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Video Game Claimed Can Cure Autism

Playing games is not always have bad effect. In fact, by playing video game, it is claimed can help children who have autism to recover.

This is what researchers from University of Missouri said. Video game that can help children with autism is called “Space Race”. While playing this game, the children are asked to launch a rocket that is on the screen. The aim is to practice some parts of their brain to concentrate.

As quoted from TheInquirer, this curing process is called neurofeedback and done by sticking a censor in head skin. Concentration level will be measured with feedback audio visual that is displayed in the monitor, while brain activity will be displayed in other monitor.

With this process, we can discover that broken parts or dead parts of the brain can be fixed and reactivated. This game can also be used for brain trauma therapy, stroke, depression, alcoholic, or PMS.

Hackers’ Favourite Country

Many countries have been victims of hackers. But if you want to ask which country that hacked the most, there is one country which has been hackers’ favorite to launch their attack. Which country is it? Australia.

According to iDefence security expert Kimberly Zenz, many hackers, especially Russian hackers like Australia as their attacking target. The reason for this is because the number of bank in this country is considered not too many, so the cracker can be easier to find victims.

The act of cyber crime that can be found a lot in Australia is phising, which mislead the victim to a website full of bad program that can gather victim’s private informations, such as credit card number, names and email address.

3 Solution For Our Troubled USB Flash Drive

SB Flash Drive as a storage media is often broken or won’t release safely from computer. These are some simple tips to deal with your Flash Drive.

1. Use Task Manager
Often when you are finished with your Flash Drive and want to unplug it, suddenly it does not want to be released safely from your computer. If you have already close all programs and the USB is still stuck, try to open Task Manager.

Press “Ctrl-Alt-Delete” together to view Task Manager in Windows XP. Then go to “Processes” tab. Check all the details of the processes that is currently running. If you find any process which is coming from USB Flash Drive, click on that process then press “End Process”. You can try to unplug your Flash Drive again.

2. Other Option
If using the task bar still give you no result, there are two options that you can do, that is:

- Shut down your computer then unplug the USB Flash Drive

- Or, you can take a risk by unplug it directly. This option will not give you any problem if the flash disk unplugged when all the programs are already closed. However, there is no guarantee that your data in that Flash DIsk will be save with this option.

3. Use “USB Safely Remove”
You can also try the trial version of a software called USB Safely Remove. This software is very useful to analyze why the USB Flash Disk won’t unplug safely from computer, then give us the solution. If you want to use the full version, you’re gonna have to buy it.

Facebook Becoming A Junkyard

Junk mail aka spam flooding in our email perhaps is very common. But lately, spam also likes to visit social network sites such as Facebook or MySpace.

According to Sfgate, a lot of Facebook member reported that they have received a massive commercial message that ask them to do things such as download ringtone or buy male enhancement drugs. These sort of messages are coming from their friends who are also member of the site, but they also linked to lots of commercial sites.

The cases of someone’s profile in social network site been hijacked and used as spam farming are often happen. According to Derek Manky, a security researcher in Fortinet, spammers are paid by related companies.

Spam is really a pain in the neck at anytime. If we have our email flooded with spam for years, now in social network sites we have to deal with the same problem. Facebook has realize this and they have warned member for not to click any suspicious link. Since a couple years ago, Facebook has welcome software applications developed outside Facebook. According to data, there are more than 200,000 applications that can be inserted in Facebook, and this can be a way to spread spam too.