Karan Johar's a fortune-teller!

It's not enough for Karan Johar to be an actor, writer, TV host, filmmaker, and brand sponsor, Karan is proud to have the powers of a soothsayer:

Yeah, his friends tell us that everytime Karan sees a film he passes a verdict (disclosed only to his close friends, of course) on whether the film will be a hit, a flop, not-so-hot, or not-so-cool. And more often than not, his predictions are right on target.
Recently, after watching Apne , he declared the film a hit in his own critics’ circle. And as it turns out, the Dharam-Sunny-Bobby starrer is doing exceedingly well. Wonder if KJ does the same for his own movies too. Not that he’s seen too many flops really!
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Karan has the special Gemini gift of using communication that springs forth from his keen awareness of what's happening around him as a tool of prediction.
Let's see the shots he calls next...

A fortune teller predicted my lottery jackpot

Gee, fortunetellers are great! See the testimony for a prediction that came through:

A fortune teller predicted my lottery jackpot

A fortune teller predicted a "substantial" win for a couple who scooped more than £1.6 million in the National Lottery, the pair revealed today.
Janette Wright, 41, and husband Stephen, 48, from Bradford, won the £1,633,505 Lotto jackpot in the draw on Saturday.

Mrs Wright, a housing officer, said: "I had a tarot card reading about seven or eight years ago and the tarot reader told me one day I would win 'a substantial amount of money which will be shared'...

Read the entire article for more of the eulogy.

The BBC News (UK) has also reported this story:

Tarot reader predicted £1.6m win

Fortune tellers seek signs to predict French poll - Yahoo! News

See, fortunetellers have an important function. Statistics at times can become false to chance, so why not consult the tarot? Chances are that the election could be in the cards ;-)


Fortune tellers seek signs to predict French poll - Yahoo! News:

"PARIS (Reuters) - With France's presidential elections just days away, the nation's fortune tellers are urgently shuffling tarot cards and staring into crystal balls as they try to predict the result ahead of time.

Most opinion polls put right wing former interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy in the lead for Sunday's first round vote, ahead of Socialist Segolene Royal and centrist 'third man' Francois Bayrou.

But with up to 40 percent of the electorate still undecided, there remains plenty of room for alternative forecasting methods, even though these could prove as reliable as the polls which failed to predict the outcome of the 2002 election."

"Security crystal ball gazing from McAfee"

My RFID-embedded car numberplate has a virus

"Spyware - malicious programs that covertly track surfing habits or steal confidential data - are likely to migrate onto new platforms, including mobile phones and RFID chips.

The scenario is sketched out in the second issue of McAfee's twice annual Global Threat Report."[source]

So, what's in the crystal ball? What awaits everyone now that RFID chips are used to such a great extent?

"The growing, almost ubiquitous, use of RFID technology creates a platform for malware. Research first presented in March 2006 shows how vulnerabilities in RFID technology might be used to spread viruses, worms, and spyware. Dutch researchers showed how RFID tags could be virally infected through SQL injection attacks, exploiting links between an RFID tag and a vulnerable database."[source]

In Tarot the Seven of Cups is symbolic of illusionary success and the promises of RFID chips will become another deception in your life. Why that declaration? RFID chips have made wonderful conveniences such as EZ PASS possible [yeah, if you like to broadcast your whereabouts].

Here are some wonderful possibilities ahead:

• RFID "tattoos" -- use your imagination
• RFID-embedded license plates -- get caught running that red light ;-)
  
• Your cell phone could turn into the perfect spy
• Better brush up on Bluetooth security to avoid:
  

"Bluebugging, where an attacker manipulates a phone to dial numbers, [or] Bluestabbing, where an attacker tries to crash vulnerable devices."[source]

www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/11/

Read McAfee's report and check out the crystal ball on the cover!