Brazil health minister prescribes more sex

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's health minister has a remedy for the nation's high-blood-pressure problem: More sex.
Minister Jose Temporao says adults should be exercising more to help keep their blood pressure down — and he says a good cardiovascular workout includes sex, "always with protection, obviously."
Temporao also recommends dancing, a healthy diet and regular blood-pressure checks.

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Google warning on fake anti-virus software

Google search page Fake anti virus is often distributed through adverts
Fake anti-virus software that infect PCs with malicious code are a growing threat, according to a study by Google.
Its analysis of 240m web pages over 13 months showed that fake anti-virus programs accounted for 15% of all malicious software.
Scammers trick people into downloading programs by convincing them that their PC is infected with a virus.
Once installed, the software may steal data or force people to make a payment to register the fake product.
"Surprisingly, many users fall victim to these attacks and pay to register the fake [anti-virus software]," the study said.
"To add insult to injury, fake anti-viruses often are bundled with other malware, which remains on a victim's computer regardless of whether a payment is made."
'Be suspicious' The study, which was presented at the Usenix Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats in California, analysed websites between January 2009 and February 2010.
It discovered more than 11,000 web domains involved in its distribution of fake anti-virus.
More than half of the fake software - which predomianntly targets Windows machines - was delivered via adverts, Google said.
Graham Cluley of security firm Sophos, who was not involved in the study, said that one of the key ways that hackers spread fake anti-virus was so-called black hat search engine optimisation techniques.
"The hackers track trending news stories - such as the death of Michael Jackson," he said.
"They then create websites stuffed with content, which in many cases can appear on the first page of search results."
Anyone clicking on the link, he said, would be confronted with a pop-up with a link to fake anti-virus software.
Google uses tools to filter out booby-trapped websites, but the firm said that hackers were managing to avoid detection by moving between domains quickly.
Mr Cluley said that people should be familiar with their own anti-virus software and should "always be suspicious" if they were confronted with a pop-up telling them you need to download something extra or spend money to clean up a computer.
"If you already have anti-virus installed you shouldn't need to do that," he said.

Facebooking for love, Part I--Jasmine's Tech Dos & Don'ts

Thanks to the digital age, nothing is sacred anymore. If you need some proof for this statement, just consider Facebook. The social networking site is a veritable cesspool of vulgar content, unintelligible pseudo English, and TMI. That's not to say the site doesn't have value, because it most certainly does. It's great for reconnecting with old friends, planning gatherings, and sharing amusing media bits from around the Web, among other things.
But as a tool in matters of the heart, Facebook decidedly falls into the gray area between super useful and downright shady. With that in mind, I've put together some tips to navigate the choppy waters of romantic relationships via social networking.
Part I: Finding love
First things first: DO look for love on Facebook. Why not, really? For one thing, it works. I have two close friends who met significant others through the site, and one is now engaged as a result. For many people, it's easier than asking someone out in person, whether for reasons of shyness or propriety. Further, it's not much different than meeting through a dedicated dating site such as Match.com or OKCupid--in fact, some might be even more comfortable admitting to meeting through Facebook since it's not a dedicated dating site.
Of course, making that initial advance is where the challenge lies. If you're already connected to the person, DO consider sending a personal note related to a recent status update or wall post. Once the conversation has gotten started, asking to meet for coffee or a drink shouldn't be awkward. (Remember that engaged friend I mentioned? This is how it happened.)
Also, DO consider checking out your extended network--friends of friends. For the best results, DO ask the mutual friend to do a little cursory investigating on your part to find out if the person is available and might be interested in your romantic overtures. Having a friend hook you up is basically the same no matter how you do it. In fact, getting to know a person a bit through Facebook before meeting them in person may make a face-to-face meeting more comfortable than, say, a group or blind date.
While you're at it, DO reconnect with old high school or college friends on Facebook--I know of yet of another engagement that occurred in this way. Plus, expanding your overall social network with people with whom you're actually acquainted exponentially increases the pool of potential dates from which to choose, because I DON'T recommend contacting complete strangers with messages like "You're hot--wanna go out?" Frankly, that's more than a little creepy. If you absolutely must reach out to someone you have no connection to, DO open with something entertaining but entirely nonsexual, and try to start a conversation around something that is of mutual interest.
Stay tuned next week for parts II & III of Facebooking for love. In the meantime, if you have any success--or horror--stories of your own, I invite you to share them in the comment section.

