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Submission + - Help! My Partner Wants To Leave The Relationship -

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lifelover
lifelover writes: ""We had a couple who came to see us, where the wife said she wanted to leave the relationship and the husband still wanted to make the relationship work. We decided to see each member of the couple individually and as a couple. When we had the husband come in to see us for his individual counselling, he stated upfront he was hesitant to trust us because he got the impression that we support couples breaking up. We explained that it wasn't that we supported couples to break up; we were just supportive of people being in their highest and best relationships versus people forcing themselves to stay together even if they are not in their highest and best relationship.""
Privacy

Submission + - Beware of Photo Printing at Walmart Canada

Submitted by dpolak
dpolak writes: I recently discovered that if you use Walmart's Canadian digital photo services you release all rights to your photos. Under their terms of service:

You grant to Wal*Mart Canada Corp. a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, unrestricted, world-wide right and license to access, use, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, display, perform, communicate to the public, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, and otherwise use such Materials (in whole or in part) in connection with the Site and/or the Products, using any form, media or technology now known or later developed, without providing compensation to you or any other person, without any liability to you or any other person, and free from any obligation of confidence or other duties on the part of Wal*Mart, its affiliates and their respective licensees; Uploaders beware!
Databases

Submission + - How do you keep confusing DB data straight

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zappepcs
zappepcs writes: "The Washington Post is running a story about the U.S. Terrorist database and how there are so many errors from its use. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2007/03/24/AR2007032400944.html

" Terror Database Has Quadrupled In Four Years
U.S. Watch Lists Are Drawn From Massive Clearinghouse

By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 25, 2007; Page A01

Each day, thousands of pieces of intelligence information from around the world — field reports, captured documents, news from foreign allies and sometimes idle gossip — arrive in a computer-filled office in McLean, where analysts feed them into the nation's central list of terrorists and terrorism suspects.

Called TIDE, for Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, the list is a storehouse for data about individuals that the intelligence community believes might harm the United States. It is the wellspring for watch lists distributed to airlines, law enforcement, border posts and U.S. consulates, created to close one of the key intelligence gaps revealed after Sept. 11, 2001: the failure of federal agencies to share what they knew about al-Qaeda operatives. "

The question is 'How do slashdot users keep such data straight. If its a database and somewhere in it is two records; both for people named John D. Elvinhaus, who both lived in or near Denver at the same time, one who works at 7-11, one works at a security company.

What are the correct ways to keep these records straight, unconfused, not marked as duplicates, or in this case, confusing both as terrorists when only one of them has some unbelievably small link to some terrorist activity? What can the government do to avoid this issue?"
The Internet

Submission + - New vote on .xxx Internet address nears

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Billosaur
Billosaur writes: "ICANN is once more set to vote on the creation of the .xxx Internet address. Though the proposal has been voted down by ICANN's board twice before, ICM Registry Inc., the group behind those previous proposals, resubmitted it after they "agreed to hire independent organizations to monitor porn sites' compliance with the new rules, which would be developed by a separate body called the International Foundation for Online Responsibility." Once more the proposal has led to pornographers and religious groups finding themselves on the same side, the porn industry worried that the domain would lead to government controls, the religious groups worried it would make access too easy and allow porn to expand even further onto the Internet."
Biotech

Submission + - A microscopic alphabet soup

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Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "UCLA researchers have produced microscale particles shaped like each letter of the alphabet. They've used 'lithoparticles' — microscale and nanoscale particles that can have a wide range of material compositions — to create this microscopic alphabet. They even can choose a specific font to create these colloidal letters, made of solid polymeric materials dispersed in a liquid solution. These letters could be used to 'mark' individual cells or for new medical applications. With the right microscope at home, you could even play Scrabble with these letters... Read more for additional references and a picture of this alphabet soup."
Google

Submission + - Is Google planning a national wireless network?

Submitted by eastbayted
eastbayted writes: Amid the buzz surrounding Google's rumored plans to release a mobile phone, the Daily Wireless has posted an interesting article citing eight reasons why the search behemoth may very well be planning to build a nationwide wireless network. Among them: Google has made hefty investments in dark fiber; it's already offering free wireless in Mountain View and has offered to do the same in San Francisco; and it's fighting hard to maintain Net neutrality.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Someday I will make it!

Journal by purpleraison

I hope some day I will make it into the big league of Slashdot and be able to moderate a few posts! Some day.... [dream sequence fades in]

Then I will be someone, and mama will love me again!!
Businesses

Submission + - Top researcher:'Untested' vaccine could harm (HPV)

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An anonymous reader writes: According to WorldnetDaily :

"A researcher who worked on a vaccine for the human papillomavirus is warning that it hasn't been tested on young girls, is "silly" for states to mandate the vaccination, and in a worst-case scenario could even increase cervical cancer rates."

...

"And she warned more than 40 cases of Guillian-Barre syndrome — an immune disorder that results in tingling, numbness and even paralysis of the muscles — have been reported in girls who got the HPV vaccine in combination with a meningitis vaccine."

This topic has recently been discussed on slashdot and to my knowledge this is the first information about negative side effects and poor testing methods to be made public.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - City council in New Zealand takes itself to court

Submitted by
El Cubano
El Cubano writes: "The New Zealand Herald is carrying a story titled Council prosecutes itself, pays fine into own coffers. Yes, it really is what you think. The council actually sued itself in court. The most telling thing is how proud of themselves they are for "doing the right thing":

"We feel vindicated by this decision," said councillor Vanessa Neeson, who is chairman of the planning and regulatory committee. The council had been mocked for prosecuting itself but it was showing that it was not above the law, she said.
"
User Journal

Journal Journal: Slashdotters need Help with Story Submissions 7

Journal by drinkypoo

While I am perhaps not the best person to talk about this as I've only had one submission accepted, my recent time spent with the Firehose has demonstrated to me that most people have a hard time crafting an acceptable story submission, in spite of the numerous examples on the front page. The following is just a list of hints and tips that might help someone assemble a story submission that makes sense.

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