There is concern mine drilling holes in the Tarkine in north-west Tasmania could be a death trap for Tasmanian devils.
Tarkine National Coalition spokesman Scott Jordan says he counted nine uncapped drill holes at the proposed site of a Shree Minerals mine in the Arthur-Pieman Conservation Area.
The group says nine of the marsupials died recently in a similar uncapped bore hole on a farm.
He says devils are enticed into the holes and can become trapped — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Besieged online gambling site Full Tilt Poker has had its licence revoked.
The move comes after the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) held a hearing about the US-run site, which is registered on the Channel Island of Alderney.
The AGCC said that the owners of Full Tilt Poker had misled authorities over the amount of cash to hand.
This month, the US accused the firm of being a global Ponzi scheme
that defrauded players out of $440m (£289m).
Full Tilt Poker’s licence was suspended by the AGCC in June — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of the two journalists who uncovered the Watergate scandal has said that he was struck by the parallels
between the News of the World phone-hacking affair and the saga that brought down Richard Nixon in the 1970s.
Carl Bernstein said on Thursday night that the two events were shattering cultural moments of huge consequence that are going to be with us for generations
and that both were about corruption at the highest levels, about the corruption of the process of a free society
.
The American reporter, speaking at an event in London organised by the Guardian, specifically likened Rupert Murdoch, the News of the World’s proprietor, to the ousted US president in his relation to criminal acts and alleged criminal acts conducted by their respective employees and subordinates — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The communications watchdog has told the business community to ensure customers can unsubscribe from their email lists or face spamming penalties.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) today issued a Sydney-based computer supplier Apus Corporation with a formal warning after it found that its unsubscribe facility failed on 24 occasions — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Journalist and political commentator Andrew Bolt has been found guilty of breaching the Racial Discrimination Act over a series of articles he wrote two years ago.
Bolt was being sued in the Federal Court by nine Aboriginal people including former ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark, academic Professor Larissa Behrendt, activist Pat Eatock, photographer Bindi Cole, author Anita Heiss, health worker Leeanne Enoch, native title expert Graham Atkinson, academic Wayne Atkinson and lawyer Mark McMillan.
They alleged a series of articles written by Bolt two years ago implied light-skinned people who identified as Aboriginal did so for personal gain — via redwolf.newsvine.com
What makes individual stockbrokers blow billions in financial markets with criminal trading schemes? According to a new study conducted at a Swiss university, it may be because share traders behave more recklessly and are more manipulative than psychopaths — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Pharmacists have been accused of putting money ahead of patients’ interests after striking a controversial deal to market dietary supplements with prescription medicines.
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia, which represents 94 per cent of Australia’s 5200 pharmacies, has agreed to start recommending a range of Blackmores products to patients when they pick up prescriptions for anti-biotics, blood pressure drugs, cholesterol medicine and proton pump inhibitors.
Last week, Blackmores chief executive Christine Holgate told Pharmacy News the deal meant they could provide the Coke and fries
with prescription drugs while providing pharmacies with a new and important revenue stream
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has lost a court case against Google over claims advertising on the internet search giant’s main website could be confused with search results.
The case centred around sponsored links by online trading company Trading Post. One such case involved the Newcastle car dealer Kloster Ford. According to the judgement, a search of “Kloster Ford” back in 2005 gave “sponsored link” results that would direct customers to the Trading Post website.
The competition watchdog alleged that because the headline of the link often referred to just the business name alone — for example, Kloster Ford — and then redirected to the Trading Post website, which had no affiliation with the real Kloster Ford, Google and Trading Post were engaged in deceptive conduct.
The ACCC also alleged that Google was misleading consumers by not making it clear that sponsored links were advertisements.
In the Federal Court in Sydney today, however, Justice John Nicholas found that while the Trading Post had been misleading in its conduct regarding the advertisements, Google was not engaged in deceptive conduct as it had merely been the messenger between the advertiser and the consumer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
News Limited is to undergo a major rebranding exercise which will see it become News Australia early next year, according to leaked document obtained today by Crikey.
According to Crikey, three agencies have been approached to pitch on the major rebranding, codenamed Project Darwin and timed for early next year — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two Chinese telecommunications giants have reportedly teamed up to build a new subsea cable between Australia and New Zealand, estimated to be worth US$100 million.
Axin, the Australasian agent and representative of China Communications Service Corp, wants to build a 2300km cable between Auckland and Sydney, and has tapped Huawei Marine Networks Co to help build the link.
The direct link between the two countries would mean that companies seeking to only transfer information between the two countries would not have to share capacity on international subsea cables that redirect overseas, such as the Southern Cross cable or the planned Pacific Fibre cable that both iiNet and Vodafone NZ plan to use for international traffic.
Its capacity will probably be smaller than the existing Southern Cross Cable and the prospective Pacific Fibre cable — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The US Justice Department on Tuesday accused poker celebrities Howard Lederer and Christopher Ferguson among other executives of a major poker website of defrauding poker players out of more than $300 million.
The US Attorney in the Southern District of New York filed a motion Tuesday to amend an earlier civil complaint to allege that Mr Ferguson, Mr Lederer and two other directors for the website, Full Tilt Poker, operated what the Justice Department says was a Ponzi scheme that allowed the company to pay out $444 million to themselves and other owners, which included other famous poker players — via redwolf.newsvine.com
PayPal is consigning the shop till to the dustbin in a way that could completely wipe Visa and MasterCard out of the shopping equation.
The website is gearing up to allow punters to pay for products in-store by scanning barcodes with a mobile, and allow payments to be authorised with a phone number — among other new features.
Merchants will be able to push location-based adverts and vouchers, and the site will offer a buy-now-pay-later service. What’s more, there’s no demand for an NFC chip.
