Kamis, 03 Januari 2013

Asal Usul Penyakit AIDS

“Virus HIV AIDS sebenarnya bukan berasal dari simpanse, tetapi ciptaan para ilmuwan yang kemudian diselewengkan melalui rekayasa tertentu untuk memusnahkan etnis tertentu.” (Jerry D. Gray, Dosa-dosa Media Amerika – Mengungkap Fakta Tersembunyi Kejahatan Media Barat, Ufuk Press 2006 h. 192).

Tulisan Allan Cantwell, Jr. M.D. ini mengungkapakan rahasia asal-usul AIDS dan HIV, juga bagaimana ilmuwan menghasilkan penyakit yang paling menakutkan kemudian menutup-nutupinya.
Teori” Monyet Hijau
1.Tidak sedikit orang yang sudah mendengar teori bahwa AIDS adalah ciptaan manusia. Menurut The New York Times yang terbit 29 Oktober 1990, tiga puluh persen penduduk kulit hitam di New York City benar-benar percaya bahwa AIDS adalah “senjata etnis” yang didesain di dalam laboratorium untuk menginfeksi dan membunuh kalangan kulit hitam. Sebagian orang bahkan menganggap teori konspirasi AIDS lebih bisa dipercaya dibandingkan teori monyet hijau Afrika yang dilontarkan para pakar AIDS. Sebenarnya sejak tahun 1988 para peneliti telah membuktikan bahwa teori monyet hijau tidaklah benar. Namun kebanyakan edukator AIDS terus menyampaikan teori ini kepada publik hingga sekarang. Dalam liputan-liputan media tahun 1999, teori monyet hijau telah digantikan dengan teori simpanse di luar Afrika. Simpanse yang dikatakan merupakan asal-usul penyakit AIDS ini telah diterima sepenuhnya oleh komunitas ilmiah.
2. “Pohon keturunan” filogenetik virus primata (yang hanya dipahami segelintir orang saja) ditampilkan untuk membuktikan bahwa HIV diturunkan dari virus primata yang berdiam di semak Afrika. Analisis data genetika virus ditunjukkan melalui “supercomputer” di Los Alamos, Mexico, menunjukkan bahwa HIV telah “melompati spesies’, dari simpanse ke manusia sekitar tahun 1930 di Afrika.
Eksperimen Hepatitis B Pra-AIDS kepada Pria Gay (1978-1981)
Ribuan pria gay mendaftar sebagai manusia percobaan untuk eksperimen vaksin hepatitis B yang “disponsori pemerintah AS” di New York, Los Angeles, dan San Fransisco. Setelah beberapa tahun, kota-kota tersebut menjadi pusat sindrom defisiensi kekebalan terkait gay, yang belakangan dikenal dengan AIDS. Di awal 1970-an, vaksin hepatitis B dikembangkan di dalam tubuh simpanse. Sekarang hewan ini dipercaya sebagai asal-usul berevolusinya HIV. Banyak orang masih merasa takut mendapat vaksin hepatitis B lantaran asalnya yang terkait dengan pria gay dan AIDS. Para dokter senior masih bisa ingat bahwa eksperimen vaksin hepatitis awalnya dibuat dari kumpulan serum darah para homoseksual yang terinfeksi hepatitis.
Kemungkinan besar HIV “masuk” ke dalam tubuh pria gay selama uji coba vaksin ini. Ketika itu, ribuan homoseksual diinjeksi di New York pada awal 1978 dan di kota-kota pesisir barat sekitar tahun 1980-1981.
Apakah jenis virus yang terkontaminasi dalam program vaksin ini yang menyebabkan AIDS? Bagaimana dengan program WHO di Afrika? Bukti kuat menunjukkan bahwa AIDS berkembang tak lama setelah program vaksin ini. AIDS merebak pertama kali di kalangan gay New York City pada tahun 1979, beberapa bulan setelah eksperimen dimulai di Manhattan. Ada fakta yang cukup mengejutkan dan secara statistik sangat signifikan, bahwa 20% pria gay yang menjadi sukarelawan eksperimen hepatitis B di New York diketahui mengidap HIV positif pada tahun 1980 (setahun sebelum AIDS menjadi penyakit “resmi’). Ini menunjukkan bahwa pria Manhattan memiliki kejadian HIV tertinggi dibandingkan tempat lainnya di dunia, termasuk Afrika, yang dianggap sebagai tempat kelahiran HIV dan AIDS. Fakta lain yang juga menghebohkan adalah bahwa kasus AIDS di Afrika yang dapat dibuktikan baru muncul setelah tahun 1982. Sejumlah peneliti yakin bahwa eksperimen vaksin inilah yang berfungsi sebagai saluran tempat “berjangkitnya” HIV ke populasi gay di Amerika. Namun hingga sekarang para ilmuwan AIDS mengecilkan koneksi apapun antara AIDS dengan vaksin tersebut.
