 15,000 barrels of oil per day.

* The dual-pipe mechanism will allow warm water and a chemical, methanol, to be pumped into the space between the drill pipe and larger pipe. That is intended to counteract the possibility of ice- or sludge-like plugs in the larger pipe that could hinder or stop the flow of oil to the ship. Such plugs can form from natural gas, 3,000 cubic feet of which is in each leaking barrel of oil.

A second containment chamber is being built at Wild Well Control in Port Fourchon, Louisiana, to later be placed atop the second leak. In the meantime, underwater robots will continue trying to manipulate valves on the blowout preventer to stop both leaks at the main source.

Unfortunatedly, that doesnt seem to be working. The dome which had sounded like a great idea is failing. A buildup of crystallized gas in the dome forced engineers to delay efforts to place the huge containment device over the rupture and funnel leaking oil to a waiting drillship.

 

So BP  may next try to plug the damaged blowout preventer on the well by pumping debris into it at high pressure, a method called a "junk shot," or by putting a new preventer on top.

Hundreds of boats deployed protective booms and used dispersants to break up the oil again on Sunday, but rough seas are threathening to distrupt the efforts

Forecasts show the giant oil slick moving west, as brisk onshore winds blow from the southeast through next weekend.

On a side note,  at least BP has claimed responsibillity and are trying to contain the oil spill as fast as possible unlike some other incidents. And think about how much money BP is losing to contain the oil spill, building the rig and creating sandbags dont come cheap right? The only reason why this is so serious is because it is a major oil rig and its near places with alot of wildlife. Oh and do check out these videos on youtube. They can help u understand the oil spill better.

With refrence from http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6430AR20100510?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1055522/1/.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64710F20100508?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a49:g43:r3:c0.060223:b33831060:z0

Ironing Man

With the release of iron man 2. Many people who have not watched Iron Man 1 would have started watching it by now. with all the adverising for iron man 2 on TV, its a wonder ironman 2 hadnt grossed as much as avatar in its first week. Anyways, if you havent watched iron man, you probably shouldnt watch iron man 2 because the story line is sleek :D. As i said, iron man has attracted so much media attention that some guys from Figment films decided to do a parody of the trailer of Iron Man 1 and they have named it Ironing man. Its pretty awesome all things considered and i rate it 10/10. Totally makes me feel like watching Ironing man, too bad its not real lol.
But renember one thing, watch IRON MAN's Trailer First. It wouldnt be as funny if u had'nt watched iron man's trailer yet.

Watch Iron man's trailer HERE.

and watch IRONING MAN's trailer HERE.


oh and renember to subscribe to me on youtube @. www.youtube.com/123456wei thanks for reading!

RoboGames 2010

By now you should have known that i like to post about almost everything that's happening or had happened.
well here's another thing that has happened. it was totally awesome but i was not there to view it live.
What is it? well it was the RoboGames 2010, it was held in San franscisco
From april 23 to the 25th. well whats so unique about this robotics competition? thing is, its not one of those plastic lego bots that you usually see in school, its metal robots who are set to kill  or destroy each other, on some instances, the robots have flamethrowers and usually, sparks will be produced. occassionally robots burst into flames. How cool is that? anyway here's one of the most awesome videos of this year's RoboGames 2010 competition
Post created with reference from www.robogames.net . oh and robotics is timeless!

Changelog

-Changed from 99 red balloons skin to
-Box blogskin. Cleaner, neater and less-lag.
-nicer layout and much more awesome apps.
-waiting for suggestions on blog on CBOX.

well thats pretty much i did today. 8 May 2010. do give me your comments on this new blog design :D rate it ?/10 and renember to tag always!

The Millitary's Deadliest Weapon yet.

"Kaching" Boom!, whats that i hear? oh its a weapon, hello readers, today you'll learn about the US army's deadliest hand weapon to date. the XM25 . *pauses for dramatic effect*anyway its a grenade launcher that has been developed by heckler&koch yes grenade launcher,
You must be wondering, pah another grenade launcher, what's good about that?. well read this

"The xm25 can fire 25mm rounds that explode at any distance set by the soldier, killing people protected behind walls or trenches. "
well if that's not a weapon of mass destruction, i dont know what is.

Anyways, what else can this WMD do? well here's the list

• Imagine there is an enemy sniper hiding behind a window in a building.
• The soldier points the weapon to the building's façade, measuring the distance.
• Using two buttons on the front handle, he would then add whatever distance he estimates is the correct one to get the 25mm round through the window and into the room, near the enemy.
• Then he would fire. The smart round knows where it is at all times thanks to its built-in circuitry.
• When the round reaches the distance set by the soldier, it would explode, killing the enemy with a fragmentation warhead. The round doesn't really have to be very near the enemy. Its blast radius is equivalent to a hand grenade, so these things are extremely dangerous, and almost impossible to survive.

How awesome is that? i wouldnt want to be the enemy !

anyways, this weapon is a reality or will be a reality in the afghanisian war and will be used by the green berets sooner or later, wheather it will save more lives or destroy more lives, i dont know but one thing's for sure, this weapon is sure gona put a new spin into the war.


with reference from.
http://defensetech.org/2010/05/06/army-sending-precision-grenade-launcher-to-afghanistan/#more-6996