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Comment Re:Surprised? (Score 1) 582

by JiveDog (#28308779) Attached to: Teen Diagnoses Her Own Disease In Science Class
As a Crohn's patient for the past 21 years, your appraisal of the situation is just plain wrong. Crohn's Disease is very hard to diagnose and when I first started manifesting symptoms, it took over 6 months to discover the disease. There is nothing straight-forward about the diagnosis since the symptoms, on the surface, appear to be any number of maladies.

This girl is lucky to have caught it on her own, I know others who have gone for years without getting a correct diagnosis.

As far as it being "common," 2 million affected puts it above some diseases but it's far from common.
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Submission + - The Future of Music (ieee.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The loudness war, what many audiophiles refer to as an assault on music (and ears), has been an open secret of the recording industry for nearly the past two decades and has garnered more attention in recent years as CDs have pushed the limits of loudness thanks to advances in digital technology. The "war" refers to the competition among record companies to make louder and louder albums by compressing the dynamic range. But the loudness war could be doing more than simply pumping up the volume and angering aficionados — it could be responsible for halting technological advances in sound quality for years to come.
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Monster.com Attacked, User Data Stolen 196

Posted by Zonk from the rarr-snarl dept.
Placid writes "The BBC has an article detailing a successful attack on the US recruitment site, Monster.com. According to the article, 'A computer program was used to access the employers' section of the website using stolen log-in credentials' and that the stolen details were 'uploaded to a remote web server'. Apparently, this remote server 'held over 1.6 million entries with personal information belonging to several hundred thousands of candidates, mainly based in the US, who had posted their resumes to the Monster.com website'. The article also links the break-in to a phishing e-mail sent out recently where personal details were used to entice users to download a 'Monster Job Seeker Tool.'"

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