According to Telstra, mobile phone theft had dropped in the three months since the company began blocking stolen or lost phones from its network
When Kathleen Bannon and Joseph Bannon, unrepentant spammers, struck the Film Threat e-mail list last week they picked the wrong man to piss off. Chris Gore does not take spam lying down
The Japanese government is considering abandoning Windows in a plan to boost computer security within the government. The government is very interested in alternatives, especially Linux — via Slashdot
A new study, co-authored Professor Garth Nicholson, has found motor neurone disease is triggered by a sudden loss of nerve cells
Siletz tribal elder Donna Kessinger had never touched a computer. Now, she’s an old hat at e-mail and instant messaging — courtesy of a tribal council plan to help far-flung members stay in better touch
Lucas discovered a bug in his wife’s iBook after she left it to charge overnight — well more that one. It had become the new home for a colony of ants
The Federal Trade Commission said that it had sued six junk e-mailers who bombarded Internet users with illegal pyramid schemes, fraudulent loans and e-mail filters that actually attracted more spam
The BBC have announced they will be showing a new version of a Dr Who episode originally written by Douglas Adams and that was never shown after industrial action halted the original production in 1979. Shada
will star Paul McGann as the Doctor
When Nike tried to rebut charges that its foreign subcontractors used sweatshop labour, it landed before the Supreme Court. The issue: Whether corporations be given full free-speech rights to defend themselves and their business practices without fear of being sued
Technology that renders optical media useless after a short lifespan will soon find its way into stores in the form of perishable DVDs
Still trying to decide whether your enterprise development architecture should be based around Sun’s Java or Microsoft’s .NET? Perhaps you should be more worried about whether either of them is going to work at all
A medieval fresco featuring a rodent with an uncanny resemblance to Mickey Mouse has been uncovered in an Austrian church. Disney has refused to comment
In a bout of self importance, Star Wars producer Rick McCallum told a Melbourne audience that the fight against P2P swapping of films was as important as the war on terrorism
Cray announced a new supercomputer that will leave its fastest counterparts in the dust. The maker of supercomputers, based in Seattle, says its X1 will offer up to 52.4 teraflops, or trillion mathematical calculations per second. Reaching that level requires 4,098 custom-designed 800MHz Cray processors
As former chief investigator for the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, Jerry Webster has seen lots of unusual things. So he didn’t blink when a family called to ask if they could set their deceased loved one afire on a Viking-style raft and push his floating funeral pyre into Puget Sound
It may work for Santa Claus and the singing chimney sweep in Mary Poppins
, but one Texas man found out that going down the chimney was no way to enter a home after he became wedged in the smoke stack
Laura Betterly of Data Resource Consulting, a self-described spam queen
, talks about not just the millions of e-mails she spews, but what it costs per mailing, what the response rates are and what she actually makes
An eccentric Frenchman who goes by the name of Crazy Eric has entered the record books for the unusual feat of carrying permanently about his body more than 1,000 useful objects. Dubbed the human Swiss Army Knife, Eric is a 30-year-old electrician from the central-eastern city of Lyon who has a psychological obsession with neatness and an ingenious line in clothes design
The .au domain name administrator has confirmed plans to initiate second level domain names for states and territories, a move touted as allowing state or local groups to promote their interests online
Lawrence Livermore National Lab is putting together a supercomputer that will boast nearly the same performance as the ASCI White system from IBM that the lab now uses but it promises to be 10 times cheaper. Called Evolocity, the system will be the fastest clustered supercomputer in the world. But it will be far easier on the wallet, thanks to the use of off-the-shelf components and the open-source Linux operating system
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