New Pirate Bay owners to launch give-and-take payment models

New Pirate Bay to be based on give-and-take models

STOCKHOLM — One of the world's largest filesharing Web sites, The Pirate Bay, is going legal through a series of give-and-take payment models that in some cases may even earn its users a bundle of cash, the new owners said Saturday.

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Fraud-hit Satyam gets three new board members

NEW DELHI - Three new board members were named Sunday to bring back financial order to the fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services and restore employee, investor and clients confidence into the IT firm's future operations.

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Calling Card of Nigerian Scammers

You can safely delete any messages contains with:
"correspondence may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not met"

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An Indian Wedding… “What do you do”?

I just came back from a semi-traditional Indian wedding. It was an interesting experience. I met with many first-cousins and other relatives who are supposed to be close to me, but this is the first time I am seeing them, ever. Others I am seeing after 16-20 years. I wasn't happy, I wasn't sad either. It just made me realize how fragile human relationships are and how transient are the bonds with which we tie ourselves.

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Candy-Cane Religions And Ethics

Dr. Albert Einstein once said - "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

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Google’s Profits, Powered By Strong Search Advertising, Doubled in Q2

Google’s profits more than doubled in the second quarter, as the company continued to increase its share of the lucrative search advertising market.

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Solving Spam Problem The Russian Way

Russia’s most notorious spammer, Vardan Kushnir, 35, was found dead in his apartment in downtown Moscow on Monday, July 25. Someone repeatedly smashed his head with a heavy object and then ransacked his entire apartment according to authorities.

Vardan Kushnir was arguably the most hated person among 17.6 million Internet users in Russia, whom he continuously spammed over the last few years. These feelings are shared by many among the 20 million Russian-speaking Internet users outside the country, whom he also plagued with unsolicited ads, both text and graphical: despite limiting its offers to Muscovites only, the American Language Center did send mail to locations as remote as California, Canada or the office network of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, in Israel.
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Video: Galloway v The US Senate

British MP. Galloway blisters USA on Iraq (video).

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INGAP closer to cure diabetes

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