EBay CEO: Auctions may be 30 pct of 2011 listings

SAN JOSE — EBay Inc. is still known by many consumers primarily as an online auction site operator, even though auctions now make up less than half of all listings on the site. And that figure could drop to 30 percent by 2011, eBay CEO John Donahoe said Thursday.
Donahoe made the prediction at eBay's annual shareholder meeting at the company's headquarters in San Jose.
Donahoe said auctions are still a good way to sell some items, like those that are hard to price. But buyers and sellers are moving increasingly toward fixed-price "Buy It Now" items.
Several years ago, auctions made up about 70 percent of the listings on eBay, but in the most recent quarter they accounted for about 45 percent, Donahoe said.

Wenger upset with Arshavin

But Gunners boss does question accuracy of translation

Arshavin: Speculation over future

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been left bemused by Andrey Arshavin's confession that playing for Barcelona in the future would be the 'peak' of his career.
Wenger upset with Arshavin
The Russia international is a doubt for Monday's trip to Blackburn, but over the past week he has been speaking of his admiration for Pep Guardiola's Spanish giants, who knocked the Gunners out of this season's UEFA Champions League.
Arshavin's agent has since said that his client is unlikely to leave, but Wenger is still disappointed by the quotes attributed to his January 2009 signing from Zenit St Petersburg.
"Yes, I am very disappointed because he shows a completely different attitude," said the Arsenal boss.
"He wants to extend his contract with us and stay with us, so the noise coming out of Russia is very difficult to explain.
"He looks to be very happy here, so you should ask him where it comes from."

Pride

Wenger declared: "We do not, of course, accept that. When you are at Arsenal, you are at Arsenal. When you are somewhere else, you are somewhere else.
"I believe that your pride makes first that you defend your club.
"Everybody has the freedom to speak, but you want to make sure first of all that you respect your club."
Wenger, though, reflected: "I just put one question mark behind the things that come back translated.
"Usually you have direct access to him, you can ask him where that comes from.
"I don't forbid you to talk to him, but I take with a little bit of distance what comes back translated sometimes with the help of some agents who want to move the players."
The Arsenal manager, Ars̬ne Wenger, has said he is disappointed by comments made by Andrey Arshavin revealing the Russian's admiration for Barcelona Рand has said all his players should respect their own club.
The 28-year-old, who has been missing from the Arsenal first team since picking up a calf injury during his side's 2-2 draw with the Catalan club in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final, is thought now to be doubtful to make his expected return in the match against Blackburn on Monday night.
Earlier this week the Russia international heaped praise on Barcelona and said playing for the Spanish champions at some stage "would be the peak of my career".
It is not the first time that Arshavin's comments have drawn criticism from his manager – the Russian has questioned Arsenal's direction more than once during a frustrating season.
While Wenger continues to take such stories with a pinch of salt, given they come translated from overseas sources, the manager has said his team must commit totally to Arsenal.
"Yes, I am very disappointed because he shows a completely different attitude," said Wenger. "He wants to extend his contract with us and stay with us, so the noise coming out of Russia is very difficult to explain.
"He looks to be very happy here, so you should ask him where it comes from. We do not, of course, accept that. When you are at Arsenal, you are at Arsenal. When you are somewhere else, you are somewhere else. I believe that your pride makes first that you defend your club.
Wenger, though, is willing to give Arshavin the benefit of the doubt. "I take with a little bit of distance what comes back translated sometimes with the help of some agents who want to move the players," he said.

Some people can’t remember a face

But tricks can help them compensate for face blindness

Some people can't remember names. Thomas Grüter can't hold onto a face. Instead, this medical doctor, who has what is called prosopagnosia, or face blindness, uses several tricks to avoid an embarrassing social gaffe.

