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JAMES ALTUCHER: A New Patent-Infringement Lawsuit Could Totally Demolish Google’s Stock
“Investor and writer James Altucher has an interesting post up at TechCrunch about a patent-infringement lawsuit that might soon be lobbed at Google.
The post is called, in typically bold Altucher fashion, “Why Google Might Be Going To $0.”
Here’s the story in a nutshell.
Way back in the 1990s, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon created and patented the technology that became Lycos. The patents covered several aspects of monetizing search, such as using algorithms and click rates to determine which search ads are most revelant.
Later, when a company called Overture applied for patents on search monetization, Overture was granted several patents but refused others–on the grounds that Lycos had already patented them.
Still later, Yahoo used the search patents Overture was granted to sue Google for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Meanwhile, Lycos cratered….”
Comments »PARENTS OF MURDERED WHITE STUDENTS SLAM OBAMA FOR SILENCE
Headline via DrudgeReport.com
See video of gripping victim impact statements here
Parents of murdered British students criticise Barack Obama (via telegraph.co.uk)
The parents of two British students murdered in Florida have criticised President Barack Obama for his lack of compassion over their son’s deaths.
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Shawn Tyson
By Paul Thompson in Sarasota
3:00PM BST 29 Mar 2012
His failure to respond to three letters sent to the White House was because there was no “political value” and not worthy of a few minutes of his time.
They spoke out as teenager Shawn Tyson began a life sentence after being found guilty of the murder of James Cooper and James Kouzaris last April.
The 17 year old, who shot the men as they begged for their lives, will die in prison.
His conviction of first degree murder carries an mandatory life sentence without the chance of parole.
The powerfully built teen even looked bored as emotional DVD presentations about the dead men prepared by their grieving parents were shown in court.
Tyson, who has the word ‘Savage’ tattooed across his chest didn’t show a flicker of emotion, slumping in his seat as he was forced to watch a montage of photos showing the victims from early childhood to young men.
Two close friends of the dead men who had attended the eight day trial in Sarasota, Florida. had also delivered highly emotional impact statements to the court prior to the sentencing.
Paul Davies and Joe Hallett spoke of the “living hell” they and others who knew the men had suffered since the murders.
During the eight day trial they had been shown graphic crime scene and autopsy photos shown in court.
Later speaking after Tyson was jailed Davies and Hallett lashed out at Mr Obama saying the deaths of their friends was “not worthy of ten minutes of his time.”
Davies said:”We would like to publicly express our dissatisfaction at the lack of any public or private message of support or condolence from any American governing body or indeed, President Obama himself.
“Mr Kouzaris has written to President Obama on three separate occasions and is yet to even receive the courtesy of a reply.
“It would perhaps appear that Mr Obama sees no political value in facilitating such a request or that the lives of two British tourists are not worthy of ten minutes of his time.”
The rebuke follows Mr Obama’s personal intervention into the shooting in Florida of a young black teenager by a white-Hispanic neighbourhood watch captain.
The death of 17 year old Trayvon Martin has sparked nationwide protests with his supporters claiming he was victim of a racist attack.
Mr Obama entered the controversy last week by saying if he had a son he would have looked like Martin.
The alleged assailant in Martin’s death has not been charged with any crime having claimed he was attacked first and used Florida’s ‘stand your ground’ law to shoot in self defence.
The criticism of the US President was made on behalf of the Cooper’s parents Stanley and Sandy, from Warwicks, and Peter and Hazel Kouzaris, from Northampton by Davies in a statement read outside the courtroom.
The parents of the two victims did not attend the trial but they had access to the proceedings from a live video feed.
The filmed interview of the Kouzaris’s was played to the court while a message from Sandy Cooper was read out by the prosecutor.
The victims close friends delivered an emotional impact statement with Hallett telling Tyson he hoped he would be haunted by his actions.
