Scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a smart brick which can monitor a building’s health and report its conditions wirelessly — via Slashdot
Claiming that the drugs you were taking are to blame for your dodgy behaviour is as misguided as saying you did it for god, the devil made you do it, movies / television / music / video games are to blame, or the mysterious voice at the back of the refrigerator won’t leave you alone. This is a guy who already had a bent for underage girls.
Can’t believe the obvious typo in the headline implying that the drug is responsible rather than the man. It should read: Serial paedophile clutches at straws.
The drugs weren’t a trigger, but they were used as bait — apparently he didn’t have any boiled lollies on him at the time.
New Zealand porn king, Steve Crow, is threatening to sue the country’s stock exchange for stealing the name of his sex magazine. He launched his adult magazine NZX in November 2001, and he wanted compensation from the New Zealand Stock Exchange, which has only just rebranded itself with the same name
According to Dr Suelette Dreyfus, an expert in online sabotage, hackers are electronic graffiti artists, not terrorists, and even though some make political attacks on the net, they still should not be confused with terrorists
Under a thick cover of fog, cattle duffers have stolen more than $600,000 worth of rare livestock in what has been described as one of the biggest cattle thefts in Victorian history
It’s official, microsoft will not be making any more versions of internet explorer for mac. But as an OSX user myself I couldn’t care less. Good riddance I say! Safari has taken IEs place as my default browser ever since it’s first public beta release, and I’ve never looked back! It’s faster, lighter, manages my bookmarks beautifully and of course offers tabbed browsing, all in a sleek brushed metal interface like iTunes and Quicktime. Mind you the overall interface design for IE was nice. It was all aquafied and you could change the colour of the icons to match your mac, (unless of course your mac’s beige).
The only reason for me to keep IE on my machine now is for testing!
This move by microsoft will however not be terribly welcome by OS9.2 and below users though I’m sure. For those on OS9.2 and below, I suggest checking out the fine free browsers on offer from mozilla as a way of quietly sticking it to Microsoft.
More thoughts on the subject can be read at Zeldman.com and What do I know.org.
Los Angeles officially becomes the world’s first city to have its own Internet domain. An interesting attempt to cash in on the unwary by reselling the .la TLD that belongs to Laos
Scotland may be the most popular UFO destination on the planet, but Roswell, New Mexico is the old favourite for government conspiracy buffs who believe the US government has been hiding proof of an alien spacecraft crash in 1947. Popular Mechanics has recently gained access to de-classified documents from the Roswell military base, and they contain no entries of unusual events or activity. I wonder if the release of these documents will deter the conspiracy theorists?
A pair of unusual political allies, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, a left-wing Democrat and a conservative religious group, teamed up on in Washington’s latest bid to rid the Internet of spam to announce support for a new bill that would create a national Do Not Spam
registry of e-mail addresses and, unlike other federal proposals to date, give individuals the right to sue spammers for $1,000 per unlawful message
IEEE has officially ratified the much-anticipated 802.11g high-speed wireless standard
Privacy advocates say a shift by Microsoft could effectively marginalise a particularly intrusive use of Web bugs, the tracking and profiling devices used by online marketers and spammers. Last month Microsoft retooled its Hotmail service, adding a feature that allows users to block Web bugs placed inside e-mail messages
Phone companies which allow SMS spam messages to be sent across their networks face fines of up to $10 million under a new industry code, which requires carriers and service providers to only send bulk SMS messages to users who have opted in
, and to allow them to opt out
of receiving the messages. Don’t get too excited, the ADMA have already challenged the proposal
A consortium of the world’s top consumer electronics firms, mobile networks and broadcasters are funding the development of mobile phones that will spend money on your behalf. The consortium, called Mobile VCE, includes Nokia, Sony, Vodafone and the BBC
The long-awaited $500 million Optus/Department of Defence C1 satellite was launched from French Guiana in South America, opening the skies for the $600 million deployment of digital pay-TV in Australia
The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman has warned broadband users on the dangers of P2P programs, after a jump in complaints about hefty bills resulting from excess download charges
When Stuart Payne set up a web site, Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down, devoted to the gourmet pleasures of tea and biscuits, he should not have been surprised that it attracted 250,000 visitors in two years
Oscar-winning actor Gregory Peck, who just recently topped the American Film Institute’s list of all-time cinematic heroes for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, died overnight of undisclosed causes at his home in Los Angeles; he was 87
Spammers are hijacking IP addresses in the search for new ways to send mail, and Australia’s ISPs are being told to beware of customers who bring their own addresses
British Egyptologist Joann Fletcher has announced her team may have identified the mummy of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, the wife and co-ruler with pharaoh Akhenaten and stepmother to legendary boy King Tutankhamun
A global search by the Tate gallery has unearthed 500 lost works by JMW Turner. Some have never been seen in public; others have not been displayed since the death of possibly Britain’s most important painter
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