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Submission + - Microsoft investigates Windows 7 'screen of death' (bbc.co.uk)

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on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @12:09PM

duguk writes: "Microsoft has confirmed that it is investigating a problem described as the "black screen of death", which affects Windows 7 and reports suggest it affects Vista and XP too. The firm said it was looking into reports that suggest its latest security update, released on Tuesday 25 November, cause the problem. The error means that users of Windows 7 and earlier operating systems see a totally black screen after logging on to the system."

Submission + - Good moods prevent colds?

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on Tuesday December 19, 2006 @03:11PM

duguk writes: "As most of you will probably end up ill over the winter season, it might be best to keep happy over Christmas. A new scientific study suggests that people who have a positive outlook are less likely to catch colds. Psychologist Sheldon Cohen and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University exposed more than 300 healthy adults to a cold virus and interviewed them about their emotional state. Those with "generally positive outlooks... reported fewer cold symptoms than were detected in medical exams.

From Science News:

"We need to take more seriously the possibility that a positive emotional style is a major player in disease risk," Cohen says.

Those who displayed generally positive outlooks, including feelings of liveliness, cheerfulness, and being at ease, were least likely to develop cold symptoms. Unlike the negatively inclined participants, they reported fewer cold symptoms than were detected in medical exams.

The new study, which appears in the November/December Psychosomatic Medicine, replicates those results and rules out the possibility that psychological traits related to a positive emotional style, rather than the emotions themselves, guard against cold symptoms. Those traits include high self-esteem, extroversion, optimism, and a feeling of mastery over one's life."

Keep happy and you might not get ill?"

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