New York has abruptly yanked an official web site after discovering that personal data from nearly 2,000 online job applicants — including home addresses and Social Security numbers — could be viewed by anyone
Senator Mike DeWine is crusading to hand the FBI new powers to eavesdrop on immigrants and other non-citizens living in America
Hundreds of sightings of enormous arrowhead-shaped aircraft that have been logged since the 80s just might have been solved. According to a new report by the National Institute for Discovery Science, the craft — referred to as Big Black Deltas, or BBDs — are massive black airships on the order of 600 feet long, 300 feet wide, and 40 feet tall, weighing on the order of 100 tons and capable of carrying huge loads over long distances — via Slashdot
The World Wide Web Consortium has published the Public Working Draft for XHTML 2.0. The second edition of the W3C recommendation for XHTML 1.0 is also available
Striking back against a computer that is attacking you may be illegal under US law, but security researcher Timothy Mullen, chief information officer of AnchorIS Inc, says people should be allowed to neutralise one that is unwittingly spreading destructive Internet worms like Nimda
A broad group of hackers and security experts have banded together to create a new service that assembles information on vulnerabilities, security tools and bug-related discussions
One of the great questions of contemporary American political economy is, who shall control the commons? The commons
refers to that vast range of resources that the American people collectively own, but which are rapidly being enclosed: privatised, traded in the market, and abused. The process of converting the American commons into market resources can accurately be described as enclosure because, like the movement to enclose common lands in eighteenth-century England, it involves the private appropriation of collectively owned resources
From BuyClamsOnline.com to billromanowskisucks.com, a stroll through the graveyard of defunct domain names offers a melancholy vision of monumentally stupid hopes that were cruelly dashed
In a scene somewhat reminiscent of the DVD format’s tumultuous adoption by content providers in the mid-90s, top executives at the major studios met quietly last week in Los Angeles to discuss the opportunities and challenges for a high-definition version of DVD
Some users who signed a 12 month unlimited download contract with Optus@Home just before the July cut-off have found themselves on the capped plan instead. Not surprising news considering Optus’ home phone section managed to screw up my payments last week and cut me off without a word of warning
General Motors plans to begin installing new sensors and communications systems into vehicles next year in a move that could save lives but that also raises privacy concerns
Thanks to GPS, it seems quite a few people are discovering they don’t live where they thought. Prior to GPS, state, county and city borders were part law, part measurement, and part guesswork. Now, they’re able to go back and discover where actual borders should be, and it’s making many people unhappy — via Slashdot
A large number of lawsuits have been filed against companies that have not complied with the anti-spam statute in Utah. And the governor of Ohio has signed into law a bill that allows internet subscribers to sue for up to US$50,000 and ISPs for up to US$500,000. It allows you to sue for $100 per email plus court and lawyer fees incurred. Looks like the cost of spamming is going up
Floppy drives were once an indispensable part of personal computing. But not any more: 21 years after the introduction of the 3 ½ inch floppy disk, the floppy drive looks to be on the brink of extinction. But in spite of the floppy’s creep toward obsolescence, PC makers aren’t ready to give up on them — yet
Plustech, a subsidiary of tractor maker John Deere, has built a six-legged walking logging machine that looks suspiciously like a prototype for an AT-AT walker
Bloggers are busting chops, big time, and their weblogs are what’s keeping the media honest. The latest evidence: some big media organisations are now quoting their criticism of other big media organisations
The R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid is coming soon to a store near you. Equipped with innovative speech recognition technology, infrared scanning technology and working sonar navigation, this R2-D2 recognises 40 spoken phrases, plays six exciting games, and sings three tunes. It even has a retractable arm that lets it hold a beer can
When web operator Jon Messner gained control of one of al-Qaeda’s prime Internet communication sites, he offered it to the FBI to use it for disinformation and collecting data about sympathisers. But by the time FBI agents found someone with enough technical know-how to set up the sting, the opportunity was lost as militant Islamic web users figured out the site was a decoy
Philip Kaplan, the creator of FuckedCompany.com, is rolling out a new site called InternalMemos.com. On it, readers can sample some of the more than 800 examples of internal business correspondence sent to Mr Kaplan over the last three years by aggrieved employees of various companies
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