Monday, October 31, 2011
Puduvai News Network: I’m completely cured and fit again: Rajinikanth
Puduvai News Network: I’m completely cured and fit again: Rajinikanth: CHENNAI: Appearing at a public event for the first time after his return from Singapore, a rejuvenated and healthy looking Rajinikanth said ...
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SEXTING: ONE 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL’S NIGHTMARISH STORY, BE SAFE
STORY OF SENDING A NAKED PIC TO HER BOYFRIEND
WARNED NEVER SEND YOUR PICTURE TO ANYONE OR NEVER DO BAD CHAT IT CAN BE USED AGAINST YOU AND AGAINST FOR YOUR FAMILY.
Sexting, or sending sexual text messages to friends, is a surprisingly common phenomenon among the youth. As of 2009, about 20% of teens admitted to “sexting,” according to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
In the New York Times, there‘s a sad and shocking story of how sexting altered one young girl’s life. She was only in eighth grade when it happened:
One day last winter Margarite posed naked before her bathroom mirror, held up her cellphone and took a picture. Then she sent the full-length frontal photo to Isaiah, her new boyfriend.
The couple broke up not too long after that. Then, Margarite’s ex-boyfriend forwarded her naked picture on to another girl. That girl forwarded the picture on to everyone in her cellphone contact list. Those people forwarded the picture on to more phones so that in less than 24 hours, hundreds–maybe even thousands–of people had seen a naked picture of Margarite:
They broke up soon after. A few weeks later, Isaiah forwarded the photo to another eighth-grade girl, once a friend of Margarite’s. Around 11 o’clock at night, that girl slapped a text message on it.
“Ho Alert!” she typed. “If you think this girl is a whore, then text this to all your friends.” Then she clicked open the long list of contacts on her phone and pressed “send.”
In less than 24 hours, the effect was as if Margarite, 14, had sauntered naked down the hallways of the four middle schools in this racially and economically diverse suburb of the state capital,
In short order, students would be handcuffed and humiliated, parents mortified and lessons learned at a harsh cost. Only then would the community try to turn the fiasco into an opportunity to educate.
Though sexting is not illegal, if the senders and/or receivers of the text involve minors, child pornography laws could kick in. So in this case, the police eventually did end up getting involved. On the drive to school–where the police were waiting to question Margarite–she “sobbed uncontrollably, feeling betrayed and degraded.”
“When I opened my phone I was scared,” one of Margarite’s peers at school said. “I knew who the girl in the picture was. It’s hard to unsee something.”
READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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MYK
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Love is sweets and honey
Love is sweets and honey
Love is sometimes for your heart
Love is sometimes for the money
♥
Love is passionate
Love is blind
Love is destined
Love is cruel and kind
♥
Love is forever
Love is for a night
Love is fading
Love is at first sight
♥
Love is unrequited
Love is for another
Love is not returned
Love is not to be smothered
♥
Love is dangerous
Love is right
Love is wrong
Love is a fight
♥
Love is complicated
Love is here and there
Love is in you and me
Love is everywhere
♥
Love is broken
Love is true
Love is for me
Love is for you..!! ....
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Love is sometimes for your heart
Love is sometimes for the money
♥
Love is passionate
Love is blind
Love is destined
Love is cruel and kind
♥
Love is forever
Love is for a night
Love is fading
Love is at first sight
♥
Love is unrequited
Love is for another
Love is not returned
Love is not to be smothered
♥
Love is dangerous
Love is right
Love is wrong
Love is a fight
♥
Love is complicated
Love is here and there
Love is in you and me
Love is everywhere
♥
Love is broken
Love is true
Love is for me
Love is for you..!! ....
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Aakash tablet $35 FAQs
We have been getting a lot of queries regarding the availability of recently announced Aakash tablet from Indian Government, so I decided to do quick FAQs post, which will help you get the answer of most of your questions.
Q1: I am a student, how can I buy Aakash tablet?
A: According to the government press release, Aakash will be distributed to students through the institutions at which they are studying. So, the best way to find out about the exact availability of Aakash is to contact the student cell or Dean, Students’ Welfare. The device distribution has already started and 500 tablets were given to students at the press conference.
