Surveillance on the Fingerprint scanner system

Many peoples saying the fingerprint device detecting blood to marked your existing identification. Precisely not, fingerprint scanner only reads black and white colors which encoding and converting into binary code to calculate its structures. Means, 1 is equal to black and 0 is equal to white, therefore, every 1 pixel has a reserved 1/0 code upon degenerating.

However, on the layers of the fingerprint scanner device has instructed by the logical circuits and software with trigonometric/hash functions as the angle detector on the screen wherever to tap thereupon.

The affirmative changes, applying white dot ink and bleeding even slightly in our fingers can change and creates new identity in any existence such as NBI Clearance, Voting registration, Digital Delay Time Record (Digital Logger), and others.

Toll from Cotabato explosion rises to 8

COTABATO CITY: The number of casualties in the car bombing that ripped through this city on Monday afternoon rose to eight after three of the 30 injured victims died while undergoing treatment in hospital, police said.

Tension also ran high in this mixed Muslim-Christian community, especially among relatives and followers of City Mayor Japal Guiani Jr., whose family the police initially tagged as the prime “target” in the bomb attack that instantly killed two of his sister’s escorts.

Guiani said local governments “condemn to highest degree” the attack which aggravated the plight of over 30,000 residents currently displaced by floods.

“[A] big group was involved in this terroristic attack,” he said in a radio interview.

Senior Superintendent Rolen Balquin, city police chief, said investigators are pursuing a few angles, including lingering threats hounding the family of the city mayor.

The bomb, believed rigged inside a car parked across a funeral parlor on Sinsuat Avenue, went off at about 4:30 p.m. as the mayor’s Chevrolet Suburban sports utility vehicle, carrying City Administrator Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi, passed by, Balquin said.

Sayadi said that they have been receiving death threats through text messages from unnamed quarters prior to the bomb attack. She and her escorts were on their way to one of the inundated villages in the city to supervise relief services for displaced flood victims at the time of the explosion.

The police official said that the blast shrapnel and splintered metal parts killed his sister’s escorts—Samsodin Hari and Usop Lajinapawan—but did not penetrate the mayor’s bulletproof vehicle.

The explosion also killed three bystanders—Sangkala Satol, Saiden Minat, and Harris Punto.

Balquin said that as of yesterday, 13 of the 30 wounded who were rushed to various hospitals, remained confined, including Jeddin Menak, 9, and Nasrudin Guialel, 14.

One of those still in hospital is SP04 Mama Manambuay, a member of the Maguindanao provincial police intelligence unit.

Manambuay was with his superior, Inspector Abubakar Mangelen Jr., aboard a police car at the busy street junction at the time of the blast.

The 30 wounded were identified as Adam Haron, Aidee Chan Olen, Alia Ulama, Allan Karuana, Alsaima Ulama, Andy Alimon, Ana Jane Ismael, Chuadi Salik, Diamna Ali, Edison Antolin, Emily Lu, Edwardo Medgar, Erlindan Dicain, Ibrahim Opam, Ivy Libradilla, Jeraisi Minat, John Anthony Pasrudin, Laisa Manguda, Mampen Macapages, Mikael Almiroda, Mokan Hamza, Nelsin Lasam, Norhaina Abbas, Normina Mama, Omar Ali, Richie Chan Visanes, Ruby Buhat, and Sarah Minat.

The explosion sparked a fire that gutted two buildings including Villa Funeral Home located in front of the blast site.

First car bombing
According to investigators, Monday’s explosion was the first car bomb case in the city and probably in Mindanao. Previous bomb attacks involved hand grenades, rocket-propelled grenades and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), mostly rigged from mortar shells, planted in basements.

Investigators were not discounting other motives in the latest blast, saying it could be another handiwork of “spoilers” of the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) current peace process.

MILF officials said they would conduct separate investigation on the incident and asked the public not to make unnecessary speculations that may aggravate the confusion and tension.

Officials in adjacent provinces including Governors Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza of North Cotabato and Esmael Mangudadatu of Maguindanao also condemned the attack and urged the police to prevent a spillover of the tension to their turfs.

Senior Superintendent Danny Peralta, North Cotabato police director, placed his command on “full alert” after the incident and ordered tight security along the highway linking this city to his province.