Umum diketahui bahwa di Afrika, AIDS berjangkit pada orang heteroseksual, sementara di Amerika Serikat AIDS hanya berjangkit pada kalangan pria gay. Meskipun pada awalnya diberitahukan kepada publik bahwa “tak seorang pun kebal AIDS”, faktanya hingga sekarang ini (20 tahun setelah kasus pertama AIDS), 80% kasus AIDS baru di Amerika Serikat berjangkit pada pria gay, pecandu narkotika, dan pasangan seksual mereka. Mengapa demikian? Tentunya HIV tidak mendiskriminasi preferensi seksual atau ras tertentu. Apakah benar demikian?
Keserupaan dengan FLU Burung
Di pertengahan tahun 1990-an, para ahli biologi berhasil mengidentifikasi setidaknya 8 subtipe (strain) HIV yang menginfeksi berbagai orang di seluruh dunia. Telah terbukti, strain B adalah strain pra dominan yang menginfeksi gay di AS. Strain HIV ini lebih cenderung menginfeksi jaringan rektum, itu sebabnya para gay yang cenderung menderita AIDS dibandingkan non-gay
Sebaliknya, Strain HIV yang umum dijumpai di Afrika cenderung menginfeksi vagina dan sel serviks (leher rahim), sebagaimana kulup penis pria. Itu sebabnya, di Afrika, HIV cenderung berjangkit pada kalangan heteroseksual.
Para pakar AIDS telah memeberitahukan bahawa AIDS Amerika berasal dari Afrika, padahal Strain HIV yang umum dijumpai di kalangan pria gay nyaris tak pernah terlihat di Afrika! Bagaimana bisa demikian? Apakah sebagian Strain HIV direkayasa agar mudah beradaptasi ke sel yang cenderung menginfeksi kelamin gay?
Telah diketahui, pria ilmuwan SCVP (Special Virus Cancer Program) mampu mengadaptasi retrovirus tertentu agar menginfeksi jenis sel tertentu. Tak kurang sejak tahun 1970, para ilmuwan perang biologis telah belajar mendesain agen-agen (khususnya virus) tertentu yang bisa menginfeksi dan menyerang sel kelompok rasial “tertentu”. Setidaknya tahun 1997, Stephen O’Brien dan Michael Dean dari Laboratorium Keanekaragaman Genom di National Cancer Institute menunjukkan bahwa satu dari sepuluh orang kulit putih memiliki gen resisten-AIDS, sementara orang kulit hitam Afrika tidak memiliki gen semacam itu sama sekali. Kelihatannya, AIDS semakin merupakan “virus buatan manusia yang menyerang ras tertentu” dibandingkan peristiwa alamiah.
Berkat bantuan media Amerika, virus ini menyebar ke jutaan orang tertentu di seluruh dunia sebelum segelintir orang mulai waspada akan kejahatan di balik penciptaan virus ini. Di tahun 1981, pejabat kesehatan memastikan “masyarakat umum” bahwa tak ada yang perlu dikhawatirkan. “AIDS adalah penyakit gay” adalah jargon yang sering dikumandangkan media.
Setidaknya tahun 1987, Robert Gallo memberitahu reporter Playboy, David Black, “Saya pribadi belum pernah menemukan satu kasus pun (di Amerika) dimana pria terkena virus (AIDS) dari seorang wanita melalui hubungan intim heteroseksual .” Gallo melanjutkan, “AIDS tak akan menjadi bahaya yang tak bisa teratasi bagi masyarakat umum.” Apakah ini sekedar spekulasi ataukah Gallo mengetahui sesuatu yang tidak ia ceritakan?

