Spammers last week got on the wrong side of the wrong man, and quickly found themselves with a taste of their own medicine. The man? Deputy Communications Minister Andrei Korotkov. Tired of the endless spate of unsolicited messages that clog e-mail systems everywhere, an audio message was volleyed non-stop to the telephone numbers listed in the spam
Safecom has released the photographs from the Children Overboard scandal that the public were not allowed to see, in keeping with the brief issued by Operation Relex’ Canberra Command Centre — at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet‘s office — which stipulated explicitly to ‘not humanise the asylum seekers’
A non-invasive neural network that is designed to read minds could give freedom of movement to everyone, thanks to a system that lets them steer a wheelchair using only their thoughts
Barry Brook from the Northern Territory University fears small mammals in the Top End may become extinct if land clearing continues
Proving that scientists are indeed a wacky bunch of people, the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists is a club for scientists who have, or believe they have, luxuriant flowing hair
Anti-spam activists have upped the ante in their fight against junk email by publishing the details — including credit card information — of people who’ve ordered spamming services online
Computer manufacturers have been press-ganged into the hunt for customers in the broadband internet market, with industry heavyweights Telstra and Optus planning to offer services bundled with PCs in time for Christmas
23-year-old polar bear Pelusa was sprayed with an antiseptic spray that turned her normally white fur a dark shade of violet. The unusual colour — a temporary side effect of the treatment for dermatitis — has turned the ageing bear into a minor celebrity in Argentina and prompted thousands of schoolchildren and tourists to make their way to the Jardin Zoologico de Mendoza
Officials are determined to secure a replacement for the city’s police dog that died last week of heat exhaustion. Sandor, a Belgian Malinois, died when a patrol car’s air conditioning failed on a 38°C day
The federal government intends to introduce legislation later this year that will ban unsolicited commercial e-mail. But a member of the advisory group charged with helping develop the new anti-spam legislation does not feel the final document goes far enough in punishing people found guilty of spamming
Though Google has become synonymous with searching, it does have a few pitfalls, including a tendency to skew results toward shopping, a lack of diversity for searches containing synonyms and its impact on research
According to Gartner, seven million US adults, were victims of identity theft in the 12 months ending June 2003. The analyst group is calling on banks to make it tougher for crooks to obtain credit in false names
A new type of tungsten filament — the world’s most widely used light source — may emit enough energy to power electric cars, generators, and consumer electronics
Both of the beasties are firmly of the opinion that their heads belong in the refrigerator. This is why the closest object to their questing muzzles is their own bag of green beans.
They like to help put the groceries away. Making sure the beans are readily accessible prevents things like entire cartons of eggs from mysteriously disappearing.
For once not looking insane or otherwise deranged, the malamute helps herself to the beans.
Welcome to a police state. The FBI has started harassing people for reading politically incorrect articles in public. That guy who reads over your shoulder on public transport may be a police informant rather than just an annoying prat
Google unveiled refinements to technology for searching daily news, its latest effort to become the Web’s go-to hub for headlines. The new service, called Advanced News Search, allows visitors to scour headlines by date, location, exact phrases or publication
The case of 174 feral Chihuahuas on death row in a Los Angeles animal shelter has pitted animal rescue groups against each other in a debate over whether the purse-sized dogs are too vicious to adopt
Dog-E-Data is Australia’s largest independent provider of free pet information — including Pet Talk Radio which is both broadcast via local community stations and streamed online — as well as being home of the unique Dog-E-Data ID service for dogs
If you or your family don’t say what the party wants to hear you say in public, then they’ll happen to mention in the press that you’re an operative. There goes the job, and if you happen to be on assignment at the time, there goes your life as well. It won’t be Bush Inc pulling the trigger, but you’re still just as dead
Amazon are aiming become the Google of books with their plan to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of tens of thousands of books of non-fiction. Users would only be able to read a certain portion of the text from any one book, but it sounds promising nonetheless
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