Not a terrorist attack
President Benigno Aquino 3rd also on Tuesday discounted a terror angle in the Cotabato City blast.

In an ambush interview in Subic, the President said that there was no indication that the explosion was related to the al-Qaeda threat that temporarily shut down key US diplomatic posts across the world.

The investigators, he said, are not ruling out all angles, saying that such activity could also be perpetrated by some political groups or even those “sectors” who want to derail the ongoing peace process between the government and the MILF.

”Wala tayong indicator na ganoon ang pangyayari. Hindi lang naman ‘yung terrorism angle ang tinitingnan; meron ding potential— may political angle diyan sa Cotabato, meron ding potential criminal naman sa Cagayan de Oro,” he said.

”Huwag nating kalimutan na meron talagang mga ilang sektor na ayaw magpatuloy ‘yung ating peace process. At siguro, talaga namang pinaghahandaan ito, pero talagang magiging imposible na nandoon tayo parati sa lahat ng lugar, sa lahat ng oras para ma-prevent lahat ito. Talagang terrorists, by their nature, iilan lang sila, tagong-tago, lihim,” Aquino added.

Difficulties
The President, on one hand, said that authorities are also encountering difficulties in going after the suspects because of the limitations of the military and the police
But he promised that the government will bring the perpetrators to justice.

“We are exhausting all of these leads with developing, parang cases or we’re investigating the same leads to determine exactly who perpetrated. Pero palagay ko mahahanap rin natin sila in the near— kung hindi very near future,” Aquino emphasized.

Meanwhile, Aquino met with the Cabinet Security cluster in Malacañang to discuss the recent bombings.

”I called the Security Cluster precisely to tackle this particular matter,” he said.

”At this point in time, the suspects have been the objects of our concern for a very long time and we’ve been pursuing the same suspects. Hindi pa sigurado that they are the parties responsible for this,” he added.

Senate probe
Meanwhile, at the Senate, the committee on public order and dangerous drugs will focus on the intelligence and evidence gathering capability of the PNP before and after the bombings.

According to Sen. Grace Poe, chairman of the committee, she wanted to know if there were flaws in the gathering of evidence by police personnel after the bombing.

“I need to investigate among other things, if there were lapses or breach in security measures, “ she added.

Right after the explosion at the Limketkai shopping complex, Cagayan de Oro police allowed mall employees to clean the blast site.

The senator said that the gathering of evidence by the police personnel should be standardized.

Among those invited by the panel were Interior and Local Government Sec. Manuel “Mar” Roxas 2nd, Philippine National Police Chief Dir. Gen. Alan Purisima, and Alfonso Lim, President and CEO of Limketkai Center where the blast happened last July 26.

Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Oscar Moreno and Chief Superintendent Graciano Mijares, the city’s police director, were also asked to attend the probe.

Poe also said that she will inquire if the PNP’s intelligence funds are properly utilized.

The congressional inquiry was prompted by the call of Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel 3rd, who hails from Mindanao and who delivered a privileged speech demanding the swift identification and prosecution of the “masterminds” of the blast in Cagayan de Oro.

But Poe said since PNP officials will be attending the probe, she will also include the recent bombing in Cotabato City, the second bombing to hit Mindanao in 10 days.

She likewise condemned the latest explosion describing it as an “act of lawlessness that not only distressed the victims’ families but also sowed fear among our countrymen who are going about their daily lives.”

“Those responsible should be held accountable for their actions. We also enjoin the citizens to be vigilant and help report leads to the case,” she added.

DepEd Order no. 32 s. 2013

Republic of thePhilippines

Department of Education 

Clarification: There are misleading articles that released by DepEd regarding DepEd Order No. 32 s.2013. The Order DOES NOT refer to the hijab, NOR does it imply prohibition of the veil. We are strengthening the protection of these rights. Please read the Order for correct information:

Chromecast device

Google just demoted your television set into a second screen, a slave to your phone or tablet or laptop. With the $35 Chromecast you can with one click move anything you find on your internet-connected device — YouTube video, Netflix, a web page as well as music and pictures and soon, I’d imagine, games — onto your big TV screen, bypassing your cable box and all its ridiculous and expensive limitations.

