Children who use technology are ‘better writers’ BBC Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more confident about their writing skills, according to the National Literacy Trust.
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p2pnet news view | Mobiles:- If you’re worried that cellphone use can lead to cancer, worry no more –Â if you believe a new Danish Cancer Society study, that is. A project which ran for almost 30 years surveyed cancers reported among 16 million adults in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden and “found no related, observable change in the incidence of cases up until 2003,” says the Guardian , going on: “Published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the research covers a more recent period than previous studies
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Polanski won’t be out before Monday World Radio Switzerland Film director Roman Polanski will not be released from jail into house arrest at his Gstaad chalet until Monday at the earliest as bail conditions still have to be met. The Swiss justice department said earlier that Polanski ‘will not be transferred to Gstaad either today or this weekend.’ Earlier this week, a court agreed to allow Polanski out on bail of 4.5 million francs.
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IE bug leaks private details from 50m PDF files The Register A bug in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is causing more than 50 million files stored online to leak potentially sensitive information that could compromise user privacy, a security researcher said. The documents stored in Adobe’s PDF format display the internal disk location where the file is stored, an oversight that can inadvertently expose real-world names and login IDs of users, the operating system being used and other information that is better kept private. The data can then be retrieved using simple web searches
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High Court rejects libel case because article received approximately four visits OUT-LAW News A libel action over an article that appeared on the website of a South African magazine has been dismissed by a court in England.
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A law to ban talking and texting using hand held cellphones has been introduced in the Legislature Saskatoon Home Page Minister Responsible for SGI says using a cellphone to talk or text is a dangerous distraction with recent research indicating that a person who is texting while driving is 23 times more likely to be involved in a collision than a non-distracted driver. Twitter, Internet undermine Canada election rules Reuters In this era of smartphones and the Internet, the federal elections agency is struggling to enforce a rule that bans the general broadcasting of voting results until all the polls have closed.
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p2pnet news view TV | P2P:- Digital Video Recorders, “once considered a mortal threat by the entertainment industry, have now become its new best friend,” says Tim Jones in the EFFs Deep Links . It’s just the latest example of how the industry’s “constant warnings of the dangers of ‘piracy’ frequently turn out to be baseless hysteria,” he says, continuing »»» Remember 2001?
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p2pnet news view | MPAA:- The Brooklyn Law School says it won’t rat its students out to Hollywood’s MPAA hoods after all. “Brooklyn Law School has modified the position it took the other day, in which it had indicated it was going to actively investigate who may have been downloading MPAA movies or shows, and turn over the names for ‘enforcement’ purposes,” says Ray Beckerman in Recording Industry vs The People .
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Regular p2pnet readers will recognise Christopher Parsons (right) as someone who’s deeply interested in Deep Packet Inspection ( DPI ). A doctoral student at Victoria University on Vancouver Island, BC, his research interests focus on how privacy is affected by digitally mediated surveillance, and the implications it has in, and on, contemporary Western political systems. But he’s also a music lover and as such, signed up to the new a2f2a.com Artist 2 Fan 2 Artist project just launched by myelf [Jon Newton] and Billy Bragg
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Google Street View launches in Canada Canadian Press As of today, residents in several Canadian cities can check out their streets, homes and neighbourhoods on Google Street View.
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