Morality issue of HotMalayGirls.com

I read from http://www.hotmalaygirls.com/, that the maintainer of the website has taken down “Fareena” picture, because he/she received an email requesting so.

At first it sounded like the website maintainer is a reasonable person, but what shocked me was the statement that follows

We honour his request, not because we are afraid of his lawsuit. Please read the disclaimer. HMG complies with Copyright Laws and for your information there is no such thing as privacy intrusion if you create a weblog which anyone can access and read online. You want privacy, then password protect your blog.

In its disclaimer page, it is stated that HotMalayGirls honours Copyright Law. Let’s assume that the website in fact is obeying copyright law, which I doubt he/she is (hint: look at the supposedly “thumbnailed” photo).

Morality Issues

There’s still morality issue involved in here, not everybody is comfortable when somebody put their pictures in some blog and making profit from it, let alone organising somekind of a “beauty pageant” without the girls’ permission. I’m sure many people have voiced their concern about this website, but judging from the apparently blunt statement from the maintainer, I guess the complaints must have fall into deaf ears.

Even one of the top-rating blogger Sue Anna Joe has voiced her reservation about HotMalayGirls, and even considering to ask her picture to be removed at one point. The question is, what about other girls who do not even aware of their pictures being featured to be rated in this website? Morality issues…

The maintainer clearly takes matter lightly, the supposedly “pageant” offers USD100 for top rated “girl” (some which I doubt aren’t even Malay) will be given away to person who referred the girl should the girl can’t be contacted. Hell, who knows about that? If the girls personally give their permission to be featured in the website, than he/she probably has their contact number/emails to give the prize to.

Having trouble with “good faith” ?

Talking about good faith, the maintainer apparently has no problem digging on profiles and pictures of other people, but he/she clearly has problem introducing himself/herself. I mean, who’s the maintainer of the website? At least show some good faith since you are somekind of maniac that dig through people pictures and profiles and featured them in his/her own “beauty pageant”.

What I know about “the shady maintainer”

But one thing for sure that the “shady maintainer” is working alone based on his/her style of writing and this statement which explains that he/she is away “in a very remote area” and is unable to update the website.

Maybe somebody thinks that I’m silly for bringing this thing up, but I just want to point out the morality issue and my doubt about this gal/guy.

Lousy Disclaimer?

Ahem, this writing confirms to the “Copyright Law” stated by “the shady maintainer” of HotMalaygirls.com, I’ve right to publish this because the blog is avaiable to public and not in any way proctected by password.

In his/her own words, “You want privacy, then password protect your blog.”

Nobody can Google like the Klingon!

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It is rather seems odd to use Google in Klingon language. But it is nice to know that the choice is there. For the uninitated, Klingon is a fictional language of a warlike alien race featured in Star Trek Universe. There’s a lot of Klingon language references in the internet, notably the Klingon Language Institute which is a dedicate website for the Klingon Language. The Institute is a nonprofit corporation and exists to facilitate the scholarly exploration of the Klingon language and culture.

There’s even a blog written entirely in Klingon, http://bologh.blogspot.com/, the first ever blog written in Klingon

Fedora Core 5 Test Screenshots

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Fedora Core 5 Test 2 has been released, among noticeable changes and improvements in the upcoming Fedora Core 5 release is the new “Fedora” logo, Mozilla Firefox 1.5, and the inclusion of KDE 3.5.

You can download FC5 Test 2 here :
Torrent – http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
HTTP/FTP – http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/

Fedora Core 5 Test 2 Screenshots

Original source via digg.com

LinuxFilter – digg-like website for Linux News

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After the introduction of SpyMy.com, now comes LinuxFilter, a news website that uses the concept of news voting by the internet users.

The basic operation of this website is the same as digg.com in which users will decide which story will be published at the frontpage through a voting system. Though it is named “Linux”, LinuxFilter does accept other news category as well such as PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua and various other topic which mostly related to computing and FOSS.

As for the uninitiated, you can participate by registering yourself in LinuxFilter website, and submit your news for users review. You can also help by reviewing other people’ news and rate it. The reviews and voting will determined if the story will be published in the front page.

Happy submitting !