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Submission + - Male Science Students Least Sexually Active

Submitted by Thib on Thursday December 04, 2008 @04:39PM

Thib writes: A study at the University of Sydney published in the Journal Sexual Health and featured not without humor by PhysOrg confirms it: "Female arts students at university are the most sexually active while male science students are the most likely to be virgins", a conclusion which I'm sure will come as no surprise to Slashdotters worldwide. The study was actually about chlamydia awareness among university students aged 18 to 25.

Comment Bad summary: 2007 vs. 2008 (Score 1) 102

by thib_gc on Monday June 09, 2008 @08:27PM (#23717969) Attached to: Last "Hackers On Planet Earth" Conference In July

There is an obvious time wrap in the summary.

Submission + - Teens Protecting Their Online Profiles

Submitted by Thib on Friday April 20, 2007 @06:02PM

Thib writes: A study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project reveals that the majority of teens pay attention to what they are exposing about themselves in their online profiles on social networking communities like Facebook. For instance, while many routinely use their first name or include a picture, 'fewer than a third of teens with profiles use their last names, and a similar number include their e-mail addresses. Only 2 percent list their cell phone numbers.' The study comes among growing think-of-the-children brouhaha in state legislatures about the dangers of online predators. From the article: 'According to Pew, 45 percent of online teens do not have profiles at all, a figure that contradicts widespread perceptions that the nation's youths are continually on MySpace.'

Submission + - Slashdot RSS Feed Exposes Premium Content

Submitted by

Dan Grossman

on Friday April 20, 2007 @05:11PM

Dan Grossman writes: "The RSS feed for Slashdot exposes articles that are not yet on the main page of the site. Clicking the "Read more of this story" link brings non-subscribers to a page indicating they can't access that content."

Journal Journal: OpenBSD's second remote hole in the default installation

Journal by Alioth on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @01:33PM

The OpenBSD project has just issued an advisory (and updated its website to reflect the change) that it now has its second remote root vulnerability in more than ten years. The exploit itself is performed with a specially crafted IPv6 ICMP packet, and is caused by a bug in the mbuf chains in the operating system kernel. The OpenBSD team have released a patch. The bug affects all versions of OpenBSD. Since

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