A research project conduced by leading cross-sector Australian NGOs has reported that there is a major gap [BugMeNot] between policy and ethical practice in many companies
One of the weirdest computer mods, the Heavy Metal PC takes modding to maybe not a new but different dimension. Computing on wheels, and we’re not talking a car computer here. Have a look for yourself, 2×3.2 GHz on wheels, it’s sure worth seeing if you’re interested in mods
Gerald Newburger really doesn’t like losing. A year after getting outbid at an online auction for a collection of used band uniforms, the New Orleans native traveled to New York to confront his rival bidder with a gun
The US Government is taking legal action against an Australian company for sending 400,000 spam e-mails promoting eternal youth. The FTC filed a civil action against Global Web Promotions, whose spam, it said, promoted diet patches and the products called HGH and Natural HGH, which allegedly contained human growth hormone — all products were bogus — via GeneWeb.info
Study of the use of green tea extracts for polishing the magnetic heads in hard-disk drives has yielded a compound that works three to four times faster than conventional compounds. If the findings can be reproduced in an industrial setting, the compound could reduce the cost and environmental impact of hard-drive manufacturing
Telstra is to increase rental fees for household phones by as much as $3.45 a month and hike the cost of some calls by two cents
Authorities in two states are trying to determine why a woman may have driven with her mother’s decaying body as a passenger from their Oklahoma home to Florida — by way of North Carolina and Texas — and then left the body in the car in a Wal-Mart parking lot. Flagler County sheriff’s deputies found Melba Doshier’s body Tuesday in the car parked at a Wal-Mart in Palm Coast after shoppers reported a bad smell coming from the vehicle. The St Johns County medical examiner on Wednesday said she died of natural causes at least five days before she was found — via Oftquoted
Google files documents with regulators that provide an insight into its business, as it prepares to sell shares to the public
Misbehaving dogs are soothed by a chemical scent that evokes their puppyhood, according to new research. The chemicals could help relax dogs living in stressful environments such as animal shelters or working for the military. Researchers in Scotland conducted the largest-ever study on the effects of dog-appeasing pheromone
(DAP) on dogs in an animal shelter. DAP is a synthetic chemical that appears to mimic those secreted by lactating bitches three days after birth to create a comforting setting for puppies
Public transport systems of the future will feature high-tech vehicles supported, behind the scenes, by revolutionary control and scheduling systems that will make timetables redundant say CSIRO scientists. CSIRO has developed software that simulates the movement of passengers and vehicles around track-based public transport networks that are designed to carry large numbers of people
A truly extraordinary cure for some forms of blindness is being proposed. The idea is to add light-absorbing pigments from spinach to nerve cells in the retina, to make the nerve cells fire when struck by light. Eli Greenbaum’s team at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee has been exploring this possibility for several years. In their latest experiments, the researchers have shown that adding plant pigments to human cells makes the cells respond to light
A few political sketches took a 15-year-old Prosser boy from his art class to questioning by the Secret Service — and thrust him into a debate over free speech
The headteacher of a leading Scottish prep school has banned his teachers from setting homework because he thinks meddling parents are harming children’s education
Friends of a champion Irish clay pigeon shooter have fulfilled his dying wish by packing his ashes into shotgun cartridges and blasting his remains over firing ranges around the world
A long-awaited review into digital copyright laws has been released, but recommendations for ISPs who may be hosting copyright-breaching material have been clouded by the new Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the US
Domain Names Australia Pty Ltd and its director Chesley Paul Rafferty have been found guilty by the Federal Court of breaching the Trade Practices Act, following the company’s re-registration mailout scam in 2003
The Singapore government is spending $5.1 billion buying the Australian assets of Texas Utilities so it is time to once again fire up Crikey’s great lists of energy sector deals over the past decade which now includes the investment bankers who advised on each sale
The state of Missouri is using pizza delivery lists to track down people that owe court-imposed fines
David Bowie has asked bedroom DJs to create a new track for an internet competition by bootlegging his songs. The British music star has given fans the right to create a new song by using computer music software to blend or mash up
two existing tracks. The winning song will be released as an MP3 and its creator will win a car
A start-up called Stretch says that its new software-configurable design allows processors to add instructions while they’re operating
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