He told him: “Imagine them being killed. Now try to imagine that they died because someone creept up on them and shot them numerous times for no good reason. Welcome to our world. Every night you go to sleep, every morning you wake up, I want you to think of my friends who you murdered. Their images will be imprinted on your conscience up until your very last breath in life.”
House Republicans Block Internet Privacy
“In the current state of the US economy it’s getting tougher and tougher to find a job. With an unemployment rate of 8.3 percent, according to the latest job numbers, saying yes to a job is a no brainer.
Now imagine in order to get the job you must disclose your Facebook password.
On Tuesday night, House Republicans stopped a measure that would have allowed the Federal Communications Commission to prevent employers from forcing potential employees to disclose their Facebook passwords.
Republicans who are against “big government,” have delivered a huge blow to the legislation that was presented by Democrats.
The purpose of the legislation was part of a bill to implement new restrictions on the FCC rules after a series of cases where employers have requested access to social media accounts.
“What this amendment does is it says you cannot demand as a condition of employment that somebody reveal a confidential password to their Facebook, to their Flickr, to their Twitter, whatever their account may be,” said Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D- Colo.).
According to a post by Facebook, the company has “seen a distressing increase in reports of employers or others seeking to gain inappropriate access to people’s Facebook profiles or private information.”
The social media giant added that the practice “undermines the privacy expectations and the security of both the user and users’ friends.”
According to WANE.com, Anthony Juliano has been keeping a close watch on the growing trend. Juliano, a social media expert said, “it’s really not new, but it’s getting people’s attention because it is controversial,” he said….”
Comments »Man Tries to Board Plane With Explosives in Carry On
Spain Sees Massive Strikes and Protests as Patience and Time Run Out
“Spanish transport, power demand and manufacturing were disrupted today in the first general strike against labor reforms and austerity policies since Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy took office three months ago.
Iberia, the Spanish unit of International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (IAG), said it canceled 65 percent of flights, while national power demand was 16 percent below that of a typical day, grid operator Red Electrica Corp SA data showed. At Volkswagen AG (VOW3) and Renault SA (RNO) factories, 100 percent of workers followed the strike during the nightshift, the Comisiones Obreras union said in a statement.
The People’s Party government “will not cede” to union demands to retract changes to labor rules, Budget Minister Cristobal Montoro said yesterday. Thirty percent of workers planned to strike, according to a poll by El Pais.
While Rajoy’s measures have angered unions and undermined support for the party in a regional election on March 25, the government is still struggling to convince investors its policies are enough to restore the public finances and reduce a 23 percent jobless rate. Spanish 10-year borrowing costs have surged almost 50 basis points since the start of March.
“He has no choice,” said Antonio Barroso, a political analyst at Eurasia Group in London and a former government pollster. “If he gives in, the markets will punish Spain. Rajoy has his back against the wall.”
Comments »WATCH: IS THIS REALLY A CONGRESSWOMAN?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_3do_LYSwI&feature=player_embedded#!
Comments »Idiota: Man Saws Off Foot To Continue Receiving Jobless Benefits
Dennis Rodman’s Lawyer Claims Baller is Broke and Can Not Pay Child Support
Spike Lee Thought He Was Tweeting The Address Of Trayvon’s Killer, And Now An Elderly Couple Fears For Their Lives
Spain’s ‘High-class Hookers Refuse to Sleep with Bankers Until They Open Up Credit Lines to Cash-strapped Families’
Lee Moran
Spain’s high-class escorts are refusing to have sex with the nation’s bankers – until they open up credit lines to cash-strapped families and firms.
Madrid’s top-end prostitutes say their indefinite strike will continue until bank employees ‘fulfil their responsibility to society’ and start offering bigger loans for struggling Spaniards, it has been claimed.
Sneaky bankers were trying to circumvent the protest by claiming to be architects or engineers, the sex-workers said.
Read the rest here.