Selasa, 17 Januari 2012

Sony SCEE CEO defends PS Vita ahead of UK launch

Sony PS Vita
SCEE CEO defends PlayStation Vita ahead of February launch, arguing for niche between console and smartphone gaming
After a successful run of Christmas sales for both Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's 3DS handheld, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe CEO Jim Ryan has assured would-be purchasers of the company's upcoming PS Vita that there is a place for handheld gaming between consoles and smartphones.
Speaking to MCV, Ryan dismissed speculation that slow initial sales in Japan were a bad omen for the Vita's release in Europe and North America. Citing lessons learned from previous PSP launches, Ryan said that the company's focus this time around was on having "a wide range of diverse, high quality software at launch", as opposed to the launch offerings for the original PSP, which were "rather similar in nature and not sufficiently differentiated from [the] PS2".
But the main criticism against handheld consoles like the Vita and the 3DS isn't the lack of variety in its games catalogue, but rather that in a world of sub-£1 smartphone games, Sony and Nintendo are pricing themselves out of the market with titles selling for £30 a pop. Not so, says Ryan, who argues that certain triple-A Vita titles like the Uncharted series can command triple-A pricing even on a handheld, while other games that are "less grand in their scale" will be priced lower.
All well and good, assuming Sony can churn out handheld content of Uncharted quality to justify the Vita's hefty £230 price tag, but our question is this: with the 160GB model of the PS3 now selling for just £189 (with a five year old catalogue of games to back it up), what's Sony's argument for spending £40 more to have the same PlayStation experience on a relatively tiny screen? Your thoughts in the comments.
Source: MCV UK

Is this the Samsung Galaxy S III?

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Gasp! Do Tech Digest's eyes deceive? Is this the fabled Samsung Galaxy S III?
Well, to be perfectly honest, we're not sure yet! But we'll run through why we think it just might be so.
Popping up in a video that promoted Samsung's successes during their CES 2012 press conference (posted at the bottom of this post), it's an as-yet unidentified handset from Sammy.
Now, it could just be a mock-up of course, but what with MWC 2012 just around the corner (the world's biggest mobile phone trade show) you'd guess that Samsung would have a sequel ready following the success last year of the Galaxy S II.
However, that screen looks a real whopper, more in line with the Galaxy Note's 5.3 inch screen than the 4.3 inches of Super AMOLED goodness found on the Galaxy S II. But look at the front camera placement - far closer to what you'd find on an S II than on a Note.
But then again, look at that battery indicator! Very un-Android, which would make it unlike the Gingerbread packing S II. So many mysteries! All, thankfully likely to be revealed at next month's Mobile World Congress conference.

BlackBerry Torch 9810 review

Design

The 9810 is practically the spitting image of the 9800 forebear. It looks the same, feels the same and measures the same, save for some very minor changes, such as the colour of the controls under the display. It is a slider, with the display sliding upwards to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard of the tried and tested BlackBerry formula.
It's somewhat chunky by modern standards, weighing in a 161g and measuring 111 x 62 x 14.6. Given that this is a slider device, we're not too worried about the size as it slips easily enough into any pocket or bag.
What's more of a concern is one of the points that irritated us about the last edition of this phone and that's the screen lock button on the top of the phone. The action is so soft that it will easily unlock itself in your pocket. On a non-touch phone that's not much of a problem, but we've pulled the phone out to find it setting new appointments, browsing the Internet, and even having changed the language to Greek.
Given the design there aren't too many sensible locations to place the 3.5mm headphone jack. On the side it juts out, meaning that the Torch never really sits comfortably in your pocket. If anything, this device is a questionable choice for sliding into the hip pocket of your jeans, because you'll catch the headphones, unlock the device and email your ex in the process.
On our previous review sample we found that the sliding action of the screen gave us a little wobble on every tap. This didn't appear to be a problem on our 9810, but we did find the plastic back panel would creak. The 9810 won't win any prizes for build or design, but aside from the ridiculously soft lock key, we can't complain too much.

Those upgraded parts

We don't want to spend too much of this review talking about the older version of this phone, but let's just say that RIM have addressed some of the major points of concern from a hardware point of view. The screen sees its resolution bumped up to 640 x 480 pixels, a welcome step-up meaning this is a sharper Torch, but with rival platforms pushing higher definition displays, the 9810 lacks impact and sharpness.
The OS fits well on the display as the icons aren't overcomplicated so the lack of resolution doesn't really matter, but it does mean that browsing the Internet involves more zooming and images don't looks as sharp as they could.
But we find ourselves wondering if the new 1.2GHz processor and upgraded 768MB RAM make that much of a difference. Sure, you can now capture 720p video thanks to the extra power to crunch the captured data from the 5-megapixel camera, but it's not the hardware that's explicitly at fault, it's the software.

