Saturday, 8 June 2013
Rapper Drake gets a $2m Bugatti Veyron from label boss, Birdman
Woman discovers online ‘friend’ is actually ex-husband
File photo of computer webcam (Thinkstock)Brian Matthew Cornelius, 36, allegedly created an "elaborate online persona" before communicating with his ex-wife. During the course of their online courtship, his ex-wife revealed many intimate details of her life, including her thoughts and feelings about her ex-husband, according to the Pioneer Press article.
The paper reports that prosecutors claim Cornelius observed his ex-wife's home through a webcam. He also convinced her to "skip a court appearance in which she was seeking an order for protection against him." The charge against her ex-husband was then dropped, the Pioneer Press reported.
Eventually the woman was able to figure out that "Aaron Carpenter" was actually Brian Cornelius. The Pioneer Press explains that Cornelius showed up at places where the woman had told Carpenter she would be. The man known as Carpenter also said things to the woman that only her ex-husband could possibly know, according to the paper.
Confronted by his ex-wife, Cornelius allegedly admitted to using images he found online to fill out his alter-ego's profile, according to the complaint cited in the Pioneer Press piece. The two were married for 11 years and have two children.
Cornelius faces two counts of gross misdemeanor stalking. He is scheduled to appear in court on the stalking charges next month.
.Obama defends broad phone, Internet spy programs
Associated
Press/Evan Vucci - President Barack Obama gestures during a statment
about the Affordable Care Act, Friday, June 7, 2013, in San Jose, Calif.
Speaking about the NSA collecting of phone records, the
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is urging Americans to "make some choices" in balancing privacy and security as he defends once-secret surveillance programs
that sweep up an estimated 3 billion phone calls a day and amass
Internet data from U.S. providers in an attempt to thwart terror
attacks.
Obama
says it will be harder to detect threats against the U.S. now that the
two top-secret tools to target terrorists have been so thoroughly
publicized.
At turns defensive and defiant while speaking to reporters on Friday, Obama stood by the spy programs revealed this week.
The National Security Agency has been collecting the phone records
of hundreds of millions of Americans each day, creating a database
through which it can learn whether terror suspects have been in contact
with people in the U.S. It also was disclosed this week that the NSA has
been gathering all Internet usage — audio, video, photographs, emails
and searches — from nine major U.S. Internet providers, including Microsoft and Google, in hopes of detecting suspicious behavior that begins overseas.
"Nobody is listening to your telephone calls," Obama assured the
nation after two days of reports that many found unsettling. What the
government is doing, he said, is digesting phone numbers and the
durations of calls, seeking links that might "identify potential leads
with respect to folks who might engage in terrorism."If there's a hit, he said, "if the intelligence community then actually wants to listen to a phone call, they've got to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation."
While Obama said the aim of the
programs is to make America safe, he offered no specifics about how the
surveillance programs have done that. House Intelligence Committee
Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., on Thursday said the phone records
sweeps had thwarted a domestic terror attack, but he also didn't offer
specifics.
Obama asserted his administration had tightened the phone records
collection program since it started in the George W. Bush administration
and is auditing the programs to ensure that measures to protect
Americans' privacy are heeded — part of what he called efforts to resist
a mindset of "you know, 'Trust me, we're doing the right thing. We know
who the bad guys are.'"But again, he provided no details on how the program was tightened or what the audit was examining.
The revelations have divided Congress and led civil liberties advocates and some constitutional scholars to accuse Obama of crossing a line in the name of rooting out terror threats.
Obama, himself a constitutional
lawyer, strove to calm Americans' fears but also to remind them that
Congress and the courts had signed off on the surveillance.
"I think the American people understand that there are some
trade-offs involved," Obama said when questioned by reporters at a
health care event in San Jose, Calif."It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience," he said. "We're going to have to make some choices as a society. And what I can say is that in evaluating these programs, they make a difference in our capacity to anticipate and prevent possible terrorist activity."
Obama said U.S. intelligence officials are looking at phone numbers and lengths of calls — not at people's names — and not listening in.
The two classified surveillance
programs were revealed in newspaper reports that showed, for the first
time, how deeply the NSA dives into telephone and Internet data to look
for security threats. The new details were first reported by The
Guardian newspaper of Britain and The Washington Post, and prompted
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to take the unusual and reluctant step of acknowledging the programs' existence.
Obama echoed intelligence experts — both inside and outside the
government — who predicted that potential attackers will find other,
secretive ways to communicate now that they know that their phone and
Internet records may be targeted."The bad folks' antennas go back up and they become more cautious for a period of time," said former Rep. Pete Hoekstra, a Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee for a decade. He said he approved the phone surveillance program but did not know about the online spying.
"But we'll just keep coming up with more sophisticated ways to dig into these data. It becomes a techies game, and we will try to come up with new tools to cut through the clutter," he said.
