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Mahesh Bhatt's Jism 2 to be based on Sunny Leone's life?
Mahesh Bhatt entered the Bigg Boss 5 house to offer the lead female role in Jism 2 to porn star Sunny Leone. It was earlier speculated that the film is based on the life of Sunny Leone. However, Mahesh Bhatt confirmed that Jism 2 is just a fictional tale and he along with daughter Pooja Bhatt had earlier considered Bipasha Basu and Mallika Sherawat for the film. Speaking to a leading newspaper, Mahesh Bhatt said, “This film’s story is based on a girl’s journey from ebb to rise.”
Mahesh Bhatt also added that Pooja Bhatt always wanted to work with Sunny since she had a mystic element to her off screen image. Stating that Sunny Leone's life as a porn star is a complex memoir, and is a journey of transformation from a girl-next-door named Karen Malhotra to being the porn star that we all know - Sunny Leone.
As Jism 2 required not just a beautiful face, but also someone who could understand and emote the depth and emotional intricacy of the character, they thought Sunny Leone was the perfect choice.
I didn’t pose naked for FHM, says Pakistani actress in hot water over nude photoshoot
A controversial Pakistani actress has been forced to deny posing naked for the India edition of FHM sporting a tattoo of the initials 'ISI' on her arm.
Veena Malik appears topless on the front of the December issue of FHM India, sparking outrage among conservatives in Pakistan - both for her nudity and the reference to Pakistan's intelligence agency.
But Miss Malik has strongly denied posing for the lads' mag, with the 33-year-old star insisting the picture had been 'morphed'.
Disputed: The FHM India cover which allegedly shows Pakistani actress Veena Malik posing nude. Miss Malik had denied taking her clothes off for the magazine and has vowed to take legal action
'I have never posed nude. I have never done anything like that ever. My manager and legal team is looking into the matter. We will take legal action against them,' Miss Malik told PTI, the Indian press agency.
FHM India's editor, Kabeer Sharma, insisted however that nothing had been doctored, and claimed that the magazine could prove the photo's authenticity.
Mr Sharma told the BBC: 'We have video footage of the shoot as well as emails from Veena about how she's looking forward to the cover.'
The image was revealed on FHM India's website, Facebook page and Twitter account simultaneously today.
Denials: Miss Malik, pictured left in a PETA operation and right in a latest approach discharge, has rejected faking for the lads' mag, but the FHM Indiareviser declares he has computer communications and video that can confirm the photos authenticity
The uncovering film presentations shows Miss Malik nude, with her arms and one leg positioned to obscure her breasts and pubic area.
On her arm are decorated the initials 'ISI' - the acronym for Pakistan's concerned Inter-Services Intelligence instrumentality - with the tag line, 'hand in the end of the world too?'
Mr Sharma said the source to Pakistani smartness was denoted to be light-hearted, saying: 'In India we prank about this... if any kindmoves wrong... we declare the ISI ought be behind this.'
Miss Malik is no unfamiliar person to controversy. In January she assailed attacked hardline clerics in Pakistan who demandhumble Muslims should be suitably included at all times.
'If a woman is chilly with wearing a burqa, she should wear a burqa. If a woman, being a Muslim, desires to wear denim, then she should wear jeans,' she said in an interview with The Australian newspaper.
She in addition started a strict assault on award killings, highlighting that women were perpetually the objective and not men.
'Have you ever discovered that they've flung corrosive in a guy's face in Pakistan?,' she asked.
Controversial: Miss Malik, pictured left in a fashion shoot and right on the set of a Bollywood film, has clashed with Muslim clerics in Pakistan before, where she is a voice for women's rights
After making her name has a star in 'Lollywood' movies - the term used to describe films made in Lahore - she found greater fame when she took part in Big Boss 4, the Indian version of Big Brother, last year.
Dressed in shorts and seen hugging actor Ashmit Patel as well as swimming with Baywatch star Pamela Anderson, she was accused of behaving improperly by some Muslim clerics.
Miss Malik has also been accused of being a porn star. However, her refreshingly outspoken views have won her many fans from Pakistan's younger and more liberal circles.
Confronted about her 'immoral' behaviour by cleric Mufti Abdul Qawi on a TV talk show, she snapped back that the country had far more important things to consider - including the rape of children in mosques.
'I’m a Muslim woman, and I know my limits,' she shouted back. The mufti appeared to be too astounded to respond.
Your Laptop’s Wi-Fi Might Cause Male Fertility Problems
Men, beware. The Wi-Fi from your laptop could be hurting the health of your sperm.
A new study, published in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility by researchers from Argentina and the U.S., found that semen samples placed a little more than an inch under a Wi-Fi-connected laptop experienced more DNA damage and mobility issues than regular sperm. The samples were taken from 29 healthy men with an average age of 34.