"The first thing is I think, 'Who can I expect where?'" Grüter told LiveScience. For example, if a person is standing in Dr. Smith's office, it's safe to assume it's Dr. Smith. Grüter has also become an expert at recognizing voices.
By intentionally hiding this "inability," Grüter and others could go under the radar of scientists or doctors in the field. In a perspectives essay in the April 23 issue of the journal Science, Grüter and co-author Claus-Christian Carbon, both of the University of Bamberg, Markusplatz, in Germany, suggest several reasons this and other cognitive disorders get missed. 
"I am convinced that there are many cognitive peculiarities and disorders we don't know about yet," Grüter told LiveScience. In fact, they think many cognitive disorders still await discovery.
Face blindness
Before 2005, the face blindness disorder was only known from individual case reports and it was thought to be extremely rare. New research by Grüter and his wife, both medical doctors, suggested 2.5 percent of the general population in Germany have the disorder. "So it's millions of people suffering from that, but it wasn't known," Grüter said, adding that he thinks it's reasonable the same would hold across Europe.
Culture can play a role. For instance, in a primitive, mostly illiterate society, a cognitive disorder would only get noticed if it, say, kept a person from becoming an expert archer, the researchers say.
Even in literate societies, conditions differ and so can get missed depending on which version of the disorder a person has.
"Chinese dyslexia is different from European dyslexia, because Chinese characters are totally different and you need different cognitive skills to read them," Grüter said. "You may be dyslexic for Chinese characters but wouldn't have any trouble reading European characters."
Even tests meant to capture individuals with cognitive disorders can miss the mark. For instance, in the Benton Facial Recognition Test (BFRT), used by cognitive scientists to fish out face blindness, individuals are asked to compare a face photo on the left with three face photos on the right and then indicate which of the three is identical to the one on the left. The problem is subjects commonly rely on matching features such as hairline and eyebrows rather than recognizing the facial configuration, Grüter said.
Bottom line: Normal scores on some cognitive tests might not reflect reality.
Spotting subtle cues
In reality, the subtle cues that someone can't recognize faces or is dyslexic might only show up if you were looking for certain behaviors in everyday life situations, not on a test. That's because often subtasks are involved with cognitive processes. For those with a hereditary type of color blindness called color agnosia, they might instead compare surface texture of one object with a known one to compensate for the impaired ability. Similarly relevant subtasks might be used for voice agnosia.
Since these people were born with the impairment, they've "never known normal cognition," the researchers write. And so it might even be difficult for them to describe their condition to a doctor. If someone were to complain to a doctor that he or she had trouble recognizing people, the doctor might just chalk it off to a patient who can't remember names — a very common memory problem.
When Grüter and his wife, both medical doctors, interviewed 700 individuals in Germany (17 of which turned out to have face blindness), they used interviews and behavioral questions to find those with the cognitive impairment.
For instance, they might ask a subject to imagine being a receptionist at a hotel — a situation in which it's vital you accurately recognize faces — those with face blindness had several tricks up their sleeve. One individual said she had "dozens of strategies."
"She said, 'most of them come in pairs, that makes it a lot easier. You just have to remember what kind of pair,'" Grüter recalled.
Why it matters
But if these individuals aren't suffering, why point out their deficits?
"They're functioning but they still kind of suffer," Grüter explained. "A lot of people we talked to said, 'I thought I was just distracted all the time; I just couldn't remember the people.'" ("They say people; they mean faces," he added.)
In addition, by studying these ailments scientists can learn a lot more about the brain — an organ that still befuddles even the most intelligent. Perhaps the brains of individuals with certain cognitive deficits operate differently in order to compensate, causing "the neural networks to develop and connect in specifically different ways and lead to typical behavioral changes," the researchers write.
As for how Grüter found out he had face blindness, his wife had seen a TV program on PBS about a guy with a severe form of face blindness. "And my wife said, 'This could be you,' and I said, 'No it can't,'" Grüter recalled. "In a way, it was. I wasn't really suffering from it, but she was right."
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Steve Jobs lectures Adobe about open standards

