Cluster of beams in subsale terrace

0mars — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:00:52 +0800

Subsale terrace house rear walk way has a cluster of beams very close together. Left and right beams inline with longer walls but middle one ends at that wall. Room above this space is second bedroom.

Sifus, help me understand why would 3 beams be so close together? Is this common?

Gov want to censor the internet.... AGAIN!

0mars — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:26:22 +0800

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New survey revives spectre of Malaysian ‘Green Dam’
August 16, 2010
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 — The Najib administration has started to evaluate the feasibility of putting an Internet filter to block “undesirable websites” two weeks ago, although it backed off from a similar plan a year ago after a public outcry.

The Malaysian Insider understands that the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) had commissioned KPMG to carry out the “Study on Positive and Safe Use of the Internet” in early August to evaluate, among others, “the implementation of Internet Filter at Internet Gateway level” and “the impact of the various methods to Malaysian Internet users and Malaysia economy”.

Critics say any move to filter the Internet is against the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) Bill of Guarantees apart from being largely ineffective as most Internet surfers can circumvent filters through proxy servers.

“It’s a waste of time and taxpayers’ money. For every one way of blocking the Internet, there is another way of getting around it,” Dhillon Andrew Kannabhiran, chief executive officer of Internet security firm Hack in the Box, told The Malaysian Insider, in a repeat of his comments last year.

“These guys are crazy. They should know it’s pouring money into a blackhole,” he added.

The Malaysian Insider last year broke the story on August 6 that despite a guarantee of no censorship in the MSC, Datuk Seri Rais Yatim’s Information Ministry was evaluating the feasibility of putting an Internet filter to block “undesirable websites” — similar to China’s aborted “Green Dam” software.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak later firmly denied a plan to police the Internet, citing technical obstacles and strong public displeasure, hours after Rais had confirmed a possible “green dam”.

“The government has no desire to implement Internet filtering,” the prime minister said then when commenting on Rais’ remarks that the government wants to shut out smut.

In this year’s study that began with a briefing to officials from the country’s eight Internet service providers (ISPs) on August 6, the MCMC said it would conduct site visits with KPMG to gather information. It is understood that the site visits were initially scheduled between August 9 and 12 but have yet to be completed.

In its letter to the ISPs dated August 2 that was labelled “Confidential”, the MCMC also included a list of 23 questions for the ISPs to answer.

One of the questions inadvertently showed the main possible reason for an Internet filter when it asked “What types/categories of contents are being filtered?”, with the answers starting from political followed by drug trafficking, pornography, human rights and others.

Among the other questions were whether the ISPs used either index or analysis filtering, the tools or hardware and software used to filter the Internet, the cost of implementing filtering and if any filtering was being done at this point in time.

When the plan was revealed last year, the opposition criticised the move, saying it was politically motivated and an attempt to deny the people from accessing information not in favour of the government.

But Rais last year said the government had only intended to block access to pornographic sites, an opinion which former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad raised recently in his popular blog.

It is understood that the results of the latest study will be shared with the National Security Council (NSC) which is chaired by Najib.

The NSC has a unit that monitors websites, blogs and even Twitter accounts of politicians and activists in the country.

Last year, the study never got off the ground although the Information, Communication and Culture Ministry had conducted a tender exercise calling for companies to put proposals to assist the MCMC evaluate an Internet filter.

That move came on the back of proposals to register bloggers, most of whom are said to be anti-government, and the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition parties to have a larger Internet presence.

Dhillon pointed out last year that filtering content is censorship and goes against the MSC Bill of Guarantees Article 7 that reads “Ensure no Internet censorship”.

“No matter how they want to word it, it is semantics, any move to tell us where we can go, what we can read is censorship no matter how they justify it,” Dhillon said.

China controversially planned to install the “Green Dam Youth Escort” Internet filtering software on all computers last year but delayed implementation although officials said it was only “a matter of time” until the software was installed.

But the country’s Internet users mounted a vociferous campaign against the policy that led to the MIIT delaying using the filter which officials claim will help to curb access to pornography, particularly by younger users.

Internet users say the image and keyword filter blocks pornographic, violent and politically-sensitive content and monitors behaviour, and fear it will be used to curb access to information and keep track of users.

Green Dam has also come under fire for exposing users to security breaches, with experts warning it could easily be hacked, and a US-based software firm is threatening to sue the Chinese developers for copyright infringement.

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The same reasons it wasn't implemented last year still apply. What are they thinking??

IPMA level C

0mars — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:22:51 +0800

Hi guys, I was just wondering if anyone here has attained the IPMA level C qualification in Malaysia? For some reason the project management body in malaysia is not, and isn't planning to be, a chartered provider and thus those of us after the qualification have to go directly to IPMA. So for those of you who have attained it, did IPMA come to Malaysia or did you fly out to where the course was being held?

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Cluster of beams in subsale terrace

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