"April 16, 2009"
http://www.spaceweather.com/
"Daily Sun: 16 Apr 09 The sun is blank--no sunspot. Sunspot number: 0"
"Far side of the Sun: This holographic image reveals no sunspots on the far
side of the sun."

The face of the Sun is without blemish:
http://www.spaceweather.com/images20...4cmo18s7 n705

Please visit:
http://blog.nj.com/southjersey_impac...SolarCycle.jpg

The right panel shows the face of the Sun as it looked on a good day during
the late Modern Warm Period. Sunspots are the apparent size of craters on
the moon. The left panel shows a Sun as it appears today. Please write to Al
Gore so that Al knows that the Sun is not living up to his religious
expectations. Al Gore is a divinity school dropout. George Carlin had a
better grasp of the true nature of God's creation, than does Al Gore.

Please visit:
http://www.co-intelligence.org/newsl...es/sun-etc.jpg
which shows the relative sizes of the Sun and planets. Compared to the Sun,
Jupiter is the size of a pea, earth is the size of a grain of sand.

Aussie inventor in $537m Microsoft damages win
Asher Moses
April 15, 2009

An Australian inventor is set to reap the lion's share of a $US388 million
($537 million) damages award from Microsoft after a US jury found the
software giant stole his technology.

Ric Richardson, who divides his time between Sydney and California, is the
founder of Uniloc, which sued Microsoft in 2003 for violating its patent
relating to technology designed to deter software piracy.

The company alleged Microsoft earned billions of dollars by using the
technology in its Windows XP and Office programs.

Last week, a jury in Rhode Island found Microsoft violated the patent and
told Microsoft to pay the company $US388 million, the fifth-largest patent
jury award in US history, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Four of the six largest patent verdicts have been against Microsoft, but the
Uniloc damages fee only amounts to about eight days of profit for the
company.

Richardson reportedly came up with the idea for the patented technology
during his former career as a sound equipment programmer for bands ranging
from INXS to John Denver. The job required him to use pricey specialist
software but there was no way to trial the software before buying it, which
pushed many musicians into using pirated software.


Before getting into software development, Richardson, with his brother,
invented the "Shade Saver" cords used to keep sunglasses attached to a
wearer's neck. Profits from this invention were used to fund his Uniloc
venture.

Richardson stepped down as a director of Uniloc in January this year,
documents lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission
show.

He has sold some of his Uniloc shares in recent years but confirmed in an
email that he still has "one of the larger individual shareholdings". It is
impossible to determine his exact holding as Uniloc is a private company.

Richardson would not say much more, saying the case was still making its way
through the courts.

He was less restrained on Twitter, announcing: "Dear fiends and family...
its official. We won the case with Microsoft... and a $388 mill verdict."

The jurors have already found that Microsoft wilfully and intentionally
infringed Uniloc's patent, but the company is awaiting a final decision by
the judge, who, Bloomberg reports, could increase the award three-fold.

Richardson's patent, one of many under his name, relates to work he did in
the early 1990s and covers a software registrations system that allows
software makers to create try-before-you-buy versions of their work.

Once users buy the software they get a registration key that unlocks the
full featured version of the software.

Uniloc claimed Richardson showed a copy of his software to Microsoft in 1993
but Microsoft did not license it, instead developing its own almost
identical version and incorporating it into its products from 1997 or 1998.

Microsoft said that its system works differently from Uniloc's and that
Uniloc's patent was obvious.

The company has said it is very disappointed with the jury verdict and will
ask the court to overturn the verdict.

In 2006 a different judge ruled in favour of Microsoft, but this was
overturned by an appeals court, which argued the case shouldn't have been
decided without hearing from a jury.

Other inventions patented by Richardson include the ability to swap
batteries on laptops without shutting down, an open standard for online
forums and the "smog eradicator" - an on-board carbon scrubber for
petroleum-fuelled vehicles.

Ric Richardson, who divides his time between Sydney and California, is the
founder of Uniloc, which sued Microsoft in 2003 for violating its patent
relating to technology designed to deter software piracy.

If Ric Richardson really is the asshole that created technology designed to
deter software piracy, a posse should be formed to track him down and string
him up by the nuts. Anti-piracy software has done more harm to more people
that a thousand Hiroshima atom bombs.

Who is this ****ing asshole and how does he defend his right to create
software that doubts the integrity of 99% os software users? What right does
he have to profit by other people's misery? Auswitz death camp guards have
done less harm to people.

Microsoft should contest the half billion bucks awarded to Ric Richardson
and the mafia should kill him.

"Ms. 2" wrote

Ric Richardson, who divides his time between Sydney and California, is
the founder of Uniloc, which sued Microsoft in 2003 for violating its
patent relating to technology designed to deter software piracy.

If Ric Richardson really is the asshole that created technology designed
to deter software piracy, a posse should be formed to track him down and
string him up by the nuts. Anti-piracy software has done more harm to more
people that a thousand Hiroshima atom bombs.

Who is this ****ing asshole and how does he defend his right to create
software that doubts the integrity of 99% os software users? What right
does he have to profit by other people's misery? Auswitz death camp guards
have done less harm to people.

Microsoft should contest the half billion bucks awarded to Ric Richardson
and the mafia should kill him.


I found a Google image for a Ric Richardson:

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgur...Den% 26sa%3DG

and a high technology video on Youtube by Ric Richardson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=armvlTZvYN4

This should make it easier for the mafia to track him down and kill him.