Why Was Google Collecting the Last Four Digits of Kids’ Social Security Numbers for an Art Contest?

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Google could easily have guessed the remainder of the numbers from the other information they collected.

Google asked parents to enter the last four digits of their children’s Social Security Numbers, as well as their city of birth and age, as a condition to enter a Google-sponsored art contest.

 

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Flying the Nest Study – Parents Almost Always Welcome Home ‘Boomerang Sons’

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“Boomerang boys” three times more welcome at home than daughters.

Parents are three times more likely to allow their adult sons to return to the family home than daughters, revealed a survey published this week.   The “Flying the Nest” study showed that returning sons or “boomerang boys” are considered more obliging house guests than their sisters and that they easily wrap their mothers around their little fingers.

 

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Amazon Takes On Netflix with Unlimited Video Streaming

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Amazon has announced it will stream movies for free to people who subscribe to the e-tailer’s Prime service.

For years, Amazon appeared to be a big pushover when it came to delivering Web entertainment.

During the early part of the Internet Age, Amazon shipped CDs and DVDs to customers who ordered them via the Web and CEO Jeff Bezos’ company was synonymous with Web music and movies. Then Apple’s iTunes, and Netflix, laid waste to physical discs by delivering digital downloads or streaming video and Amazon quietly drifted to the back of the pack.

 

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EOL – Levitating Mass Transit

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EOL maglev train concept

Move over Metro. Introducing the EOL maglev train concept. Magnetic levitation replaces mechanical components to launch this aerodynamic choo-choo to speeds exceeding 480 kilometers per hour; all while you relax or work from the comfort of your personal business class cabin in absolute silence.  (Pics)

 

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Astronomers Warn Mankind Should Prepare For a Global Katrina-style Disaster

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Earth is overdue a solar storm as the sun enters its most active period

 The world is overdue a ferocious ‘space storm’ that could knock out communications satellites, ground aircraft and trigger blackouts – causing hundreds of billions of pounds of damage, scientists say.

 

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Many People Stick With Fast Food Even After a Heart Attack

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Six months after a heart attack 50% of patients eating at their favorite fast food restaurants.

It would seem logical for patients who have had a heart attack to cut back on fast food.  Some devoted fast food eaters do. But six months later, more than half can still be found at their favorite fast food places at least once a week, according to a study in the American Journal of Cardiology.

 

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