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Posted: 09 January 2006 1756 hrs

Singapore Poly students’ invention thwart mobile phone thieves
By Jason Tan, Channel NewsAsia

SINGAPORE : Singapore Polytechnic students have found a new way to thwart mobile phone thieves.

They can steal it but they cannot use it.
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联合早报。 Jan 11, 2006

手机可上锁
　　新工院学生开发手机防盗系统

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● 蔡慧玲

　　手机使用者为手机换上新的手机服务用户识别卡（SIM card）时，如果不输入正确用户名称和密码，手机就会上锁，无法使用。

　　另一方面，警方可根据识别卡的登记资料追查手机下落。手机二手商也可上网查知顾客所售卖的手机是否贼赃。
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The New Paper, Jan 10 2006

Can steal, but can’t use
HOW IT WORKS

January 10, 2006

IF five Singapore Polytechnic students have their way, handphone thieves may soon go out of business.

They have created a program that makes stolen phones useless. Not only that, the software can ‘’squeal’ on thieves by sending SMSes of their phone numbers to the authorities.
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blogger should write his/her own thought, but not copy and paste. I’d still like to copy and paste the following tips (copied from HuiChen, he also copied and pasted actually, LOL
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How to blog by tony pierce

1. write every day.

2. if you think youre a good writer, write twice a day.

3. dont be afraid to do anything. infact if youre afraid of something, do it. then do it again. and again.

4. cuss like a sailor.

5. dont tell your mom, your work, your friends, the people you want to date, or the people you want to work for about your blog. if they find out and you’d rather they didnt read it, ask them nicely to grant you your privacy.

6. have comments. dont be upset if no one writes in your comments for a long time. eventually they’ll write in there. if people start acting mean in your comments, ask them to stop, they probably will.

7. have an email address clearly displayed on your blog. sometimes people want to tell you that you rock in private.

8. dont worry very much about the design of your blog. image is a fakeout.

9. use Blogger . it’s easy, it’s free; and because they are owned by Google, your blog will get spidered better, you will show up in more search results, and more people will end up
at your blog. besides, all the other blogging software & alternatives pretty much suck.

10. use spellcheck unless youre completely totally keeping it real. but even then you might want to use it if you think you wrote something really good.

11. say exactly what you want to say no matter what it looks like on the screen. then say something else. then keep going. and when youre done, re-read it, and edit it and hit publish and forget about it.

12. link like crazy. link anyone who links you, link your favorites, link your friends. dont be a prude. linking is what seperates bloggers from apes. and especially link if you’re trying to prove a point and someone else said it first. it lends credibility even if youre full of shit.

13. if you havent written about sex, religion, and politics in a week youre probably playing it too safe, which means you probably fucked up on #5, in which case start a second blog and keep your big mouth shut about it this time.

14. remember: nobody cares which N*Sync member you are, what State you are, which Party of Five kid you are, or which Weezer song you are. the second you put one of those things on your blog you need to delete your blog and try out for the marching band. similarilly, nobody gives
a shit what the weather is like in your town, nobody wants you to change their cursor into a butterfly, nobody wants to vote on whether your blog is hot or not, and nobody gives a rat ass what song youre listening to. write something Real for you, about you, every day.

15. dont be afraid if you think something has been said before. it has. and better. big whoop. say it anyway using your own words as honestly as you can. just let it out.

16. get Site Meter and make it available for everyone to see. if you’re embarrassed that not a lot of people are clicking over to your page, dont be embarrassed by the number, be embarrassed that you actually give a crap about hits to your gay blog. it really is just a blog. and hits really dont mean anything. you want Site Meter, though, to see who is linking you so you can thank them and so you can link them back. similarilly, use Technorati, but dont obsess. write.

17. people like pictures. use them. save them to your own server. or use Blogger’s free service. if you dont know how to do it, learn. also get a Buzznet account. several things will happen once you start blogging, one of them is you will learn new things. thats a good thing.

18. before you hit Save as Draft or Publish Post, select all and copy your masterpiece. you are using a computer and the internet, shit can happen. no need to lose a good post.

19. push the envelope in what youre writing about and how youre saying it. be more and more honest. get to the root of things. start at the root of things and get deeper. dig. think out loud. keep typing. keep going. eventually you’ll find a little treasure chest. every time you blog this can happen if you let it.

20. change your style. mimic people. write beautiful lies. dream in public. kiss and tell. finger and tell. cry scream fight sing fuck and dont be afraid to be funny. the easiest thing to do is whine when you write. dont be lazy. audblog at least once a week.

21. write open letters. make lists. call people out on their bullshit. lead by example. invent and reinvent yourself. start by writing about what happened to you today. for example today i told a hot girl how wonderfully hot she is.

22. when in doubt review something. theres not enough reviews on blogs. review a movie you just saw, a tv show, a cd, a kiss you just got, a restaurant, a hike you just took, anything.

23. constantly write about the town that you live in.

24. out yourself. tell your secrets. you can always delete them later.

25. dont use your real name. dont write about your work unless you dont care about getting fired.

26. dont be afraid to come across as an asswipe. own your asswipeness.

27. nobody likes poems. dont put your poems on your blog. not even if theyre incredible. especially if theyre incredible. odds are theyre not incredible. bad poems are funny sometimes though, so fine, put your dumb poems on there. whatever.

28. tell us about your friends.

29. dont apologize about not blogging. nobody cares. just start blogging again.

30. read tons of blogs and leave nice comments.

I am an agnosticism!? 不可知论者
学理工的，只有20% scientific? 20% reason-oriented?？　对不起，老师！

You fit in with: Agnosticism Your ideals mostly resemble those of an Agnostic. You are fairly ambivalent towards any religion or spiritual connection. You lead a very busy life and find that religion and spirituality are unnecessary to your life. 20% scientific. 20% reason-oriented.

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龙应台：请用文明来说服我 给胡锦涛先生的公开信

中国时报二十六日刊登龙应台给胡锦涛先生的公开信／「胡锦涛」代表什么？锦涛先生：国民党主席马英九先生在二零零六年一月中勉励他的国青团青年学员时，说了这么一句玩笑的话：「希望将来国青团也能培养出一个胡锦涛。」

我相信这是他从政以来所说过的最不及格的笑话。
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中青报：龙应台：你可能不知道的台湾
――观连宋访大陆有感

　　 编者按：近日，中国国民党主席和台湾亲民党主席分别率团访问大陆。可以肯定，以此为新的契机，海峡两岸人民之间的经济文化交流，将会进一步扩大和深化。交流和了解，相辅相成。两岸隔绝了近60年，台湾人民需要详尽、真切地了解大陆，大陆人民也同样需要这样去了解台湾。为此，我们特约台湾籍作家龙应台撰写专文介绍，供读者参考。
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my blogs starts here.

Unfortunately, this popular BSP was blocked in China, along with some others: blogger, blog-city, etc.

这让我想起了，前不久的“冰点”事件，国内对媒体的各种封 锁越来越厉害了。

我还是把龙应台的前后两篇都留下来吧，立此存照。

本想发在blogbus 上的，可是自动过滤系统把那些“敏感”字都变成了***， 无比别扭。