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The 2007 North American International Auto Show has become an event of glamour, fashion and technology. With all the celebrities and who’s who that attended the event you would have mistaken it for the Grammy’s. But of course the NAIAS is not about the beautiful celebrities but about the cars that will make their world debuts. The North American International Auto Show also reflects the technological breakthroughs that the car industry has achieved.

Various car gadgets and gizmos that increase safety and driving comfort were featured. Take for instance dashboard screens that can do it all, like control your radio, control your climate, control your navigational system, control your DVD playback, etc. —example of this is BMW X5’s iDrive System.

A good navigational system is a plus in any car and for this year the system was made even better—its voice activated and Acura just happen to be offering it. According to Jessica Fini, Spokeswoman of Acura, “As long as you don’t have all the windows down and the radio cranked up, it’s pretty good at hearing you.”

Not to be left out, Nick Cappa, DaimlerChrysler’s Manager for Advanced Technology has also expressed that their company will also be offering the same navigational technology. He said, “We’d love to do this in the next few years. There are Vehicle Infrastructure Integrationcq-recinto tests going on now.”

Entertainment particularly music has for years become a vital part of a pleasurable driving experience and for this year the automakers at the North American International Auto Show has taken the car music system to another level when they presented in-dash, hard drive based music systems that will only involve a USB drive or a rip CD. The benefit of this is that you no longer have to be carrying your CD collections which often end up making a mess in the car. The QX56 sports-utility vehicle and the G35 sedan are offering a music system that can store up to 3,000 songs.

Safety features have also been upgraded and this time it works with the driver rather than taking over. Although there have been previously presented braking systems that make use of sensors that put vehicles to a halt once it sense that an accident is about to happen. And for this year automaker’s has added more features on the braking system that can sense lights, sound, even physical nudges to let the driver know that something is obstructing the road up ahead. Some of the cars that preview such braking system includes: Infiniti which pre-pressurizes the brake system when it senses a vehicle that suddenly stops ahead, Acura’s Collision Mitigation Braking System which flashes a Brake light, dings at the driver, tugs at the seatbelt and then finally tightens up the seat belt and then brakes when a crash is about to happen.

Asteroid Impact Sites of the World using the Google Map.

Asteroid impact craters are interesting geological structures on any planet in our universe. Many other planets and moons in our solar system, including our own moon, are pock-marked with craters. Because Earth has a protective atmosphere and is geologically active with plate tectonics and volcanic eruptions, and has a relatively young oceanic crust, added by harsh weathering from wind and water, impact structures don’t last long and can be tough to come by.

But on a few old pieces of continent, especially in arid deserts, the marks of asteroids have been preserved.

Get a quick overview of Meteor Craters – Asteroid Impact Sites around the world with the use of Google Map functionality.

You now have the chance to explore fifty of earth’s most common asteroid impact sites with the use of a satellite image and Google Earth map on Geology.com.

Featured craters in Geology.Com include 8 from Australia, 9 from Canada, 2 from the U.S, 4 from Russia and 9 from the African continent.

 

Grosses Bluff in Northern Territory, Australia;

Goat Paddock Crater in Kimberley Plateau, Northwestern Australia;

Acraman Structure, South Australia;

Teague / Shoemaker Structure in Western Australia;

Goyder in Northern Territory, Australia;

Liverpool in Northern Territory, Australia;

Wolfe Creek in Western Australia;

Mount Toondina in South Australia;

 

Brent in Ontario, Canada;

Mistastin Lake in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada;

New Quebec in Quebec, Canada;

Manicouagan in Quebec, Canada;

Clearwater Lakes in Quebec, Canada;

La Moinerie in Quebec, Canada;

Gow in Saskatchewan, Canada;

Lonar in India; Nicholson in Northwest Territories, Canada;

Haughton in Northwest Territories, Canada;

 

Meteor Crater in Arizona, USA;

Upheaval Dome in Utah, USA;

 

Chukcha in Russia;

Janisjarvi in Russia;

El’gygytgyn in Russia;

Deep Bay in Saskathchewan, Russia;

 

Chiyli in Kazakhstan;

 

Kara-Kul in Tajikistan;

 

Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico;

 

Aorounga in Chad; Roter Kamm in South West Africa / Namibia;

Vredefort Dome in South Africa;

Pretoria Saltpan in South Africa;

Ouarkziz Structure in Algeria;

B.P. Structure in Libya;

Oasis in Libya;

Amguid in Algeria.