Unlike Apple TV and Airplay, this does not stream from your laptop to the TV; this streams directly to your TV — it’s plugged into an HDMI port — over wi-fi via the cloud … er, via Google, that is. Oh, and it works with Apple iOS devices, too.

I’m just beginning to get a grasp on all the implications. Here are some I see.

* Simply put, I’ll end up watching more internet content because it’s so easy now. According to today’s demonstration, as soon as I tell Chrome to move something to my TV, the Chromecast device will sense the command and take over the TV. Nevermind smart TVs and cable boxes; the net is now in charge. There’s no more awkward searching using the world’s slowest typing via my cable box or a web-connected TV. There’s no more switching manually from one box to another. If it’s as advertised, I’ll just click on my browser and up it comes on my TV. Voila.

* Because Google issued an API, every company with web video — my beloved TWiT, for example — is motivated to add a Chromecast button to its content.

* Thus Google knows more about what you’re watching, which will allow it to make recommendations to you. Google becomes a more effective search engine for entertainment: TV Guide reborn at last.

* Google gets more opportunities to sell higher-priced video advertising on its content, which is will surely promote.

* Google gets more opportunities to sell you shows and movies from its Play Store, competing with both Apple and Amazon.

* YouTube gets a big boost in creating channels and building a new revenue stream: subscriptions. This is a paywall that will work simply because entertainment is a unique product, unlike news, which is — sorry to break the news to you — a commodity. I also wonder whether Google is getting a reward for all the Netflix subscriptions it will sell.

* TV is no longer device-dependant but viewer-dependant. I can start watching a show in one room then watch it another and then take it with me and watch on my tablet from where I left off.

* I can throw out the device with the worst user interface on earth: the cable remote. Now I can control video via my phone and probably do much more with it (again, I’m imagining new game interfaces).

* I can take a Chromecast with me on the road and use it in hotel rooms or in conference rooms to give presentations.

Those are implications for me as a user or viewer or whatever the hell I am now. That’s why I quickly bought three Chromecasts: one for the family room, one for my office, one for the briefcase and the road. What the hell, they’re cheap.

Harder to fully catalog are the implications for the industry — make that industries — affected. Too often, TV and the oligopolies that control it have been declared dead yet they keep going. One of these days, one of the bullets shot at them will hit the heart. Is this it?

* Cable is hearing a loud, growing snipping sound on the horizon. This makes it yet easier for us all to cut the cord. This unravels their bundling of channels. I’ll never count these sharks out. But it looks like it could be Sharknado for them. I also anticipate them trying to screw up our internet bandwidth every way they can: limiting speeds and downloading or charging us through the nose for decent service if we use Chromecast — from their greedy perspective — “too much.”

* Networks should also start feeling sweaty, for there is even less need for their bundling when we can find the shows and stars we want without them. The broadcast networks will descend even deeper into the slough of crappy reality TV. Cable networks will find their subsidies via cable operators’ bundles threatened. TV — like music and news — may finally come unbundled. But then again, TV networks are the first to run for the lifeboats and steal the oars. I remember well the day when ABC decided to stream Desperate Housewives on the net the morning after it aired on broadcast, screwing its broadcast affiliates. They’d love to do the same to cable MSOs. Will this give them their excuse?

* Content creators have yet another huge opportunity to cut out two layers of middlemen and have direct relationships with fans, selling them their content or serving them more targeted and valuable ads. Creators can be discovered directly. But we know how difficult it is to be discovered. Who can help? Oh, yeah, Google.

* Apple? As someone said on Twitter: Apple should have made this. 

Yes, Apple could throw out its Apple TV and shift to this model. But it’s disadvantaged against Google because it doesn’t offer the same gateway to the entire wonderful world of web video; it offers things it makes deals for, things it wants to sell us.

* Amazon? Hmmm. On the one hand, if I can more easily shift things I buy at Amazon onto my TV screen — just as I read Kindle books on my Google Nexus 7 table, not on an Amazon Kindle. But Amazon is as much a control freak as Apple and I can’t imagine Jeff Bezos is laughing that laugh of his right now.

