After trashing several web sites, including Disney, this week, the hackers taking credit for the attacks got the hump at being referred to as ‘script kiddies‘ and launched a repeat attack on Intel — who weren’t the source of the comment. Getting a clue, a life, a dictionary and past puberty might actually become a reality if they could just get over the whole tantrum thing.
Having an Elvis impersonator as a stalker doesn’t exactly strike fear into my heart, but it disturbed San Francisco’s mayor, Willie Brown, enough to seek out a restraining order. I only ever get god botherers stalking me — cheerfully empty headed teenagers, orange clad hare krishnas, well dressed young american lads from Utah and nutty satanists, I’m just one big magnet for religious nuts — I want an Elvis impersonator stalker of my very own. Or perhaps a manga girl…
I thought those stupid musical greeting cards were bad. But with the advent of ultra thin flexible batteries that can be printed on packages like ink, I’m having nightmares of an all singing, all dancing grocery shopping experience
Google are getting bigger with their recent acquisition of Deja.com’s Usenet archives
Ever get hijacked by a seemingly innocuous site that spawned hundreds of browser windows full of sexually explicit advertising that open faster than you can close them? The US Federal Trade Commission actually managed to prosecute the makers of these annoying web parasites
Virtual Monkeywrench, the hackers who stole confidential data from the rich and powerful attending last month’s World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, did it to make a point and not to blackmail some of the richest people on the planet. The question now is — did the WEF delegates get the message?
Bored with life? Why not make use of an online auction to sell your soul?
It may not have ground to a halt, but a fishing trawler that snapped a trans Pacific cable has certainly slowed things down for internet users in Asia
What happens when the .gov.au is no longer prestigious enough? Brisbane City Council is taking its fight for the domain name Brisbane.com to the World Intellectual Property Organisation. If they win it could mean that your legally obtained and registered domain may be hijacked by a tin pot council with an inferiority complex
Do you what goes into your fast food? Would you like ground up meatworker in your Big Mac? The author of Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser, says that you really don’t have any idea about what really goes into your fast food
Neighbours back home described Pickett as a friendly man, an accountant who had lived in a modest home in Evansville and kept a neat lawn. He frequently jogged.
Why do they never say, I kept telling people he was a maniac. I told the missus, one day they’ll be digging bodies out of that guy’s basement.
It just goes to prove that as long as you keep mowing your lawn, suburbia doesn’t care what you do in your free time
The World Economic Forum are dumbfounded at a breach of security that saw sensitive data leaked to a Swiss newspaper. Really now, who would want to know the ins and outs of the richest and most influential people in the world? Just because you have money doesn’t mean you have a clue
OzEmail’s appalling record of customer service is still going strong to judge by the incompetence it displayed when its e-mail service died for three days last weekend, leaving all of its customers fuming in the dark
It certainly ain’t rocket science, but you’d at least expect that a nation’s leader could string a few words together in a logical sequence. The very cool Todd Gitlin talks about the dumbing down of America
Nike iD have no sense of humour when it comes to making your own footprint on the world
The European Commission has estimated that Internet users around the world pay €10 billion a year in connection charges, just to receive junk e-mails — now is anyone really surprised by this figure?
The saga of the silly bastard who refused to take his medication to prevent rejection of his grafted hand has finally come to a close with the hand being removed. Pity they couldn’t take the head while they were there, it’s not like he was using it
I guess holding a boys night out under the guise of a charity event is perhaps pushing the bounds of good taste… or perhaps it was just sour grapes that the head sherrang never thought of it first
Nearly 26 years later the matter of five Australian journalists who were murdered in East Timor may be investigated. It would be nicer still if the Australian government owned up to its part in the cover up
Amazon were planning to make its recently laid off workers sign a non-disparagement agreement preventing them from bad mouthing the corporation, when it finally came to its senses and thought that perhaps it was just giving itself a bad name in the attempt
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