Allegations are flying around the world as consumer groups battle printer makers over claims that some inkjets tell porkies about how much ink is really left in a cartridge
DSL Reports are currently pursuing a spammer from the West Palm Beach, Florida area and have been quite successful. More interesting is that the spammer appears to be posting in the thread
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is going for several notorious anti-abortionists necks and a famous cybersquatter in a case it has brought over nine domains it claims infringe its trademarks
Remember those hours you wasted playing Star Control 2? Waste them again on *nix, OSX or Windows for free here.
For the first time in three years something has happened in browser land. In fact, major events have started happening at a breathtaking pace
Daring Fireball is running an interesting article linking men’s wigs and web design, the problem being that the client can’t understand the concept of less is more
Who would ever, in this time of the greatest interconnectivity in human history, go back to shipping bytes around via snail mail as a preferred means of data transfer? Jim Gray would do it, that’s who. And not just Zip disks, this guy ships entire hard drives, or even complete computer systems, packed full of disks
If you thought mobiles couldn’t get more annoying, think again. Ringback tones personalise the ring, ring
sound that traditionally has covered the silence between the time that people enter digits and when the call is answered. I have to wonder at the thought that’s gone into this idea, because people have come to associate music with being put on hold and are likely to hang up on you
After having its funding cut off by Congress a decade ago, the SETI program has just received a NASA five-year grant to participate as a lead team in the NASA Astrobiology Institute, which investigates the origin and future of life in the universe
Interesting article on Declan McCullagh’s PoliTech mailing list, a member of an ad hoc group of urban infiltration enthusiasts has offered his opinion that civil infrastructure of most major cities is ridiculously easy to disrupt. He argues that terrorists aren’t serious about destroying said infrastructure, but neither are the governments interested when it comes to the mammoth task of safeguarding cities
Derek Wyatt MP, Chair of the All Party Internet Group, has set up a Web site to encourage consumers to fight back against spam email. EndSpam, includes advice about how consumers can complain to their ISP about unsolicited commercial email or complain to their MP about the issue of spam in general
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced the first round of Wi-Fi Certified interoperable 802.11g products
While the English version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has hit the shelves around the world, non-English-speaking fans of the series have been left high and dry — and some of them are getting desperate
George Gobel, 1996 winner of the Ig Nobel prize for chemistry for lighting a barbecue with liquid oxygen, has had his extended home page pulled by Purdue University. The site has even been removed from Google’s cache. Fortunately, the Wayback Machine still has a copy in its archives
Telstra’s latest Web hosting offering has come under fire from a competitor for its claims to target small to medium enterprises with low-cost Web hosting
A feature of the new web site of the Australian High Tech Crime Centre is an email crime reporting service that allows you to report an electronic crime such as hacking without ever having to take your eyes off the computer screen
A series of legal skirmishes over who owns the real estate on a computer user’s screen is turning into a war. With companies like Gator happy to facilitate serving ads on rival sites
Some idiot at work has stuck a poster of Justin Timberlake half naked up on one of our toilet cubicle doors at work. This has now resulted in me never going in the third toilet cubicle and I’m sure many others feel the same. What’s really scary is that I’m one of the youngest females here and I find this guy repulsive, so that means that the older more mature women in content and customer service think he’s hot, mate
. UUgghhh!
On another note I cannot locate an iPod. I’ve been told by various Apple stores that stores all over Australia are still waiting to fill back orders. GGRRRRR I want my iPod NOW damn it!
Hopefully my frustration will be replaced with one of these gorgeous objects of appley-loveliness within 2 – 3 weeks.
The British Library is hoping that its range of downloadable natural
ringtones — featuring such aural delights as the song of a cuckoo or
squawk of a penguin — will replace current favourites such as the
Mission Impossible theme and Tubular Bells
Where an enlightened post-Soviet era government believes the Internet is essential for life in the 21st century and backs that up with legislation declaring Internet access is a human right. Estonia is a country where hot, running water was a luxury a decade ago. It’s now a place where farmers have broadband Internet, 80% of the people use online banking, Internet usage and broadband penetration rates are comparable to Western Europe, and the government conducts most business virtually through a system of networked computers. Not bad for a country that only ten years ago was a crumbling, bankrupt mess with a network infrastructure to match
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