APPLE'S DEAR LEADER Steve Jobs has decided to wax his lyrical on why Adobe Flash is not a good thing for his followers.
The irony of Apple's feud with Adobe isn't lost on Jobs, who canters through the history of the companies' relationship saying that both firms had "many good times" and even a "golden era" before he slammed the software firm.
In what is clearly a case of the pot calling the kettle black, Jobs says that Adobe's Flash products are "100 per cent proprietary". Continuing down that road, he tries to explain that Adobe retains "sole authority" on its "future enhancement", presumably forgetting that people who buy his machines are also at the mercy of Apple's continuing development of the closed source Mac OS X.
In a rare show of humility and honesty, Jobs admits that Apple too has "many proprietary products" but says, "Web standards should be open." He goes on to claim that Apple set standards for open standards for browsers by creating Webkit, seemingly forgetting that the rendering engine behind his firm's Safari web browser, among others, was actually a fork off the original open source KHTML project. By his logic, we'll be hearing claims that using the BSD Mach kernel at its core makes OS X open source.
In a sign of desperation, Jobs uses figures from insecurity outfit Symantec to justify his claims that Flash is insecure. Given that Flash is supported on Linux with relatively few security issues, maybe it is the operating system and not the software running above it that should be under scrutiny.
Jobs wasn't done yet, however, using that old chestnut, battery life, to justify barring another technology. So far he's used that as a reason not to put 3G on the original Iphone and to delay adding multitasking to the Iphone OS, with this one giving Jobs a hat-trick.
Just like a power-wielding politician, Jobs' shows his true colours in his parting shot, claiming that from "painful experience", allowing operating system agnostic development "hinders the enhancement and progress". All that guff was really to hide behind what he claims is Adobe's goal "to help developers write cross platform apps."
Instead, what he wants is applications that are available only on the cappuccino firm's devices. Anything that can offer the same level of experience on a device not blessed by Jobs is clearly something that diminishes the appeal of the firm's expensive gadgets.
The letter ends with Jobs pleading for Adobe to stop "criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind" and focus on supporting HTML5.
While Jobs is correct in that Adobe should look to embrace HTML5, the idea of him preaching about open products and innovation after identifying Adobe's "cross platform" development goal as one of the reasons why its software isn't allowed onto his devices undermines the rest of his argument.

A USB key that locks turns up

EVEN THOUGH every vendor is trying to sell you something, London's Infosecurity conference isn't exactly the place to find the latest hot new toy. So imagine our surprise when we found a device there that is different and original.
It's the LOK-IT Secure Flash drive, a USB key that has a hardware-based security system that requires the user to log in using an on-board PIN pad. It looks like one of those combination luggage locks that you tend to forget the combination to. We asked John Tate, one of its creators at Systematic Development Group, what the point of it was.
He said, "Every other device up to this point rather than a pure biometric device required software. It's pure hardware, so you don't have platform dependence, with susceptibility for passwords to be stolen."
"The big reason a lot of companies are going for it is that you are not running an executable. A lot of companies have policies that you are not supposed to run executables from a remote device."
"Since our authentication is done prior to inserting it into the computer, there's no executables to run."
The drive runs with 256-bit AES hardware encryption and is also platform independent, which means that Windows users can also use it on a different platform, such as Mac or Linux. Another advantage is that you can boot from the Flash drive, as it doesn't require a password entry.
Ten incorrect PIN attempts will wipe the encryption of the key, wipe the PIN, and force a reformat of the drive when you plug it in. Tate said that there are ways you can recover the data.
There are two different models available, one with ten buttons in aluminium and one in ABS plastic with five buttons. They come in 2GB, 4GB, 8GB and 16GB capacities

Shakira Attacks New Arizona Immigration Law

Pop star Shakira has promised to help fight a new Arizona immigration law that makes it a crime to be in the state illegally.