BB OS showing its age

For several years we've been remarking that BlackBerry OS needs to start stepping forwards. There are some great things, and a great heritage, behind BlackBerry, but the pace at which its rivals are evolving doesn't shine a favourable light on BlackBerry. But this isn't news. Where BB6 made a few visual tweaks, BB7 makes a few more, but not so many that you'd really notice.
We often found that we'd touch the screen to drag or scroll the tray of apps and found it wouldn't respond. Finger tracking isn't great and dragging and scrolling things like webpages isn't as smooth or successful as it should be. Too often we'd be heading off to an extraneous link, rather than scrolling. This applies in apps and menus too, so we'd often resort back to the optical trackpad, or keyboard shortcuts.
The way we use current devices now plays a part here. The fewer apps you have on your platform, the more people are going to need to use the browser to access online services. Although the browser is much better than it was prior to BB6, it still doesn't match those native browsers of iPhone or Android in daily use.
The biggest problem we had was stability; it would frequently fail or refuse to load a page and it would regularly freeze, rendering the phone unresponsive, so we had to pull the battery to get things going again. BlackBerry users are probably all-too familiar with battery pulls and upgrading the hardware in this model doesn't seem to have got round this problem.
Of course the jewel in the crown is email, and stepping into the BlackBerry world from regular Android and iPhone use reminds us of just how convenient and powerful the BB email system is. The speed, the searching the ease with which you can communicate via email is fantastic.
However, the keyboard on the Torch isn't a patch on the Bold keyboard, or even that of the Curve. It's slightly too recessed into the body of the base of the phone so it feels like a strain to use. The on-screen QWERTY keyboard is poor too. Where other on-screen keyboards will let your fingers fly, the BB keyboard seems to struggle to follow what you're trying to type, even on this relatively large screen. As such, it’s much better to use the compact keyboard in portrait, because it's relatively good at figuring out what you're trying to say.
BlackBerry Maps is rather antiquated and lacks the powerful search that Google Maps offers. Searching for a meeting location from the calendar returned no results; pasting the same details into Google Maps found the location quickly. Whilst on the subject of locations, it's also frustrating that not all synced calendar locations will be live links, depending on how you arrange your calendars.
When it comes to apps, of course, the BlackBerry isn't the best served. Most of our essentials are covered however, and you'll find your social networks present and correct, although the app design doesn't seem as impressive as other smartphones, and they lack that snap and immediacy contemporary smartphones offer. In many areas, the BlackBerry Torch doesn't stand up to its rivals, which is a shame.

Some positives

It's not all doom and gloom. If your primary interest is in communication, then the BlackBerry still does rather well. We've mentioned that the email experience is good, and it is. The universal inbox makes it easy to jump to messages and alerts, although it could do with more options. Being able to sign into your accounts and have information sync to your device is very welcomed, and even though it stumbled with multiple calendars from our Google accounts, that was easily avoided with the Google Sync app.
The connectivity is also remarkably good for servicing email, especially when re-joining a network, stepping out of the underground for example. BlackBerrys will pick up emails on the merest hint of a GPRS connection, something that not all smartphones will do.
The arrangement of the Torch does give you a sort of best-of-both worlds with its keyboard and larger screen. Smartphones with keyboards aren't as common as they were a few years ago, and this is in part testament to how good on-screen keyboards now are and how well mobile operating systems have been designed to incorporate intuitive control.
With the BlackBerry Torch you can, at least, use the phone in either mode. You can casually browse Twitter with it closed, re-tweet a message, then slide it open to use the keyboard, giving you plenty of space for text entry. Although the keyboard isn't as good as other BlackBerrys, you do get used to it after time.
You also get more screen space to enjoy media, although we can't help feeling that the other Torch, the 9860, was a better device for consuming video content.
The 5-megapixel camera on the rear is good enough. By that, we mean that it offers average performance for a smartphone. Shots in good light are reasonable quality, adequate for sharing online or sending to friends, but low light photos will be soft and noisy. Video capture is also pretty good too, with the new 720p offering noticeably better results than the 640 x 480 video of the past.
The battery life is also pretty good, perhaps because you're less likely to have so many apps looking to gobble data. We managed to get through a day easily in average use. After a day of heavy use, you will see it complaining towards the end of the day, but it out-performs many smartphones when it comes to endurance.

Verdict

The BlackBerry Torch 9810 feels like an incremental step for RIM. The previous handset had obvious problems, some of which are addressed here, but we also feel that the 9810 is the phone the 9800 should have been. That sets this handset behind the times a little and that's certainly not helped by a user interface that lacks the consumer ease that you'll find in iOS, Android or Windows Phone 7.
That may all be set to change with the advent of BB 10, which should make an appearance at Mobile World Congress 2012. As such, we can't strongly recommend the BlackBerry Torch 9810 if you're interested in upgrading now.
If you're happy with the BlackBerry experience and value both screen space and a physical keyboard, then this style of device might be for you, but we'd suggest you bide your time and see what's coming next, before committing.
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