Women on the Pill Pick Boring Lovers

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If your husband or longtime male partner has been providing for you nicely but your sex life is a bit dull, it may have something to do with your birth control pill.
2,500 mothers who had at least one child were asked some question about when they first met their partner and if they were on birth control that time. This study, by the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, shows that women who were taking a contraceptive pill when they first met their beloved partner, are more likely to stay in a relationship than women who weren’t on the pill. Though the partners of the non-pill taking women are proven to be more handsome, their relationships tend to fail more often.
This research has shown that hormonal variations over the menstrual cycle affect how women see a man as a potential mate partner. It is proven that women prefer more masculine men during ovulation than at other times. The pill neutralizes these variations, making women less interested in the sex appeal of their partners.
Another theory by Roberts claims that women who are on the pill tend to take a partner with an odor that is genetically similar to them. Women who aren’t taking the pill are more attracted to men with an odor that is genetically dissimilar to themselves.
“Women tend to find genetically dissimilar men attractive because resulting babies will be more likely to be healthy,” Roberts said in the release. “It’s part of the subconscious ‘chemistry’ of attraction between men and women.

Hackers Again hit Sony PlayStation Network Accounts

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Today Sony said that intruders were trying to get access to their user data base again. The company locked about 93,000 accounts whose ID’s and passwords were stolen and sent those people an email with password reset directions. Credit card number are not at risk which was the case back in April.
The company doesn’t know if the hacker was working alone or with several other parties. Many people criticized Sony that their security system was to impenetrable and there was a rumor that Sony stored their user passwords in a simple text file with no encryption at all. Now Sony says that their servers weren’t intruded at all but that the user data came from other sources and then was used to log in to Sony’s service.
Sony's customer service centers claimed that they have not seen a spike in user calls related to the incidents.
Sony has only recently recovered from one of the biggest security breaches in history back in April when hackers stole the identities and credit card numbers from more than 100 million of its customers. Playstation network and other services were taken down for more than a month. Though the PlayStation Network gained almost all of their members back in a short period. Hopefully this type of security breach will never happen again.

Paleontologist Discovers "Giant Kraken Lair"

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A kraken is a giant , octopus like, creature. It is famous for their parts in films where the kraken takes down ships and drag them into the ocean. “Pirates Of the Carribean “ is one example where the mighty kraken has been used to take down Captain Jack Sparrow. The mythical kraken might not have been around long enough to be spotted by men but it very well may have been able to feast on large dinosaurs.
Mark McMenamin believes that a real live kraken may have lived in the ocean long before humanity was born. While Mark was investigating the fossilized remains of some ichthyosaurs in the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada, he saw that the bones were rearranged in a organized way which is common behavior for octopuses.
But an octopus as we know it can’t rearrange or kill a 45-foot-log ichthyosaurs so it had to be an ancient predecessor, the mythical kraken. McMenamin said: "I think that these things were captured by the kraken and taken to the midden and the cephalopod would take them apart".Mark’s theory is that the kraken took their prey with their sucker disc arms and drowned them by taken them underwater. McMenamin’s theory will be hard to prove but he and his team of researchers are very confident in their work.

Assassins's Creed: Revelations review

Today I saw a nice review of the new Assassin's Creed game. I felt like shring it with you guys so her is the link: http://www.g4tv.com/games/xbox-360/65220/assassins-creed-revelations/articles/75738/assassins-creed-revelations-hands-on-preview-the-new-adventures-of-old-ezio/

Looks pretty decent but as I played the second one I'm not stoked to try this one because I think the gameplay is to repetitive.

BlackBerry Service Crashes in Europe

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BlackBerry Service Crashes in Europe

Customers of BlackBerry service in Europe are cut off from web access, e-mail and instant messaging.

The outage occurred at about 11am BST on Monday and was still affecting users after 4 hours. There was no time given for when it was expected to be resolved. No technical details were given publicly by Blackberry.

Although Blackberry has been building up its user base, the outage is a huge failure for Blackberry and will affect it dramatically. Last month there was a major BlackBerry outage in Canada and parts of Latin America. The U.K. and U.S. had to suffer from at least two outages in the past year.

Customers were complaining by using Twitter. The #BlackBerry was used so much it’s trending on twitter now. 

The cause of the outage is unknown but a former RIM employee has told the guardian that RIM was ignoring problems with its architecture for years. The growing user base will have put serious traffic on the servers and probably caused for them to crash. 

Vodafone customer services were advising the users to reboot their mobile phone: Take out your battery and SIM without first turning off your phone, put the battery back into your device without the SIM, and then turn on. Then put the SIM back in.

In a statement, RIM said: "Our technical teams are working to return services to normal operation as quickly as possible. "We apologise to our customers for any inconvenience and we will continue to provide updates as new information becomes available."

Now email services are restored but RIM warned of continuing delays with some services.

Artists Occupy Wall Street for a 24-Hour Show

 For weeks, a growing collection of protesters have tried to get their grievances heard on Wall Street — even if the police have prevented them from establishing a physical presence on the fabled street.
Read More: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/artists-occupy-wall-street-for-a-24-hour-show/?smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto

Iphone 4S stock already sold out

It seems the Iphone 4S stock is already sold out. Although many people expected an iphone 5, the 4S i still very desirable.

Read more: http://mashable.com/2011/10/08/iphone-4s-pre-order-sold-out/