Microsoft ends its piracy snitch program. The plan was widely seen as an attempt to single out customers who wanted to install Linux on their PCs and not pay for a Microsoft operating system they would not use. Despite early indications that the information collected would be shared with law enforcement agencies, no such sharing ever took place
Socialites
, babes
and bad hair days
are some of the words and phrases that have been declared off limits by the various magazines, in an effort to steer writers away from language that is hackneyed, imprecise or slangy
A draft proposal was released this week for an interplanetary Internet. The proposal to the Internet Engineering Task Force — the group that sets standards for the Net — calls for terrestrial testing of interplanetary Internet protocols later this year, with a live test onboard the NASA Mars mission in 2003
If you’re poor, black, live in South Carolina and are unfortunate enough to suffer a stillbirth, the state’s draconian laws could see you serving time for murder
The Email Disclaimer Awards 2001 were set up to honour disclaimer messages usually included at the foot of corporate e-mail messages. The winner of the longest disclaimer was awarded to global financial services firm UBS Warburg for its 1081 word spiel
Apparently a logo is a must for a wedding these days. If your intended is obsessing over the width of flower petals and the colour of the stitching on the wedding press kits — get out now
The US’s much-vaunted National Infrastructure Protection Centre, the key anti-cybercrime outfit, was so short of staff it couldn’t alert the public to computer viruses until the damage was already done. The watchdog General Accounting Office said most warnings were about attacks already under way
IBM has announced that it is using just a few atoms of pixie dust to push back the data storage industry’s most formidable barrier
When the retarded monkey boy returned to his old stomping ground of Yale recently, he had advice for the less academic students: And to the C students, I say, you, too, can be president of the United States
UK Police are to get a new weapon in the fight against the menace of mobile phone thieves: bombardment by text. They will send stolen mobile phones a text message every hour reminding the new owners of the error of their ways — but following the Dutch scheme of messaging stolen phones every 10 minutes might be more appropriate
Australia’s fairy penguins are all set for winter and any oil spills after 1000 tiny woolly jerseys were specially knitted and sent from as far away as Japan to the Australian island state of Tasmania — if you want to help, the Tasmanian Conservation Trust has a Penguin Jumper pattern available
An oddly astute Queensland Labor MP, Linda Lavarch, has accused the producers of the appalling pseudo-reality television program Big Brother of making millions of dollars from viewers voting off cast members. She suggested that people give their money to charity instead
Ronald Mallett, professor of theoretical physics at Connecticut University, has worked out how to build a time machine, using slowly circulating beams of light which distort time and space. And he says the technology is in our grasp now
Researchers found that darkness boosts the body’s immune system and aids in the body’s production of melatonin
According to George F Colony, CEO and chairman of Forrester, The problem with today’s Internet is that it’s dumb, boring, and isolated. But he claims the new wave of innovation — which Forrester defines as the X Internet — will eclipse the Web: an executable Net that greatly improves the online experience, and an extended Net that connects the real world
McDonald’s would like to come into Toronto schools with a presentation about self esteem — Ronald and crew host a 40 minute interactive live talk show. And just when you thought it couldn’t get any more disturbing, it’s billed as a non-commercial presentation endorsed by Children’s Psychologists and leading educators in the US and Canada.
I have a birthday coming up and I’m putting in my request for a Gekkomat — who hasn’t always wanted a suction device that lets you climb walls.
And speaking of drugs; meet the monkeyman. The bizarre figure is vividly described as anything from a tiny man dressed as a monkey to a 2m beast with illuminated green eyes.
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