Shakira
Shakira adds her voice to campaigners fighting Arizona's new law

The Colombian-born singer and UNICEF ambassador says the law goes against American ideals.
Shakira, best known for her hit singles She Wolf, Hips Don't Lie and Whenever, Wherever said: "I came here to lend my voice and offer my support to the Latino community and to express my public opposition on this law."
"In my opinion it dulls human and civil rights of citizens and non citizens."
"I am here as a Latina that believes in opportunity for all. We are concerned about the implementation of the law and the consequences it can have on the working families."
The controversial law came into force in Arizona on April 23 sparking condemnation from civil rights groups saying it will lead to racial profiling.
It even prompting a Mexican airline to cancel flights to the state.
President Barack Obama described the Arizona legislation as "polarizing."
Obama said the Arizona law highlighted the need for immigration reform to be addressed at federal level.
Supporters of the law say it is needed to curb crime in the state, which is home to some 460,000 illegal immigrants and is a major corridor for drug and migrant smugglers from Mexico.

Brown goes for broke in final TV economy debate

  
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BIRMINGHAM, England – Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown scrapped for his political future in the country's final TV election debate on the economy — the most combative showdown yet where he traded gibes with rivals a day after an embarrassing campaign gaffe.
He tried to smooth over the gaffe at the start of the debate Thursday. After forgetting to remove a microphone on a campaign stop Wednesday, Brown was heard calling a retired Labour voter a "bigoted woman" after she questioned him on immigration.
Thursday's debate offered Brown a chance to shine — the 59-year-old former Treasury chief is most comfortable talking about numbers. But his delivery fell flat. He looked tired from what some columnists have dubbed "Duffygate," referring to 66-year-old retiree Gillian Duffy.
"There is a lot to this job, and as you saw yesterday I don't get all of it right," Brown said. "But I do know how to run the economy — in good times and in bad."
The first U.S.-styled debates have spurred an unexpected transformation in Britain's politics and shaped the election, one of the closest in decades.
Months ago, the Conservatives' David Cameron was favored as the clear winner but he was surprisingly eclipsed after the first debate when Nick Clegg, leader of the perennially third-placed Liberal Democrats, stole the show with his affable yet confident persona. After Thursday's showdown, it seemed more likely no party would win a clear parliamentary majority with Clegg becoming a sought-after partner in a possible coalition.
Analysts, meanwhile, all but started drafting Brown's political obituary.
"It's the ultimate Shakespearean tragedy for Gordon Brown," said Frank Luntz, an American political consultant who has advised the Republicans.
Britain faces mammoth economic troubles with the one of the largest deficits in Europe — a 152.8 billion pound ($235.9 billion) sum racked up during the global financial crisis. Whoever wins the vote, it seems inevitable the country will feel the harshest cuts to public services since World War II. Taxes, meanwhile, are sure to rise and recovery measures could be stalled with a hung Parliament.
Cameron, the 43-year-old who studied economics and won an endorsement from The Economist, appeared to come out on top in Thursday's debates but analysts said polls in the coming days would give a clearer picture once voters digested coverage of the debates.
"I think Cameron came across as very strong," said Helen Coombs, deputy head of political research at the polling company Ipsos MORI.
"I thought Clegg's message was strong but I'm not sure he beat Cameron. I don't think Brown managed to turn himself around. He kept harping on about his achievements but this doesn't resonate with voters."
All three main parties have been reluctant to say what they plan to cut — answers that could lose votes. The final debate did little to explain details of economic recovery plans, but the showdown showed Brown and Cameron repeatedly trading blows over other's policies on tax, and potential cuts to welfare.
"This is a campaign where we are going to have to show ... that we want it more than anybody else," Cameron said after the debate.
Each candidate tore into each other over immigration — the one issue that has come in all three debates.
Some angry Britons blame an influx of 6 million foreigners since Brown's Labour took office in 1997 for worsening their plight. Immigrants — many from poor countries — have been accused of snatching jobs, pushing down wages and overwhelming welfare services.
Cameron wants a cap on immigration; Brown has championed controls through a point system; Clegg has suggested giving amnesty to illegal immigrants who come out of the shadows.
But it was the economy that dominated much of the debate.
"What you are hearing is desperate stuff from someone who's in a desperate state," Cameron said of Brown. In response, Brown accused his rival of plans that were "simply unfair and immoral," referring to Cameron's proposed cuts and tax plans.
Seizing another chance to ridicule both his rivals, Clegg pounced.
"Here they go again," quipped Clegg, recalling President Ronald Reagan's 1980 putdown of Jimmy Carter, when he famously said of his rival: "There you go again."
Victoria Honeyman, a political analyst at the University of Leeds, handed a victory to Cameron.
"Cameron did really well, Clegg was reasonable — not impressive, but reasonable," said Honeyman. "And Gordon Brown, in what was supposed to be his debate — in his backyard of the economy — didn't do well at all."
After a bruising 24 hours, Brown hoped to shine by showcasing his economic prowess — he has the most economic experience of the three, was treasury chief for a decade, and presided over much of Britain's recent growth.
Brown used opening skirmishes in the debate to remind voters of his handling of the economic storm, which included nationalizing some banks, and discussed fears that Greece's debt crisis could spread through Europe. Currencies and stock markets tumbled Wednesday on fears over Athens' plight.
"Economies in Europe are in peril, and there is a risk of dragging us into recession," Brown said. "So I'm determined that nothing will happen in Britain that will put us back in that position. Shrink the economy now as the Conservatives want to do and they risk your jobs, your living standards and your tax credits."
Brown was robbed of pre-debate preparation by the uproar over Wednesday's run-in with the voter.
Audience member Kate Novak told Sky Television that Brown looked like a "broken man."
"From now until next Thursday we have got to campaign like we have never campaigned before," Brown said after the debate.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who brought Labour to power some 12 years ago, planned to join the campaign trail this weekend.
In two weeks since the first debate, Clegg emerged as a credible new contender to lead Britain — shaking up the dominance of Labour and the Conservatives, the two major parties who have traded power since the 1930s, and spawning headlines that read: "Cleggmania."
Support for the Liberal Democrats has jumped dramatically — to about 30 percent of potential votes in opinion polls — from 18 percent.
Clegg, who speaks five languages, has been interviewed on television in Dutch and French on the campaign trail. He has also chatted with reporters from Germany in their native tongue and has spoken to Spanish journalists.
His father, Sir Nicholas Clegg, is chairman of the United Trust Bank yet Clegg — an anthropology major — has the least financial experience of the three candidates.
Although he has been cagey about a preferred partner in a coalition government, he says his main demand is changing Britain's electoral system. Because parties win by the number of districts not proportional votes, the system has historically put smaller parties at a disadvantage.

