Computer book publisher O’Reilly & Associates is taking a dramatic stand against automatic extensions of US copyrights by voluntarily limiting its own copyright protection on hundreds of technical titles — and promising they’ll enter the public domain after that
Bob Carr’s performance on forests is appalling, despite all the new National Parks, many suffer pre-emptive logging
Emarketersamerica.org has filed suit against spam opponents, seeking a jury trial and damages of $75,000. The complaint alleges antispam groups have interfered with contracts between marketers and their Internet service providers by petitioning the ISPs to remove the marketers from their networks
Protesters in the Netherlands and London heckled Shell management at the oil giant’s annual meetings this week over executive pay rises and environmental policies
A federal judge has ordered Harry Potter books back onto an Arkansas school district’s library shelves, rejecting a school board’s claim that tales of wizards and spells could harm school children
In a move the company claims is designed to comply with federal regulations, Monster.com will delete most references to Syria, Iran, Sudan, Myanmar and five other countries from job postings and resumés
The Cypherpunks have finally caught on to the blog phenomenon: enter Invisiblog. This blog system allows users to register accounts and update their weblogs using Len Sassaman’s Mixmaster anonymous remailer program. Now you can post all those tales of late-night dumpster diving, without fear of being branded a terrorist — via Slashdot
Human rights groups have condemned the detention of three children as terrorism suspects in the notorious Camp X-Ray prison. The United States military admitted for the first time that three teenagers, aged 16 years and under, were among detainees
Investigators searching for a link between the bodies of a woman and an infant boy that washed ashore separately on the Richmond waterfront may find clues in an unusual medical phenomenon called coffin birth
Seattle retailers can continue to sell food products that contain hemp — at least for the time being — after a US appeals court said it would review a federal ruling making such products illegal
Uninvited guests could soon be in for a shock. Security experts are discussing plans to roll out a non-lethal land mine that zaps intruders with 50,000 volts. The Taser Area Denial Device is based on the Taser electric shock weapon, widely used by police forces around the world. Like the Taser gun, the land mine fires darts at its victims. It satisfies the convention that bans explosive land mines, but some experts question its safety
A civil liberties group is again trying to gain access to a secret list to determine if Pennsylvania’s attempt to block access to child-pornography Web sites is affecting innocuous sites
Researchers from the University of New England at Armidale say urgent human intervention is vital if the pure bred dingo is to have a future. The Northern Territory’s Parks and Wildlife Service says the dingo is not under threat in the Northern Territory. Meanwhile wildlife rangers are excited about the possible sighting of the spotted tail quoll, not been seen in the region for the past 50 to 60 years, in the Mount Dalrymple area of north Queensland
Another chapter in the high times of the internet stockmarket bubble closed yesterday when the Chaos Group, a one-time high-flyer, announced plans to sell its internet music business back to its founder
A bitter conflict is unfolding in northern Iraq between two minority communities, with the Americans accused of turning a blind eye to killings and ethnic cleansing
Telstra has attracted political and media controversy over revelations that it uses Indian outsourcers for some of its software development after it was reported that almost 100 Indian programmers and analysts were working on Telstra projects for as little as $12,000 a year, undercutting Australian IT specialists who can earn about $60,000 for doing the same job
Rare 13th-century wall paintings have been uncovered after months of painstaking conservation work at a parish church in London’s East End
A grey seal trapped in waters teeming with salmon south of Loch Lomond was yesterday awarded an official £150 fishing permit by the angling club that threatened to shoot him less than a week ago
The Australian Direct Marketing Association has been branded as delusional following its criticism of the National Office for the Information Economy’s anti-spam report, which called for legislation banning junk e-mail
Peter Lloyd, author of Taking The Red Pill: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in The Matrix, believes that many of the plot developments in The Matrix
that seem to contradict the laws of physics, biology, etc, can actually be explained with a closer look at the science — via Slashdot
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