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Comment Re:Good for India. (Score 1) 201

Please don't tell me you're that naive. While strictly in terms of health teen pregnancy may be fine but you have to consider the social aspects. The mother will probably drop out of school so there goes any chance of a decent job. It's a very stressful thing, especially when the fathers tend to leave, for someone so young and the upbringing of the child will undoubtedly suffer. Increase rate of suicide compared to other teenagers. There's a bunch of other problems too. Just type teenage pregnancy into google.

Republicans Defeat Net Neutrality Proposal 504

LiquidEdge writes "A Republican controlled committee has defeated a bill that would have guaranteed fair access and stopped companies like AT&T and Verizon from charging high-bandwidth sites for allowing their customers to have priority access to them."

Paul Allen's Microsoft Experience 515

theodp writes "Just in case Microsoft bashers don't have enough ammo, Robert X. Cringely has a couple of interesting tales in this week's column. The first explains how Bill Gates used Paul Allen's moonlighting at MITS to justify awarding himself 64% of Microsoft's stock vs. Allen's 36% (and Gates' failure to adjust the shares after he accepted a $10/hour part-time MITS job). The second heart-warming tale concerns a conversation Allen reportedly overheard late one night (as he was finishing up DOS 2.0) between Gates and Steve Ballmer discussing how to get Allen's Microsoft stock back if the Hodgkins disease Allen was battling killed him. Yikes."

On Apple vs Apple 324

Since nothing else really interesting is happening, here is a CNN story about Apple vs Apple where you can read about the latest developments in the latest round of the never ending court battles as two bazillion dollar companies fight over who gets to use the word 'Apple' to sell music.

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