A Year Ago: Data Overload Causing Addiction
News Computing addiction is partly caused by easy access to computers in the workplace and at home, said Griffiths, and the "near miss" experience of locating data on the Net closely resembles the "relief and excitement" pattern found in gambling...
[December 7, 1998, 9:54]
Data Overload Causing Addiction - Reuters
News Computing addiction is partly caused by easy access to computers in the workplace and at home, said Griffiths, and the "near miss" experience of locating data on the Net closely resembles the "relief and excitement" pattern found in gambling...
[December 8, 1997, 17:21]
Quotes Of The Week, December 8-12
News Psychologist Mark Griffiths on data addiction. Paul Waddington, marketing manager at Reuters, which commissioned the data addiction research. People are using [the Net] to shift their mood, which is a mark of addiction, and it is eating into people...
[December 15, 1997, 12:59]
Korean Online Game Takes Asia By Storm
News Maressa Hecht Orzack, director of Computer Addiction Services at Harvard University-affiliated McLean hospital in the US, the social aspect is a primary factor in most cases of game addiction. Given the complexity of game addiction, it remains to...
[July 23, 2003, 10:40]
Apple And Nike Don't Toe Security Line
Leader We doubt very much that anyone will suffer as a result of using this system, apart from the ever-present danger of ridicule due to conspicuous brand addiction. The message to Apple and Nike, though, is one that all companies should get: any product...
[December 14, 2006, 16:41]
UK ATC's Bad Air Day - Their Circuit's Dead, There's Something Wrong
Blog I kept an eye on things via Pprune, the UK aviation website to which I have an unhealthy and indefensible addiction. Downtime or loss of data are not options, even though you have to move systems managing communications with the aircraft, radar and...
[November 26, 2007, 21:43]
Hackers Rule OK
News A group of three hackers calling themselves the Little Green Men are arrested, although one famously escapes prosecution after pleading computer addiction. The Computer Misuse Act is amended to make it illegal to gain unauthorised access a personal...
[December 27, 1999, 6:05]
Cyberslacking Pays Handsomely For Some
News Greenfield -- a psychologist, author of Virtual Addiction, and the chief executive and founder of the Center for Internet Studies -- contends that employers need to set workplace standards for appropriate Net usage.
[March 11, 2000, 6:57]
Europe Can't Wait For Microsoft To Play ODF Catch Up
Leader Its recent moves toward openness are laudable, its continued addiction to ambiguity and delay is not. Microsoft says that ODF "would not meet requirements for backward compatibility, for forward compatibility, or for performance", an ironic...
[May 8, 2006, 15:55]
Teleworking: What You Can Learn From Nationwide
News They feel they have to be more available than they would be in the office, resulting in "email addiction", the compulsive checking of messages in the evenings and on weekends. If your business is thinking about allowing employees to telecommute...
[October 5, 2005, 12:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Ubuntu is famed for its addiction to sudo, which is its attempt to get around the privileges paradox. Perhaps they'll fix it by the time it comes out, or maybe enough people will have died by then for the Goodwins Thaumaturgical Data Team to have...
[September 1, 2006, 20:30]
ID Opponents Have All The Cards
Leader On its record, the Government has an addiction to consultant-led daftness that it pushes through at great expense and with little attention paid to ideas from outside the consultocracy. Yet there are still no specific statutory penalties for...
[June 27, 2005, 13:45]
Perhaps
Talkback But perhaps stopping with smoking is an easier addiction to get rid of. it's time to introduce the greedo meter. With input parameters like stupidity, arrogance, status, FUD score and such. Shouldn't take too much research to come up with...
[May 5, 2007, 2:59]
