Got enemies on Facebook? Facebook is so eager to protect copyright that the mere accusation of copyright infringement is enough to get an account locked. Ars found this out the hard way Thursday morning when our own Facebook page became inaccessible, with no warning, no explanation, and no clear appeal process.
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QUANTA COMPUTER RESEARCH IN MOTION ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS SAIC SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES
Deere & (DE)
Q1 2011 Earnings Call
February 16, 2011 10:00 am ET
Executives
Marie Ziegler - Vice President and Treasurer
Susan Karlix - Investor Relations
Tony Huegel -
James Field - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President
Analysts
Jerry Revich - Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Ann Duignan - JP Morgan Chase & Co
Stephen Volkmann - Jefferies & Company, Inc.
Seth Weber - RBC Capital Markets, LLC
Henry Kirn - UBS Investment Bank
Andrew Casey - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
Eli Lustgarten - Longbow Research LLC
Robert Wertheimer - Morgan Stanley
David Raso - ISI Group Inc.
Jamie Cook - Cr�dit Suisse AG
Andrew Obin - BofA Merrill Lynch
Mark Koznarek - Cleveland Research Company
Presentation
Operator
Good morning, and welcome to Deere's first quarter earnings conference call. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Tony Huegel, Director of
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Today, a three-judge panel of a US Appeals Court lifted an injunction against the NIH's revised policy on the funding of stem cell research. The new policy, which would open up research funding to many more human embryonic stem cell lines (hESCs), attracted a lawsuit from researchers who focus on adult stem cells, who claimed that their chances of obtaining grants had been diminished. That suit produced an injunction that would block the National Institutes of Health from distributing funding for hESC work. The Appeals Court had previously stayed this injunction; now it has lifted it entirely, although the case is continuing towards trial at the District Court level.
For decades, legislation called the Dickey-Wicker Amendment has prevented the US government from funding research in which a human embryo is destroyed. Everyone agrees that this prohibits funding of work in which hESCs are derived through the destruction of fertilized eggs. Differences arise, however, regarding research that involves hESCs that have been previously created. President Bush's administration determined that this is acceptable, provided that the ESC creation occurred prior to a specific date. President Obama's administration lifted this temporal restriction; work on previously created hESC lines is now eligible for funding, regardless of creation date.
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CodedUI (VSCUG) project is finishing their first sprint and has defined outlines for the guidance package. Word4TFS (TFSWP) project is currently in the implementation phase with the main user stories for importing work items from TFS into Word code complete. The next iteration is to deliver a setup package.
Branching Guidance (TFSBG) project team is busy analyzing suggested features. If you have suggestions for the next guidance or would be interested to be a contributor or reviewer then please contact us.
Lab Management Guide (AHE-TFSLM) project is currently with User Education (UE) going through readability verification.
Build Customization Guide (ATE-VSBCG) project has entered the ?silent? BETA phase. Watch the space in May for the release! 
Rosie, the African Tawny Eagle, at http://www.birdsofprey.co.za.
Architecture Guidance (TFSAG) project, version 2.1, shipped on April 18th. It is the first Rangers project dogfooding hosted TFS.
TFS Iteration Automation (AFE-TFSIA) project is still in design mode. It is the second Rangers project dogfooding hosted TFS.
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We added the following new Rangers Index entries this month: Ethem Azun, Claudio Leite, Vladimir Gusarov, Jahangeer Mohammed, Sung Jae Kang, Mark Brown, Geoff Gray, Erwyn van der Meer, Jeroen Quakernaat, David Scruggs, Lukasz Gratkowski, Ryan Frazier, Mike Douglas, Giulio Vian, Chandana N. Athauda 
Daniel Oliveira raised the Rangers awareness flag in Brazil by publishing an article on the Rangers in the Mundo.net magazine (http://www.mundodotnet.com.br/conteudo.shtml). 
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The Rangers/PG Core Chat is a new initiative that you to share your ideas, concerns or even to just get a few complaints off your shoulders with the Core Rangers and the associated Program Group. Send me an email if you have an idea for topics.
The Rangers Talk is a new initiative that gets the Rangers together once a month to discuss ideas and answer questions around the Rangers ecosystem. Unsure where to begin, where to find information or how to contribute towards Rangers initiatives? If you answer yes to any of these example questions, then you should join us for the next Rangers Talk.
The third Rangers Sabbatical is heating up, with Bob getting ready to visit Redmond and the Microsoft Canada Development Centre in Vancouver. We are T-17 days until Bob takes off from Austin Texas J
The Rangers Project Nomination survey will be launched in May, using the new project nomination process on a trial basis. Watch this space for news on the next wave of Ranger projects. 
