Denmark is cancelling plans to import tonnes of hazardous chemical waste from Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The WikiLeaks Cablegate scandal is the most exciting and interesting hacker scandal ever. I rather commonly write about such things, and I’m surrounded by online acquaintances who take a burning interest in every little jot and tittle of this ongoing saga. So it’s going to take me a while to explain why this highly newsworthy event fills me with such a chilly, deadening sense of Edgar Allen Poe melancholia.
But it sure does.
Part of this dull, icy feeling, I think, must be the agonizing slowness with which this has happened. At last — at long last — the homemade nitroglycerin in the old cypherpunks blast shack has gone off. Those cypherpunks
, of all people — via redwolf.newsvine.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been named Man of the Year
by France’s Le Monde newspaper, one of the five publications to cooperate with the whistleblowing website on its its latest release of leaked documents — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Drug-sniffing dogs are not just for police anymore. A non-profit organization in Maryland called Dogs Finding Drugs will now rent a drug dog and handler, for $200, to parents or bosses concerned about drugs in the home or workplace — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There is an unbelievable scandal in the making that threatens to subvert our four-century-old method for guaranteeing a fundamental building block of the American republic—property ownership. The biggest reason why you probably haven’t heard much about it is that it involves one of the most generic and boring company names imaginable: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., or MERS. It is a story of deception engineered at the highest level of power for short-term gain, and another epic failure of the private sector to uphold the laws and traditions of American society, even something as fundamental as property rights — via aperspective.newsvine.com
Passengers on Sydney’s M10 buses will now have access to free Wi-Fi as part of a trial of the technology, the New South Wales Government announced on Friday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A dispute over the existence of God between four Russians, drunk on a litre of pure alcohol, resulted in two of them being killed, news agencies reported — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tokyo’s metropolitan government has restricted the sale of traditional comics and cartoons which feature illustrations of sex crimes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says it has not found any breaches of Australian law by Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks organisation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 5,000 people died during or after surgery in Australia last year according to figures from the first audit of patient deaths under the care of a surgeon — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Les échanges ont été tendus à l’Assemblée, mercredi soir, où l’atmosphère rappelait celle entourant l’adoption de la loi antipiratage Hadopi. Dans un hémicycle peu garni, quelques députés technophiles de tous bords se battaient contre une machine législative qui leur semble s’être quelque peu emballée. L’article 4 du projet de loi Loppsi 2, texte fourre-tout sur la sécurité intérieure, a finalement été adopté. Il permettra au gouvernement de filtrer Internet au moyen d’une liste noire établie par le ministère de l’Intérieur, sans intervention du pouvoir judiciaire. Une mesure que le gouvernement justifie par la nécessité de mieux lutter contre les sites pédophiles et la cybercriminalité en général.
via Google Translate: The exchanges were stretched to the Assembly on Wednesday night, where the atmosphere was reminiscent surrounding the adoption of anti-piracy law Hadopi. In a packed chamber just a few technophiles MPs from all sides were fighting against a legislative machine that seems to have somewhat excited. Section 4 of the Bill Loppsi 2, text tote on Homeland Security, was finally adopted. It will allow the government to filter the Internet using a blacklist issued by the Ministry of Interior, without the intervention of the judiciary. A measure that the government justify the need to better fight against child pornography sites and cybercrime in general — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The UK Government is to combat the early sexualization of children by blocking internet pornography unless parents request it, it was revealed today.
The move is intended to ensure that children are not exposed to sex as a routine by-product of the internet. It follows warnings about the hidden damage being done to children by sex sites — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The road traffic information feature in Maps, available previously in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and surrounding areas is now also available in Perth and Adelaide — via redwolf.newsvine.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says the website will stay strong and keep publishing diplomatic cables despite another funding blow — via redwolf.newsvine.com
That enormous sigh of relief you heard yesterday was likely from 5,400 unidentified porn downloaders reacting to a West Virginia judge’s ruling that an adult-film producer cannot force their unmasking in an effort to sue them for copyright infringement.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling the judge’s decision a big victory in the fight against copyright trolls
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he fears the US is preparing to indict him, as he spends his first day on bail on an English country estate — via The Independent
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