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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Current Issues in the Philippines

1. DepEd plans to add 2 years to basic education

The Department of Education will soon implement what it calls “an enhanced 12-year education program,” adding one year in elementary level and another year in the secondary level. In his first State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Benigno S. Aquino III said there is a need to increase the basic education cycle from ten years to 12 years. Education Secretary Bro. Armin Luisto said that the new program would roll out a simplified and a competency-driven curriculum that would produce professionally competent and skilled high school graduates. He said that “irrelevant subjects” would be taken out of the curriculum while new subjects would be incorporated to develop the technical and vocational skills of the students.


Comment: to basic education because our country is facing into a crisis. If they add 2 years it is not favor to the poor people because they have not in a stable job that can finance to their children while studying. In this time that we are facing crisis.

2. Noynoy & Shalani break-up rumor hounds cyberspace

Have they, or have they not broken up? Seems the truth is hard to find out at this point in time. The bachelor president has told the media that he wants the little that’s left of his privacy for himself. Break-up rumors have hounded the two since the start of P-noy’s presidency. Perhaps, it’s people putting two and two together: how can a very busy President have time for his girlfriend? Or blame it on some people who have agendas of their own. Some girls probably don’t want the country’s most eligible bachelor to end up with Shalani Take for example the Facebook account Love Destroyed. Looks like this account was set up for some purpose. It now links Councilor Shalani with her city Mayor Sherwin Gatchalian of Valenzuela City. It will be recalled that the good Mayor (also a bachelor) went out with actress Pauleen Luna. Ilang insiders sa valenzuela lgu ang nakakapansin na masyado nang sweet si konsehala shalani soledad at erwin gatchalian.pag nagtutungo ang daw ang binatang pulitiko sa upisina ni konsehala ay siya pa mismo ang personal na nagtitimpla ng kape ni gatchalian.break na nga ba si konsehala at si Noy?,” says Love Destroyed in his Facebook entry dated October 7. Previously, the anonymous account posted: “MADALAS MAKITA SI VALENZUELA COUNCILOR SHALANI SOLEDAD SA MALL NA NAMAMASYAL KASAMA ANG ISANG HALOS KAEDAD NIYANG LALAKING PULITIKO NA MAGKAHOLDINGS HANDS PA. ITO BA AY SENYALES NA TOTOO NGA NA SPLIT NA SILA NI PANGULONG PNOY?”The President, meanwhile, is being linked to TV5 reporter Patricia Ann ‘Trish’ Roque.Oops. This sounds like a round-robin already. would actually be worried about the effect the break-up will have on Shalani’s political stock. We all know that she shot to national prominence only because of Noynoy. But then again, why would she be worried? Sherwin is also as eligible and moneyed. Mayor nga lang.Nuff said.

Comment:I think media should not be part of it so that the relationship between P-NOY and Shalani will be in a private problem in their life. We must respect the president to solve and announce what will be their situation. And only the president can tell their decision to avoid wrong issues that can affect to the president.It is their personal life we must respect it.

3. Truth Commissions eyes 23 tentative cases.

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Truth Commission (PTC) will look at a tentative list of 23 cases of graft and corruption. Carlos Medina, one of the 5 members of the commission said they have already come up with a tentative list of around 23 cases involving massive graft and corruption. However, Medina added that the commission is still at the stage of gathering the materials. For his part, PTC chairman former Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. said the commission will adopt a logical procedure in prioritizing cases. During the commission’s first press briefing on Friday, Medina also did not completely disclose how many cases involve former president and now Pampanga Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. He further explained that the list of around 23 cases is culled from various sources.

comment: In this case the Philippine Truth Commission should do their responsible to have a result in this case, so that the tentative list will determine if the person listesd are involved in this case and they must investigate it in a right process.