After just four hours sitting under a Wi-Fi-connected laptop, 25% of the sperm samples were no longer mobile and nine percent showed DNA damage. Meanwhile, only 14% of the samples stored away from the computer were inactive, and they showed minimal DNA damage.
“Our data suggest that the use of a laptop computer wirelessly connected to the Internet and positioned near the male reproductive organs may decrease human sperm quality,” the report said. “At present we do not know whether this effect is induced by all laptop computers connected by Wi-Fi to the Internet, or what use conditions heighten this effect.”
The study also tested the sperm next to laptops that were not connected to Wi-Fi. They showed some damage — though less than the connected laptops. This suggests heat may also be a factor in impacting the health of your swimmers.
This is not the first time a study revealed that laptops might be harmful to sperm. A widely-reported 2010 studyfound that men who keep their laptops on their laps may be hurting the quality of their sperm due to scrotal hyperthermia — that is, elevated temperatures in the testes.
The latest study noted that more research needs to be conducted to learn the true effects of electromagnetic radiation generated by a laptop’s Wi-Fi connection — since it was conducted in an artificial setting.
Male infertility is not uncommon. In fact, about one in six U.S. couples have difficulty conceiving. According to the American Urological Association, a man’s fertility is a factor in 50 percent of these cases.
YouTube’s New Homepage Goes Social With Algorithmic Feed, Emphasis On Google+ And Facebook
YouTube is launching what the company calls the biggest redesign in its history today, including sweeping changes to its homepage and channel pages. The goal is better personalized video discovery and viewing, with a notable emphasis on social features. Think of the changes as the latest example of Google’s campaign to create a unified social layer for all of its products.
The new homepage looks a lot like Facebook, or Google+ for that matter. An activity feed view dominates the middle of the page, while a left-hand navigation bar provides a set of filters for what you see in the feed.
The default Subscriptions feed appears to include algorithmically determined video uploads and activities determined by information like what videos you’ve watched and which channels you’ve subscribed to, although YouTube group product manager Noam Lovinsky wouldn’t tell me exactly how it worked. The previous version of the homepage feed, which launched early this year, doesn’t appear to be algorithmically tuned to the same degree.
G+ and Facebook also get prime-time spots in the navigation bar, listed right beneath the first feed. Click on either and you’ll be able to view videos shared by friends on those networks. G+ videos are automatically in there since YouTube accounts are linked to users Google identities. Facebook requires an opt-in login.
Google is playing up the already social aspects of YouTube to help it bolster Google’s cross-product G+ push. The Facebook integration is a bit more surprising considering that it’s the main social competitor out there. But Lovinksy downplayed that point when I brought it up, noting that only around 10% of YouTube’s views are from embeds, meaning that Facebook is just a part of that percentage.
He went on to explain that the prominent locations for G+ and Facebook are to help with onboarding for newer users. Instead of looking through the entire site for interesting channels, or trying to see what YouTube’s general recommendations tell them, they can get started by seeing what their current friends are already sharing.
The rest of the left-hand bar includes other options for filtering the feed. You can pin any subscribed channel to the top section as well. Click on any of those subscriptions and you’ll see a reverse-chronological feed of all the activity in that channel.
Further down, the bar includes a YouTube-curated section showing Trending, Popular and Music channels, and another section showing recommended channels.
The new homepage has a lot in common with Facebook’s left-hand navigation lists, its algorithmic feed, and its right-hand side recommendations and ads. But that’s a reflection of the design paradigm for all social products, as Lovinksy tells me. Users need a homepage that can help them consume new and interesting content as easily as possible, paired with landing pages that let you add subscriptions. In YouTube’s case, the homepage emphasis on filtering channels is based on users’ desires to watch sets of videos in a single sitting. Like, you know, television, channels.
To that end, YouTube is also adding some new templates for channel pages. Here’s what they include, according to the company:
- The Blogger template: A featured video, a reverse chronological list of videos from 1 playlist of your choosing, playlists, and other Channels.
- The Creator template: A featured video, featured playlists, and other Channels.
- The Network template: A featured video and featured Channels
- The Everything template: A featured video, featured playlists, and featured Channels
These additions, which are more analogous to template options in Tumblr or MySpace rather than Facebook’s one-size-fits-all style, let producers promote their works in the most natural style for what they offer. These templates come with a Feed tab showing any of the following actions from the channel owner:
- Liking a video
- Commenting on a video
- Subscribing to a Channel
- Favoriting a video
- Uploading a video, and
- Adding a video to a playlist
Importantly, any of these social actions can also potentially appear in users homepages, similar to how activity on a Facebook page appears in users news feeds. The Feed tab includes a section for users to post their comments, another section for the owner to feature other channels, and an About form.
