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Comment My wife and I have this fight all the time (Score 1) 503

by Jeremy.DeGroot on Monday January 21, 2008 @12:37PM (#22127506) Attached to: Command Line Life Partner Wanted

I did not choose my mate based on her acceptance of the CLI lifestyle. We have no children yet, but when we do whether they are introduced to Windows or Linux computers first is going to be a protracted and difficult battle.

Doctor Urges AMA To Classify Gaming Addiction 258

Posted by Zonk on Thursday June 14, 2007 @03:47PM from the we-who-are-about-to-grind-for-xp-salute-you dept.

Doctor Mario writes "The AMA has issued a set of findings and recommendations (Word document) which follow a lengthy look at possible connections between gaming and violence, as well as gaming addiction. Ars Technica has a very good summary of the report, which suggests that gaming addiction is likely to be a subset of Internet addiction 'as it most frequently occurs in players of MMORPGs. In both of these addictions, the current definition is currently informal — the described symptoms actually most closely resemble pathological gambling, rather than an addiction. In either case, the report notes, "there is currently insufficient research to definitively conclude that video game overuse is an addiction."' The report also recommends that Internet and videogame addiction be included in a revision to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders."

US Government Studies Open Source Quality 165

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday March 04, 2006 @03:18PM from the prefer-just-to-stay-off-of-dhs-radar dept.

anadgouda writes "US Department of Homeland Security has released a report on open source quality in an effort to study the security of open source. 31 popular open source packages were studied as part of this effort. From the article: 'Coverity's report, Stacking up the LAMP stack: a study of open source quality, was produced as part of a $1.24m, three-year DHS Science and Technology Directorate effort to evaluate and improve the security of open source.'"

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