Aiirnet will next month begin installing the largest single Wi-Fi deployment in the nation in the city of Cerritos in Southern California. Ultimately, anyone with a laptop or wireless device will be able to surf the Web from virtually anywhere in the city’s 22km² area
Bored with Lorem Ipsum? The clever little rodents who brought us the entertaining Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer quiz have developed another fine tool, based on years of careful research, for generating carefully crafted dummy text to enhance your latest masterpiece
Li Zhi, a former government worker in southwest China, was jailed for eight years for posting essays and comments online criticising official corruption
The UK has taken matters into its own hands and is making it a criminal offence to send e-mails or text messages unless the recipient has agreed in advance to accept them, the law is in effect now. Unfortunately much spam originates from the US so the UK had previously asked the US to co-operate
Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore announced that his office had made its first felony indictment under the state’s antispam law. The charges were filed against North Carolina resident Jeremy Jaynes, also known under the pseudonym Gaven Stubberfield, for allegedly using fraudulent means to transmit unsolicited bulk e-mail
If you’re based in Denmark you can call TeleDanmark directory service on 118 and get them to do google queries for you. So now you can avoid harassing your friends in front of computers and pay your monopolistic telco $2 instead
The site rates a mention as an example of stylesheet switchers over on Joe Clark’s site
By 2020, we might actually have wireless Internet interfaces that ordinary people will feel comfortable having implanted in their heads, just as ordinary people are today comfortable with having laser eye surgery. All the signs — early experimental successes, societal demand for improved healthcare, and military research — point in that direction
Gary Price points out that in their quest to become the command line of the Internet, Google has added several new features: you can now enter UPS and FedEx, patent, aircraft registration, and FCC equipment ID/tracking numbers
Wireless guru Rob Flickenger details the known records for Wi-Fi link distances, included is a new distance record for an un-amplified Wi-Fi link, set by the students of Utah’s Weber State University. 82 miles was accomplished with 802.11b
A research group at the Australian National University is getting symmetrical 250Kbps at 20km, using empty 7MHz-wide broadcast TV allocations in the 45MHz band. Story here, project homepage here. Aim is to put some bandwidth out beyond the reach of the wires, where users are few and far between
New Zealanders use the internet more than their neighbours across the Tasman as well as 30 other countries covered by a new international survey
This year, Google started a widely used news service. Last week, it seemed to some users of the Google search engine that the site had started to editorialise. Anyone searching on Google for the phrase miserable failure was sent to the official White House biography of the retarded monkey boy. George Johnston, is the man who started this particular Google bomb
When officer Jason Zier pulled over a 1992 Mazda 626 on Thursday afternoon, the vehicle’s registration had expired. By the time he’d finished writing up Sean Leach for the infraction, the car was legal again. That’s because the 36-year-old Jersey City man had a mobile, a friend with a computer who he could reach and the foresight to use the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission’s online registration service. Leach’s ingenuity did not save him from getting a ticket, but it did keep him from having his car towed and getting socked with the towing bill
Seduced by the siren song of wireless access throughout the home, many a user has experienced the discrepancy between the manufacturer’s advertised claims (150 feet indoors, 300 outside) and real-world implementation (the living room and upstairs bedroom may as well be on different continents). In steely-eyed determination to exercise his inalienable right to network access anywhere on his property, Paul Boutin hired a Wi-Fi engineer to help him bathe his property in 802.11 waves, using only mass-market consumer hardware
The European Union has asked nine member nations that have failed to adopt a privacy law intended to help the fight against unwanted email to describe how they intend to comply with the law
Should the Internet come under control of the United Nations? That will be one of the most contentious issues at the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva this week. Paul Twomey, the president of ICANN, found out what it feels like to be voiceless after being escorted from the meeting room
ATM frauds are a clever combination of social engineering and hardware hacking. The most sophisticated thefts involve the purchase and setup of real ATMs that actually do dispense cash to avoid suspicion, but are altered to save both the card’s magnetic signature and the customers PIN, which are later added to false cards and used to empty bank accounts at real ATMS
Hurrah! Not too long ago my attention was drawn to this. Did you click, read and watch? No? Well you’ve got some attention span issues, (or low bandwidth). To recap, guy buys first generation iPod. 18 months later battery only holds charge for 1 hour. Not good. Apple will replace battery for something like USD $255. He is advised to just buy another iPod. He’s not happy and makes a clever video documenting his response, which was to cleverly stencil iPod’s unreplacable battery only lasts 18 months
onto as many iPod posters as possible.
ipodsdirtysecret.com has now been updated with some good news. Apple have dropped battery service to USD $99 for out of warranty pods.
This price is far more reasonable. Whether or not ipodsdirtysecret.com was soley responsible for Apple’s price drop is still up for grabs. But it sure is a bit of a coincidence…
Hats off to the brothers Neistat anyways!
But just in case, off I go to purchase some Apple Care for my iPod.
Yahoo, owner of one of the largest e-mail systems in the world, is said to be developing a cryptographic product that will be offered freely to mail servers. Domain Keys, would require the message sender to authenticate in order for message to come across a trusted e-mail network
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