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Miha Naprudnik

The internet drugs market has spun out of our control - Telegraph - 0 views

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internet drugs market

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  • An inquest heard last week that the gifted student had bought a drug over the internet that is used for lethal injections on America’s Death Row, and taken her own life.
  • What has been described by the coroner as a “matter of public concern”, though, is that she found a dark side of the internet that gave vent to such feelings, and offered tips on suicide and the drugs that would kill her.
  • Teenage party invitations now come with links to internet drugs sites.
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  • The sprawling internet has become the modern day Wild West. A badlands existing outside of normal rules and controls.
Janja Petek

Unreported Side Effects of Drugs Are Found Using Internet Search Data, Study Finds - NY... - 0 views

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effects internet search data

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  • Using data drawn from queries entered into Google, Microsoft and Yahoo search engines, scientists at Microsoft, Stanford and Columbia University have for the first time been able to detect evidence of unreported prescription drug side effects before they were found by the Food and Drug Administration’s warning system.
  • Using automated software tools to examine queries by six million Internet users taken from Web search logs in 2010, the researchers looked for searches relating to an antidepressant, paroxetine, and a cholesterol lowering drug, pravastatin.
  • The new study was undertaken after Dr. Altman wondered whether there was a more immediate and more accurate way to gain access to data similar to what the F.D.A. had access to.
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  • He turned to computer scientists at Microsoft, who created software for scanning anonymized data collected from a software toolbar installed in Web browsers by users who permitted their search histories to be collected.
  • The researchers said that they were now thinking about how to add new sources of information, like behavioral data and information from social media sources. The challenge, they noted, was to integrate new sources of data while protecting individual privacy.
Katja Saje

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ITU nadzorovanje internetni promet internetne vsebine dpi pregledovanje

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  • Mednarodna zveza za telekomunikacije (ITU) potrdila standard za podrobno pregledovanje internetnega prometa (deep packet inspection, dpi).
  • Internetni promet je sestavljen iz t. i. paketov. V vsakem je del vsebine (spletne strani, datoteke ali česa drugega), paket pa je opremljen še s kopico drugih podatkov, od glave (header) do opisa protokolov, storitev in še marsičesa. Glava je nekakšna kuverta, v njej so zapisani glavni podatki, da lahko brskalnik ali drug program iz več paketkov, ki lahko potujejo povsem neodvisno drug od drugega, sestavi pravo vsebino.
  • Z dpi pa vidijo tako vrsto internetnega prometa kot njegovo vsebino. Zakaj je to pomembno? Operaterji lahko tako »upravljajo« promet. Kar v praksi pomeni, da upočasnjujejo ali celo blokirajo posamezne vrste prometa, denimo torrente ali telefonijo IP (skype). Lahko pa bi tudi ponujali naročnino na hitrejši youtube, morda posebej prodajali dostop do facebooka.
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  • pojasnilo ITU, zakaj so sprejeli standard, gre v tej smeri. Češ, operaterji so doslej namenjali »preveliko« pasovno širino posameznim uporabnikom ali storitvam. Zdaj, ko vsebine postajajo vse bolj potratne glede količine podatkov, pa dpi po besedah ITU omogoča »natančno in vzdržno upravljanje prometa, ki raste eksponentno«.
  • Telekom, T-2 in Simobil zanikali uporabo dpi, medtem ko Amis ni odgovoril. Na Simobilu so dejali, da o tem »trenutno ne razmišljajo«, na T-2 pa, da »do zdaj niso delali tovrstnih pregledov«.
nikasvajncer

Addicted! Scientists show how internet dependency alters the human brain - Science - Ne... - 0 views

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  • Internet addiction
  • changes in the brain similar to those seen in people addicted to alcohol, cocaine and cannabis.
  • We are doing it because modern life requires us to link up over the net in regard to jobs, professional and social connections – but not in an obsessive way.
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  • "The majority of people we see with serious internet addiction are gamers – people who spend long hours in roles in various games that cause them to disregard their obligations. I have seen people who stopped attending university lectures, failed their degrees or their marriages broke down because they were unable to emotionally connect with anything outside the game."
  • spent many hours on the internet,
  • you know they have a problem
  • "The limitations [of this study] are that it is not controlled, and it's possible that illicit drugs, alcohol or other caffeine-based stimulants might account for the changes. The specificity of 'internet addiction disorder' is also questionable."
  • emotional processing, attention, decision making and cognitive control.
  • "internet addiction disorder"
  • In a groundbreaking study, researchers used MRI scanners to reveal abnormalities in the brains of adolescents who spent many hours on the internet, to the detriment of their social and personal lives.
  • An estimated 5 to 10 per cent of internet users are thought to be addicted – meaning they are unable to control their use.
  • "The majority of people we see with serious internet addiction are gamers – people who spend long hours in roles in various games that cause them to disregard their obligations.
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