Some strategic start-up acquisitions, including the snapping up of BillMeLater.com and shop search website Milo.com, have given PayPal the firepower to break into these new areas — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The battle over software and video piracy took a turn yesterday when a Florida file hosting service sued Warner Brothers for allegedly engaging in copyright fraud and abuse of anti-piracy laws. Hotfile accuses the Warner Bros of using the hosting company’s anti-piracy tools to remove titles the studio doesn’t own, including open source software. Hotfile is asking a court to make it whole for the losses they claim Warner Bros caused.
The suit is in response to a ruling in a related case. This spring, Warner joined with four other studios and the Motion Picture Association of America to sue Hotfile for facilitating illegal file transfers. Two weeks ago, a judge ruled that Hotfile must release detailed information about its users and affiliates. Hotfile’s countersued yesterday, alleging copyright fraud — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Church of Scientology is facing the prospect of back-pay claims that on some estimates could run into millions of dollars.
In March last year the ABC’s Four Corners broadcast a program containing allegations of mistreatment and exploitation of some of the church’s most loyal members.
The next day, the Fair Work ombudsman started an investigation into the church.
ABC’s Lateline has obtained a draft copy of that investigation’s report, which contains allegations of false imprisonment and forced labour — via redwolf.newsvine.com
ANRA represents Australian retail businesses with a turnover of over $100 million a year, including Coles, Woolworths, Franklins, Bunnings Warehouse, Just Jeans and Jay Jays.
Speaking to ZDNet Australia at the hearing into the economic structure and performance of the Australian retail industry today, the CEO of ANRA, Margy Osmond, said that a carbon tax would see consumers go offshore to get better prices, leaving Australian bricks-and-mortar businesses to suffer with high costs and low sales — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In Britain, the phone-hacking scandal has put Rupert Murdoch’s media empire under unprecedented scrutiny. Questions are being asked about News Corporation’s influence over British democracy — its capacity to make and break prime ministers and to set the policy agenda of the day.
In Australia, similar questions must also be asked. News Limited controls 70 per cent of our nation’s media, representing the greatest concentration of media ownership in the democratic world.
The question for politicians and the community in this context is whether this huge concentration of media ownership and dwindling diversity is in the public interest. We can all argue about what constitutes media bias and what doesn’t, but with less and less diversity of media coverage and opportunities for journalists to dig deeper into an issue, proper scrutiny of policymakers of all stripes and persuasions is in fact limited — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Every time changes to the copyright monopoly are considered, the profits of major entertainment industry companies are at the centre of the discussion. Even the people who fiercely defend the right to share information freely are going to extreme lengths to argue that this will not hurt the revenues of the copyright industry. But why are these profits even relevant? Why should we care about the profits of these companies?
It is almost apologetic. Apologetic for defending the civil rights that our ancestors fought, bled and died to give us, their children and grandchildren.
Thinking about what hurts and doesn’t hurt sales misses the point entirely. A corporation’s profits must never be at the centre of policymaking, much less the centre of determining what fundamental civil liberties we have as free citizens — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Melbourne web domain kingpin has received death threats after he blew the lid on emerging fraud campaigns.
Attackers warned Michael Gilmour that he would be killed unless he removed a series of blog articles that warned domain name buyers of a new scam sweeping the industry.
Ten days ago, a large denial of service attack from a global botnet slammed into Gilmour’s personal blog, where the articles were posted, and his business website. Both have remained under attack and offline.
Gilmour shrugged off the attacks until he noticed the death threats embedded as URLs in the attack logs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Paul Howes, Michael Danby, Andrew Bolt, Gerard Henderson: have all joined in a very public campaign that draws a line between the Brenner protests and Fascist anti-semitism.
It’s certainly true that, throughout Australia, fascists are increasingly taking an interest in the Max Brenner rallies. But here’s the thing: they’re not supporting the protests.
They’re supporting the stores.
The newest face of what’s euphemistically-called the nationalist community
is an outfit called the Australian Protectionist Party. The APP was formed by Mark Wilson, a former organiser of the fascist British National Party, who emigrated to Australia in the 1980s. One of the APP’s most active members is Nicholas Hunter-Folkes. He was formerly the administrator of a charming Facebook group called Fuck off, we’re full
. More recently, however, he launched a new Facebook event entitled Protest Against the Mad Marxists
: essentially, a counter-rally in support of the Sydney Max Brenner shop.
The hardline left, radical Muslim and student groups have been campaigning for the closure of any business with links to Israel,
he explains, […] The left totally ignore the aggression and agenda of the Islamists in the Middle East and also in Australia.
Another prominent APP leader is Darrin Hodges, a long-time racist activist. Joe Hildebrand once identified Hodges as the semi-anonymous poster on the Nazi Stormfront site explaining that: I’m more interested in the purer form of fascism… and while I don’t subscribe to the whole ‘worship Hitler’ thing, his comments on multiculturalism and politics in general are still just as relevant today as they were 70-odd years ago
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two researchers who set up doppelganger domains to mimic legitimate domains belonging to Fortune 500 companies say they managed to vacuum up 20 gigabytes of misaddressed e-mail over six months.
The intercepted correspondence included employee usernames and passwords, sensitive security information about the configuration of corporate network architecture that would be useful to hackers, affidavits and other documents related to litigation in which the companies were embroiled, and trade secrets, such as contracts for business transactions.
Twenty gigs of data is a lot of data in six months of really doing nothing,
said researcher Peter Kim from the Godai Group. And nobody knows this is happening.
Doppelganger domains are ones that are spelled almost identically to legitimate domains, but differ slightly, such as a missing period separating a subdomain name from a primary domain name — as in the case of seibm.com as opposed to the real se.ibm.com domain that IBM uses for its division in Sweden.
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