The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit against GoInternet.net, charging that it hawks Web presence over the phone and then assesses its targets on their phone bill without their authorisation
Incompatible new versions of the popular file-compression format could put the squeeze on users and as a result unravel support for Zip
New national e-crime guidelines have been launched by Standards Australia to help organisations deal with incidents following widespread concerns about the forensic status of computer-generated evidence
Merrill Lynch is set to ban access to outside e-mail services from sites such as AOL, Yahoo and MSN, in response to regulatory requirements and to protect its network from viruses
US District Judge Joseph Tauro has rejected an attempt by the recording industry to uncover the names students suspected of online music piracy
One of the sillier, yet oddly hypnotic, online games is Stare Down Sally, where you can try not to blink before Sally does
Ismo Rakkolainen and Karri Palovuori, from Tampere University of Technology, Finland, have come up with the Walk-thru Fog Screen. The fog screen, consisting of fog
that is blown down from top, and the protective laminar airflow creates a thin and crisp surface, pretty undisturbed by the air in the rest of the room, making it ideal for projector usage. People can walk right through this screen of fog. Their next idea is to use the fog as a touch-screen, making it even more accessible
Once again Telstra have disconnected ADSL with no warning. Their faults page mentions a miscellaneous 40 minute disruption of service in the early hours of the yesterday morning, but is typically silent over the seven hour downtime inflicted on many users in the Sydney area today
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Victoria Police will raid trading markets in search of pirated video games next weekend as the industry gears up for a crackdown on mod chipping
The morale boosting purchase of a talking Bob the Builder toy inspired a team of geeks to perform some exploratory surgery and endow Bob with some enhanced equipment… meet Evil Bob
Electronic Frontiers Australia has dismissed a proposal to restrict access to Internet accounts to those that can satisfy a 100 point identity check as ludicrous
From Randall Schwartz’s blog:
Can you tell a coder from a cannibal? Try to work out which of the photographs are of people who spent their time hacking computers and which preferred hacking away at corpses instead.
The mouse’s feature animation unit, along with two other studios, are using Photoshop in Linux. They use the Wine emulator to run the software and the three studios, not known as team players, all agreed that a project that would benefit the entire open-source community while delivering a technology they needed was worth their co-operation
It may seem Orwellian to some, but the first major commercial service that traces people’s locations using their mobile phones — mapAmobile — is designed more to ease the minds of worried parents and suspicious bosses than to enable unauthorised spying. While any new mobile purchased over the past 18 months in the US or is probably E911 capable, enabling law enforcement to home in on your phone in case of an emergency — like that isn’t going to be abused
After a period of neglect, the intellectual legacy of Seymour Cray, the father of the modern supercomputer, is being revived
Mobile phone users world-wide will soon be able to dial-a-dolphin if a scheme to record their underwater conversations proves a success
A power struggle erupts over a technology widely used to distribute weblogs, pitting blog pioneer Dave Winer against opponents at IBM, Google and others clamouring for a different format
A strange two-wheeled creature makes an appearance at the DefCon show in Las Vegas — a robot that’s designed to patrol around and sniff out security flaws in wireless networks
This was rejected from Slashdot, so you get to enjoy it here. Can you feel the love?
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that researchers have discovered a way to generate power for nanomachines using human blood. The method, devised by the Panasonic Nanotech Research Lab in Japan, proposes fuel cells that oxidise glucose in the form of blood sugar. In theory, a single human could generate 100 watts of power — if they didn’t need any of that blood sugar for themselves.
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