Ugly side of social networking.in India, it is used for promoting prostitution.
A US teenager who blackmailed fellow students at his secondary school to have sex after using their Facebook images has agreed a plea bargain.
Anthony Stancl, 19, who pleaded “no contest” to repeated sexual assault of a child – faces up to 50 years in jail.
He allegedly posed as a girl online and then asked classmates in Wisconsin to send him their naked pictures – using them later to blackmail them for sex.
Mr Stancl told the court he had been on medication for depression for years.
The case came to light after a 16-year old told the authorities he was being blackmailed for sex.
After exchanging explicit pictures of himself with Mr Stancl when he was 15, the boy had been told the images would be distributed around the school if he refused to have sex.
The boy’s images were among about 300 such pictures and videos of other male students at New Berlin Eisenhower High School in south-east Wisconsin police found on Mr Stancl’s computer.
Waukesha County district attorney Brad Schimel said he was satisfied with the plea deal, which spared victims from having to appear in court – a key factor in his negotiations, the Associated Press news agency reported.
“I’ve never had a case where the victims and their families were more apprehensive about testifying,” Mr Schimel was quoted by AP as saying.
“From the victims’ perspective, they’re relieved we’re doing this.”
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Pakistan court orders ears and noses to be cut off
Any more doubts on Pakistan slipping into middle ages and civilian government has no hold on the governance?
A Pakistani court has ordered that two men have their ears and noses cut off, as punishment for doing the same to a woman who refused to marry one of them.
The two brothers were found guilty of kidnapping 20-year-old Fazeelat Bibi, one of their cousins, in September.
The judge in Lahore also sentenced them to life in prison.
Sentence was passed on Monday under a rarely invoked Islamic law dating from the 1980s. In the past similar sentences have been revoked on appeal.
‘Eye for an eye’
Government prosecutor Ehtisham Qadir said the punishment had been awarded in accordance with the Islamic principle of “an eye for an eye”.
Sher Mohammad and Amanat abducted Fazeelat Bibi as she returned home from work at a brick kiln in the Raiwind area of Lahore, the court heard.
“They put a noose around her neck, and then cut off her ears and nose,” Mr Qadir told the BBC.
Three alleged accomplices are still being sought by police.
The crime was committed after Fazeelat Bibi’s parents refused to give her hand in marriage to Sher Mohammad, Mr Qadir said.
Islamic laws were introduced in Pakistan during the military regime of General Ziaul Haq in the 1980s.
The BBC’s M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says punishments prescribed under the laws have rarely been awarded, and never carried out.
Pakistani human rights activists have long campaigned for more to be done to stop attacks against women, which often include facial disfigurement.
However, they also disagree with the type of punishment handed out in Lahore, correspondents say.
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Experts slam House panel report on BIA
The JHC has faulted the design of BIA and held to account the people responsible ,namely, decision makers in awarding the contract ,okaying the design and not following procedures.No body has denied the mistake pointed out. I do not see any thing objectionable in this.
-NRN should not be criticized-Is he beyond criticism?He is an entrepreneur who made it big and made a power to reckon with in the international arena in IT. That does not make him a God.He can be criticized if he is wrong.May be the media has given him larger than life image. Funnily he has not made any comment, as is proper.Why do others talk crap?
-Private investors will be demotivated.-If private investors commit mistakes, should they be applauded?They must take the rap for their mistakes.Would the private industry let go of their CEO and senior managers, if they make similar mistakes in their companies?How come Hyderabad airport is not censured?Ascribing motive is non sense. The committee has been asked on specific request to go into the affairs of BIA.It has done a job.Now you fault it.At this rate you shall direct the independent agencies or what is left of them,like C&AG and CBI to arrive at conclusions dictated by politicians and industrialists.(unfortunately this is the case). What is sad is the lack of accountability by the industrialists.They do not seem to be different from politicos as for as accountability is concerned.Indications are that the report shall be shelved.
The mistake is to have tabled the report before all members have signed it.
BANGALORE: The state government has landed itself in a spot, as its Joint House Committee report on the Bengaluru International Airport has come
in for severe criticism from industry captains. They believe the report questions the very premise of the public-private partnership model on which the airport project was built.The Rs 2,500-crore BIA is the first and largest PPP project to have come up in the state. Over Rs 50,000 crore is riding on the back of several PPP projects in road and infrastructure projects. Barring this, the state government is talking of PPP projects in biotechnology, IT, textile and agro-processing, etc.
“How can the state government talk about PPP when this is how they treat their private partners? The government is sending the wrong signal to industry on the future of PPP,” said Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, CMD, Biocon and chairperson of the state’s Vision Group on Biotechnology. “This report will surely create a temporary feel-bad factor in industry. As an industry body, we’ll definitely take up this matter with the government, in the right spirit,” said T Parabrahman, chairman, CII Karnataka chapter.
K R Girish, president, Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce, said, “This report could also damage the state’s prospects for organizing the Global Investors’ Meet in June 2010. Such reports will make it difficult for the government to invite foreign investment and private equity participation for projects in the pipeline.” Harish Bijoor, domain expert, says the Hyderabad airport built with private participation gives you a feel of being in an international airport. So, there is nothing wrong with it.
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Michael Jackson: FBI releases classified files on star
The FBI has released more than 300 pages of formerly classified documents relating to pop icon Michael Jackson.
They include information regarding the singer’s 1993 and 2004 child molestation cases, as well as an extortion case where he was a victim.
Despite an application under the US Freedom of Information Act, just over half of the file will stay secret.
The pages do not provide any new information on Jackson’s sudden death in June, aged 50.
One document reveals that in 2004, local police in Santa Maria requested FBI involvement believing the court proceedings against the pop star were a “soft target for terrorism” due to the global media coverage.
“No intelligence indicating a terrorist threat” existed, the FBI said, although the bureau did provide other technical and investigative assistance into the case.
In June 2005, Jackson was found not guilty of all charges at the end of the four-month trial.
Video analysed
The documents were released through a Freedom of Information Act request from The Associated Press news agency and other media.
They show that the FBI assisted local authorities on several occasions from 1993 to 2005.
The FBI’s legal office in London assisted local authorities with the child molestation probe in 1993 and in 1995 US customs officials asked the FBI to analyse a VHS videotape as part of a child pornography investigation.
The tape – “a multi-generation copy of poor quality” – was marked in part “Michael Jackson’s Neverland Favourites, An All Boy Anthology”, the FBI documents say.
In 1993 police in Los Angeles began investigating allegations of child abuse against Michael Jackson made by the father of 13-year old Jordie Chandler.
Jackson vehemently denied the claims and he was never charged. A civil case was settled out of court in early 1994 when he paid Jordie Chandler a reported $20m (£14m).
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Court: Microsoft violated patent; can’t sell Word
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a $290 million judgement against Microsoft Corp. and issued an injunction that will prevent the sale of its popular Word software.
The court injunction is set to go into effect Jan. 11. Microsoft ( MSFT – news – people ) has said such a bar would prohibit the sale of all currently available versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office.
Microsoft had appealed a Texas jury verdict in favor of i4i Inc., a Toronto company. The jury found recent versions of Microsoft Word infringed on a software patent.
Microsoft has said that it and the public will both suffer if Word goes off the market while the company devises a workaround. The court said the decision does not affect copies of the programs sold before the injunction goes into effect.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/12/22/general-technology-hardware-amp-equipment-us-microsoft-patent_7232307.html?partner=alerts
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