* Advertisers will see the opportunity to directly subsidize content and learn more about consumers through direct relationships, no longer mediated by both channels and cable companies. (That presumes that advertisers and their agencies are smart enough to build audiences rather than just buying mass; so far, too many of them haven’t been.) Though there will be more entertainment behind pay walls, I think, there’ll still be plenty of free entertainment to piggyback on.

* Kids in garages with cameras will find path to the big screen is now direct if anybody wants to watch their stuff.

What other implications do you see?

Anti-government Dutch protester open a letter to PO1 Sevilla

23 July 2013 at 20:10

I was the foreign protester who was actively denouncing to you the violence used against the activists yesterday at the SONA Protest. I was one of the 41 injured activists in the protest. Many of the injured received head wounds and contusions, two of the injured were senior citizens. They were attacked simply because they exercised their constitutional right to assemble and protest.

I came to the Philippines as part of an International Solidarity Mission and as a delegate of the International Conference on Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines. I attended the SONA protest because I had been outraged by the human rights violations committed by the corrupt Aquino regime. I am tired of the extrajudicial killings, the illegal arrests, the forced demolitions, the land-grabbings, the puppetry to US-imperialism, tired of all the oppression and exploitation of the workers, farmers, students, women, indigenous, urban poor, LGBTs, and all other oppressed groups. I have integrated here in the Philippines with many different sectors to directly see the effects of the basic problems that the Filipino people face. I personally knew people like Willem Geertman, a Dutch community worker who moved to the Philippines, who was brutally murdered by this regime last July 3, 2012. Many of the protesters have many experiences with family members, friends, and acquaintances who have been murdered or tortured by this regime. They had every reason to demonstrate against the Aquino government.

It was by chance that I was facing you. Just before our encounter I was part of the group of peaceful protesters in the front who were beaten with police truncheons. We did not carry any weapons, we only had our banners and flags. After that initial confrontation I got angry and started shouting at the police officer standing in front of me. That police officer happened to be you. I continued to ask you why the police was beating and hurting us. Your response was flashing a peace sign while saying "relax, relax". While you were doing this, a few metres away from us the police was again beating the activists. I started pointing at the attack and shouted "You are the ones that are hurting us! You started this conflict! Why are you doing this?". At this point you started getting emotional and I responded by repeating again and again the question why they were doing this. During your crying you responded to me that you were only following orders. My initial reaction was that this was a legitimization of the violence and a way to absolve yourself of any complicity in the incident. "take responsibility" I repeated over and over.

Then there was a stand-off while negotiations with the police were taking place. We were told to wait for the results. However, even before the results of the negotiations were made known, the second wave of the dispersal started to happen. Our side stayed calm while your side started coming closer and closer. It was obvious that they wanted to start a commotion on our side, which would give them a reason to start attacking the activists with full force. Despite my rage, I remained nonviolent and even put my arms behind my back to show clearly who was the attacker and who was the target. The police started to push us away but I did not see you joining them. You stayed at the same place, crying behind your shield. I was wondering whether you did not attack us because you were overwhelmed of the situation, or if you had a genuine realization about who was causing this excessive use of repressive violence. I did not have long to think about this because I got taken to the back of the protest by comrades who were afraid that the police would be out to arrest me. I tried to look for you after the clashes to have a talk with you, but you were nowhere to be found.

I write this letter because unlike the other police at the protest, you did not act violently like your mates and you did not attack us. You did what you thought was right. You were confronted with the repressive character of the police and did not follow the orders of your superiors. This is a noble act. Historically, the role of the police force is to suppress any type of resistance that has the potential to truly threaten the status quo. I hope you realize that when you follow orders that are detrimental to the people, you become complicit in the crimes that are carried out. If you are really genuine about resisting when it is right, if you really want to serve the people, then you should know that when you take orders, you have a choice and a moral responsibility to refuse to carry out any type of anti-people acts, because when you do choose to carry them out, you are complicit in the crimes that are carried out.

You alone are responsible for your actions. I hope to see you again next year, during the SONA protest of 2014. But then I hope that we will be on the same side. Together against the crimes of the state and against the violent forces that exist purely to defend that state. Together in upholding the interests of the Filipino people.

Take your responsibility and join the people's movement.

