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on April 24, 2015 in World News

PayPal Asserts Copyright Ownership Over All Intellectual Property of its Users

PayPal Asserts Copyright Ownership Over All Intellectual Property of its Users Payment processor announces alarming update to terms of agreement In an alarming new update to its user agreement released this week, PayPal has announced that it will assert copyright ownership over all intellectual property of anyone who uses its payment services. The update comes in the aftermath of the announcement that eBay and PayPal will split apart into two separate companies. Under the heading “Intellectual Property,” PayPal announces that it is introducing a new paragraph to its agreement, effective July 1, 2015, that will allow the company to “use… View Article

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on April 24, 2015 in World News

Top Gear’s Richard Hammond addresses reunion reports and says he’s not ‘quitting his mates’

Top Gear’s Richard Hammond addresses reunion reports and says he’s not ‘quitting his mates’ Richard Hammond has said he will not be quitting his mates following the Top Gear ‘fracas’. The TV star took to Twitter to address rumours that he had quit the BBC show after Jeremy Clarkson was sacked for hitting a producer. He wrote: “To be clear amidst all this talk of us ‘quitting’ or not: there’s nothing for me to ‘quit’. Not about to quit my mates anyway.” The tweet suggests the trio are planning future projects together – that will not be Top Gear. It… View Article

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on April 24, 2015 in World News

Couple spends years paying off mortgage on house now worth just £1 thanks to council scheme

Couple spends years paying off mortgage on house now worth just £1 thanks to council scheme Linda and George Hunter, who have always worked, raised their four children in their Liverpool home and became mortgage free around 15 years ago After spending years paying off their mortgage, a hard-working couple say they are now stuck with a home worth just £1 thanks to a council initiative. Experts say Linda and George Hunter would struggle to sell their home in Liverpool, because most of the other properties in their road are being sold off under a ‘Homes for a Pound Scheme’…. View Article

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on April 24, 2015 in World News

Newly-mapped Yellowstone volcano chamber could fill Grand Canyon 11 times

Magma carta: Newly-mapped Yellowstone volcano chamber could fill Grand Canyon 11 times The scary Yellowstone National Park super-volcano continues to dazzle: scientists have mapped a second magma reservoir that could fill the Grand Canyon 11 times over, giving themselves a clearer picture than ever of what awaits us if the lid blows. Yellowstone National Park in the US draws thousands each year to marvel at the natural hot springs and debate what lies underneath. Even today science has very little idea of how the underground super-volcano connects to the Earth’s mantle below, drawing energy. For years people have feared what… View Article

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on April 24, 2015 in World News

US envoy tweets ‘Russian BUKs in Ukraine’ with pic of Moscow show

Back to old tactics: US envoy tweets ‘Russian BUKs in Ukraine’ with pic of Moscow show Published time: April 24, 2015 00:48 US ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt has claimed that Russia’s military is continuing to expand its presence in eastern Ukraine. As for proof, Pyatt posted a two-year-old picture of an air defense system from an air show near Moscow. “This is the highest concentration of Russia air defense systems in eastern Ukraine since August,” the ambassador tweeted, attaching a picture of BUK-M2 missile defense system apparently taken at the International Aviation and Space Show MAKS-2013, which actually took… View Article

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on April 24, 2015 in World News

Single Hispanic females deserve asylum in U.S.

Single Hispanic females deserve asylum in U.S. Being a single mother or witnessing a gang crime could be enough for Central American illegal immigrants to get on the path to asylum under guidance the Homeland Security Department issued last week, opening new ways for the surge of illegal immigrants to gain a legal foothold in the U.S. The guidance, a 27-page training document from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, says women who flee Central America because they fear being single heads of households can be deemed part of a targeted social group and can make claims of “credible fear” of… View Article

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on April 24, 2015 in World News

Bans Girls from Running for Fear of ‘Losing Their Virginity’

Australian Islamic School Bans Girls from Running for Fear of ‘Losing Their Virginity’ Omar Hallak, the principal at the Al-Taqwa College in Australia, banned girls from running in school, alleging that the activity could cause them to lose their virginity. The regulators have launched an investigation into the accusations. “The principal holds beliefs that if females run excessively, they may ‘lose their virginity,’” wrote a former teacher. “The principal believes that there is scientific evidence to indicate that if girls injure themselves, such as break their leg while playing soccer, it could render them infertile.” The teacher claimed Hallak forced… View Article

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on April 24, 2015 in World News

We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership

By Kyle Wiens We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership It’s official: John Deere and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership. Sure, we pay for their vehicles. But we don’t own them. Not according to their corporate lawyers, anyway. In a particularly spectacular display of corporate delusion, John Deere—the world’s largest agricultural machinery maker —told the Copyright Office that farmers don’t own their tractors. Because computer code snakes through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers receive “an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.” It’s John Deere’s tractor,… View Article

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