4. Makati threatens to revoke West Tower License

MANILA, Philippines - The Makati City Engineer’s Office has ordered the management of the West Tower Condominium in Barangay Bangkal to siphon all traces of gasoline and flood water in its basement or risk the revocation of its license. The management was given until Thursday. The management, however, doubts they could do the job. Claret Valera, vice president for operations and business development, denied they had been inefficient in ensuring the safety of its residents. Unit owners have complained of toxic fumes emanating from the basement of the condominium. The leakage supposedly started more than 2 weeks ago. The local government has already ordered unit owners and residents leaving nearby to evacuate. It has yet to determine the source of the gas leak The First Philippine Industrial Corp. said indications already show that its pipeline near the condominium is not the culprit. Local government officials also have not seen any leaks there. The Bureau of Fire Protection suspects the gas leak may have come from a nearby lot, where an oil and bus station used to operate.

comment: The owner of this West Tower Condominium must solve this problem as soon as possible because it can affect the health of the people who are living near in the building. Like the water supply in the barangay their is possible that it will cause into contaminated water.

5. August 23, 2010 Manila Hostage Taking

The Manila hostage crisis occurred when a dismissed Philippine National Police officer took over a tour bus in Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines on August 23, 2010. Disgruntled former senior inspector Rolando Mendoza, from the Manila Police District (MPD) hijacked a tour bus carrying 25 people (20 tourists and also a tour guide, all from Hong Kong, and four Filipinos) in an attempt to get his job back.[3] He said that he was summarily dismissed without the opportunity to properly defend himself, and that all he wanted was a fair hearing.

After about ten hours into the siege, the Filipino bus driver was able to get out of the bus by falling through the driver's bus window and was shown on television saying "patay na lahat (everyone is dead)" before being whisked away by police. The ensuing rescue assault mounted by the MPD and resulting shoot-out was watched by millions on live television news and took around 90 minutes. At the end, eight of the hostages and Mendoza were dead and nine other people were injured. The Hong Kong Government soon after issued a top-level "black" travel alert for the Philippines. The assault on the tour bus to rescue the hostages was widely regarded by pundits at home and abroad as "bungled" and "incompetent"; the Philippine government also admitted that errors had been made and promised a thorough investigation, which they would report to the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong SAR governments.

Comment:All i can say that our government is not already ready in a hostage taking because our PNP are not trained well and lack of materials or gadget in time of the rescue. We know that our PNP has do their best to solve the problem. I think the reason that i can say that result comes into a "madugong pagtatapos" because our government is in a new generation that is why they have not given attention the crisis before the hostage taking result in killing the hostages by the hostage taker.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

CASE #7

The following are:

1.)Do not run programs from unknown origins.
- Also, do not send these types of programs to friends and coworkers because they contain funny or amusing stories or jokes. They may contain a Trojans horse waiting to infect a computer.

2.)Consider making a boot disk on a floppy disk.
- In case your computer is damaged or compromised by a malicious program. Obviously, you need to take this step before you experience a hostile breach of your system.

3.)Secure Servers for Communicating
-Using publicly viewed and accessible applications like webmail leaves a business vulnerable to hack attacks. A secure server, like a hosted exchange, can provide a higher level of security. Many businesses prefer to use secure servers to access communications platforms to reduce the possibility of the public viewing secure information.

4.)Be prepared for individual security problems.
- For example, calling your Internet service provider in case you lose connection, preparing fire extinguishers and alarms near the computers, and using power surge protectors.

5.)SECURE COMPUTER SYSTEMS
-A number of systems have been built and designed which attack the general problem of
security in some form and to some extent. In some cases, privacy of data is the principal objective; in others, the prime objective is access control. For the security criteria which we shall establish, however, no existing system of which we are aware is adequate.

6.)Phishing
-Phishing attack is another growing threat for the online computers. Phishing is a type of online deception techniques that is designed to steal your confidential information, passwords, credit card information and important login and password through the fraudulent emails. The best solution to avoid this treat is to not open the email attachments from the unknown and unreliable sources. Secondly, never give your personal information to anyone even the emails claim to be delivered from big sources.

7.)Employee’s Sabotage
-An organization’s employees are most familiar with the computers inside an organization. There are a lot of examples where the annoyed employees of a company are involved in sabotaging the computer system. Employee’s sabotage include entering data incorrectly, destroying system hardware, deleting data, changing data, changing the passwords and entering the data incorrectly. The best way to avoid the situations like these is to delete the employees’ account after they leaves the company so that they can’t no more access company’s systems. Secondly, regularly monitor the activities of the employees and restrict their access to the sensitive resources in the overall IT infrastructure.