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LOL: Osama bin Laden’s family to be tried for illegally entering Pakistan
What they mean to say is that bin Laden and his family were invited to receive asylum by Pakistan, and now the fire is too hot so Pakistan is going to pretend like they had no idea bin Laden and his kin were there, and prosecute all of them, including the women, who probably are so devoid of civil rights they have no idea what is even going on.
Comments »ISLAMABAD – A Pakistani court is set to charge five members of Usama bin Laden’s family with illegally entering and living in the country, their defense lawyer said Monday.
The Al Qaeda chief’s family has been in Pakistani detention since last May, when U.S. commandos raided the house where they were living in the northwest army town of Abbottabad and shot and killed bin Laden.
Pakistan was outraged by the raid because it was not informed beforehand. Officials have insisted they did not know the Al Qaeda chief was living there, and the U.S. has not found any evidence that they did.
A Pakistani court will charge three of bin Laden’s widows and two of his daughters on April 2 when the hearing against them resumes, said their lawyer, Mohammad Amir. The court gave the five women copies of the case and evidence against them on Monday, he said.
Pakistani legal experts have said the maximum punishment the women could receive is five years in jail.
{XXX PHOTO XXX} An Unfortunate T-Shirt Hits Florida Streets In Wake Of Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin Killing
Expanding the definition of “cracker,” a t-shirt featuring the photo of the man who shot Trayvon Martin is now available for purchase.
As seen (above), the shirt has a picture of George Zimmerman and the words “Pussy Ass Cracker.” Zimmerman, a 28-year-old Hispanic, killed Martin, 17, last month while acting as a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida.
The shirt’s “pussy ass cracker” line is apparently a reference to lyrics from the rapper Plies’s song “100 Years,” which bemoans stiff sentences handed out by racist judges.
Comments »Watch Corzine Lie to Congress
Jail time please….
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An interesting tweet by Michael Margolis, a former Apple TV engineer at Apple Inc., popped up in our Twitter feed this evening, and we thought it was worth passing on. According to Margolis, the new Apple TV UI was not only on the table at Apple years ago, but Steve Jobs allegedly shot it down because he didn’t like it at the time.
Source: Macgasm
Madoff FBI Files Reveal How He Fooled His Own Employees
David Glovin and Bob Van Voris
After several drinks at a Greek restaurant on Manhattan’s Third Avenue in the summer of 2006, two computer programmers at Bernard Madoff’s investment firm asked their supervisor whether the boss’s business was a scam.
Chief Financial Officer Frank DiPascali laughed off the question, telling George Perez and Jerome O’Hara that Madoff was honest. DiPascali would later tell the FBI he wondered why they took so long to ask.
His chronicle of the dinner, and the lengths to which Madoff went to convince employees that his massive fraud was a legitimate business, were revealed for the first time in FBI reports made public last week. Attached to court filings by ex- Madoff employees facing fraud charges, they contain interviews with DiPascali — Madoff’s chief aide — who in 2009 pleaded guilty to his role in the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history.
Once, when Perez and O’Hara confronted Madoff and asked why there was no sign of stock trades, Madoff exploded, DiPascali told the FBI.
“You are not going to tell me how to run my business,” Madoff insisted during a meeting in the office of the firm’s operations chief, Daniel Bonventre, according to DiPascali. “Trades occur overseas.”
Read the rest here.
Comments »Documentary: War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death
Always ask questions !
Complicit behavior, being spun, or acting indifferent has only allowed the best of us to have blood on our hands.
Keep in mind 90% when you watch this……
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Now Playing on YouTube and Facebook: ‘Kill Rush Limbaugh’
John Nolte
If any sacred cow whines to YouTube and Facebook, whatever that sacred cow is whining about is immediately taken down.
But a song that openly calls for the killing of Rush Limbaugh apparently doesn’t offend YouTube or Facebook, in the least.
Disgusted by Rush Limbaugh’s recent antics? Blast our song, ‘KILL RUSH’
Just don’t call anyone a “slut.”
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