The homepage and channel changes are the two biggest updates today, but the company is also introducing a site-wide design upgrade to all the elements — typography, iconography, etc (like the new logo at the top of this article). It’s separately adding new versions of its Xbox and Google TV applications, that feature magazine-style tile interfaces showing various channels. Finally, the company is touting the success of its advertising platform, saying that it’s seeing strong demand for its new cost-per-click style of video ads.
Going forward, look for YouTube to introduce more social features, Lovinsky said. While he didn’t get into specifics, my impression was there’s going to more fine-tuned discovery options coming, like channels on the homepage that show you content on topics related to videos you like. A “hip hop” video channel for instance. And, of course, look for YouTube to add tighter G+ integrations across the site.
Pakistani woman kills, attempts to cook husband
KARACHI — Pakistani police on Thursday arrested a woman who had killed her husband and was attempting to cook his body parts after he planned to marry another woman without her permission.
The police arrested Zainab Bibi, 32, and her nephew Zaheer, 22, in the Shah Faisal colony of Pakistan's southern megacity Karachi, and recovered the bowl of flesh she planned to cook, said police chief for the area Nadeem Baig.
"They killed Ahmed Abbas, Zainab's husband, and chopped his body into pieces and were about to cook the flesh in a bowl," he told AFP, adding that the knife with which they killed the man had been recovered.
Television networks showed gruesome footage of the human flesh in a bowl ready for the stove.
A neighbour had alerted the police and investigations were ongoing, said Baig.
"There could be two factors behind her intention to cook the husband. One is to destroy the evidence and the other could be her immense hatred against him," over his plan to marry another woman, he said.
According to family law in the Islamic country, a man has to get permission from his first wife before his second marriage, but the law is rarely observed.
Dennis Ritchie Obituary
The sources of Unix proceed back to the 1960s, long before the microchip and individual computers had been invented. Theclosest thing to individual computing was the computer utility, a large mainframe appliance that was utilised simultaneously, and atlarge total cost, by a twosome of dozen users seated at typewriter terminals.
By the middle of the ten years, the utility emerged to supply the way ahead, and a consortium of General Electric, Bell Labs and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) embarked on a task called Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service). Multics would be the world's biggest computer utility, carrying some century simultaneous users. Bell Labs was to blamefor the functioning software.
Ritchie connected the programming partition of Bell Labs in 1967. His dad, Alistair, had expended a long vocation there and had co-authored an influential mechanical publication, The Design of Switching Circuits (1951). Dennis was born to Alistair and and his wife, Jean, in the New York suburb of Bronxville and increased up in New Jersey, where Bell Labs had its Murray Hill site. He revisedphysics and directed numbers for a bachelor's stage (1963) and computer research for a PhD (1968) at Harvard University.
Multics was in urgent position when he reached at the study organisation. Indeed, numerous large-scale programs tasks were in crisis – persons were just starting to learn that composing large programs was horrendously tough and costly. In 1969, after four years of development, Bell Labs dragged out of the project.
Ritchie and another lead programmer on Multics, Ken Thompson, were left rather bereft by the project's demise. Multics hadpledge, but the functioning scheme was too convoluted to build. This directed them to a rethink. They would construct a easier,lesser scheme that they would call Unix – the title was "a kind of deceitful pun on Multics", Ritchie one time explained.
The concept was not directly treasured by their managers, and they had to cast round for an obsolete computer on which toevolve Unix. The appliance had just 16 kilobytes of recollection, and this solely was an support to hold things simple. If Multics was the casualty of baroque programs architecture, then Unix would be untainted Bauhaus.
Unix was conceived over a couple of months in 1969, and a prototype was running early in 1970. Their colleagues stayedunconvinced. However, by proposing to compose some text-processing programs, Ritchie and Thompson organised to convincethe Bell Labs patent department to come by a full-size computer and run Unix on it.
They determined to rewrite the functioning scheme solely for the new machine. The first type of Unix had been in writing in the computers' native appliance cipher, which was tough and slow. For the next type, Ritchie created a dialect called C, whichspanned the gap between appliance cipher and programming dialects for example Fortran and Cobol.
C furthermore had an intriguing ancestry. The progenitor was together conceived at Cambridge and London universities in 1964 and renowned as CPL (Combined Programming Language). CPL not ever endured, but one of the development group, Martin Richards, became a tourist at MIT. There he conceived a easier type of the dialect for schemes implementation, BCPL (Basic CPL).