Thomas van Beersum
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Muslim teachers requested to not wear face veils during class hour

MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Education (DepEd) has asked teachers of subjects in Arabic Language and Islamic Values Education (ALIVE) in public schools not to wear face veils in the classroom as this would get in the way of effective teaching.

“Once the ustadja (teacher) is in the classroom, she is requested to remove the veil,” said Education Secretary Armin Luistro in an order dated July 16.

Luistro said wearing a veil would keep students from seeing the teacher’s face in class.

“In support of effective language teaching, recognition and discrimination of letters and their sounds are enhanced. Lip formation significantly helps in the correct production of the letter sounds,” Luistro said.

Seeing the teacher’s face without the veil would be necessary “for proper identification of the teachers by the pupils, thus promoting better teacher-pupil relationship,” he added.

Luistro made the request even as he reiterated DepEd’s standing policy of protecting the religious rights of students in school.

“While the Department supports and promotes the right of Muslim Filipino women to wear hijab/veil (or headdress), it does not compel Muslim Filipino women to wear it,” he said.

During their Physical Education subject, Muslim school girls are allowed to wear “appropriate clothing in accordance with their religious beliefs.”

Muslim students are also not required to participate in non-Muslim religious rites.

DepEd has begun to professionalize asatidz (Muslim teachers) who teach in madaris (Muslim schools) by hiring them as permanent teachers to teach ALIVE subjects in public elementary schools in Muslim-dominated areas.

DepEd introduced a standard curriculum for private madaris and select public schools that incorporates ALIVE subjects with regular subjects in order to integrate madrasah education graduates into mainstream education.

Mindanao leaders hail PNoy’s 4th SONA

COTABATO CITY, Philippines – Elected Muslim and Christian leaders in Mindanao have lauded President Aquino III’s 4th State-of-the-Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, affirming their support to the thrusts he spelt put therein.

Over a dozen of leaders from Southern Philippines responded to Manila Bulletin’s request for reactions to the SONA, but Governors Esmael Mangudadatu of Maguindanao, Mamintal Adiong Jr. of Lanao del Sur and Emylou Taliño-Mendoza of North Cotabato expressed categorical views on the “sincere” thrusts enumerated and “factual” statistics disclosed on the economy growth in the Chief Executive’s report.

Adiong was elated by the President’s citation of his province in posting for the first time a “zero election failure” in the last synchronized polls, saying the feat came about because “a straightforward President sowed a pure seed of reform and buoyed concerned people to work together in nurturing its fruition of virtuous outcome.”

The Maranao governor was hinting at local notions that failure of elections in his turf and other areas of the country happened in past elections due to alleged “collusions of national and local partisan groups for vested interests.”

Gov. Mangudadatu expressed similar view, saying that Maguindanao has turned around sharply from the “politics of the few” towards “true democratic” processes under President Aquino III’s watch.

Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao, both components of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, are reaping initial successes in massive farming of staple crops and high value plants like rubber and palm oil trees with the profound backing from the current national government, the two governors said.

ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman, whom the President consistently praised in his four SONAs, said that “more dramatic reforms” are expected in the invigorated collaborations of regional and local officials for positive changes.

“For the moment, the President can rest assured that ARMM rallies his thrusts and commitments for better Philippines, especially in the age-old quest for lasting peace and sustainable development in the south through various initiatives including the government’s intensified talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and other revolutionary movement,” Hataman said.

Gov. Taliño-Mendoza, for her part, said she was “thankful for President Aquino’s prop-people programs and projects.

“With his sincere desire to institute reforms and eliminate irregularities under his watch, the agenda for ‘daang matuwid’ would be easier to achieve,” the lady governor said, adding that the Aquino regime’s act of “prioritizing the needs of the people (against) the value of money guarantees a better future for the next generation.”

“As governor of Cotabato province, amidst all the difficulties brought about by man-made and natural calamities as well as partisan politics, I am committed to do my share for the fulfillment of the goals of ‘daang matuwid.’ I am a proud Cotabateno, proud Filipino,” Taliño-Mendoza added.

The four interviewed governors also shared the accolades given to the Philippines by the World Bank and the British government as acknowledged by the President in his latest SONA.

LAST UPDATED ON 22 JULY 2013

BY ALI G. MACABALANG