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New York authorities indicted seven people accused of running a prostitution ring on the Web site Craigslist, the state's attorney general announced Wednesday. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office said the group ran a 24-hour prostitution ring called Room Service Entertainment from Craigslist's erotic services section from June 2007 to December 2008.

Apple's operating system is vulnerable to a security flaw in Java that was made public in December, according to a security researcher

With a new installer, the new SP works for Windows Server 2008 as well.

Colorado Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki has been benched for a game by manager Clint Hurdle.

UNITED NATIONS, May 20 (IPS) - With exactly 200 days to go before December's crucial climate talks in Copenhagen, progress is steadily, though slowly, being made. Some issues, however - namely financing and the relative roles of industrial and developing countries - are likely to remain on the table until the end of the year.

Although born in Texas, Matt Stone was raised in Littleton, Colorado and he attended the University of Colorado at Boulder as a math major. As an undergraduate, he met filmmaker Trey Parker (who reportedly fed him slabs of roast beef) and eventually acted

In court documents filmed on Monday, Kerry Vine claims he washurt while working at her former home in los angeles in March 2008.

We all remember Sarah Palin. Like many, I got too got excited about the difference she would bring to the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. She showed well at events, and she looked good on paper. Then came her interviews, and suddenly she was the new Dan Quayle -- or, basically, another person who trades on looks and luck and doesn't figure doing homework is actually necessary.

Mobile phone sales globally dropped 9.4 % in the first quarter of the year compared to the same three months in 2008, Gartner Inc. reported today. But...

In addition to the piracy troubles that plagued Demigod's launch (and partly exacerbated by them), Stardock and Gas Powered Games ran into severe networking issues that hampered their ability to accommodate players with a legitimately purchased copy of the game. Brad Wardell has now posted a frank, detailed explanation of what happened and how they dealt with it. Quoting: 'Demigod's connectivity problems have basically boiled down to 1 bad design decision and 1 architectural limitation. The bad design decision was made in December of 2008 when it was decided to have the network library hand off sockets to Demigod proper. In most games, the connection between players is handled purely by one source. ... So in Demigod, on launch day, Alice would host a game. Tom would be connected to Alice by the network library and then that socket would be handed to Demigod. Then, Alice and Tom would open a new socket to listen for more players to join in. As a result, a user might end up using a half