The Commonwealth Bank has introduced Australia’s first lite Eftpos terminal. The PayLite terminal is designed for smaller businesses that process less than $100,000 in card transactions per year, and do not require the extra functionality found on traditional Eftpos terminals
In the best use of a hideous Elmo toy I’ve seen, Kelly Heaton purchased 64 previously-owned Tickle Me Elmos on eBay and turned them into fur coats and wall-mounted game trophies
In an attempt to show that primitive communications can still function in modern networks, a student at Algoma University took up a challenge from Professor George Townsend to replace the lowest layer of the OSI networking model with a set of bongo drums
A county fair in the US state of West Virginia has an unusual tourist draw card — a cooking competition featuring road kill. The idea was brainstormed by the Pocahontas County Visitors Bureau to spice up their Autumn Harvest Festival
The Green Man has an article on political spin and the stupidity of the Shrub and his merry band of cohorts:
Representative of Bush Government: ‘We can clearly say that the overthrow of the Iraqi regime has made America a safer place.’
Reporter: ‘There were either WOMD and the facilities to produce them or there wasn’t. If there was then they are now in the hands of another rogue state or terrorists and as such are still a danger. If there wasn’t any then there was never any danger. So how can you say that things are now safer.’
Representative of Bush Government: ‘I think we should stick to the facts. The overthrow of the Iraqi regime has made America a safer place.’ and terminates interview.
Good to see that logic is not getting in the way of some good spin.
US spies have found weapons of mass destruction at last — on a remote Scottish island. Managers at the Bruichladdich Distillery on the Hebridian island of Islay, famous for producing Scotland’s best malt whisky, were puzzled when they received an e-mail from ‘Ursula’, asking them to repair their webcam that broadcasts scenes from the Victorian distillery to whisky lovers around the world. After inquiring, they found that Ursula was a spy with the US Defence Threat Reduction Agency
The five major US library associations are planning to file a legal brief siding with Streamcast Networks and Grokster in the California suit, brought by the major record labels and Hollywood studios. The development could complicate the RIAA’s efforts to portray file-swapping services as rife with spam and illegal pornography
Cyberspace users in India are up in arms against the government. For the first time since the Information Technology Act, 2000, was introduced, the government has banned a site, Yahoo Groups, for publishing anti-government material. Many netizens believe the government is trying to gag the Internet, a medium for free flow of information
Daniel Geer, one of the primary authors of a report Reliance On MS A Danger To National Security, was fired from @stake Thursday morning. @stake said that; The values and opinions of the report are not in line with @stake’s views and that Geer’s participation was not sanctioned. Microsoft, who has worked closely with @stake in the past, denied that it was involved in @stake’s decision to fire Dan
After suffering through a catastrophic Win2K crash — trapped in a reboot loop with no way out other than to reformat and reinstall — I needed to find a player for my Invader Zim vids. Unfortunately that meant having to reinstall the evil of Real Player or one of it’s equally icky siblings.
Hoping to avoid polluting my PC with even more crappy software, I had a look around and found the imaginatively named Real Alternative. It’s ugly, Windows Media Player ugly, and a little clunky. But it does the job and keeps me both Real Player free and happily basking in the warmth of Zim.
Dr Bob has a handy how-to on combining 6 200GB IDE drives into a small tower and hacking together some firewire controllers to give you one giant 1.2TB firewire drive
A panel of leading security experts blasted Microsoft for vulnerabilities in its software, and warned that reliance on the developer’s software is a danger to both enterprises and national security. Having just spent a week getting everything reinstalled after a Win2K crash so bad that it required a complete reformat, I’m not at all surprised
The Australian Communications Authority has convened a working group to study the privacy and security implications of mapping telephone numbers to Internet Protocol numbers ahead of a trial next year
A controversial Pentagon big brother program, Total ‘Terrorism’ Information Awareness, that called for monitoring databases containing data on millions of Americans for signs of terrorist activity is set to be killed off by a stop on funding
After aeons drifting hopelessly lost in the space/time continuum, Doctor Who is finally coming back to Earth. In a move that heralds the most eagerly anticipated comeback in television history, BBC1 said that it is developing a new series of the sci-fi classic
Sanyo has announced that the world’s first environment-friendly optical discs made from corn will hit the market from December this year
A group of Israeli reserve air force pilots drew condemnation for refusing to carry out air strikes in Palestinian areas, but their unprecedented protest set off an emotional debate on the ethics of the targeted killings of militants
Hasbro has released high-resolution, printable PDFs of Monopoly money. Great stuff, especially if you keep losing the stuff or are playing a Cheapass Game that needs currency tokens
Interline Wireless Technology, a Polish company has reportedly set a world record in stretching the range of a Wi-Fi network for an amazing 110km at 2.4GHz. They achieved this using an antenna developed by them and an Intel Pro/Wireless 2011 Access Point
The recording industry has withdrawn a lawsuit against a Newbury woman because it falsely accused her of illegally sharing music — possibly the first case of mistaken identity in the battle against Internet file-traders
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