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Student sentenced for racial abuse on Twitter

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Joshua Cryer, 21, a law student of Jesmond, Newcastle, has been given a two-year community order by the court in Newcastle, England. Joshua is sentenced for sending a series of racial abusive tweets to former footballer Stan Collymore.

Cryer admitted to the court that he had sent racist messages to the former Liverpool, Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest star striker. He had previously denied sending messages in January that were “grossly offensive”. Cryer was arrested after the 40-year-old former England striker reported the incident to the Staffordshire police, the defendant was charged under section 127 of the Communications Act with sending grossly offensive messages. As per his sentence Cryer will have to do 240 hours of unpaid work, and also pay £150 in court costs.
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Americans are being asked for their Facebook passwords at job interviews

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Being asked for your Facebook login and password at a job interview. Does this sound scary to you? It does to me that’s for sure, but nonetheless this was what happened to a guy from Seattle.

Justin Bassett from Seattle recently left a job interview in anger after being asked for his Facebook login information so the employer could check out his profile which was hidden from people who are not his friends. The employer had asked Justin the usual questions about experience, references and some character questions when she took out her laptop and found his profile on Facebook. Unfortunately for her Justin Bassett had been smart enough to hide all his personal information from strangers and only show it to people who are his friends on Facebook. The determined interviewer didn’t settle for this and so she turned the laptop around and asked Mr. Bassett for his login information so she could check out his profile.
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Humor: Letter From Mr. Tim Cook of the Apple Inc. Re: $100 Billions United States Dollars

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Dear One,

I am Mr. Tim Cook, CEO of the Apple Inc. I followed Mr. Steven P. Jobs who also is CEO of Apple Inc. though dead now. Mr. Jobs worked with the Apple Inc. for over two decade before the cold hand of death took him away on the 5th of October 2011. He and I made a vow to uplift the down-trodden and the less-privileged individuals within the United States for America, Europe, China and South America, Africa and the rest of the globe as he had passion for poor persons with Googles Androids phones.

When my late CEO was alive he deposited the sum of $100 Billion (One Hundred Billion United States Dollars) with a bank here in the California. Presently, this money is still with the bank. Recently, Mr. Peter Oppenheimer, CFO of the Apple Inc. told me that we have a limited or numbered days on earth and that our life span will not exceed 150days due to the Maya calendar of 2012.

With this hard reality that has befallen Mr. Peter Oppenheimer, Mr. Phil Schiller nice all around guy of the Apple Inc., and me I have decided to donate this fund to a non-governmental,or a non religious, and or a non profit organization or better still an individual, that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein.I want a non governmental, or a non religious, and or a non profit,organization or better still an individual, that will use this gift which comes from Mr. Steven P. Jobs sweat to fund the upkeep of widows,widowers,orphans, destitute, the down-trodden, physically challenged children,barren-women and persons with Android phones.

As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the bank here in the California. I will also issue you a Letter of Authority that will empower you as the original beneficiary of this fund. My happiness is that I lived a life worthy of emulation. Please always be prayerful all through your life. Any delay in your reply will give me room in souring for a non-governmental, or a non religious, and or a non profit organization or better still an individual for this same purpose.Please assure me that you will act just as I have stated herein. Hope to hear from you soon and God bless you and members of your family.

Mr. Tim Cook, CEO of the Apple Inc. (Benefactor)

Do you think we will soon see this spam mail in our junk folders?

Found on Gizmodo written by “ARTIST FORMERLY KNOWN AS NIGERIAN PRINCE” :-)

Woman discovers her husband’s other wife via Facebook

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A woman from Washington was using Facebook as any other day, but suddenly one day she got quite a surprise when looking at one of the “friend suggestions” that Facebook offers based on mutual friends, interests and other things. She was looking at a woman with whom she had something in common: the husband!

The woman’s identity has still not been made public, so we’ll call her Wife A. She was using Facebook when she saw a picture of the other woman, let’s call her Wife B, suggested by Facebook as a potential friend. When she clicked to see the profile of the suggested friend, with whom she had her husband as mutual friend, she was in for a surprise! She saw pictures from a wedding where the woman was standing next to the wedding cake – along with Wife A’s estranged husband! So Wife A did what any sane person would do: She called the mother-in-law.
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New condoms with QR code let you check in before getting it on

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The concept of “checking in” wherever you are has taken a whole new level recently, the Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest (PPGNW) has distributed more than 50,000 condoms with QR code stickers on the packaging, so you can scan it on your smartphone and check in on their website wheredidyouwearit.com to show the whole world (anonymously) where and when you used one of the distributed condoms. The concept is of course to spread awareness of practicing safe sex, and it seems to be working as this website is about to go viral on the web. The promotion was originally only scheduled to run Feb. 14 through Feb. 21 but the site has proven to be very popular so the PPGNW has kept it online.

