According to the terms of use of Microsoft’s Passport service, the company has the right to ‘use, modify, copy, distribute… or sell’ your personal information.
If you’ve ever had an obnoxious boss or a company that treats its workers with less respect than cattle, then Paul T Riddell’s tale of a legendary Texas Instruments workplace terrorist will make your day — Attack of the Mad Shitter.
Jennifer Abrams, bimbo extraordinaire, has created a web site condemning the South Rivers police for the ‘murder’ of her equally stupid, shotgun wielding brother. But when she started to get negative feedback on her site, which is essentially a public forum, who did she run crying to for help — the police of course. In Jenny’s fantasy world, you can have your cake and eat it too.
Twice this week I’ve been the recipient of e-mail petitions to ‘Help the Women in Afghanistan’. Signing this petition won’t do anything apart from giving you a warm, fuzzy feeling. The return address was long ago disabled and the petition even rates a mention on Snopes. If you really want to help, talk to Amnesty International, they’d love your support.
Experiments on a newly created composite material have shown that it bends microwaves passing through it in a direction that seems to defy the laws of physics
Some clean shaven guys could find themselves in a hairy situation in a couple of weeks. Beard growing is now mandatory in Macclesfield, North Carolina. Any male without at least some stubble growing by 15 April will be subject to arrest and/or a US$25 fine
If you need a mouse that you can use underwater, stand up to those annoying Mack trucks, survive the fall when you hurl the computer out the window or just something that can handle the sea spray at your beach front abode, the Durapoint stainless steel industrial mouse may be just the thing for you.
Water — heavier when chilled, lighter when frozen, absorbing enormous heat with but a slight rise in temperature, the foundation of life, the most common of liquids, and the strangest. If only we knew how it worked.
Senior research analyst with the Australian Institute of Criminology, Dr Russell Smith, says people who expose sloppy computer security or cybercrime should be protected so plans for compulsory reporting of hacking can succeed
American scientists have developed an electronic robo-lobster 46cm long and modelled on a real crustacean to help the military in frontline warfare
In the US, where customer privacy is a joke, meeting tough European standards could require big changes
The ACCC is looking into whether DVD zoning restrictions are illegal — not that it stops anyone from already buying DVDs from the UK and US
If you’ve ever wanted the weather forecast nicely toasted into a piece of bread, Robin Southgate, a final year Industrial Design student at Brunel University in the UK, is the man to see.
A 6m highly polished concave steel mirror sculpture in Nottingham will have to be shielded to prevent it focusing the sun’s rays and baking passing birds during Summer Solstice — just a minor design flaw.
In an astonishing back flip, the courts have reversed a decision that barred a pro-life group from publishing their so-called ‘Nuremberg Files’ web site. This is a site that publishes ‘Wanted’ posters of abortion doctors, along with their names and home addresses. Looks like free speech wins out over inciting violence and invasion of privacy — funny how pro-lifers can justify the death of others to make their point.
A New Zealand teenager is being praised by the FBI in alerting them to a Pennsylvanian teenager who alluded to planning his own school shoot-up. But some of the users of the web site, where the incident came to light, are claiming she overstepped her bounds. So apparently it would have been better for her to wait until after the fact instead of offering the boy the help he needs now — what a bunch of small-minded wankers.
When you run correctional facility, handing out day release to a convicted killer and mental patient with a history of paranoid schizophrenia probably wouldn’t rate as a standard practice. Melbourne’s Thomas Embling psychiatric hospital have other ideas and one of their prisoners took advantage of the lax regulations and did a runner
A Northern California library has a new automated retrieval system that makes books easier to find. But the utterly random nature of the operation has some librarians unnerved
With the threat of mad cow disease hanging over their heads in Europe, McDonald’s is bracing for a beef scare in the US.
Cape Town office workers shaking off the Monday morning blues after the weekend found the entrance to their posh, waterfront office building blocked by a 900kg beached seal.
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