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Submission + - The dark side of the web (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by Barence
Barence writes: Beneath the web pages indexed by Google lies an online world that few know exists. It's a realm of huge, untapped reserves of valuable information containing sprawling databases, hidden websites and murky forums. It's a world where academics and researchers might find the data required to solve some of mankind's biggest problems, but also where criminal syndicates operate, and terrorist handbooks and child pornography are freely distributed. Interested? You're not alone. The deep web and its 'darknets' are a new battleground for those who want to uphold the right to privacy online, and those who feel that rights need to be sacrificed for the safety of society. The deep web is also the new frontier for those who want to rival Google in the field of search. The Dark Side of the Web takes a journey into a world few fully understand.

Submission + - Half-male, half-female fowl explain sex determinat (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Kanan
Kanan writes: From the article, "A study of sexually scrambled chickens suggests that sex in birds is determined in a radically different way from that in mammals.

Researchers studied three chickens that appeared to be literally half-male and half-female, and found that nearly every cell in their bodies — from wattle to toe — has an inherent sex identity. This cell-by-cell sex orientation contrasts sharply with the situation in mammals, in which organism-wide sex identity is established through hormones." Check out the picture's on at the BBC's story.
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Submission + - UK Government To Force Child Safety On Facebook? (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of the Labour Party has said that UK government ministers are "taking action" to get Facebook to add a British child protection button (called CEOP) to its site. The move comes after the UK's Daily Mail withdrew allegations that teenagers on Facebook are continually pestered — though Facebook is still considering suing the paper. The campaign apparently ignores Facebook's assertion that it already has better child protection in place and the CEOP button would be limited to the UK.
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Journal Journal: Hey what do you know? 1

Journal by qsliver

Just found out I have a journal here and couldn't possibly leave it blank now could I?

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