PPGNW says the site “is like Foursquare for people who don’t want a sexually transmitted infection”. The site has already tallied up more than 4,500 “condom check-ins” and more than 65,000 visitors. PPGNW’s new media coordinator Nathan Engebretson told ABC News. Continue reading →

Two people are dead because they unfriended woman on Facebook

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Marvin Potter, 60, (on the right), is in custody and is being charged with two counts of first degree murder. He is accused of having shot a couple that had both unfriended his 30-year-old daughter Jenelle on the social site Facebook, Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece said Wednesday.

The problems began when Billy Payne Jr. and his girlfriend, Billie Jean Hayworth, unfriended Marvin Potter’s daughter Jenelle on Facebook. According to the police, Jenelle started to harass the couple in the time leading up the murders on January 31st. Continue reading →

Get $25 from Google for sharing your search and browsing history

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Google is about to start a new project called Screenwise, they have already set up a signup page – it’s not yet active for sign-ups though – from this page you can read about their new project where they want to get their users to agree on giving them access to their browsing and search behaviors online via a browser plugin for Google Chrome. Here is what Google says themselves:

Google is building a new panel to learn more about how everyday people use the Internet.

The new project is called Screenwise. As a panelist, you’ll add a browser extension that will share with Google the sites you visit and how you use them. What we learn from you, and others like you, will help us improve Google products and services and make a better online experience for everyone.

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Google is being sued for consolidating its Privacy Policies

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As you may remember from last week, Google announced a (rather large) change to their privacy policies and if you are a Google user you have probably noticed that they have tried to make you aware of the changes with arrows pointing to it and by redirecting you to their policy page once.

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has filed a suit in the Washington D.C. district court claiming that the upcoming privacy changes – which are planned to take effect March 1st – will cause “irreparable injury to EPIC and the public.” EPIC claims that the change violates a settlement agreement that Google and the FTC reached last march forbidding any privacy changes without consent from the user. EPIC wants the court to issue a temporary restraining order on Google, they also ask for a preliminary injunction compelling the FTC to enforce the settlement agreement from March last year.
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Facebook Data Center in Oregon doubles the power usage in the county

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The interior of Facebook data center in Prineville, Oregon

A $210 million monster data center in Prineville, Oregon has been built by Facebook. The data center has a capacity of 28 megawatts usage, this was revealed by Facebook earlier this week together with local economic development officials. The entire power usage of the whole county of Prineville was prior to this center being built only 30 megawatt, so the consumption will be doubled with this Facebook server center.

Facebook who according to the most recent rumors are preparing for their IPO to happen very soon, have built this 300,000 square foot monster, and apparently two more are on the way according to sources in the local community.
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Yes! Your Passwords suck! Hints on creating solid passwords

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Every time that you cleverly come up with a seemingly complicated combination of letters, symbols and numbers for a password, you are not only up against creepy individual hackers, you are up against a myriad of easily obtainable super-computers! Your password has to be strong enough to hold up against these computer programs that can use infinite numbers of dictionaries from multiple languages, Wikipedia and everything in the World Fact Book to run encrypted passwords in a matter of MINUTES. Passwords like yours are probably too short, too personal or just too simple or predictable.

This article will help you to see that you need to change your password as soon as possible and  it will also give you hints on how to create ‘bulletproof’ passwords and protect yourself against the highly technologically advanced, increasingly adaptable hacker world.

Cracking weak passwords is easy! Steve Ragan, Tech Herald journalist, proved this when he used free downloadable software and a $300 off-the-shelf computer to crack over 80,000 encrypted passwords in only 5 hours.

It is very important to remember that once ONE of your passwords has been compromised, (just like 24+ million Zappos.com shoppers earlier this month), it isn’t just bad news for that one account on that one Zappos website. The hackers can have a ‘hacking party’ with access to your Facebook, Twitter, or email accounts IF you have used the same login for these other services as well. Information can be extracted from one of your accounts and used against you to access another. Continue reading →