Mourinho' The MAN OF THE MOMENT


Barcelona   1 - 0   Inter Milan (agg 2 - 3)

Jose Mourinho
Jose Mourinho, left, celebrates with Inter Milan team manager Gabriele Oriali
Jose Mourinho achieved his latest European masterstroke as 10-man Inter Milan reached their first UEFA Champions League final despite a 1-0 semi-final second-leg defeat at Barcelona.
Inter arrived at Camp Nou holding a 3-1 aggregate lead over last season's continental kings and they never truly looked in danger of surrendering that advantage in Catalunya, although Gerard Pique set up a tense finish with a superb late goal.
The first half was cagey before controversially exploding into life shortly before the half-hour mark when Inter's Thiago Motta was harshly shown a red card by referee Frank de Bleeckere for offering a gentle fending arm in the face of Sergi Busquets.
There was contact but, as Busquets offered a cynical glance from behind his hands when rolling on the floor in theatrical agony, the irony of the dismissal will not have been lost on Motta after he accused Barcelona of diving in the build-up to the match.
However, a numerical disadvantage in manpower did little to damage Inter, who maintained a tight defensive formation that stifled the guile of Lionel Messi and Xavi with relative ease.
The Serie A leaders continued to frustrate their hosts in the second half as Pep Guardiola failed to conjure a Plan B, before Pique created a nail-biting conclusion with a cool finish in the 84th minute.
Barcelona, though, could not find the necessary second on the night as a Bojan strike was debatably ruled out to mean that their 'obsession', in the words of Mourinho, of retaining their title in the Bernabeu came to an end.
Instead it will be Inter who take on Bayern Munich at the home of Real Madrid in late May for the right to be crowned Europe's best team as Mourinho edged closer to meeting the mandate that he was set when accepting his Italian job in 2008.
And for the 'Special One', who celebrated triumphantly on the pitch at the final whistle, it was vindication following a turbulent spell in Italy and his controversial departure from Chelsea, where he was unable to deliver a repeat of his remarkable Champions League success with Porto in 2004.
Needing a 2-0 win or better to advance, Guardiola opted for an attacking 3-4-3 line-up, with Yaya Toure alongside Pique and Gabi Milito at the back.

