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Comment: Re:Time to be parents again (Score 3, Insightful) 314

by ack154 on Wednesday April 06 2011, @08:18AM (#35731976) Attached to: US Students Suffering From Internet Addiction

The article is about college students though... people who are supposed to be responsible for themselves. And while I agree that the parents have a part in this in earlier years, once they're out on their own, there needs to be some self control involved.

I do find it amusing that they felt so disconnected from their friends, yet no one thought to place an actual phone call to try to meet up with their friends? No media, sure... but they could use a phone as a phone, no?

Condé Nast Got Hooked in $8 Million Spear-Phi-> 0

Submitted by angel.wardriver on Tuesday April 05 2011, @12:37PM

angel.wardriver writes "A spear phisher managed to reel in a prize catch last year with a single hook when media giant Condé Nast took the bait and wired $8 million to his bank account after he posed as a legitimate business."
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SCO Wanted To Gag Torvalds

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2007, @07:09PM

An anonymous reader writes "Documents filed by IBM on Friday contain a copy of a letter from SCO to IBM's lawyers which state that they tried to keep Linus Torvalds from making disparaging public statements about SCO. The company also tried to silence Eben Moglen, a Columbia University professor who, until this month, was a director of the Free Software Foundation, and Eric Raymond, a controversial open-source advocate, saying they claimed to be IBM consultants."

A pill that makes women slimmer and hornier

Submitted by The Great Pretender on Monday April 30 2007, @05:40PM

The Great Pretender writes "The BBC reports that scientists are developing a pill which could boost women's libido and reduce their appetite. The hormone-releasing pill has so far only been given to female monkeys and shrews who displayed more mating behavior and ate less. The team from the Medical Research Council's Human Reproduction Unit in Edinburgh believe a human version could be available within a decade. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6606927.stm. I was married to a shrew once..."

Warcraft Player Gets Real Beatdown From GamingGirl

Submitted by Funny Finder on Monday April 30 2007, @05:11PM

Funny Finder writes "Mexican World of Warcraft player Bronco Carson reported to local police on Saturday that 3 men broke into his home and beat his arms with clubs and smashed his computer. Warcraft Story"

RIAA claims ownership of all artists' royalties

Submitted by ISurfTooMuch on Saturday April 28 2007, @06:44PM

ISurfTooMuch writes "With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for them to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. You can read all about it over at Daily Kos, including excerpts from the SoundExchange Web site. It's amazing how the RIAA looks more and more like the Mafia each day."

30% Of Businesses Won't Ever Upgrade To Vista

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2007, @06:20PM

An anonymous reader writes "According to a new survey from InformationWeek, 30% of business surveyed said they had no plans to upgrade their systems to Windows Vista — not ever. On the plus side for Microsoft, one quarter of the 612 survey respondents said they were already using the new OS, 13% said they would do so in the next 12 months, and 27% said their companies would adopt Vista more than a year from now. "While security enhancements remain the primary reason for companies to adopt Windows Vista, concerns about compatibility and cost are still out there," reported survey author Lisa Smith. Does this indicate that Microsoft's hype about unprecented sales of Vista is way out of whack with what people are actually planning, and that application compatibility is the big stumbling block?"

MySQL hits $50 million revenue, plans IPO

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Wednesday April 25 2007, @05:39PM

Anonymous Coward writes "SANTA CLARA, Calif. — MySQL, purveyor of the open-source database of the same name, is on the road to becoming a publicly traded company, bolstered by $50 million in revenue in 2006.

"It's still in the pipeline," Chief Executive Marten Mickos said of the plan to hold an initial public offering of his company's stock. He declined to discuss when the company planned to go public, but said, "We're making good progress, doing all the things we need to get done."

"We're not trying to eat Oracle's lunch. We're trying to eat their dessert." — Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL

http://news.com.com/MySQL+hits+50+million+revenue% 2C+plans+IPO/2100-7344_3-6179290.html?tag=nefd.top "

Cancer-Fighting Drug Found in Dirt

Submitted by firesquirt on Wednesday April 25 2007, @05:15PM

firesquirt writes "From an article in LiveScience.com http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/070424_soi l_drugs.html The bark of certain yew trees can yield a medicine that fights cancer. Now scientists find the dirt that yew trees grow in can supply the drug as well, suggesting a new way to commercially harvest the medicine."

Vista Beta and RC's set tp expire

Submitted by AlHunt on Wednesday April 25 2007, @02:47PM

AlHunt writes "According to Computerworld.com Beta and Release Candidate versions of Vista will begin rebooting every 2 hours on June 1.

Apparently, the only way to retain your current settings is to pay $295.00 to MS:

The only in-place upgrade route — one that retains the settings, applications, and data as-is — is from Vista RC1 using a copy of the $259 Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade. Users running either Beta 2 or RC2 can upgrade to Ultimate, but they must do a "clean install," a process that overwrites the hard drive and destroys all data on it.

High price to pay for the privilege of being a MS Beta Tester, I think."