The BBC have attacked the spin doctored reports on the story of Jessica Lynch — having her labelled a hero and dramatically rescued is more newsworthy than saying she was an unfortunate kid who screwed up and got taken to hospital. Hollywood must be beside themselves with her amnesia, they can make up anything they like for the big screen.
The spam-blocking technique that’s attracted the most attention recently is a very simple one: challenge-response technology. The problem with CR systems is that Mailblocks claims to own all rights to the concept and hopes to prevent anyone else from selling such a system without paying hefty licensing fees.
Air travellers in the United States could soon find a monkey sitting in the seat next to them after a report by the US Department of Transportation said that passengers who rely on their pets for ‘emotional support‘ may be able to bring them on to flights.
South Korea’s OhmyNews is a unique experiment in citizen journalism
: Anyone who registers with the site can become a paid reporter
I guess Mac owners like their boxes how they are — until they break. Daniele Procida converted an old Apple by modding the machine with Lego
Tourism Tasmania has lost its bid to secure the rights to a domain name currently being used to criticise the Tasmanian Government’s forestry policy
Hitachi has developed technology to make DVDs with storage capacity for 200 movies and aimed to commercialise the technology in 2007. It involves stacking multiple data-storing layers to ensure accurate reading and writing of a vast amount of data that can run up to 400 hours
Lawrence Lessig is predicting that the days of the Commons of the Internet are over, and that as a result of FCC deregulation, the concentration of digital rights in the hands of just a few large media companies will kill the internet for good. Even former FOX and Vivendi executive Barry Diller has criticised the move
CarFree.com is a great site that proposes a delightful solution to the vexing problem of urban automobiles
As extravagant purchases go, nothing sounds as flamboyant as buying your own holiday island. But tycoon Sir Richard Branson’s latest acquisition — a tropical island in Australia — is not for his own pleasure, but for staff at his Virgin Group to use as a holiday retreat
Genius will go online next week with the establishment of a new web site of Albert Einstein‘s scientific and other writings. The site is a collaborative effort of the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech and the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Australia, Canada, Japan and Chile joined a call by the US Federal Trade Commission and other agencies said for open relay
mail servers to be closed
Newly established Net Return has scored exclusive distribution rights to distribute NetSuite, an SME application software package licensed from NetLedger, makers of the Oracle Small Business Suite
People will try to get rid of any unwanted item on eBay — including one annoying twat of a girlfriend. eBay UK weren’t amused and hastily pulled the auction
Interesting article on the art of pretending you are at work when you are not.
David Wiskus gives new meaning to the term working lunch
. The Denver tech-support worker installed a program on his Handspring Visor hand-held that allowed him to manipulate the screen on his office computer from a booth at a local diner.
The RSPCA has called on the European Union to tighten laws governing the transportation of live animals after unveiling evidence of sickening cruelty
. They have also urged the British government to change domestic laws, insisting that animals be slaughtered at home before being transported to the continent
The owner of the UNIX operating system has warned that Linux is an unauthorised derivative of its software and that commercial users of Linux may be legally liable for violation of intellectual copyright
By examining the extraordinary grip that geckos use to walk up walls and across ceilings, scientists have been able to create a material that can stick objects weighing a few kilograms to ceilings. Future refinements hold the prospect of holding humans aloft too
Two students at Carnegie Mellon University have proposed two methods that can be used by organisations to defending against denial-of-service attacks
EMI’s copy-protection technology has resulted in a Melbourne resident doing exactly what the company is trying to prevent — copy a music disc in order to listen to it
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