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Submission + - Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned "Rockstar" sues Google (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by GODISNOWHERE on Friday November 01, 2013 @12:23AM

GODISNOWHERE writes: So this is what "thermonuclear war" looks like.
The complaint against Google involves six patents, all from the same patent "family." They're all titled "associative search engine," and list Richard Skillen and Prescott Livermore as inventors. The patents describe "an advertisment machine which provides advertisements to a user searching for desired information within a data network.

Comment Blocked (Score 5, Informative) 146

by BenV666 on Friday March 09, 2012 @11:12AM (#39301459) Attached to: Police Planning New Raid On The Pirate Bay

Since the piratebay IPs are blocked by my ISP these days (and redirect me to http://www.xs4all.nl/geblokkeerd/ ) I have to use a proxy to get around it.
Here's a link for those of you in the same boat: http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://thepiratebay.se/blog/209

Submission + - $11 Mistake Costs Couple Slot Machine Jackpot (kdvr.com)

Submitted by ainandil on Saturday June 05, 2010 @04:30AM

ainandil writes: Engineering mistakes, while frustrating, seldom definitively alter the end user's life. Not so in Cripple Creek Colorado — MaryAnn and Jim McMahon thought their money troubles were over when they hit an $11 million jackpot at a casino Tuesday. Before paying the jackpot, the Wildwood Casino turned the machine over to the Colorado Gaming Division for inspection. A glitch was found, aha! The Wildwood Casino blamed a slot machine malfunction for the $11 million jackpot. Total actually won by the McMahons? $1627.82. ...and you thought you had a bad day.

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