Claire Field, the 15-year-old owner of harrypotterguide.co.uk, will maintain her site now that Warner Bros has agreed not to seek transfer of the domain name, marking a reversal from Warner Bros earlier position — a win for the little guys against the corporate dictators.
You can now buy a solar power pack that fits into a backpack. The 11kg units measures 445mm high x 270mm wide x 270mm deep and provides 120 watt-hours of power a day. After charging for six hours with the unit’s photovoltaic panel, the pack can run a laptop for three hours or its own light for 14 hours. It costs US$550.
Dave Touretzky is a fierce advocate of the First Amendment and the Internet. His latest project, a gallery of CSS descramblers documenting how to decrypt DVDs, is setting him at loggerheads with the Motion Picture Association of America.
If you happen to be writing such seditious material as the role of Taiwanese women in the democratic process, you may as well resign yourself to the Beijing authorities detaining your five-year-old son for 26 days — preventing him from seeing his parents and without informing the US authorities.
High school dropout, Abraham Abdallah, duped more than 200 of the ‘Richest People in America’ listed in Forbes magazine by using computers in a Brooklyn library — looks like somebody’s been making fine use of the public facilities.
Home pages and accounts on Tripod, one of the Internet’s largest free Web site hosting services, have vanished unexpectedly, victims of misdirected policy enforcements.
The NSW Institute of Forensic Medicine at Glebe has been accused of scavenging body parts from cadavers. A common enough practice, although it is usually customary to seek permission first.
Shepherd Mokhtar Adam Fadl was sleeping soundly beside his flock when he was shot dead. Hours later police found the killer — it was one of his sheep.
Subscribers to United States broadband cable service @Home have sued the company alleging it misled people to sign up for the service with the promise that it could provide faster Internet connections, while it routinely slowed customers’ connections by limiting uplink speeds and overloading the number of users sharing nodes of the service.
In a nice piece of turnabout, a very bright young Sydney lad evaded the clutches of a kidnapper by stomping on the man’s foot
An Internet stalker has been sentenced to seven years jail by a British judge for hacking into a teenage girl’s Web site and posting her home address with an invitation to rape and abuse her
Things got a bit heated at the recent three-day Association for Computing Machinery conference when academics and engineers told IT workers that computers are illogical machines in dire need of a total overhaul, and the information technology industry is completely screwed up.
If you’ve ever felt like hurling your mobile phone out the window due to poor connection, a cheap functional paper phone should be available before the end of the year, making a rash action a more financially viable option.
San Francisco artist, Tom Forsythe, can continue using Barbie dolls in his photographic renderings, when Mattel’s preliminary injunction was recently denied. Forsythe uses Barbies to ‘to critique the materialistic and gender-oppressive values’ he believes the doll embody, Mattel wanted the court to order Forsythe to hand over all the negatives of his work so they could be destroyed.
A giant bouncy giraffe managed to kill a child and injure several others when it escaped its carnival moorings.
Seven lines of code that can crack DVD encryption and open them for copying has been posted on the Internet allowing a new argument against the inappropriate use of zoning on DVDs.
When you’re not happy with custody arrangements, shooting the mother of your child before offing yourself is probably just a tad drastic — and certainly not in the best interests of your offspring.
Critics have charged in February that ICANN didn’t use a democratic process when it selected seven new domain name suffixes; .biz, .aero, .pro, .info, .name, .museum and .coop, that are part of Web site addresses — not that difficult to believe considering the rather stupid suffixes that were approved.
Governments want the benefits of the Net, but they also seek to maintain limits on freedom — but the people who are serious about diffusing information online have ways around most blocks and are willing to use them even if it means risking their lives.
Skydiver Rodd Millner plans to fly to the edge of space using a high altitude helium balloon, then insulated in a pressurised space suit jump off, breaking the sound barrier as he descends — look out for a greasy smear coming soon to a footpath near you.
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