Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, the maverick former professional wrestler whose election stunned the political establishment, announced on Tuesday that he would not seek a second term
A reporter for The Guardian is being prosecuted in Zimbabwe for a report that appeared on the newspaper’s web site. If the case is successful, it would allow Zimbabwe’s courts to apply the country’s draconian media laws to any online publisher, putting reporters and editors at risk of arrest if they go to Zimbabwe, or any country with extradition treaties with Zimbabwe
The World Trade Organisation next week is likely to permit the European Union to levy tariffs of at least US$956 million on US exports because of illegal tax breaks given to US exporters such as Microsoft and Boeing
In an end-run around the South African government’s plans to seize control of the .za domain, administrator Mike Lawrie took pre-emptive action and moved the primary .za zone file offshore — via Slashdot
British ethical investment funds have largely steered clear of the developing world, where working conditions are often poor and economic growth needed most. Fund managers say that although they would like to invest in poor nations and force change for the better, companies are too opaque to even allow them to get started.
The jury in the Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney federal civil rights lawsuit against four FBI agents and three Oakland Police officers awarded plaintiffs $4.4 million for violation of the activists’ constitutional rights and returned a verdict largely in favour of Earth First! activists Cherney and the late Judi Bari
The South African government wants to seize control of the .za domain. However, ICANN owns the domains and under the ICANN rules, they will not relinquish control
The European Parliament has voted to ban spam by adopting the opt-in
system for unsolicited commercial e-mail, finally freeing the way for the entry into force of a European Parliament and Council directive concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector
The CSIRO’s Dr John Rankin and Dr Terry Norgate told the Green Processing 2002 Conference in Cairns that metals can help in achieving globally sustainable development
Esphion’s anti-denial of service attack tool performed well for the armed forces of five nations. The Auckland company was the only private sector organisation invited to last week’s Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration that attended. The Echelon boys will be well pleased by the result
International environmental criminals are outpacing slow-moving enforcement agencies as they line their pockets by plundering the planet
Lord Bingham, the senior UK law lord, called for abolition of the laws against cannabis
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the First Amendment Project asked the California Supreme Court to uphold a lower court’s decision to permit publication of the source code for DeCSS technology, which circumvents digital copy protection systems
South African police have made a breakthrough against organised criminals who spam Internet users in an attempt to defraud them of thousands of pounds. Six people were arrested in South Africa last weekend on suspicion of being involved in the infamous Nigerian e-mail and letter fraud
The Chinese government plans to put a human on the moon by 2010, with a long-term goal to set up a base on the moon and mine its riches for the benefit of humanity
. Yeah, right
Microsoft could have to make radical changes to meet European regulatory concerns, changes that go well beyond what is being demanded of it in the US
It’s claimed hundreds of Taliban prisoners could be buried in a mass grave in northern Afghanistan and that the US is reluctant to investigate it. A US human rights group says the mass grave they believe is near Mazar-e-Sharif could contain men killed by the Northern Alliance
According to the National Science Foundation‘s biennial report on the state of science understanding in the US, sixty percent of those surveyed believe in ESP, psychic power, and alien abduction. Americans… scientifically proven to be dumber than the average bear — via Slashdot
Generations of women from Jiangyong passed down a unique form of writing that was kept away from men. Now the 95-year-old Yang Huanyi may be the last alive who grew up using nushu — China’s mother tongue
An attempt to have former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrested in Britain for war crimes has failed. Human Rights campaigner Peter Tatchell applied at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court for a warrant for the arrest of Dr Kissinger under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957. The charges alleged that the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize winner commissioned, aided and abetted and procured war crimes in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
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