Tin Bider in Algeria;

Bosumtwi in Ghana;

 

Lumparn in Finland;

Lappajarvi in Finland;

 

Aouelloul in Mauritania;

Tenoumer in Mauritania;

Serra Da Cangalha in Brazil;

Riachao Ring in Brazil;

Gweni Fada Structure, Chad;

Ramgarh Crater in Eastern Rajasthan, India;

Monturaqui in Chile

Tabun-Khara-Obo in Mongolia;

Talemzane in Algeria;

Mien in Sweden;

Most commonly these structures are referred to as “Meteor Craters” as meteor is the proper term for the object as it streaks through the atmosphere of the earth. Meteorite is used for the same object as it has fallen to the surface of the earth and then meteor crater is the most used term for craters caused by a meteor impact.

In addition you can have a look at the Weird Science website which shows some pictures that shed some light on how these craters look like from the space.

 

 

 

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CYBER TERRORISM, A REAL MENACE

By

S J TUBRAZY

It fear is measureless, its impact is great, its target is human race, it exist somewhere around us, but invisible. It may occur anytime anywhere in the world. It has not been experienced even imagined by man of today, in past. It may reshape in any form. Its alarming aspect is to be developed as an ideology. Its intensity of destruction may severe more than devastation, man of our age ever be thought. No man or country obviously favor or supports it but surprisingly it is being faced by every man and every country. It is unfortunately new phenomenon, it is terrorism in the real world or it may be cyber terrorism in cyberspace.

 

                 To define the cyber terrorism many analysts and internet intellectuals draw the almost same parameters, Mark Pollitte of Federal Bureau of Investigation defines the cyber terrorism as follow;

 

            Cyber Terrorism is, “the premeditated, politically motivated attack against information, computer systems, computer programs, and data which results in violence against noncombatant targets by sub-national groups or clandestine agents”.

           

            Computer technology and internet is going to be indispensable part of to-day society and advanced country are becoming more and more dependant and reliant of computer and internet technology. The critics who criticized the John Arquilla who depicted a scenario of mayhem of destruction by cyber terrorism, now are reconsidering their ideas and criticism after the unfortunte terrorist event of 9/11 in USA.

 

            Cyber terrorism can affect a specific community of people as well as entire nation, the example of Australian man in 2001 would be amplify when he used the internet and stolen control software to release one million liters of raw sewage ino the public park, but his intention was not to terrorise the people but just to get back it job in the concerned company. A more baleful Cyber Terrorism intrigue that was stymied would have occurred sometime in 1996 in London (2003). Members of the Irish Republican Army were planning to blow up and destroy six key electric substations in London. Had the IRA succeeded in their goal, they would have disrupted power to major portions of London for months. To figure out which substations to bomb, they used libraries and open sources of information to select key nodes that would impact the grid the most. This example would have been a terror attack and would have stuck fear into the people of London. This would also be an example of a physical attack on computer systems.

 

According to The Guardian, “Nato is treating the threat of cyber warfare as seriously as the risk of a missile strike”. If a Governmental Organization like NATO thinks that cyber warfare is that dangerous, then why don’t more people think of it that way. The reason for this could be that the general population of the world does not feel the impact of these cyber terrorist attacks.

 

Cyber terrorism has been accruing with last twenty years and as time progressed and more and more nations become even more computerized, there will be more and more attacks through internet.

 

            The measures are available to counter the cyber terrorism as US Department Defense charged with the USSD with duty if combating the cyber terrorism. The sensitive data can be safe and secure by the ‘air tight’ mechanism which has adopted by the FBI successfully. Up to date Antivirus system, firewall and root-kit can play important role to protect the internet and computer system. Intrusion detection system can also help if someone’s network has been attacked. A network also requires VPN’s if they were people accessing network remotely. In the last but not least exemplary punishments and fine should introduce through the laws against the cyber terrorists as the Pakistan has introduce the Prevention of Electronic Crime Ordinance 2007 where Section 17 exemplary punishments has been provided for the cyber terrorists.

 

            The contemporary world is declared to be a global village, collective efforts of the global nations against this menace to next to this human civilization, can provide potential preventive measures against the cyber criminal and cyber terrorists. The existence of cyber terrorism can not be denied it’s real but it would be blissful for mankind not to record a single exact cyber terrorist event in its history.

 

(Author is a lawyer of cyber laws in Pakistan)