Early reports had a band of armed hostage-takers storming the Colombian consulate, but all the machine-guns, automatic rifles and shotguns seen were in the hands of Sydney police
It’s kind of a drag to track a turtle for months and find out someone ate it
An ambitious three-year mission to catch a piece of the sun and safely return that sample to Earth was successfully hurled on its way into deep space Wednesday atop a Delta 2 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral
Man has always had trouble understanding exactly what his best friend is trying to say. But a new gadget released in Japan is trying to reduce the lingual divide between dog and its owner
Animal rights groups are threatening to launch a boycott of next year’s soccer World Cup unless the South Korean government clamps down on the sale of dog meat
Rob Rosenberger is determined to shine the bright light of sarcasm into every dark corner of the computer security industry. He carefully reviews the press coverage of every virus alert and rips into reporters who mindlessly repeat whatever facts
they may have been fed by their sources
A Queensland grazier has developed a high-tech computer tracking system to help graziers crack down on cattle rustlers
Australian e-commerce security company eSec has partnered with US-based security-software developer and trainer Foundstone to bring Foundstone’s Ultimate Hacking: Hands On course down under
The National Crime Authority has called for a medically supervised heroin trial to help combat the drug trafficking and money laundering cycle which was fuelling the pervasive spread of organised crime, but Australia’s spineless Prime Minister, John Howard, has rejected the suggestion
Four inmates made a spectacular escape from a Swiss prison overnight by tying a rope from their cell to a tree beyond the jail’s perimeter fence, aided by a computer mouse
A US federal appeals court has ruled that firing a person because of their sexual orientation is legal
Telstra’s troubles have accelerated, with service difficulties on its ADSL broadband network spreading nation-wide
Software piracy could cost Logicworld as much as AU$250,000 — the largest penalty to be slapped on an Australian company to date
A Princeton professor, Professor Edward Felten, is suing the Secure Digital Music Initiative group for blocking his publication of research on cracking the security of digital music
Researchers are putting the finishing touches to a $1.25 million supersonic rocket which will be launched at Woomera on 23 October
Australia’s fastest submarine data link to the United States, Southern Cross Cable, was hit by another outage last night
Australian taxpayers now fund 84 percent of all the drugs prescribed by doctors. It’s a massive tonic for the drug industry, and companies spend a lot of those taxpayer dollars trying to get doctors to choose their drugs rather than someone else’s. They win favour with lavish meals at top restaurants, harbour cruises, dancing girls and expensive holidays… marketing methods that many experts believe are causing doctors to prescribe excessively and inappropriately
French Greens have symbolically renamed Paris’ riverside motorway — named after the late President Georges Pompidou — in a fresh strike in the war between the city’s cyclists and the motor car
The weak will never inherit the Earth, but they just might blow it up on the way out. As hundreds of thousands of Americans find themselves downsized, right-sized, laid off and plain old fired during this latest economic meltdown, some of them are getting even
Seven descendants of the dog that killed Diane Whipple are being offered for sale by a Southern California woman who is asking $1,200 each — a prime example of greed over good sense
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