The American Academy of Diplomacy web site has been hit by attackers who posted a page stating no war
, as the crisis over Iraq heads toward military confrontation
Ipsos-Reid has released its latest research on file trading. Bottom line, the great majority of users do not believe they are breaking the law. Only 9% feel there is anything wrong with their actions. With 40 million Americans identified as active file traders this is indeed stirring information, though not surprising. Another stat, 73% of US downloaders report that their motivation for trading was to sample music for later purchase
Donald Scott offers an insight into the horrors and perils of providing tech support for your family
Researchers from Stanford University have claimed to have extracted a private key from a SSL based Web-server by using timing based attack techniques
Increasing numbers of small to medium ISPs are challenging the widespread Australian regime of limited data downloads with new and innovative approaches to pricing
Estari is making dual head laptops. Orient it like a book, you have two portrait-oriented touch sensitive monitors. Orient it like a laptop and one of the monitors becomes a soft keyboard. Not they don’t come cheap, with a starting price of US$4,000 — via Slashdot
Build your own 1:5 scale Sherman tank, it comes complete with working suspension, meticulously built wooden tank treads and X-Arcade controls — via Slashdot
Toshiba has come up with a cartridge full of methanol which could be used as an alternative to battery power
A Texas start-up has developed a system for immediately backing up and restoring email and other communication services in case of an outage — any outage. Just as important: MessageOne‘s service costs 90% to 95% less than conventional backup systems
Mozilla 1.3 is out and about. New to this version are features like image auto sizing, bayesian junk-mail filtering, dynamic profile switching, about:config for a pretty view into all of Mozilla’s secret
settings, an initial version of Midas for rich text editing, and a lot of other fixes for performance, standards compliance and site compatibility — via Slashdot
The recording industry condemns the launch of two systems that will allow people to copy up to 100 hours of music onto a single disk
European Commission experts have concluded that Microsoft violated EU antitrust rules, and the experts have proposed two major requirements: making Microsoft share more proprietary information with its rivals and uncoupling its Media Player audio-visual software from the Windows operating system
The Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights, one of the Scientology cult’s more obnoxious front organisations that is basically a hate group targeting mental health professions, engages in domain hijacking. They grabbed wfmh.net in an attempt to poach surfers looking for the World Federation for Mental Health
Telstra broadband cable users will receive a 25 percent rebate for February due to downtime, the second rebate to be paid to customers in as many months
Weblogs have been around for years but have gained rampant popularity only recently. This immense interest now is carrying over to the corporate world, where a few companies already are deploying corporate Weblogs for both internal and external communications
In an era of high-tech war and space-age cyberweapons, Sony’s PlayStation 3 is promising the most radical advance in computer technology and design since the introduction of the personal computer 25 years ago
Telstra has moved to terminate several BigPond user accounts and signaled a more aggressive anti-spam policy to avert the threat of being excluded from global newsgroup communities due to large volumes of spam being sent via BigPond news servers
Mitchell Baker discusses why browser innovation matters — especially Gecko, and why it will survive things like Safari — via Slashdot
Australia’s approach to broadband infrastructure is pitiful and we need to stop fiddling around
with technologies such as DSL and get serious
Afghanistan has entered the Internet era with the launch of its own .af domain, and two web sites
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