Q2: What is the price of this tablet for students?
A: Government will be subsiding the student version of Aakash tablet and sell it for around INR 1730 ($35) and students will have to pay that. However, the exact price of this tablet is $49.98 (INR 2276), which was paid by the Government to procure these tablets and does not include the subsidy.
Q3: Will there be a commercial version of Aakash that can be purchased by normal consumers?
A: Yes, the manufacturer Datawind has announced that it will start selling the commercial version of Aakash (named as Ubislate 7) in November. The price for commercial will be INR 2,999. This retail version will be available via normal stores, and online stores, but the exact availability details are still not out.
Q4: Is there any different between student version Aakash and Commercial version Ubislate 7?
A: Yes, the commercial version will have GPRS connectivity, which is absent from student version. Ubislate 7 buyers will be able to make calls using their tablets, which will not be an option in Aakash.
Q5: I am a student, where will I get the content for my tablet?
A: After buying the tablet, you will be able to access thousands of items of content available on the Sakshat portal and other educational web-sites. Government has also asked National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NME-ICT) to develop more content for the tablet.
Q6: What are the main features of this tablet?
A: The student version will come with Android 2.2, 7 inch resistive display, 256MB RAM, 2 GB Internal storage, 366MHz processor, 2 USB 2.0 ports and WiFi connectivity along with an up-to 32GB microSD card slot. It will also support document formats like DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT, ODP, and come with PDF viewer, and Text editor installed. There will be no Android Market support but you will be able download apps from appstores like Getjar, SlideMe and more.
The commercial version will have all of the above features along with GPRS and SIM card slot as mentioned above.
Its a nice Tablet yar..
MYK
India’s $35 Aakash tablet
Indian HRD minister Kapil Sibal finally launched the $35 tablet Aakash today. It took government over 14 months to release a tablet, which actually got in the hands on few students. From the first prototype announcement way back in July, 2010 to October 5, i.e. today, the story of this tablet has been quite fascinating; much like a typical Bollywood movie story with a happy ending.
It all started on July 22, 2010 when Kapil Sibal announced a $35 Android tablet, that was supposed to be made available to students right from primary schools to universities. The following prototype was showcased and Indian TV channels went all gaga over the tablet and it became one of biggest tech news of the day across the global media.
The specifications of this seven inch prototype were nothing less than extra-ordinary for the listed price tag of $35 and there were even reports of 5 inch and nine inch versions. Government press release stated how the tablet was made with the help of IITs and other institutes and it was fully indigenous product.
Obviously this too good to be true story turned out a big lie, when we reported in September that this prototype was nothing but a cheap Chinese tablet, which Indian Government had planned to buy in bulk and then subsidize and sell to students at promised $35 price.
This launch never happened; then there were many reports of HCL backing out from the testing of the tablet and other reports how tablet was going to land in January 2011 and then postponed to the next Academic session and all that. The tablet never materialized.
But suddenly in September 2011, there were rumors of the tablet being launched again and how new tenders were passed and manufacturers changed. We were pretty skeptical of it actually becoming a reality. Then came the October 5 launch date, press invites were sent and finally the press conference took place earlier today.
To our surprise, the tablet at display in the press conference was not even 1pc similar to the tablet prototype showcased 15 months back. Obviously, there were enough reports in online media about the prototype being Chinese that government scrapped their previous plans altogether and went back to the drawing board.
It was decided that a real manufacturer was to be selected by a tender process, who will be the face of this tablet and manufacture it. Mind you, there was no manufacturer at the time of first prototype announcement; HCL was decided on a later date.
Datawind, a company founded by two NRIs with R&D facility in Canada and listed in UK, was selected to make the tablet. This company had some experience in making cheap IT products, thus making it a decent candidate for the job, and also there are Indian names at the helm of the company, not some Chinese or Taiwanese.
Datawind won the tender to make a pilot set of 100,000 tablets and these tablets were supposed to be made in India, so that government does not have to go through the previous experience. Therefore company, which actually assembled all its products till now in China actually searched for a manufacturing partner in India and decided to go with Secunderabad based Quad Electronics to manufacture the tablet. This company is into the manufacturing of products like modems and wireless routers for the past 14 years with 900 employees and no prior experience in tablet manufacturing. Well, no Indian company has; most the manufacturing and assembling is done in China even for Indian or US companies.
