Fortunately, it appears that Temple no longer has quite as bad a problem with that as they did before.

Having attended that god-forsaken institution for some time, I hadn't heard about anything of the sort going on, either from students or the news.

Considering that gold is one of the softer metals, I'd say that it's not too bad.

Just be glad they're not stocking titanium or steel in the machines. Those would really hurt your teeth.

Some might say it's both pornographic and a significant piece of India's history.

Isn't India disrespecting a culturally relevant artifact by Microsoft disallowing such a search?

How ironic that a school without sufficient knowledge to protect its students from identity theft lectures the world on personal privacy.

A number of student Social Security numbers were leaked not too long ago.

Here's the article

I think you mean Neil Armstrongs. Louis Armstrong was a musician, not an astronaut.

Thanks for pointing that out. I forgot to mention that in my original post.

Taking this into account, it's surprising that M$ didn't at least make an effort to resist the fine.

Their motto is usually "pry it from my cold, dead hands" in regards to these fines.

Wonder what's with the change of heart?

That same reasoning could be applied to any story.

Take "Government mismanages huge sums of taxpayer funds..." for example.

Rinse, repeat. It's the same story, but occurring at a different time. That's why this is news.