The state of Washington filed suit yesterday against two Minnesota men under its anti-spam law, an action one privacy advocate called proof that the state is serious about stanching the flood of unsolicited email threatening to drown the Internet. While the Federal Government’s Department of Employment and Workplace Relations has been lambasted by Union officials for allegedly spamming employees with a hard sell
on a new enterprise agreement
A widely used plug-in for Microsoft’s Outlook e-mail client that lets users encrypt and digitally sign messages has inadvertently weakened security and left the mail program open to attack
An armoured car fitted with powerful laser beam designed to blast landmines and cluster bomblets from the battlefield will shortly begin testing at an army proving ground near Waynesville, Missouri
Russell Pritchard III, an antiques dealer, was sentenced to a year in a prison and ordered to repay US$830,000 for staging phoney appraisals on the American Antiques Roadshow and defrauding Civil War collectors
A long-lost painting by Rubens, whose owner disliked it so much that she loaned it to a monastery, has fetched a world record auction price for an old master — almost £50 million
A few months back, Intel stood tall against a plan by the big media companies to seize control of our personal computers? Well, it turns out that Intel, Microsoft and a host of other technology companies are hard at work on next-generation computers that may give the media moguls pretty much what they want
Free delivery will soon be a rarity for SMS. Mobile users will increasingly find themselves paying to receive text messages, as carriers pursue m-commerce plans
Britons, among the heaviest users of cannabis in Europe, will soon be able to smoke dope without fear of arrest after the government relaxed its laws on the drug in the face of a dramatic rise in its use. And voters in Nevada, which up until last year had the US’s strictest marijuana law, will decide in November whether to let adults legally possess small amounts of pot
Steven Spielberg has disclosed that Star Wars helmsman George Lucas will not allow him make one of his hit sci-fi series
The Mr Floppy Tech Support Forum provides a venue where computer users can discuss common computer problems and receive input and advice from Peter McNally of Mr Floppy Computers, a veteran of over 20 years in the computer manufacture, service and support
It is becoming harder for users of Microsoft-free systems and browsers to view the web. This seems to be a new call to arms from the standards groups, and it is something we should be thinking about. Without help from web designers, using browsers like Mozilla and Opera will effectively cut off our ability to view web sites correctly. Unfortunately there are far too many wankers out there who think the ability to use Dreamweaver and Flash means they’re a web designer, these are the guys making life hard for everyone else
A growing number of web sites are cracking down on other sites that post links without permission. Critics say it’s a threat to the very nature of the web
The new regulatory scheme for the Australian domain space has already found its first victims, with MelbourneIT reportedly terminating the contracts of up to 20 of its resellers
Baycorp Advantage claims to be close to linking its national fraud verification database system to the Roads and Traffic Authority’s driver’s license records
.au Domain Administration, says it has lodged a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission against Internet Registry, claiming information it sent out in a recent mail out is incorrect — I got one of these spam mailouts today
Australia’s skilled migration program is failing IT professionals and needs urgent reform
Richard Wool, a chemical engineer from the University of Delaware, filed a patent that described a new generation of microchips. The patent proposes to replace silicon — which has long served as the basis for microchips — with another material. And what might this mystery component be? Chicken feathers
In a sign that the internet sector may be nearing the end of its brutal shakeout, the number of shutdowns and bankruptcies by dotcom companies in the first half of this year fell 73% from the same period last year
It’s happened to American cities from Baltimore to Detroit. Now city officials in Stockholm fear the Swedish capital is about to have its name associated with a pornographic web site. The city is looking for ways to stop an adult entertainment company in Spain from launching a web site on a domain that uses the city’s name
A study by the World Wildlife Fund warns that the human race is plundering the planet at a pace that outstrips its capacity to support life. Earth’s population will be forced to colonise two planets within 50 years if natural resources continue to be exploited at the current rate
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