Provocative

Inter made a last-minute change with striker Goran Pandev, originally named in the starting XI, replaced by defender Cristian Chivu, with suggestions Mourinho was up to his trademark mind games, which had eliminated Chelsea in the last 16.
Such a move is only allowed if an injury has occurred and Inter could yet be asked to provide evidence to that effect.
As expected, Barca completely dominated the opening stages. The Catalans had around 80 per cent of the possession early on, but Inter were organised and looking comfortable.
Xavi brilliantly turned Wesley Sneijder on the edge of the area, but was unable to set up Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who was hugely disappointing, as he has been for much of his debut season for Barcelona since leaving Inter.
Pedro then tried his luck with a shot from distance, but Barca were struggling for inspiration.
Mourinho, a former translator at Barcelona under Sir Bobby Robson, would have been content, but the Portuguese coach was less happy as his side went down to 10 men after 28 minutes.
In his pre-match press conference Mourinho had asked for protection from the referee, while Motta had accused Barcelona of being divers.
Although those words were seen as provocative, they also turned out to be somewhat prophetic as Busquets threw himself to the ground clutching his face after Motta had pushed him on the chin.
Mourinho sarcastically applauded the decision while Barca set about taking the initiative against Inter's 10 men.
And it looked as if they might when Messi skipped past two defenders on the edge of the box and curled a venomous low shot towards the bottom corner, only to see his effort pushed superbly around the post by Julio Cesar.
Divine inspiration
Barca were camped in the Inter area for the remainder of the half, but essentially little had changed.
Mourinho's men held out until half-time and Barca knew they were in a game, even against 10 men.
Guardiola's side still needed two goals as the second period got under way and things were not getting any easier for the Catalans.
Inter were playing the offside trap to great effect and Barca were reduced to hopeful crosses to Ibrahimovic, who was showing exactly why he has failed to win over the Catalan faithful since his big-money move in the summer.
The Swede finally departed after 63 minutes, replaced by Bojan Krkic, as Guardiola looked to add some much-needed vitality to his floundering forward line.
Barca fans pleaded for a moment of divine inspiration from Messi, but the Argentinian had failed to score in six games against Mourinho sides and that statistic appeared unlikely to change as the time ticked away.
Bojan headed agonisingly wide from Messi's cross late on, but Pique ensured a rousing finale as he collected Xavi's pass in the area, left goalkeeper Julio Cesar floored with a neat pirouette and rolled the ball into the empty net.
There was a hint of offside, much like Inter's third goal in Milan, but the home fans hardly cared.
The noise was deafening in the final five minutes, plus four of added time, as Barca poured forward, willed on by close to 100,000 loyal fans.
Bojan lashed home in added time, but Yaya Toure was harshly ruled to have handled and Inter survived to set up a final meeting with Bayern.

Kenya's Safaricom says to move to IP network in 2 years

Leading Kenyan mobile phone operator Safaricom plans to move to an Internet protocol (IP) network in the next two years to help lower costs and reduce outages, its chief executive said on Wednesday.
An Internet protocol network allows data to be transmitted continuously, while packet stream technology involves transmitting data after it has been broken into chunks.
"We want all our network to be IP-based ... Safaricom in particular now is very much on a two-year path to make all our systems completely IP, which means both our fixed and our mobile system," Michael Joseph told a regional telecoms conference.
"It's much simpler, it's much cheaper ... you can have your links automatically move from one switch to another if there's a breakdown," Joseph told Reuters after his presentation.
The company, which is 40 percent owned by Britain's Vodafone, says it has over 15 million active SIM subscribers, giving it roughly 80 percent of the mobile telecoms market in east Africa's biggest economy.
Joseph said in March it was Safaricom's aim to have 25 percent of revenue coming from data services within two years as the number of mobile Internet users and subscribers to its money transfer service, M-Pesa, continued to rise.
He said the drive toward an IP network was happening in the background and was not part of the company's push toward getting more revenues from data.
Joseph did not say how much the move would cost, but said Safaricom's capital budget for this year was 23 billion shillings ($297 million).
Safaricom is the only operator in Kenya with a 3G license. It typically accounts for more than half the shares traded each day on the Nairobi Stock Exchange.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Believe In Privacy

nofbprivacyFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have been outed as not caring one whit about your privacy — a jarring admission, considering how much of our personal data Facebook owns, not to mention its plans to become the web’s central repository for our preferences and predilections.
Also interesting is how this came about: Not in a proper article, but in a tweet by Nick Bilton, lead technology blogger for the The New York Times‘ Bits Blog, based on a conversation he says was “off the record” and which he may have confused with “not for attribution.”
“Off record chat w/ Facebook employee,” begins Bilton’s fateful tweet. “Me: How does Zuck feel about privacy? Response: [laughter] He doesn’t believe in it.”
Ouch.
Zuckerberg’s apparent disregard for your privacy is probably not reason enough to delete your Facebook account. But we wouldn’t recommend posting anything there that you wouldn’t want marketers, legal authorities, governments (or your mother) to see, especially as Facebook continues to push more and more of users’ information public and even into the hands of other companies, leaving the onus on users to figure out its Rubik’s Cube-esque privacy controls.
Facebook has been on a relentless request over the past six months to become the center of identity and connections online. The site unilaterally decided last December that much of a user’s profile information, including the names of all their friends and the things they were “fans” of, would be public information — no exceptions or opt-outs allowed.
Zuckerberg defended the change — largely intended to keep up with the publicness of Twitter, saying that people’s notions of privacy were changing. He took no responsibility for being the one to drag many Facebook users into the net’s public sphere.
Then last week at its f8 conference, Facebook announced it was sending user profile information in bulk to companies like Yelp, Pandora and Microsoft. Thus, when users show up at those sites while logged in to Facebook, they see personalized versions of the those services (unless the user opts out of each site, somewhere deep in the bowels of Facebook’s privacy control center). On Tuesday, four Senators asked the company to only push data to third-parties if users agree to it, a so-called “opt-in” that social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz eschew since it radically cuts down on participation and thus revenues.
Facebook is also pushing a “Like” button, which lets sites put little Facebook buttons on anything from blog entries to T-shirts in web stores.
Clicking that button sends that information to Facebook, which publishes it as part of what it calls the Open Graph, linking your identity to things you choose online. That information, in turn, is shared with whatever sites Facebook chooses to share it with — and to the sites you’ve allowed to access your profile.
It’s an ambitious attempt to rewrite the web as a socially linked network. But many see Facebook’s move as trying to colonize the rest of the web, and keep all this valuable information in its data silos, in order to become a force on the web that rivals Google.
So it’s no laughing matter that the head of Facebook appears not to care about privacy. (We asked Facebook to clarify Zuckerberg’s privacy stance but have yet to hear back.)
For his part, Bilton fired off a number of salvos defending his understanding of the the ground rules which governed the conversation he had. “‘Off record’ means there is no attribution to who it is but conversation can be used in story. ‘On background’ means I can not repeat it,” wrote Bilton. He took over the Times‘ technology blog in the last few months, after a long stint working with its technology-development team.
uh-ohUnfortunately, he’s wrong about the definitions.
“‘Off the record’ restricts the reporter from using the information the source is about to deliver,” reads NYU’s Journalism Handbook, in one definition of the phrase. “If the reporter can confirm the information with another source who doesn’t insist on speaking off the record (whether that means he agreed to talking on the record, on background, or not for attribution), he can publish it.” “On background” usually means that information can be used, but can’t be attributed to a specific person.
Bilton later responded to our request for clarification, saying, “My source said it was OK to quote them, just not say who they are.” So apparently, this Facebook employee wanted this information to get out, for whatever reason.
Now, the die has been cast: The world knows that a Facebook employee thinks his CEO “doesn’t believe in” privacy, which should scare the bejesus out of anyone with a Facebook account — and that encompasses just about everyone reading this now.
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