It’s official: using browsing the web while blocking pop-up ads and other such exciting web site enhancements is theft. Anti-leech.com are offering to protect your site from browsers blocking pop-ups — or theft tools
as they call them — just try stealing from them with your favourite pop-up free browser — via Slashdot
A New York meat processing company is recalling hundreds of thousands of pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with potentially deadly E coli bacteria. A ridiculous situation as the beef would have been consumed long before the recall was issued
Physicist Stephen Wolfram took the stage Wednesday at the Comdex Fall 2002 trade show, evangelising a computing-centric view of the universe that might sit better with the technology industry than it has with some other audiences. Wolfram believes the universe is composed not of particles and waves, but of simple tiny programs. He believes these myriad programs, or algorithms, give rise to physical phenomena as fundamental as space and as complicated as human beings
The Australian travel industry is set for a shake-up next year with the entry of global online travel leader Expedia into the local market, tapping Sydney as its Asia Pacific headquarters
The increasing use of the internet by political activists could provide valuable lessons for the UK Government
Despite the daily bombardment of news from the Middle East, Central Asia, and other world trouble spots, roughly 85% of young Americans could not find Afghanistan, Iraq, or Israel on a map. And of the internal geographic questions, 70% couldn’t find New Jersey and 11% couldn’t find the US
After many years, support has finally been added to MAME for the Bradley Trainer. The Bradley Trainer is a conversion of Atari’s Battlezone arcade game that Atari created for the US Army as a training simulator for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Only two of these units were supposedly created, and only one of them is known to exist today. The Bradley Trainer is more of a simulator than arcade game, and the cabinet has many additional controls and buttons over its arcade counterpart
The Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, has opted to switch to Linux from Microsoft for its Gyandooth programme — via Slashdot
Up until now, there’s been fixed wing, or there’s been rotating wing, and that’s it. But now thanks to Patrick Peebles, there’s an entirely new principle of flight called the FanWing — via Slashdot
Millions of people world-wide may have worse eyesight and even be more likely to go blind because of a long-held but misguided idea about how to correct short-sightedness. A study intended to confirm the theory has instead been stopped because the children’s eyesight was getting worse
Australian Universities are coming under heavy fire from the hacking community, with a serious breach overseas last weekend providing a timely reminder of the consequences of a successful attack
According to the Australian Consumers’ Association, selling music CDs that cannot be copied digitally is a bad move by an industry that seems to be intent on self-destruction
Like magnetic keycards, which have been in the news because of fraudulent skimming
attacks, smart cards are also vulnerable
A software bug in a common component of Microsoft Web servers and Internet Explorer could leave millions of servers and home PCs open to attack
Asia-Pacific will host more domain name root servers following a deal between a current root server host and a regional organisation that handles Internet registration and resource allocation
Bob Lanier, an expert at the annual convention of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, said a rise in asthma cases may be linked, in part, to cleanliness and abundance
Oscar-winning actor James Coburn, famed for his action roles and poignant characterisations in a career spanning more than 40 years, died of a heart attack on Monday
A new class of PC displays, called Smart Displays, that will use Wi-Fi to effectively decouple themselves from the PC will be unveiled next week at Comdex — via Slashdot
Eye specialists are closer than ever to developing a bionic eye to restore sight for those blinded by retinal disease
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