The nation’s independent computer emergency response team, AusCERT, is working with the federal government’s CERT Australia to streamline operations and provide complementary services — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tarantulas eject silk through their feet to anchor themselves to slippery, vertical surfaces, say scientists.
The discovery, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, shows how these large but very fragile spiders avoid potentially lethal falls — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Facebook revolution has retreated from this dusty Jordanian town on the Syrian border.
In a bid to quash a rebellion now entering its third month, the Syrian government, perhaps one of the world’s most Internet-unfriendly, has shut down pretty much all electronic communications inside the country and to overseas. Cut off from the World Wide Web, protestors, journalists and human rights activists have resorted to communications networks from another era.
And for that, Ramtha, a Jordanian town of about 100,000 people 80 kilometres north of the capital of Amman, has become a virtual switchboard for news coming out of Syria, not to mention a swarm of refugees seeking to flee the carnage that has taken some 800 lives across the country, according to a United Nations estimate released last Friday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The private company entrusted to carry out file-sharing network monitoring for the French government has been hacked. Trident Media Guard, which is responsible for gathering data for so-called 3 strikes warnings, now has some of its scripts and secrets out in the wild, an event which has the potential to upset the smooth of Hadopi — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The malaria parasite can ensure it keeps a host body all to itself by preventing further malarial infections, according to international researchers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A German hairdresser has won the title of world’s best beard at the World Beard and Moustache Championship in Trondheim, Norway.
Elmar Weisser, 47, beat 160 contestants to the prize with his elaborate facial hair sculpture of a moose.
It is the third time Mr Weisser has emerged as champion — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police have been forced to intervene during a clash between the gay and lesbian community and a group of street preachers in Adelaide.
The violence broke out during a rally to mark International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on Saturday.
The protest began peacefully with 150 members of the gay and lesbian community gathering to stage a mass wedding, calling for equal rights for gay marriage.
But when members of the Christian Street Church crashed the rally, tension escalated — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s got eight arms, and they all want to bring it in for some love — via BustedTees
After 27 series and 110 episodes, UK police drama Taggart, famous for its There’s been a murder
catchphrase, has met its own demise.
A notice on the Taggart website said simply: This programme is now over
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Image taken at Rye Pier, Mornington Peninsula, Australia of a Pallidus Octopus guarding its egg — via underwater.com.au
Writing on TwitPic’s official blog, founder Noah Everett, who describes himself as the nice guy that finished first
, apologised for changes to the service’s terms and conditions that had been interpreted as claiming copyright of every uploaded image — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Christian group that provides religious education and chaplains in Victorian government schools will be investigated after its chief executive told a conference: We need to go and make disciples
.
The remarks appear to breach guidelines governing school religious programs, which ban trying to convert students to any one religion — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Chinese internet users suspect that their government is interfering with the method they have been using to tunnel under the Great Firewall
to prevent them connecting with the outside world.
Sites such as search engine Google and news site MSN have become difficult to access, they say. And a number of universities and businesses have begun warning their users not to try to evade the firewall.
Since 6 May, a number of users says that internet connections via China Telecom, the largest telephone company, and China Unicom have become unstable
, with intermittent access when trying to access sites in foreign countries using a virtual private network
(VPN) – a preferred method of evading the blocks put up by China’s censors to external sites. Even Apple’s app store has been put off-limits by the new blocks, according to reports — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 16-year-old from the Toronto area used a supercomputer system to find a new drug combination that shows potential in treating the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis, and won top honors for his work.
Marshall Zhang, an 11th-grade student at Richmond Hill’s Bayview Secondary School, received first place Tuesday (May 10) in the 2011 Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge, a contest in which students conduct their own research projects with the help of mentors — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In China, where a growing demand for organ transplants coupled with a dramatic shortage of donors has fuelled a rampant black market trade, selling your organs for cash is a mouse click away.
An internet search reveals a website offering kidneys for sale and the contact information of those able to procure them. A young woman, posing as a migrant worker from Hebei province, calls a man who has advertised on the website, identified as Mr He.
I need money,
she says over the phone. Do you want a woman’s kidney?
Mr He asks her age. Twenty-five, she replies.
Of course we want your kidney
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Designed with static publishing systems in mind (like the popular Ruby on Rails tool, Jekyll), Tapir handles search through RSS and JavaScript without the overhead of a database on your own server. Tapir offers a JSON-based API and relies on Tire behind the scenes (which is powered by Elasticsearch, which in turn is powered by Lucene).
To use Tapir all you need to do is write a simple JavaScript-based search form, query the Tapir index for your site and then parse out the results to display for your visitors — via Webmonkey
Mike Rowe’s Testimony Before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
In high schools, the vocational arts have all but vanished. We’ve elevated the importance of higher education
to such a lofty perch that all other forms of knowledge are now labeled alternative
. Millions of parents and kids see apprenticeships and on-the-job-training opportunities as vocational consolation prizes
, best suited for those not cut out for a four-year degree. And still, we talk about millions of shovel ready
jobs for a society that doesn’t encourage people to pick up a shovel — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Photo credit: I MacDonald
A deep-water octopus. Mollusca, a phylum that encompasses leggy invertebrates like the squid and octopus, along with their less charismatic and more oozy brethren — slugs, snails, clams — comes in second only to crustaceans for sheer number of species inhabiting the Earth’s oceans. 8,860 feet (2700 meters), Alaminos Canyon, Gulf of Mexico — via Our Amazing Planet
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