om3ga has performed an experiment as to the best method to fix scratched CDs. He set himself the criteria that it can’t take longer that 5 minutes and it has to be something in his house. The result isn’t what you’d think… Hair Gel — via Slashdot
Green Wi-Fi is a non-profit that seeks to provide last mile internet access with nothing more than a single broadband internet connection, rooftops and the sun. Their wi-fi access nodes, which consist of a small solar panel, a heavy-duty battery, and a router, can be linked together to extend one internet connection into a larger network
Last week the BBC demanded video host YouTube remove many copies of its Top Gear
TV service from its web site. That was because, this week, the BBC made Top Gear
available in its entirety on-line at BBC2 — via digg
YouTube removed all parody/fanfilm/spoof Star Wars content two days ago due to copyright violation. This morning, in an incredibly awesome PR move, Lucasfilm contacted YouTube, and told them to put it all back online — every last one — via digg
Telstra’s hopes of building a $3.4 billion fibre broadband network are near collapse, with negotiations between telco and competition regulator set to be abandoned as early as today
Time Warner says its plan for AOL to offer free email and web services will generate higher profits starting next year, rejecting Wall Street concerns that the move could destroy the internet division’s main source of revenue
Computer researchers are developing a prototype architecture for halting distributed denial-of-service attacks, where a barrage of traffic is directed at a server to shut it down
Armor Holdings plans to start selling their liquid armour next year. The new armour, originally envisioned to be spread on like peanut butter, is instead sprayed onto Kevlar in ultrathin coats. It’s a mix of polyethylene glycol, a polymer found in laxatives and other consumer products, and nanobits of silica, or purified sand. Together they produce a sheer-thickening liquid
that stiffens instantly into a shield when hit hard by an object. It reverts to its liquid state just as fast when the energy from the projectile dissipates — via Slashdot
Boston is toying with a somewhat unique approach to their version of the city-wide low-cost wireless network. Rather than put the network in the hands of a private organisation under contract the city may allow a non-profit group to run the show — via Slashdot
The federal government may tap the vast pool of social resources behind blogs and websites such as Flickr and Wikipedia to boost its online information services
A substance found in crab shells called chitosan has very useful properties. For example, it has been used in bandages to stop bleeding. But now, researchers at the University of Maryland have used the chitosan from blue crabs living in Chesapeake Bay as a component of a nanoscale sensor system which could save many lives in the future. These blue crab nanosensors will be used to improve security in airports, hospitals and other public locations by detecting tiny amounts of explosives or chemicals in air and water — via Slashdot
AOL will test launch a new internet video service in an attempt to demonstrate how much it has learned from its mistakes. The new service, AOL Video, aims to be the one-stop shop for online videos and will let users search for videos across the web, upload their own, or buy or watch for free thousands of TV shows from any one of 45 video-on-demand channels on nearly any device
The House of Representatives voted on restricting access to social sites on public terminals. The bill, which passed the House in a 410-15 vote, would bar users from accessing sites like Amazon, MySpace, or Slashdot from terminals in libraries and schools. Adults would be able to ask permission
to access such sites — via Slashdot
For years, the RIAA has claimed that having the IP address of a computer that has shared unauthorised files is the equivalent of having the evidence of who was actually sharing files. That, of course, is false. The IP address simply can help you know who paid for the internet access, but not who was using what computer on a network
Samsung has developed a new PC memory technology that will allow PCs running Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Vista operating system to boot up much faster than is currently possible
In a meeting that will go down in internet history, the United States government last night conceded that it can no longer expect to maintain its position as the ultimate authority over the internet. Having been the internet’s instigator and, since 1998, its voluntary taskmaster, the US government finally agreed to transition its control over not-for-profit internet overseeing organisation ICANN, making the organization a more international body
File-sharing service Kazaa, a longtime thorn in the side of the recording industry, has buried the hatchet with major record companies in a $100 million out-of-court settlement
IE7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a high priority
update via Automatic Updates in Windows XP, Gary Schare, Microsoft’s director of IE product management, said in an interview Tuesday in the US. Automatic Updates is a Windows feature typically used for security updates, but Microsoft has also used it to push its antipiracy tool WGA Notifications
Australians should not be experiencing problems accessing US Web sites despite network issues connecting the country to the USA, according to Southern Cross Cable Network. The owner of 30,000 kilometres of cable network linking Australia and New Zealand to the US, Southern Cross said a hardware failure
in its network located in California — not the undersea cable itself — was the cause of the downtime. However, traffic was re-routed to its secondary line this morning as soon as the failure was detected
New Zealanders will be able to watch video services such as internet protocol television as early as next year using a high-speed network developed by Telecom New Zealand. The likelihood of Australians using such services on a widespread basis soon are low, with news yesterday that Telstra’s talks with the competition regulator over a $4 billion fibre-network have all but collapsed
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