Girl slavery in Maldives

I came to know about the issue of "Jariya" or slave girls, after Television Maldives announced it. But numerous times I have heard that a certain socially isolated group of people actually support the idea of slave girls. Reportedly the issue surfaced when a girl(under 18 years of age) consulted a doctor in IGM hospital in Male'. The doctor who consulted her reports that the girl was sexually abused and she is pregnant. The Doctor also reports that the women who accompanied the girl informed that the girl was a "Jariya". But why would she say that? Interestingly IGM hospital had no records of her.

An article covering the story on "Haveeru" website showed a women in black clothes, which made me wonder whether there is any connection between the issue and black clothes. To the best of my knowledge many Muslims around the world wear black clothes including Saudis and Iranians, but it is not known that slavery is practiced in either of these countries.

This case is under investigation by the Maldives Police and Human rights commission. So far Maldives police remained silent about the issue, but Human Rights Commission of Maldives confirmed that "Jariyas" or girl slavery exists in Maldives.

In Maldives, the valid minimum age for marriage is 18 years. However, once in a while, illegal marriages(officially) are carried out by separatist groups in the society. So it is also possible that illegal marriage could be mistaken as girl slavery.

Slavery lasted in USA for as long as 3 centuries. Children, Men and Women were brought from Africa and sold for money. Slavery was ended in US by the amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. If you read history you probably know the unspeakable suffering of children,men and women from Africa who served the US and Europe as slaves. Every human being has full rights to live free, as any other human being. SAY NO TO SLAVERY.
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Emergency data destruction

Do you remember the leaked pictures and documents from a Maldivian Minister's Computer? Are you planning to sell your PC? Even if you formatted your hard disk, your data is still there. Anybody with the right tools can recover your data easily. All your photos, personal documents may appear on social networking sites the next day.

Another Scenario
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You are an activist, secretly working to topple an autocratic government, and one day somebody knocks your door. You find out that they are from the secret service. And you have tons of information on your computer which they can use against you. What do you do?

So what's the solution. The easiest and best solution is to remove the hard drive and keep it somewhere safe. What if you need to destroy the data on the hard disk? Well, fortunately generous programmers have developed applications which wipe out the data completely from your storage device..

Darik's Boot And Nuke securely wipes data completely.. Its an ISO file which your can burn on to a CD or DVD, and all you need is to boot the Computer with the CD/DVD.

Download: Darik's Boot And Nuke

If you need to destroy individual files on your hard disk without completely destroying all the data then check out Eraser

Kutti Nasheed resigns DRP membership

Member of Parliament Mr Mohamed Nasheed has officially resigned from DRP council and its membership on 1st November 2009.

In a letter addressed to the leader of DRP and copied to the Elections Commission he informed the party of his decision of resignation from its council and its membership. However he did not clearly state why he resigned.

I went through his blog today and found out that he had no political contact with the party since February this year. His decision is understandable. DRP is increasingly losing support because of its decision to desperately struggle to topple the elected government, and the ongoing investigation of fraud on its leaders.

Sure enough, MDP would have offered him its membership by now, with huge bonuses. Would he join MDP? Its more likely that he'll join the Gaumee Party, because Dr. Hassan Saeed is his best friend and his political goals and religious goals are very similar to that of Dr.Hassan's. We'll have to wait to see..

High speed robotics with the ability to catch a flying object.

An extremely high speed robotic arm which can close its fingers in 1/10 of a second was demonstrated at 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 12 - 17, 2009, Kobe, Japan. The system consists of visual and tactile sensors at a rate of 1kHz and a high-speed hand-arm manipulator.

The following video shows Ishikawa Komuro Lab's high-speed robot hand performing impressive acts of dexterity and skillful manipulation.



Amazing huh!

Maldivian Media Copyrights Protection Attempt!?

As most Maldivians are aware of,  Maldives does not have any laws and regulations on copyright protection. This has led to many losses in the film and music industry in the Maldives. A guy buys an original DVD or CD and his friends will receive copies of it, and they distribute more copies to their friends and son on.

To battle this problem, film and music producers put malware on the DVDs and CDs that make use of the autorun feature of your Windows. So as soon as you insert the DVD or CD into your PC the malware executes itself disabling the task Manager, Folder Options, Hiding your Drives and altering many other system settings. After infection the system shutdowns itself after a certain period of time, normally after six minutes. The DVDs and CDs are only meant for players.

Though this attempt cannot prevent an average Maldivian from using the DVDs and CDs on their PCs, some common users fall victim to the malware. I believe that copying and distributing other peoples work without the owner's consent is totally unethical, but I also believe the rights of the end users. Why can't they play or watch the films on their PCs? The producers does not have the right to put malware on their production media and infect the end users.

How to get rid of the Malware.
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Click your Start Menu and Select Run.

Type shutdown -a and press OK. Repeat this if the dialog box (displaying the countdown) on your screen does not close.

Click your start menu and select Run.

Type msconfig and press OK. The System Configuration Utility should open.

Select "Startup" tab.

Look for entries with random names (normally 3 or 4 letters).

Uncheck  the suspected items (You may need some knowledge of the processes running on your PC). Then click Apply.

If you did it right then you have disabled the malware. Now you need to restore the system settings.

Download and install TweakUI from Microsoft

Download Remove Restrictions Tool: http://www.box.net/shared/mtueogguog

Run the RRT Utility and Click "Enable All" Button.

Now open the TweakUI utility.

Select MyComputer > Drives from the tree menu. Select all drive letters and click OK. Now Log Off and then Log On again. If you still can't see your drives in MyComputer then click Start Menu > Run. Type Regedit and click OK. This should open your registry editor.

Now Press Ctrl+F.

Type NoDrives and click "Find Next" Button. Wait for the search to finish.

If you see "NoDrives" Entry in the right pane of the Regedit window delete the entry.

Press Ctrl+F again. Click "Find Next" and wait for the search to finish. Delete any entries in the right pane with the Name "NoDrives".

If you followed the instructions correctly then it should fix the problem. If it doesn't then Check the CodeXero Remove Restrictions Utility.

Have a great day!