8.)Human Error
-Errors and the omissions are the great threats to the integrity of the data and the computer system. Data entry operators, programmers, system administrators often make errors that can compromise the system’s security. The effect of the various security threats caused by the human errors varies. Employee’s training and awareness training should be given to the employees to avoid such kinds of errors that can lead to the financial losses for a company.

9.)Physical Threats
-The physical threats to a computer involves the physically damage to the computer components with the fire, water and destructions. The best solution to avoid the physical threats to your important computer system and data is to set an off-site replication. Replicate your data regularly at some remote location.

10.)Make Backups of Important Files and Folders
-Whether you know it or not, you’ve divided everything you own into two broad categories: those items you can replace and those you can’t. For the items you can’t replace, you’ve probably stored them in a safe place, either somewhere in your living space or elsewhere, in a lockbox at a bank, for example. In either case, you’ve probably also bought insurance that provides the funds you’d need to buy replacements. Your insurance policy covers almost everything you own.

CASE #6

The Consumer Act of the Philippines

-It means protection to the people,it seems that they recognizing the rights of many people.It is the policy of the State to protect the interests of the consumer, promote his general welfare and to establish standards of conduct for business and industry. Towards this end, the State shall implement measures to achieve the following objectives, a)protection against hazards to health and safety; b)protection against deceptive, unfair and unconscionable sales acts and practices; c)provision of information and education to facilitate sound choice and the proper exercise of rights by the consumer; d)provision of adequate rights and means of redress; and e)involvement of consumer representatives in the formulation of social and economic policies.Procedures for the issuance, amendment or repeal of regulations pursuant to clause (2) or paragraph (g) of this Article shall be governed by the rules and regulations promulgated by the Department of Health; Provided, That if the Department of Health finds that the distribution for household use of the hazardous substance involved presents an imminent hazards to the public health, it may publish in a newspaper of general circulation a notice of such finding and such substance shall be deemed to be a "banned hazardous substance" pending the issuance of regulation formally banning such substance.

-The consumer act of the Philippines had diiferent definition of terms there are:Advertisement, Advertising, Advertising agency or Agent, Advertiser, Agricultural purpose, Amount financed, Banned hazardous substance, Batch, Business name, firm name, or style, Cash price or delivered price, Chain distribution plans" or "pyramid sales schemes, Closing out sale, Commerce, Consumer, Consumer credit, Consumer loan,Consumer products and services,Consumer product safety rule, Consumer transaction, Corrosive, Cosmetics, Counterfeit product, Credit card, Credit Sale, Credit transaction, Creditor and there are many more of consumer act of the philippines definition of terms. For this purpose, the concerned department shall adopt existing government domestic product quality and safety standards: Provided, That in the absence of such standards, the concerned department shall form specialized technical committees composed of equal number of representatives from each of the Government, business and consumer sectors to formulate, develop and purpose consumer product quality and safety standards. The said technical committees shall consult with the private sector, which may, motu proprio, develop its own quality and safety standards that shall be subject or agencies after public hearings have been conducted for that purpose; and shall likewise consider existing international standards recognized by the Philippine Government.

-The Department may, at any time upon his own initiative, issue a regulation prescribing, with respect to any particular food additive, the conditions under which such additive may be safely used and the reasons thereof, and cause the publication of the same.The Department shall promulgate regulations for exempting from the operation of this Article drugs and devices intended solely for investigational used by experts qualified by scientific training and experience to investigate the safety and effectiveness of drugs and devices.If the Department finds that for good and sufficient reasons, full compliance with the labeling requirements otherwise applicable under this Chapter is impracticable or is not necessary for the adequate protection of public health and safety, it shall promulgate regulations exempting such substances from these requirements to the extent he deems consistent with the objective of adequately safeguarding public health and safety, and any hazardous substance which does not bear a label in accordance with such regulations shall be deemed to be a mislabeled hazardous substance.