Mitt Romney's Enviable Ability To Ignore The Truth

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It?s Not A Bubble, It?s Valleywood

There is a certain type of company that can only exist in Silicon Valley. People outside of the Valley scratch their heads at how a company with no revenue and no apparent business model can be called successful, much less be worth $1 billion. But maybe the problem is that we?re mis-categorizing Internet and mobile products as businesses in the first place. What if we looked at them as TV shows instead ? where success and failure is determined by ratings not revenue? Isn?t Instagram closer to American Idol than it is to Oracle? It entertains millions of us for a few minutes every day ? maybe that?s enough. Perhaps the Valley is pioneering a new business model, one where revenue isn?t the goal but where distribution and engagement are paramount.

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Radiohead Brighten Coachella's Second Day

Career-spanning set features icons' newest tracks and older fan favorites.
By Mary J. DiMeglio

Radiohead's Thom Yorke performs during day two of the Coachella music festival
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INDIO, California — Radiohead brought their huge sound and eye-candy backdrop to the Coachella festival's polo fields Saturday night in a fairly mellow set, heavy with cuts from their latest offering, The King of Limbs.

Amidst their newest tracks — including "Morning Mr Magpie," "Lotus Flower" and "Give Up the Ghost" — the British rock icons sprinkled tunes spanning much of their catalog, from Kid A rave-up "Idioteque" to In Rainbows' "Bodysnatchers" and "15 Step."

Of "Karma Police," their first classic selection of the night, singer Thom Yorke said, "You know those people who are only talking to you because they want something from you? You need to take a cold shower afterwards."

Radiohead, who last graced the polo fields in 2004, are also headlining Bonnaroo in June.

The fivesome answered calls for an encore with longtime fan favorite "Lucky," "Reckoner" and the alternately soaring and intense "Paranoid Android."

Coachella's second day also featured Bon Iver, David Guetta, the Shins and A$AP Rocky.

In response to last year's event selling out — a week after the 2011 lineup was announced — the festival is experimenting with hosting the same artists for two consecutive three-day weekends: April 13-15 and April 20-22.

The Black Keys, Swedish House Mafia and Pulp rocked Friday's chilly opening day. Today's (April 15) third and final day brings Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg (rumored to contain an appearance by the late Nate Dogg as a hologram), Florence and the Machine, Justice, Calvin Harris and the reunited At the Drive-In.

Did you go to Coachella? Share your review in the comments below!

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Apple issues Flashback removal tool for 10.7 Lion systems not running Java

The Flashback OS X trojan continues to cast a rainy shadow over Mac owners' sense of security, and even though a fix has been released, this was only for what Apple considered "the most common variants." Users of Lion, who don't have Java installed, weren't included in that initial run, but there is a new removal tool just for them. So, if you're running 10.7 and never installed Oracle's virtual machine, make sure you point your browser at the source link below.

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Court Rules Software Not Protected By Fed Crime Laws, Overturns Conviction of Goldman Engineer

Before leaving Goldman Sachs to earn a millionaire?s salary with Chicago High Frequency Trading (HFT) startup Teza Technologies, Sergey Aleynikov made one last transaction. At 5:20pm on his last day, just before his going-away party, Aleynikov uploaded 500,000 lines of encrypted source code from the Wall Street firm's proprietary HFT system to a server located in Germany. Following the clandestine upload, Aleynikov deleted the encryption program, wiped his command history, and headed to the party. Although Aleynikov later managed to download the source code to his home computer in New Jersey before flying to Chicago, he was apprehended by the FBI while returning through Newark Liberty International Airport. But after his conviction at trial and imprisonment during the appeals process (his dual US-Russian citizenship presented a flight risk), Aleynikov is now a free man. The reasons why touch the entire software industry.

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Bahrain says jailed hunger-striker 'in good health'

Bahrain's interior ministry said on Monday that jailed activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who has been on a hunger strike for two months, is in "good health" after his lawyer expressed fears he could be dead.

"Abdel Hadi al-Khawaja's state of health is good," the interior ministry said in a statement, adding that the activist had been transferred to a military hospital "for the best medical treatment."

The ministry also said his case was being handled without "political or media pressure and with respect for human rights."

Khawaja's lawyer, Mohammed al-Jeshi, had earlier expressed fears that his client could be dead, after the authorities turned down repeated requests to contact him.

"Authorities have been refusing since yesterday (Sunday) all requests, made by myself and by his family, to visit or contact al-Khawaja," Jeshi told AFP.

"We fear that he might have passed away as there is no excuse for them to prevent us from visiting or contacting him," he said, adding that no more information was available about Khawaja's health.

Jeshi said the last time he contacted Khawaja was on Saturday, a day after he was moved from the interior ministry hospital into a military hospital in Manama.

In Washington, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters that "we are very concerned about the case of Mr al-Khawaja, particularly with regard to his health."

She added that Jeffrey Feltman, the assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs, and diplomats at the US embassy had contacted Bahrain about the case.

"We are in touch with the Bahrainis and with our international partners, and we are urging a humanitarian solution," Nuland said.

Khawaja, a Shiite who was condemned with other opposition activists to life in jail over an alleged plot to topple the Sunni monarchy during a month-long protest a year ago, began a hunger strike on the night of February 8-9.

Bahrain's largest opposition formation Al-Wefaq reiterated its calls for his release on Monday in a statement accusing authorities of "completely ignoring his deteriorating health which has reached a dangerous stage."

Demonstrations in solidarity with Khawaja have multiplied across the tiny kingdom where youth groups organise almost daily evening protests in Shiite villages.

Bahrain's national airline Gulf Air said its page on a social network website was hacked early on Monday. The page was back a few hours later.

Police also used tear gas to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who gathered in the Sanabis district of Manama to demand Khawaja's release, witnesses said.

They made three arrests, the witnesses added.

Denmark has asked Bahrain to send Khawaja, who is also a Danish citizen, to the Scandinavian country. Bahrain's official news agency BNA reported on Sunday that Manama had rejected the request.

But Danish papers quoted the head of the foreign ministry's consular service, Ole Engberg Mikkelsen, as saying that "a (formal) reply will come through diplomatic channels and not via a news agency or Twitter."

Mikkelsen said he did not know when Manama would reply officially.

"Unfortunately there is not much time. It is a case where the clock is ticking," he said. "We are continuing our efforts to convince Bahrain that it is in everyone's interest that he be extradited."

Front Line Defenders, a Dublin-based NGO, warned that Khawaja could now die in jail, while Al-Wefaq has said refusing a transfer to Denmark amounted to having "signed his death" sentence.

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