Australian companies will face penalties if they send spam e-mail under laws that may come into affect later this year. But Australian companies that try to send e-mails to without consent will be forced to make restitution — which could be simply removing the name from the list, but could involve monetary compensation if a breach was serious enough. This includes companies with any commercial links in Australia
Australia’s first legal heroin injecting room opened for business Sunday night with a handful of drug users using the facility. The medically supervised injecting room can handle up to 200 injecting episodes a day in two four-hour sessions. Sixteen people can use the facility at any one time. A private security firm has been retained to protect users entering and leaving the facility
Unless you’ve been walking around with your eyes shut for the past 30 years, you’ll know that Sanrio is one of Japan’s biggest merchandise chains. And, much like Crusty The Clown from The Simpsons, they seem to have no qualms about what they’ll whack their logo on. The Sanrio Files celebrates some of the more bizarre items in the collection.
A ‘tractor beam‘ that can reach out, trap and move objects has been developed by British scientists. But while fictional tractor beams of the kind depicted in Star Trek can ensnare a giant spaceship, this real version works only at the microscopic level.
The United States lost its seat on the top UN human rights body it helped found in 1947, losing support from some of its allies as well as its foes
The Computer Emergency Response Team warned companies this week of security problems caused by a fundamental flaw in the way PCs and servers talk to each other across the Internet
Great Train Robbery
fugitive, Ronnie Biggs, says he is ready to return to Britain and face justice after three decades of exile in Brazil
A weapon built out of parts from any electronics store can deliver radio frequency radiation that can burn out electronic circuits within seconds, which could make the electromagnetic spectrum the terrorist weapon of choice
Three blind Briard puppies, had their right eyes treated late last year with a single injection of thousands of copies of the corrective gene. Their left eyes were untreated as a control. The scientists planned to formally test eye function three months later, when the dogs were 6 months old. But well before those tests, the dogs were already reacting to light
A British drug company is a step closer to launching cannabis-based medicine for patients suffering multiple sclerosis and other forms of severe pain
A cull of Fraser Island’s 200 dingoes is expected to start next month, in the wake of Monday’s fatal attack on a young boy — so thanks to moronic tourists, who refuse to obey signs warning them to leave the dingoes alone, a large group of animals is about to be needlessly murdered.
The aim is spectacular — to close stock exchanges around the country, suspending ‘corporate tyranny‘, for a moment. The how of it is, quite simply, through anarchy. That’s not to say it isn’t organised, though. Melbourne legal activist Damien Lawson, who placed volunteer legal observers on Melbourne streets for the S11 protest, is doing this job again for the Melbourne stock exchange blockade. He says 50 law students, and solicitors from community legal centres and private practice will observe police behaviour at today’s protest. These legal observers, backed by the video tapes of alternative media group indymedia, are responsible for the Victorian Ombudsman holding an inquiry into police brutality in Melbourne
Thousands of demonstrators are expected to converge on the Australian Stock Exchange Building in Melbourne from 7am to protest against capitalism and globalisation. The protests have been organised by the M1 alliance, an offshoot of the S11 group behind the demonstrations that disrupted the World Economic Forum in Melbourne last September. The alliance comprises human rights and environmental activists, unionists, students and christians who plan to highlight the negative effects of global capitalism
While you can get sacked for indulging your penchant for porn at work, the Internet has provided us with a clean, safe, legal way of focussing those lustful intentions — Barbie Bondage, Furniture Porn and Lego Porn
The Victorian State Government’s banning of crikey.com.au journalist and editor Stephen Mayne from a recent media conference was a worrying trend for press freedom — well you wouldn’t actually want an independent angle on a story from a non-corporate journalist, the truth may get out
The British army has paid for a small number of female soldiers to have breast enlargements to make them happier — ludicrous just doesn’t cover this policy.
Microsoft may have infected up to 26 of its top support customers with a tenacious virus that infected a key server late last week. Known as FunLove, the virus was first discovered in November 1999 and is known for its ability to infect Windows NT servers — in addition to computers running Windows 95, Window 98 and Windows Millennium Edition — by posing as a system program
AOL Time Warner is quietly testing software — code-named Komodo — that could end exclusive support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser in future versions of its online services, signalling a growing fissure in an already strained relationship
What if you could take all the haters and the perverts and the spammers and stick them on their own private Internet? That way, they could do whatever they want without bothering the rest of us, and we wouldn’t have to spend our money or time regulating them. I think Clyde Wayne Crews, the new director of technology studies at the Cato Institute, the libertarian think-tank, may have been reading The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
A computer server aboard the International Space Station Alpha went down Wednesday, disrupting communications and forcing NASA to postpone for at least one day a planned ‘handshake’ between the station’s new robot arm and its space shuttle counterpart — if you insist on using Windows, you should know to expect these little technical glitches
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