Thompson and Ritchie determined to use BCPL to compose Unix. To manage so they compressed it into 8 kilobytes and renamed it B. Finally, a new and advanced type was evolved and entitled C, which, Ritchie mused, "left open the inquiry if the titlecomprised a progression through the letters or through the notes BCPL". This made composing programs immeasurably simpler and it furthermore made programs portable – so that a program in writing in C could run on any machine. The new type of Unix wasaccomplished in 1973, and since it was in writing in C, it, too, was portable.
Because Bell Labs's parent, AT&T, was a regulated phone monopoly, it was prohibited from vying in the computer commerce, and so had no pecuniary concern in Unix. This permitted Ritchie and Thompson to circulate Unix free of ascribe to universities and research organisations, which loved its clean, economical design.
Universities started to train their scholars in Unix and C, and when they graduated they took the heritage into commerce, where it blossomed. In 1978 Ritchie and a associate, Brian Kernighan, composed a textbook, The C Programming Language, which became a bestselling primer for the next 15 years. Despite the name, it was identically a publication about programming method, and itformed programming practices worldwide.
Ritchie and Thompson got early acknowledgement for their work when they obtained the 1983 Turing accolade of the Association of Computing Machinery, often named the Nobel reward of computing. But the Unix article was just beginning. The Advanced Projects Research Agency of the US department of protection taken up Unix for the mesh study that finally conceivedthe internet, and it continues the programs glue that binds everything together.
Steve Jobs was a Unix devotee. When he was ousted from Apple Computer in 1985, he utilised Unix as the cornerstone for his NeXT workstation. After his come back to Apple 10 years subsequent, he conveyed Unix with him and it became the base for all of Apple's present products.
Unix is furthermore at the heart of today's open-source programs movement. In the 1980s, next deregulation, AT&T started toclaim its thoughtful house privileges in Unix.Richard Stallman, a hacker at MIT, determined that the world required a free type of Unix. In 1983 he broadcast that he would compose one called GNU (Gnu's Not Unix). He wrote a free C compiler, and basedthe Free Software Foundation to help. The scheme was finally accomplished by hundreds of programmers, mostly steeped in the Unix and C heritage, collaborating over the internet. In 1991 a Finnish computer research scholar, Linus Torvalds, assisted thefunctioning scheme kernel, and today what we now call Linux forces billions of electrical devices apparatus, from smartphones to supercomputers.
Ritchie and Thompson – generally simultaneously – obtained numerous respects and accolades, culminating with the National Medal of Science bestowed by President Bill Clinton in 1998. The citation recounted their creations as having "led to tremendousimprovement in hardware, programs, and networking schemes and stimulated the development of an whole industry". Earlier this year, the two won a Japan prize. Ritchie expended all his vocation at Bell Labs, leaving as head of systems programs study in 2007. He is endured by two male siblings and a sister.
• Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, computer researcher, born 9 September 1941; past away 12 October 2011
Google+ Vs. Facebook: The War Of The Internet Titans
Some people say Google+ has it all; that it is the perfect mix between Facebook and Twitter. Below are some side by side comparisons, including privacy, chat and friends, between Facebook and Google+. Will this battle of Internet titans go the distance or will Google+ get the knockout and become the new Social Media Heavyweight Champion of the World?
Google Execs Get Zillions In Justness Awards For 2011; Brin, Author, Schmidt Remain $1 Salary
CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page will each take $1 salaries in 2011, and none of the three are getting equity awards. They’ve also declined to take part in the executive bonus plan.
The SEC filing is dated November 8, 2010 — this past Monday. That’s the day before news spread about Google giving employees a 10%, across-the-board pay raise next year, along with holiday bonuses and other financial considerations.
'Zombie' virus attacks more than 1 million cell phones in China
It's called the "Zombie" virus because it transmits from phone to phone, just as in the movies, zombie bites turn people into the living dead.
The virus binds with a security application, which then transmits the user's SIM card details to a central server controlled by a small group of hackers. The hackers then will send messages or make phone calls that contain virus-ridden links for games and software, said CCTV.
Receivers who follow the link will find their phones infected, too, while at the same time providing a "click through" for the link itself, which typically translates into a payment for a party publicizing the links. CCTV said that the blame is likely to lay with intermediary distributors instead of the actual game or software developers that show up in the ads.
Zhou Yonglin, an official with the National Computer Network Emergency Coordination Center, told CCTV that "in the first week of September, nearly 1 million cell phones in the country were infected with the virus."
And although telecom providers are said to have taken steps to reduce the number of infected messages, Zou Shihong, a telecom expert at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, told CCTV that an updated virus might start sending fewer messages, making it harder for cell users to notice any suspicious activity.
Chendu Qimiao, the company behind the original infected security application, told CCTV that is has nothing to do with the virus, adding that it's difficult for users to tell which applications are infected and which are safe.
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