For more information refer to: Rangers Website | Rangers Solutions | Rangers Blog
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My name is David Anthony Stebbins, and I live in Harrison, AR. I am sending a link to this webpage to various companies to put you on notice: If you contact me in any way, shape, or form, you hereby acknowledge that you have read, understand, and agree to be legally bound by the terms below.It goes on along those lines. Anyway, he sent the email to Walmart with the link to this contract. Walmart customer care sent back a standard, boilerplate reply suggesting he contact a different department, which Stebbins used to claim the contract had been entered into (in combination with him also buying a gallon of milk -- don't ask). He sent a letter to Walmart demanding arbitration to settle their "legal dispute." When Walmart failed to agree to arbitration within 24-hours, he claims that he wins and should get $600 billion (with a b):
[...]
This will also take effect if I attempt to contact you, and, upon hearing my name, you do not cease communications with me on the spot.
[...] You hereby agree to allow me to use, distribute, and sell the rights to your name, physical likeness, and any intellectual property that you may own, throughout the universe, for no fee, for all eternity.
You hereby agree to not request, nor accept any offer for, any third party to remove any material that I use that you feel that you own the copyright to.
You hereby agree that, for now and for all eternity, in the event that I ask you a question, you must answer it promptly, accurately, and truthfully.
You hereby agree to never
Interrupt me when I am speaking, for all eternity.
Hang up on me in any phone call, for all eternity.
Block my attempts to communicate with you, for any reason, for all eternity.
Ask me a question that I have previously answered, for all eternity.
Demonstrate any rudeness, annoyance, or disrespect, however petty, against me, for all eternity.
Accuse me of lying, or any variation thereof, for all eternity.
"since Wal–Mart did not accept the arbitration invitation within twenty-four hours of receiving it, he automatically wins regardless of the merits of the case and is entitled to an award of six-hundred billion dollars."Not surprisingly, the court isn't buying it:
Plaintiff maintains Wal–Mart accepted the contract by its “act” of replying to his e-mail....The e-mails from Plaintiff are self-serving documents that did not form the basis for any conduct or performance on Wal–Mart's part....In this case, Wal–Mart performed no act. It merely replied to two e-mails by directing the Plaintiff to the correct department. It performed no service and Plaintiff made no promise.Obviously, this particular case is something of a joke, but given how often people seek to claim that a contract has been entered into on dubious terms (such as replying to an email), perhaps a bit of reasonable caselaw comes out of this...
QUANTA COMPUTER RESEARCH IN MOTION ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS SAIC SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES
Infinera (INFN)
Q1 2011 Earnings Call
April 28, 2011 5:00 pm ET
Executives
Ita Brennan - Chief Financial Officer
Thomas Fallon - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Bob Blair - Investor Relations
David Welch - Co-Founder, Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer, Executive Vice President and Director
Analysts
Sanjiv Wadhwani - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.
Kevin Dennean - Citigroup Inc
Alex Henderson - Miller Tabak + Co., LLC
Rod Hall - JP Morgan Chase & Co
Michael Genovese - MKM Partners LLC
George Notter - Jefferies & Company, Inc.
Unknown Analyst -
Presentation
Operator
Welcome to the First Quarter 2011 Investment Community Conference Call of Infinera Corporation. [Operator Instructions] Today's call is being recorded. If you have any objections, please disconnect at this time. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Bob Blair of Infinera Investor Relations.
Sir, you may begin.
Bob Blair
Thank you.
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MILLICOM INTL CELLULAR MOBILE TELESYSTEMS NANYA TECHNOLOGY NII HOLDINGS NIKON
Starting June 17th, Redbox will begin adding video games to 21,000 of its rental kiosks. Historically, video game products have not been available at grocery stores, drugstores or convenience stores. We make it very convenient by having our kiosks in front of the places people are at every day.
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Republic Services (RSG)
Q1 2011 Earnings Call
April 28, 2011 5:00 pm ET
Executives
Tod Holmes - Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President
Edward Lang - Senior Vice President and Treasurer
Donald Slager - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Analysts
Hamzah Mazari - Cr�dit Suisse AG
Scott Levine - JP Morgan Chase & Co
Michael Hoffman - Wunderlich Securities Inc.
Vance Edelson - Morgan Stanley
Albert Kaschalk - Wedbush Securities Inc.
Richard Skidmore - Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Corey Greendale - First Analysis Securities Corporation
Jonathan Ellis - BofA Merrill Lynch
Presentation
Operator
Good afternoon, and welcome to the first quarter conference call for investors in Republic Services. Republic Services is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol RSG. Your hosts for this afternoon's call are Don Slager, President and CEO; Tod Holmes, CFO; and Ed Lang, Republic's Senior Vice President and Treasurer. Today's call
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It's lunchtime during the first of two Star Wars: The Old Republic immersion days at the EA Redwood Shores campus, and the game designers leading the event are panicking: everyone is talking about Portal 2. Instead of discussing the three exclusive hours of SWTOR we just played, most of the writers are chatting about yesterday's Portal 2 release and single-player campaign, which everyone feels pales in comparison to its co-op.
Eventually one writer prompts another with, "So, what do you think of TOR?" (All the BioWare representatives refer to it as TOR.) And the reactions are positive: the voice acting is great, gameplay is fun, and maybe the trash planet Hutta doesn't make for the most impressive starting area, but there are few complaints beyond game balance tweaks.
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