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Submission + - Possible cure for autism

Submitted by Henry V .009 on Monday February 19, 2007 @11:25AM

Henry V .009 writes: New Jersey scientists are claiming that children with autism are unable to metabolize key fatty acids which fight brain-damaging inflammations. They have already developed urine/blood tests to identify at risk children. A preventive cure to autism may be as simple as a 'therapeutic cocktail' of fatty acids.

Submission + - The Story behind funky, ad-laden domains

Submitted by Dollaz on Monday February 19, 2007 @10:58AM

Dollaz writes: Entrepreneurs have been taking advantage of a five-day grace period to sample millions of domain names, keeping the relative few that might generate advertising revenues and dropping the rest before paying. It's akin to buying new clothes on a charge card only to return them for a full refund after wearing them to a big party.

The grace period was originally designed to rectify legitimate mistakes, such as registrants mistyping the domain name they are about to buy. But with computer automation and a burgeoning online advertising market, entrepreneurs have turned the return policy into a loophole for generating big bucks. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070219/domain-en trepreneurs-sampling.htm

Journal Journal: For a Media PC - Knoppmyth or Vista Home Premium?

Journal by PoconoPCDoctor on Monday February 19, 2007 @09:45AM

I home today, courtesy of President's 1 and 16, and so have a little more time to think about the next step in my newly transplanted PC, which is now parked in an Antec media case under the HD plasma tv. I would like to have more control over recording tv shows than is allowed through the cable TV's DVR, so I am faced with a choice.

Submission + - MPAA: We were just trying it out

Submitted by

Firmafest

on Monday February 19, 2007 @06:45AM

Firmafest writes: "Yesterday, slashdot ran a story about MPAA violating a software licence. Now MPAA responds with "We were only testing". Is this a fair response? The author of the software writes: "Whilst that all sounds fair enough but I doubt I'd get away with pirating a few movies providing I didn't advertise it and only used them for testing purposes. hmmm!""

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