Haxjere Sahiti was married on a Sunday, murdered on a Monday, and buried in the woods the same afternoon. Married life lasted less than 12 hours for her. It ended with the 20-year-old Kosovar Albanian woman lying dead on her family’s living room carpet, with seven pistol bullets fired into her torso
A new Internet Peering service has been launched in Brisbane, a system that could allow ISPs to offer cheap broadband access. Routing local traffic directly between ISPs instead of communicating over the Internet could cost Telstra more than $100K per month in lost revenue
Scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm have found a tiny, mysterious particle in the spinal marrow fluid which may be a new form of life and which could help explain the cause of schizophrenia
Lost your cat or dog? No need to whistle or call on a fruitless search — just track your pet with your mobile phone
The United States is a nation of laws. The police arrest suspects they reasonably believe to have broken the law, not citizens who happen to disagree with the government’s politics. Cops don’t go after people pre-emptively because they might commit a crime someday. In America, people are considered innocent until they’re proven guilty in a court of law
Hundreds of girls as young as 12 are being raped or forcibly kept as concubines in rural Zimbabwe by President Robert Mugabe’s youth militia as part of a campaign that human-rights lawyers have branded systematic political cleansing
of the population
BT has lost its controversial bid to sue Prodigy Communications over a patent that it claimed covered the use of hyperlinks. US District Judge Colleen McMahon awarded Prodigy its motion for summary judgement to have the case dismissed, saying that no jury could find that Prodigy infringes BT’s patent
An escaped emu caused confusion in Hamburg after a woman called police to report what she thought was a bare-chested man with two big white dots on his forehead staring into her window
It’s easy when you have drunk 12 pints to forget that lions are carnivores and do not like ice cream. And it probably seemed a good idea after a night on the beer to break into a zoo, find a cage and stuff Cornettos through the mesh
The secretive federal court that approves spying on terror suspects in the United States has refused to give the Justice Department broad new powers, saying the government had misused the law and misled the court dozens of times, according to an extraordinary legal ruling
Telstra will explore using the open source Linux OS as part of a new standard operating platform being scoped by the telecommunications giant as it looks to reduce its $1.5 billion annual IT budget. Such a move could see Microsoft further sidelined at its biggest Australian customer, following a recent deal with Sun Microsystems that will see Java 2 used as Telstra’s web services platform, as well as revelations that Telstra is considering Sun’s StarOffice desktop application suite as a possible replacement for Microsoft Office on some or all of its 45,000 desktops
In contrast to a declaration by Telstra, the nation’s biggest broadband provider, just weeks ago that it was comfortable with current pricing for fast internet services, a forum held by the Government’s Broadband Advisory Group saw a consensus that price was the key determinant, according to a report from the National Office for the Information Economy
The UK’s take on the European DMCA
— the European Copyright Directive — will make criminals out of ordinary computer users, according to a new critique by the UK Campaign for Digital Rights. And it will also fail to protect researchers, says Julian Midgley who penned the report
The mayor of the French Mediterranean town of Le Lavandou, faced with a cemetery full to bursting
, has banned local residents from dying until he can find somewhere else to bury them
The Federal Government has released a report about its online content co-regulatory scheme. But some industry commentators, including the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, have asked whether it’s the Government’s place to control what we look at
In American and Russian laboratories, millions of years of immense pressure and heat are being telescoped into just a few minutes to produce synthetic diamonds that even expert dealers can’t distinguish from the real thing. The only difference is the price… man-made diamonds could sell for less than $100 a gem. And that is disastrous news for De Beers, whose $9 billion a year monopoly on the diamond trade keeps prices sky high
If you’ve always suspected that the male of the species can be competitive to the point of stupidity, Rosanne Roy from McGill University in Montreal and her colleagues have evidence that you’re right…
MGM has begun shutting down James Bond fan sites after a fan got a hold of the script for the forthcoming ‘Die Another Day’ and posted parts of it in the users’ forum
Staff members with the US Securities and Exchange Commission are considering launching civil proceedings against RSA Security — owner of the dodgy Verisign — and some of its officers, according to a company filing with the regulator
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