In the immediate years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the government began collecting data from U.S. telephone companies, looking at whether overseas terror suspects were calling phone numbers in the U.S. The program does not allow the government to listen in on calls, but it can track where a call was placed and how long it lasted. If intelligence officials single out phone numbers that they want to target for eavesdropping, they must return to court to get approval.
In 2006, after the telephone surveillance was first revealed and amid a public outcry, a secret court was tasked with approving all of the government requests for the records. But until this week, it was not widely known how many phone records were noted, or how often.
The NSA seizure of website and Internet provider records was even more secretive, and began only in the past few years. Clapper said those records, too, are released only with secret court orders and monitors look only for documents that appear to have come from overseas. The data are not to be used to target U.S. citizens, and the government must try to minimize any information that was mistakenly taken from Americans.
Friday, 7 June 2013
The Many Bonds Between Psquare’s Lola Omatayo and Wizkid’s Tani Omotayo
Lola Omotayo and Tani Omotayo
First
thing that strikes one about these two ladies is that they are
extremely beautiful as mentioned earlier. Asides that, they look alike
and almost carry the same eyes, smile and complexion…one could easily
commit to say they probably are sisters.
Secondly, and obviously, Lola Omotayo and Tani Omotayo share the same surname! And both of them come from very wealthy families.
Thirdly, Lola and Tani are both half-castes, both have Nigerian dad and White mum.
Fourthly, it has also been revealed that Tani Omotayo studied in the US just like Lola.
We are not speculating anything, but let us assume Lola and Tani Omotayo are sisters, do the logic…then, Peter Okoye and Wizkid will end up being in-laws. Imagine two sisters dating two super big celebrities.
Female Thief Caught By Shop Owner, Gets Humiliated With Her Hair Shaved
Not in our dear country... When Chinese shopkeeper Lu Sun saw a shoplifter shoving clothes into her bag she decided she’d teach her a lesson.
In an unusual example of vigilante justice, the retailer, whose store
had been hit by a spate of thefts over the previous two weeks, pinned
shoplifter Li Wu to the ground, took a pair of scissors and hacked off
her long dark hair. See photos below;
Lu Sun, 32, had lost hundreds of pounds worth of goods from thefts at her store at a shopping centre in Wenzhou, China, so decided to keep a close watch on Li Wu when she saw her acting suspiciously.
She said: ‘I watch so many people every day, so I can tell thieves from others easily. ‘When I noticed the woman sneaking around in the shopping mall, I knew she was up to no good. ‘So, when she came into my shop, I was alert and finally caught her in the act.’ Miss Sun was helped by a neighbouring shop owner who held Wi Lun down while she cut off chunks of her hair.
The pair then called the police and had the shoplifter arrested. Miss Sun added: ‘I decided to do it to teach her a lesson and to send a message to other thieves in the area to stay away from my shop.’ Miss Sun is by no means the first shopkeeper to dish out a painful lesson to thieves. Last year Edinburgh retailer Arfan Hussain became an internet sensation when CCTV footage of him apprehending a thief went viral.
The thief tried to steal £2.30 worth of milkshake – but didn’t bargain on shopkeeper Mr Hussain being a former Tae Kwon Do champion. He was hailed the internet’s next ‘Big Man’ after he posted the CCTV footage on YouTube. A lesson learned: Lu Sun was helped by a fellow shopkeeper as she pinned the shoplifter down and hacked off her hair. Other shoplifter’s bizarre methods ensured that they were brought to justice.
New Jersey thief Anthony DiVietro managed to escape the clutches of the security guards at the store he was trying to rob after they spotted him acting suspiciously and gave chase. But DiVietro’s bizarre practice of dancing while he stole came back to haunt him. CCTV footage of him showing off his moves while stuffing his waistband with products he hadn’t paid for back in 2011 became an internet hit and he
'Your penis looks like that of a pig' - Daughter tells her Father
Roderick Chikengezha took his three sons - Tendai, Abel, Kaleb and five daughters - Margaret, Esnath, Patience, Vaida and Fiona to Harare Civil Courts accusing them of harassing and insulting him.
"I have a total of 17 children and I suffer from hyper-tension. Whenever I want to speak to them they insult me. They call me a dull and useless father because I do not know how to operate a cellphone and Esnath said my genitals look like those of a pig. I educated them but they torment me and my second wife," he told the court.
Roderick alleged that his children were being influenced by their mother to torment him and his second wife. He said he wanted the court to protect him from the children's violent behaviour.
In their defence, the eight children said their father was fabricating a case against them.
"He is a churchgoer and we do not know why he is not telling the truth. We respect him as a father and it has been a long time since we last paid him a visit," one of the daughters said.
The children said they had no problem if the protection order was to be granted because they do not visit their father.
Magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti ruled in Roderick's favour.
She said the children need to respect their father and desist from ridiculing and insulting him.
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