Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Careful :: Facebook tracks what you do online even when you're logged out
An Australian technologist has claimed that Facebook can track the web pages you visit, even when you are logged out of the social networking giant.
According to Wollongong-based Nik Cubrilovic, when the user is logged out of Facebook, rather than deleting its tracking cookies, the site merely modifies them, maintaining account information and other unique tokens that can be used to identify its users.
This simply means that any time you visit a web page with a Facebook button or widget, your browser is still sending personally identifiable information back to Facebook.
"Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit," Cubrilovic wrote in a blog post.
"The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions," he added.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Hyderabad: Ex-cricketer Azharuddin’s son critically injured in road accident
Hyderabad: Ajmal-ur-Rahman, nephew of former Indian captain Mohammed Azharuddin, died here while the cricketer's son Mohammed Ayazuddin is fighting for his life after an accident early on Sunday, police said.
Rahman, 16, and Ayazuddin, 19, met with the accident on the city's outskirts.
Ayazuddin, an upcoming cricketer, was riding a sports bike with his cousin when he lost control and fell down near Poppalaguda on the Outer Ring Road.
Ayazuddin and Rahman were rushed to Apollo Hospital in Jubliee Hills at 9.45 am, according to a medical bulletin.
"Both of them were brought with cardiac arrest to the hospital. A team of doctors worked on them. After one-and-a-half hour of efforts, Ajmal could not be revived and was declared dead," it said.
According to head of emergency medicines of the hospital Mahesh Joshi, Ayazuddin responded to resuscitation measure and was taken for emergency surgery to stop bleeding in his chest.
"He (Ayazuddin) also sustained injuries in kidneys. His condition is critical. He is on ventilator and his blood pressure is being supported with a high dose of medication," the bulletin said.
A multi-speciality team of doctors is closely monitoring his parameters in Intensive Care Unit.
Rahman was the son of Azhar's sister and grandson of former MP Khaleel-ur-Rahman.
According to police, Ayazuddin was driving Suzuki GSX R1000 with his cousin riding pillion. The youngsters, who were said to be race bike enthusiasts, were riding on the Outer Ring Road though two-wheelers are barred from doing so.
Azharuddin, who was away in London, is rushing back to Hyderabad.
Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy, state Congress Chief Botsa Satyanarayana, Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, Secunderabad MP Anjan Kumar Yadav and cricketer V.V.S. Laxman reached the hospital.
Ayazuddin is a second year B.Com student at St. Mary's College.
Ayazuddin is the second of Azharuddin's two sons from his former wife Naureen, whom he divorced to marry former actress Sangeeta Bijlani.
Azharuddin, who played 99 Tests and 334 One-Day Internationals for India, was banned for life in 2000 following allegations of his involvement in match fixing.
The former cricketer joined Congress party before 2009 elections and was elected to the Lok Sabha from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh.
Monday, September 5, 2011
I Think You and All Political Parties are Blind
Imphal, Manipur: On the world's longest hunger strike, Irom Sharmila has completed ten years of fasting over human rights abuses in Manipur and promises to continue.
Silently but forcefully, she is highlighting the rarely reported decade-long insurgency in Manipur and the government's response to it with Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), something she opposes.
Irom Sharmila Chanu is a poet, a writer and an activist. She was brought to the jail ward of Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital at the age of 27. Now ten years have passed in solitary confinement.
In the year 2000, she had pledged a fast-unto-death against the imposition of AFSPA in Manipur. She was arrested and since then kept in custody - force fed with a tube.
When we met her, a cheerful Irom Sharmila seemed more determined than ever to continue with her fast. She, however, did not wish to talk much.
NDTV: In Manipur ten years back, there was a 27-year-old girl who sat in Malom for a protest. Ten years later, what do you see when you look back?
Irom Sharmila: Let us realise why we are here in this world. How and when we will go away from here? This is our duty to just self-realise.
This was a rare interview opportunity for both of us. But the one-hour, so hard-earned, was spent mostly in edgy silence. As if she was asking, 'I am living the struggle...I am living my protest...what more can my words give you that my life already doesn't?'