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DirecTV Sues Anyone Who Bought Smartcard Reader?
MImeKillEr writes "The Register is reporting that DirecTV is suing anyone known to have purchased a smartcard programmer, regardless of whether or not they're actually using the device to enable stealing their programming. They're sending out letters & when people call to clear up the confusion, DirecTV is demanding a $3500 settlement as well as the programming device. They've filed 9000 federal lawsuits against alleged pirates thus far. They're obtaining lists of who purchased the devices during raids against the sites that offer them for sale."
The more often young and middle-age men ejaculate, the less likely they are to develop prostate cancer, Australian researchers report in the journal New Scientist.
The Cancer Council Victoria in Melbourne asked 1,079 men with prostate cancer to answer a survey describing their sexual habits, comparing those answers with 1,259 healthy men of the same ages.
Although the preventive effect held true for men between the ages of 20 and 50, the effect seemed greatest among men in their twenties, the researchers conclude. Those in their twenties who ejaculated more than five times a week were one-third less likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer later in life, they say.
The latest findings appear to contradict previous studies, which found that having many sexual partners or a high frequency of sexual activity increased the risk of prostate cancer by up to 40 percent.
The Australian researchers have a simple explanation: "Men have many ways of using their prostate which don't involve women or other men," explains the study's lead author, Graham Giles.
The scientists speculate that ejaculation prevents carcinogenic substances from building up in the prostate, lowering a man's risk of cancer.
how much do you fanboys love your DirecTivo service NOW?
sulli
RTFJ.
how am I going to twist this story around to blame Microsoft..??????????
The more often young and middle-age men ejaculate, the less likely they are to develop prostate cancer, Australian researchers report in the journal New Scientist.
The Cancer Council Victoria in Melbourne asked 1,079 men with prostate cancer to answer a survey describing their sexual habits, comparing those answers with 1,259 healthy men of the same ages.
Although the preventive effect held true for men between the ages of 20 and 50, the effect seemed greatest among men in their twenties, the researchers conclude. Those in their twenties who ejaculated more than five times a week were one-third less likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer later in life, they say.
The latest findings appear to contradict previous studies, which found that having many sexual partners or a high frequency of sexual activity increased the risk of prostate cancer by up to 40 percent.
The Australian researchers have a simple explanation: "Men have many ways of using their prostate which don't involve women or other men," explains the study's lead author, Graham Giles.
The scientists speculate that ejaculation prevents carcinogenic substances from building up in the prostate, lowering a man's risk of cancer.
RTFA. Its not a smart card reader but a smart card programmer. Taco munged the title.
Cruising the internet on my TI-99/4A @ a whopping 300 baud!
Could you please read the fucking article? It was only in the first four paragraphs.
jackass. why bother posting if you are so braindead anyways
I hope all you warez kiddies and thieves spend the rest of your lives destitute in prison.
Maybe all the free spice channel you got will serve you well - by that i mean serve your new cellmate well.
You are all thieves, dishonest ethically and intellectually. You lie to yourselves and make up bogus cover stories about legitimate uses and backup and trial copies (both bullshit).
When you die after years of forceful anal rape in prison, then you go up against Jesus. Who has a big cock and is itchin to take a crack at you too for your wasted lives of stolen pornography and lies.
Facts:
Most "open source" is plagairized, pseudo-anonymously.
Virtually all KaZaa/etc traffic is copyrighted material. This includes bittorrent and freenet (also a bastion of child porn - anyone using it disgusts me on principle)
Hell, most slashdot articles are thinly rewritten stories copied from somewhere else.
Information wants to be free, does it? Well bubba and jesus will have all the information about the inside of your rectum soon enough.
Burn in hell.
nice chatting with you.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Maybe if it were a switchblade he were using to eat dinner with. The only use for a switchblade is to kill people and there is only one use for a smartcard programmer, to program smartcards!
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Lots of petrified grits