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Submission Summary: 0 pending, 83 declined, 7 accepted (90 total, 7.78% accepted)

The Internet

Submission + - Clinton calls for "ground rules" protecting intern (dbune.com) 1

dbune writes: Hillary Clinton has called for ground rules to protect the World Wide Web against wrongdoing and harm after the world watched as Egyptian authorities cut Internet access during its recent political crisis.

She said "For the United States, the choice is clear; on the spectrum of Internet freedom, we place ourselves on the side of openness,".

Medicine

Submission + - Oxford University tests universal flu vaccine (dbune.com)

dbune writes: A universal flu vaccine has been tested by scientists at Oxford University. The immunization could provide protection against all known strains of the flu, which will protect billions more against the flu virus. The vaccine hits a different part of the flu virus and does away with costly yearly re...
Idle

Submission + - Belgian Senator Marleen Temmerman: 'No sex till go (dbune.com)

dbune writes: Belgium has been in political doldrums since a number a months. And now a politician in Belgium believes she has an idea on how to get negotiators to speed up their work on creating new government. The country’s newspaper, HLN, reported that Senator Marleen Temmerman has told fellow negotiators to abstain from sex until the country has a new government.
Crime

Submission + - TN man kidnaps son-in-law, trades him for Xbox 360 (dbune.com)

dbune writes: Two Tennessee men were arrested after they allegedly kidnapped one of the men\'s son-in-law over some stolen jewelry. The victim was beaten and finally freed him in exchange for a neighbor\'s Xbox 360. Joshua Seal and a co-worker, Bradley Marshall, lured Allen Begley into Seal\'s flooring business ...
Idle

Submission + - Experiment concludes dirty jeans not a health risk (dbune.com)

dbune writes: Young people who argue with their parents over wearing the same pair of smelly and tattered jeans could not cite an experiment that what they are doing may not be unhealthy at all. They can cite the case of a 20-year old University of Alberta student who wore the same $167 Nudie Jeans pair for 15 months straight or about ....
Idle

Submission + - Plan to tax Romanian witches draws curses ! (dbune.com) 1

dbune writes: Romanian witches upset over the government's plan to tax them for the first time in an effort to pull the country out of a recession are protesting in ways that only they can. The government's austerity measures have prompted widespread spells to be cast.

The issue is no laughing matter to many in...

Google

Submission + - Google Bans Sale Of Android Spying App (dbune.com)

dbune writes: Google is not letting a handset application that spies on someone's text messages be sold at its Android App Store. The Secret SMS Replicator developed by DLP Mobile to help lovers find out if their partners are cheating on them violates company policy, according to Google. The app works by secre...

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