In what may become a new legal front in its war against online copying, the Recording Industry Association of America has asked a federal court for help in tracing an alleged peer-to-peer pirate. And in recent weeks, scads of so-called spoof
files — repetitive loops or snippets filled with crackle and hiss — have been anonymously posted to the hugely popular sites where music fans illegally trade songs online, a tactic fully endorsed by the RIAA
Australian Agriculture Minister Warren Truss welcomed a commitment by oil major BP to produce a sugar-ethanol/petrol blend in Brisbane
A new report shows that Australia is a laggard and renegade state when it comes to protecting the environment and is going backwards on every indicator of environmental health, from pollution to land clearing. The report, commissioned by a plethora of green groups, contradicted recent assertions by the conservative government of John Howard that it had made great strides in controlling pollution and promoting sustainable land use
The Chinese effort to build a home-grown Win98 is called Yangfan Linux, which means raise the sail
in Chinese, the open source operating system is being pieced together by the Beijing Software Industry Productivity Centre, a group established by the government to organise Linux development in China
Microsoft’s hold on corporate Australia appears to be weakening, with a rise in the number of big companies opting to use Linux software for critical applications
The NSW Government has advanced with plans to make use of state-owned electricity infrastructure for broadband connectivity, with the New England area to be the first testing ground
Come out of the closet
about marijuana use was the theme of this year’s Seattle Hempfest, the fragrant annual waterfront event. And at least several of the tens of thousands of festival-goers did come out of the closet. And went into jail
Scientists are hard at work looking for ways people with diabetes can measure their blood sugar without the painful and scarring jabs now necessary for blood collection
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles became the city’s first religious edifice to generate solar power. The massive church’s solar panels will return enough juice to the city’s power grid to light up 66 homes
A bald eagle that was left for dead after its beak was shot off is alive and tearing its prey to shreds again thanks to Dr Brian Andrews, a Canadian dentist, who fashioned an artificial bill out of acrylic denture material
One of Australia’s most controversial domain name sellers, Internet Name Group, has shut down its web site and disconnected its phones. On Monday the company was placed under the administration of Melbourne-based chartered accountants Brooke Bird
The sabre-rattling by the United States over Iraq — and the Howard Government’s eagerness to join in — takes war mongering to a new level. This would be neither a territorial nor religious war, nor even part of the retarded monkey boy‘s war against terrorism. Some US officials are euphemistically describing the proposed war on Iraq as pre-emptive self-defence
, designed to bring about regime change
The Bulldogs, already in strife for breaching the salary cap for rugby league players, now face scrutiny over a $900 million stadium and unit project with the corrupt Liverpool Council
Benefon has eschewed the MMS battle currently being fought by other companies and has instead released a range of mobiles with GPS capabilities
Oracle, which supplies Yahoo! with database software, may lose some of that business to a little-known competing product — the free MySQL database
Tens of thousands of US military and government computers containing sensitive information are easily accessible over the Internet, ForensicTec Solutions, a computer security firm that cracked the networks has claimed. The FBI has since raided the offices of the company
Microsoft withdrew its free TrueType Web fonts on the eve of LinuxWorld, leaving some Linux advocates upset about the decision. Microsoft, however, whinged the fonts were being ‘abused’
Steady
Ed Headrick, the California inventor who figured out a way to make the Frisbee fly fast and straight, has died at the age of 78. His family said his ashes will be made into Frisbees
Alcatel has prevailed in a suit against former employee Evan Brown, who claimed that he — rather than the company — owned rights to a software idea that he asserts had long existed in his head. Maybe they should team up with NASA, who have told Northwest Airlines security specialists that they are developing brain-monitoring devices in co-operation with an unnamed commercial firm
The world’s largest record companies have filed a lawsuit against major ISPs for not blocking access to Listen4Ever.com, music site located in China. The defendants in the suit include AT&T Broadband, Cable & Wireless USA, Sprint, Advanced Network Services and UUNET Technologies. The RIAA has since dropped the contentious lawsuit
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