p2pnet headline roundups: Aug 22
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Internet addiction more serious than OCD – physorg.com
Dr. Pinhas Dannon of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine said 10 percent of Internet surfers are afflicted with “Internet addiction disorder,” which can lead to anxiety and severe depression. Internet addiction is classified by mental health professionals as an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, a mild to severe mental health condition that results in an urge to engage in ritualistic thoughts and behavior.
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YouTube to Start Selling Ads in Videos – Wall Street Journal
Nearly 10 months after Google Inc. agreed to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion, the video-sharing Web site is rolling out its first approach for selling ads within videos. The anticipated move, announced last night, answers speculation concerning Google’s formula for mining revenue from the site and is expected to start to bring standardization to the growing ad market for Web video.
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Monster attack steals user data – BBC
US job website Monster.com has suffered an online attack with the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen, says a security firm. A computer program was used to access the employers’ section of the website using stolen log-in credentials.
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Blueprints drawn up for quantum computer RAM – New Scientist
In the fundamentally fuzzy world of quantum mechanics, it can be difficult to keep clear memories, and that could be a problem for future quantum computers. Now three physicists in Italy and the US have proposed a method for retrieving quantum information from memory that should make total quantum recall more reliable.
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Google reverses itself on video refunds – CNET News
Google has acknowledged erring in the way it handled refunds last week after shutting down its video download store. The company angered some Google Video customers who had paid for movies but were locked out when the store was shuttered. At first, the company offered to refund customers in credit to their Google Checkout accounts. That idea was widely criticized by many as being self-serving. On Monday, Google admitted the “goof” and announced that it would give credit card refunds to anyone who had ever bought a video on the site.
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