Quad Electronic has the capacity of churning out 700 tablets per day and has to complete the order of 100,000 tablets.
So, the tablet (named as Aakash) at today’s press conferencecame from this manufacturing unit itself, and testing was done by IIT Rajasthan and content provided by NME-ICT. Over 500 school students were also invited to the launch event to show that the tablet is indeed real and will be distributed to these kids and it was given to them for free.
The features of Aakash are very different from the initial prototype and it comes with a 7 inch resistive display, 366MHz processor, WiFi, 256MB RAM, 2GB storage and microSd card slot. No camera or GPRS connectivity is present in this tablet. As you can see the most basic features have been chosen to actually make the tablet in the given pricing. According to Datawind, it is selling 100,000 units of Aakash tablet to Indian government at $45 (INR 2250) and government is subsidizing it to sell it at $35 to the post-secondary students.
So that was all of this, I might have missed a few things but it is more or less the story of Indian $35 Android tablet “Aakash”.
MYK
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
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Sialkot Stallions win National T20 title for 6th time
KARACHI: Sialkot Stallions became the twenty20 champions for the sixth time when they defeated Rawalpindi Rams by ten runs after an interesting contest in the final of the Faysal Bank National Twenty20 Cup 2011 here at the National Stadium on Sunday.
Chasing 181 runs, Rawalpindi Rams were looking set for win when they needed 19 runs from 12 balls with five wickets in hand but the Stallions captured three more wickets giving away only eight runs.
For the Rams, only opener Naved Malik played a brave innings of 67 runs off 47 balls, hitting three sixes and six fours.
The second highest scorer was his opening partner Awais Zia (32) whereas no other batsman could make more than 14 runs.
For the Stallions, spinners Raza Hasan and Abdur Rehman got two wickets each for eleven and 27 runs, respectively.
Earlier, Sialkot Stallions piled up 180-6 in the allotted 20 overs after their captain Shoaib Malik won the toss and decided to bat.
The main scorers of the Stallions were Qaiser Abbas (44), Shoaib Malik (43), Shakeel Abbas (39) and Shahid Yousuf (32).
Off-break bowler Awais Zia claimed two wickets for 17 runs for the Rams.
Facebook Is Not Going to Ban In Pakistan From Oct 6
Confirmed, Facebook is not going to ban in Pakistan on Oct 6, 2011. This all happenend when a false rumor started to getting heat across Pakistan, that the world’s social giant Facebook is going to face a ban in Pakistan from Oct 6.
This rumor went viral on internet that Justice Sh Azmat Saeed of Lahore High Court ordered ministry of telecom and information technology to block Facebook in Pakistan for spreading religious hatred on the web. And during hearing a petition requesting a permanent ban on Facebook for hosting competition featuring blasphemous caricatures, LHC ordered the government to make sure that Facebook is blocked in Pakistan and to submit a compliance report by October 6, 2011. So far, this false news has failed to get any media attraction in Pakistan.
In the meantime, This has confirmed that the fresh petition in LHC is filed by Muhammad & Ahmad, a public interest litigation firm, through chairman Muhammad Azhar Siddique advocate for a permanent ban on access to Facebook for hosting a fresh blasphemous caricature drawing contest world over under a title “2nd Annual Draw Muhammad Day on May 20, 2011″.
Facebook is a social network and users from around the globe are free to post anything, however, its content can be moderated supported by Facebook terms of use which state:
“You will not post content that: is hateful, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.”
Comfirmations:
1- PTA officials just confirmed that they have not received such order yet, for Facebook ban.
2- Telecom and information technology officials also have confirmed that ministry hasn’t received any order from Lahore High Court regarding facebook ban.
3- A reporter for Express 24/7, Rabia Mehmood , claims to have spoken with Azhar Siddique – the person who has filed the actuall petition – and he says that LHC has ordered to ban only specific URLs/fan pages that contain blasphemous content and not the whole Facebook.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
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