A spammer’s claim to his clients that he had an agreement with anti-spam technology vendor Brightmail to not block his traffic was contradicted by Brightmail officials. Notorious spammer, Scott Richter, is currently being prosecuted for fraud and his claims against Brightmail are part of his defence
Spam is robbing Australian businesses of at least $2 billion annually, according to one estimate — and there’s little governments can do about it
Optus is planning to double its revenues to about $11 billion annually in the next seven to 10 years and is considering using offshore call centres as early as next year as part of its growth push — you have to wonder if this plan is less about the money and more about solving the problem of their current dodgy locally outsourced call centre generating more complaints against the company than all other services combined
Dodgeit allows you to create throw-away email addresses (for crappy registration sites), and then delivers the email that comes into the resulting mailbox as an RSS feed that you and everyone else who can guess at your throwaway email addy can read
In the midst of a film industry crackdown on digital movie piracy, filmmaker Robert Greenwald is urging rampant, unauthorised copying of his documentary criticising the Bush administration’s reasons for invading Iraq The 56-minute film, Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War, concludes that President Bush and his team distorted intelligence data and misled the American public ahead of the March invasion that toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein
The recording industry can’t force Internet providers to identify music downloaders, a federal appeals court said Friday in a major decision shielding online privacy while undercutting the industry’s anti-piracy campaign
The Ekip, a pita-bread-shaped, stubby-winged, wheel-less, unmanned ship that weighs in at 500 pounds. For more than two decades, engineers at a former Soviet aerospace plant have been toiling on a drone aircraft that looks a whole lot like a prop from Plan 9 From Outer Space
Yamaha has a series of very realistic origami motorcycles, freely downloadable from their site. There’s also a cool little article on how the models are made
Lawyer Marisa Kakoulas has written an interesting article on copyright and tattoos
How fast is fast enough? That is the question buyers of Wi-Fi wireless local area network equipment are asking themselves in the wake of new standards and claims by vendors that they can deliver data at eye-popping rates. In reality, the systems for small business and home networks rarely approach those rates
The Heliodisplay is an interactive technology that projects into the air above the machine still or moving images that can be manipulated with a fingertip. The images are two-dimensional, and they are not holograms. The Heliodisplay’s inventor, Chad Dyner, says the technology could one day replace conventional cathode-ray tubes, liquid-crystal displays and plasma screens
The entire town of Tortilla Flat, Arizona, is up for auction on eBay.
THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO OWN YOUR OWN HISTORIC TOWN. TORTILLA FLAT IS ONE OF THE LAST REMNANTS OF THE OLD WEST. THE SCHOOL, GENERAL STORE, RESTAURANT, OLD TIME ICE CREAM & CANDY STORE AND THE POST OFFICE HAVE BEEN RESTORED OR REBUILT. TORTILLA FLAT IS LOCATED 18 MILES NORTH-EAST OF APACHE JUNCTION, ARIZONA ON HIGHWAY 88 AND IS THE ONLY SETTLEMENT BETWEEN THE ‘JUNCTION’ AND ROOSEVELT DAM, A DISTANCE OF 47 MILES. THE SETTLEMENT IS SITUATED IN THE VALLEY ALONG TORTILLA CREEK SURROUNDED BY THE MYSTERIOUS SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS, THE LEGENDARY LOCATION OF THE LOST DUTCHMANS MINE. TO DRIVE TO TORTILLA FLAT IS TO PASS THROUGH SOME OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR SCENERY IN THE WORLD. TORTILLA FLAT’S FINE RESTAURANT, THE SUPERSTITION SALOON, IS FAMOUS FOR ITS KILLER CHILI, HUGE HALF-POUND COWBOY BURGERS AND HOME-COOKED MEXICAN FOOD. IT’S KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND REGULARLY VISITED NOT ONLY BY LOCAL RANCHERS, COWBOYS AND PROSPECTORS, BUT ALSO BY PEOPLE FROM SURROUNDING TOWNS AND TRAVELERS FROM ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES AS WELL AS THE WORLD. IT IS A DESTINATION PLACE FOR ARIZONA. YOU ARE PURCHASING ALL THE BUILDINGS/LAND IS LEASED FROM THE TONTO NATIONAL FOREST SERVICE CALL 1-888-299-6792 ASK FOR SHERRI PACK EXCULSIVE AGENT TO REQUEST ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
The first order of business for the new owner will be to fix the busted shift-key on the town’s lone computer.
The Supreme Court of the Netherlands reaffirmed that it is lawful to make the filesharing software KaZaA publicly available. This court is the first Supreme Court or other national high court ruling on the legality of peer-to-peer technologies such as KaZaA. The outcome of the case, brought in a counter-suit by music rights society Buma/Stemra, has been closely watched by the entertainment industry, technology businesses and consumer advocates. This victory sets the precedent about the legality of peer-to-peer technology across the European Union, and around the world
Australian researchers have worked with their US counterparts to develop a way of making public key authentication ubiquitous and more accessible by encoding it as a sound
A new study will investigate results suggesting African rats could test saliva samples far faster than human technicians, allowing early treatment of tuberculosis
Malamutes and Huskies are watch dogs only so far as watching the burglar enter your house and take your goods goes. It’s a trait of both breeds.
Humans, on the other hand, are supposed to be more on the ball with the watching of things. It doesn’t exactly explain why people who lob up at my front door seem incapable of using the bell. I don’t have a door knocker or one of those electronic button thingies, I have a dirty great brass bell mounted at eye level beside the door. You can’t miss it. And yet I quite often find people standing there staring at it, perhaps they think it’s ornamental.
Yesterday I got the bell starers. They were distracted by the Husky, who sat at the door and looked adorable. He didn’t bother mentioning the visitors to me and I didn’t realise they were there until I heard them talking to Husky.
Oh, aren’t you adorable. You’re the cutest thing.
He just sat there, tail wagging and a big doggy grin, agreeing with them.
Curious as to who was talking to my Husky, I answered the door and, instead of spiel, I got asked if my Husky was a Malamute. So I got to use the line:
This isn’t a Malamute, that— enter Malamute hurtling in from the backyard —is a Malamute.
You make your fun where you can.
The luddites at the PM’s Press office have just sent out a 10MB PowerPoint presentation to everyone on the PM’s media list. It consists solely of pictures of the PM’s staff having a high old time on a single page. Printing down to PDF it’s a mere 250+KB. They have therefore unnecessarily clogged up mailboxes up and down the country — those that even allow PowerPoint documents through the firewall. They need a cluebat from Edward Tufte
US federal regulators are expected to set aside a swath of spectrum for a new wireless technology that would let motorists use small display screens to get traffic updates, buy fast food or find a nearby hotel
Swiftel engineers are close to finding the cause of a lengthy outage that left its Victorian ADSL customers without service Monday
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