The European Union has pledged to stamp its identify firmly on the internet, setting up its own .eu top-level domain for use by individuals and businesses across the continent
Australia’s famous School of the Air has launched its new satellite teaching service that will bring video lessons to some of the most remote parts of Australia
Hewlett-Packard is working on a new consumer photography system that could casually capture terabytes of images from a person’s daily life and store them in data centres, where they could later be retrieved for conventional printing
Yes the days of the GIF are numbered, or at least they should be. The PNG (Portable Network Graphic), is a far superior format over gif for reasons such as: it produces smaller file sizes while retaining higher quality and alpha channel transparency support. For more info on PNG files visit the W3C. Then head on over here and sign the Proper PNG Support in Internet Explorer for Windows petition.
Go forth! Your web graphics needs you!
Vigilantes are fighting back at spammers by giving them a taste of their own medicine
A Pentagon project called LifeLog seeks to record every bit of information that can be had, index it by name, or SSN or even location, and make the database searchable. While locally, a national ID number for students and a new computer system to track them has been compared with the failed Australia card bid in the 1980s
They are the information and research staff of the Parliamentary Library are fuming at the prospect of having access to net nasties cut off by a new filtering system
Mac users rejoice: as my first experiment with Java, I’ve written a half-arsed port of the classic Windows game Minesweeper.
You can download the source as a zip archive here, or post a comment if you’d prefer a tarball.
It’s not an applet, so you might need a JDK to run it. Have fun.
Macs are a bit like docs – they don’t die they just linger. This article on BBC News , The Mac that Lego built is a perfect example.
Interesting case. Pete Townshend had informed authorities about what he was doing and why before he checked out the site and they didn’t give a shit until someone in America at a later date busts the company involved and trolls through their records.
He went about it the wrong way, but is there anyone else bothering to even check these sites? The cops are underfunded, poorly equipped and rarely have the manpower — let alone the appropriately trained personnel — to do it properly.
Without signing in there is no way of knowing anything about the site. Are the photos real? Are kids being abused and, if so, do the photographs provide clues that could help find the children? Are they photoshopped images? Are they just photos of kids playing in the park? Was it a scam to part you from your money? Is it a sting operation?
As signing up for the service would almost certainly direct to another domain, it may be the only way to connect to the people behind the operation. And naming these people publicly may be enough to stop them.
As I said, not the smartest thing to attempt. But there is no public record I know of — haven’t bothered looking — notifying everyone that your neighbour Bob is running a kiddie porn operation from his basement.
A dangerous thing to do if you happen to get the details wrong and Bob is just the unlucky guy who inherited an old phone number or domain from the real perpetrator. It also puts you in the same league as the brain donors who publicly list the details of doctors they believe perform abortions in the hope some loose cannon will off them.
Tangentially, I was channel surfing last night and ran across The Tin Drum, a world renown film about a boy whose response to the passive acceptance of Nazism in Germany by those around him is to refuse to grow up. Amazing movie. Interestingly enough, this film has at times been banned in parts of the US for obscenity and child pornography.
The lowly cockroach, loathed as an abhorrent creature worth crushing beneath one’s shoe, has found respect in an unlikely place — a robotics laboratory at Stanford University
The spam-blocking technique that’s attracted the most attention recently is a very simple one: challenge-response technology. The problem with CR systems is that Mailblocks claims to own all rights to the concept and hopes to prevent anyone else from selling such a system without paying hefty licensing fees.
South Korea’s OhmyNews is a unique experiment in citizen journalism
: Anyone who registers with the site can become a paid reporter
I guess Mac owners like their boxes how they are — until they break. Daniele Procida converted an old Apple by modding the machine with Lego
Tourism Tasmania has lost its bid to secure the rights to a domain name currently being used to criticise the Tasmanian Government’s forestry policy
Hitachi has developed technology to make DVDs with storage capacity for 200 movies and aimed to commercialise the technology in 2007. It involves stacking multiple data-storing layers to ensure accurate reading and writing of a vast amount of data that can run up to 400 hours
Lawrence Lessig is predicting that the days of the Commons of the Internet are over, and that as a result of FCC deregulation, the concentration of digital rights in the hands of just a few large media companies will kill the internet for good. Even former FOX and Vivendi executive Barry Diller has criticised the move
CarFree.com is a great site that proposes a delightful solution to the vexing problem of urban automobiles
Genius will go online next week with the establishment of a new web site of Albert Einstein‘s scientific and other writings. The site is a collaborative effort of the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech and the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Australia, Canada, Japan and Chile joined a call by the US Federal Trade Commission and other agencies said for open relay
mail servers to be closed
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