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More lawsuits coming

In 2010, 14-year-old Jakadrien Turner ran away from home, "distraught over the loss of her grandfather and her parents' divorce." I think this was a plot point of a recent Mad Men episode. They should...

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Dead men can't endorse...

It's a shame this wasn't done by ABC news. I would have loved to hear them argue that Peter Jennings was secretly endorsing Mitt from beyond the grave.

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Same old st

You have to give AT&T a few points for trying to at least make it sound like its for the customer benefit. Did you see the tripe being rolled out by the telecom execs at the Mobile World Congress...

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Re: Same old st

Sorry, hit send too quick. Here's the link to the story -- http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com/articles/operators-agree-mobile-content-must-pay-its-way/22620

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We the People

If corporations are now people, why can't URLs be people too?

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Slightly inaccurate

Note that this is a material change in the terms of your contract with Sprint and you can cancel service with no early termination fee. Generally, if you call in and complain and say that you are going...

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It's only a matter of time...

How long until somebody attempts to copyright the interface to attach to the international space station? Hey, it's just a big API and it's in SPACE, so it definitely needs a license fee to attach.

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I had a similar thought -- is Craigslist now responsible for any libelous or infringing work posted to their site? This might come back to bite them.

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If it's not page breaks, it's your RSS feed.

You can tell The Verge that not allowing people to read full articles on their RSS feed also drives down readership. The Verge has great info, but you can get the same stuff from Engadget, BGR,...

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GEMA Strikes Again

PSY might be big everywhere else, but he's a nobody in Germany since you can't watch any videos because GEMA hasn't licensed the rights. Rights that they probably don't even hold.

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I think you guys are missing Wes' point. There might be a "mismatch" in what Mike got from the HuffPo statement. I also saw it more innocently that HuffPo might be trying to better match a story about...

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I agree. How is this different than walking into 7-11 or pretty much any other building? All the SF DOT has to do is slap a small sticker on the bus window that says "You are being filmed."

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Can't a computer do this?

I'm really surprised that you can't train a computer to recognize the parasite images. I would think that a computer that does OCR could easily learn to recognize the variations in the parasite images....

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Can't stop the music...

But if I stop doing business in Italy, how will I ever get invited to one of Silvio's bunga bunga parties?

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Good Precedent?

This might not be a bad precedent...you could go after every gun manufacturer for promoting murder in the first degree. On a more serious note, I don't see how a case like this would ever be...

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This just reinforces the many comments from former employees that Jobs was a dick. I have a lot more respect for Ed Colligan as a man of principle. I hope his image gets a nice upgrade from this fiasco.

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Constituency Says It All

"Can you tell me why video games need a tax incentive?" Sen. Eleanor Sobel, D-Hollywood, asked Department of Economic Opportunity Executive Director Jesse Panuccio at one point. Well, she is the...

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Prices go up...

In future news, the White House announces that they have raised the minimum number of signatures for their online petition to 310 million.

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The same old thing

You know what's going to happen next -- the amendment will be approved and it will get the "clean it up in conference" treatment. Some Hill staffer will just magically make the amendment disappear...

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Stay in School

If she had just stayed in school until she had her PHD (Pimpin' Ho's Degree) she would have known to avoid this traceable communication.

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