Are your kids getting high on virtual drugs?

Ah, yes, the digital age is truly upon us. Forget about getting high on pot, quaaludes, speed, blow, acid, heroin, opium and yes – whippets. That’s right: digital is in, baby.

Now you can turn on, tune in, drop out and i-Dose.

All you have to do is find an online dealer willing to hook you up with MP3s capable of inducing what some users describe as an ecstatic high on par with marijuana, cocaine, opium and peyote.

“I-Dosing involves donning headphones and listening to ‘music’ – largely a droning noise – which the sites peddling the sounds promise will get you high,” explained Wired’s Ryan Singel.

“Teens are listening to such tracks as ‘Gates of Hades,’ which is available on YouTube gratis.

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Linux systems rank high on spam sender list

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Linux systems are five times more likely than Windows machines to be used to send spam, according to a Symantec report that highlights the part that Linux plays in the growing spam problem.

The findings were published in Symantec’s MessageLabs Intelligence Report for April, published on Friday. The company used a technique called ‘passive fingerprinting’ to identify the operating system of a spam-sending machine, then calculated the ratio of spam from a given operating system compared with its market share.

Linux systems originated 5.14 percent of spam, compared with 92.65 percent for Microsoft Windows systems.

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