Spam is not speech, it is conduct, specifically, spam is conduct consisting of a denial-of-service attack which may or may not be targeted at users, systems, networks, mailing lists, or some combination of these, sometimes in small but often in very large quantities
Filtering firm SurfControl has compiled a list of the top 10 most annoying spam messages sent across the net in the last 12 months — via BBC News
Technology groups are going on the offensive against Hollywood in a bitter dispute over a call for government-mandated copy protection
David Berlind has written about organising an industry-wide anti-spam consortium, and now it looks like this initiative to jam spam is coming to life. Together, we can fashion a royalty-free, interoperable anti-spam protocol
Take a desktop printer, wash out its ink cartridge, refill it with a suspension of cells, and what do you get? The answer, according to Vladimir Mironov and Thomas Boland, is a breakthrough in tissue engineering. They have successfully produced three-dimensional tubes of living tissue using just such a technique. Their work is a first step towards printing complex tissues or even entire replacement organs
Internet address seller Network Solutions said it will apologise to tens of thousands of customers whose e-mail addresses the company inadvertently released
WhiteHat Security claims it has found a way to exploit a flaw in the way all web servers communicate
Complaints about identity theft nearly doubled in America during 2002, as what is that country’s fastest growing crime topped its government’s list of consumer frauds for a third consecutive year
Andersen is offering windows that double as entertainment centres, being used as projection screens for home entertainment systems and DVD players — via Slashdot
Sharp will soon launch a Linux-based home audio-visual server in Japan that uses a broadband connection to reach beyond the boundaries of the home and allow users access to their stored video and image files from computers connected to the Internet
Federal Communications Minister Senator Richard Alston said Australia is getting screwed
by internet carriers’ peering arrangements and that he would be directing competition and consumer watchdog the ACCC to do something about it
The Australian Labor Party has offered a prize of a case of Coca-Cola and $100 worth of Linux merchandise to anybody who can find a valid e-mail address for John Howard
A man who erased his drunk-driving record from a police computer and replaced it with a winking smiley face
graphic ended up with a suspended license and a fine when police failed to see the funny side
Legato Systems said a survey of Australian companies had shown that many of them could be breaching archives and corporation law by deleting business-related e-mail
Hillary Rosen, chairman and CEO of the ever clueless RIAA, has said that telcos and ISPs will be asked to pay up for giving their customers access to free song-swapping sites
The increase in use of embedded operating systems is causing strange things to happen to consumer products. Such as Windows CE in the BMW 745i occasionally causing the car to go nuts
A New York court has ruled that Network Associates, a maker of antivirus and computer security software, may not require people who buy the software to get permission from the company before publishing reviews of its products
At the heart of Microsoft’s new CD protection technology is the laying of songs onto a copy-controlled CD in multiple layers, one that would permit normal playback on a stereo and a PC — via Slashdot
The Western Australian Internet Association has criticised MediaForce, an organisation claiming to represent Warner Bros, for sending letters to Australian ISPs asking them to terminate the accounts of users alleged to have breached copyright requirements
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