A new bill before parliament will significantly increase ASIO’s powers to conduct offshore surveillance and extend surveillance to organisations such as WikiLeaks, just months after legislation widened ASIO’s power to share the results of its spying — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police have admitted arresting a technology journalist covering an IT security conference after yesterday denying it.
The Queensland Police Media Unit last night flatly denied a claim by Fairfax journalist Ben Grubb that he was arrested at AusCERT in Surfers Paradise.
@bengrubb was not arrested. He was interviewed briefly by police,
the unit said on Twitter, referencing Grubb’s handle on the website.
This morning the unit posted another update saying it had made a mistake.
“Our bad @bengrubb was arrested for questioning briefly Our tweet last night was based on information provided at the time Apologies (sic),
it said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
CSIRO scientists have shown that a new experimental vaccine helps to protect horses against the deadly Hendra virus.
Dr Deborah Middleton from CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) will announce the successful progress to develop the vaccine at the Australian Veterinary Association conference in Adelaide today — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A painting rarely seen in public has sold at auction in Melbourne for more than $500,000.
The 1910 work by St Kilda-born artist Rupert Bunny is titled Green Caterpillar and features two women inspecting a caterpillar on a garden bench — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For the last decade, hosting a large scale web application has been a daunting task, reserved only for experts. Not anymore; when Amazon opened its server architecture, everything changed. Computer hardware moved to the cloud, and became available to any and all developers. In this tutorial, we will install WordPress in the cloud — via Nettuts+
WorldTimeBuddy (WTB) is designed to be the easiest way to lookup times and plan meetings around the World – all here, at your fingertips, in a single convenient page.
The system is powered by the same sources for timezone, daylight savings and geolocation data that most other sites use. The key differentiator is in the user experience, which, they believe, is paramount
Electric power cuts in India are frequent and all over the country. But information on the extent of the problem has been largely anecdotal.
Now a volunteer group is working with a large number of Indian users of Twitter to create an infographic based on Twitter messages from various parts of the country, reporting power failures from various cities and towns — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The ongoing debate over the supposed dangers posed by mobile phone usage and wireless signals has exploded once again. An influential European committee has called for a ban on mobile phones and Wi-Fi networks in schools – but industry body the GSM Association (GSMA) has denounced the report as an unbalanced political assessment, not a scientific report
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
French scientists claim to have found the first planet outside our solar system with the potential to support Earth-like life.
Modelling of planet Gliese 581d shows it has the potential to be warm and wet enough to nurture Earth-like life, they said.
It orbits a red dwarf star called Gliese 581, located around 20 light years from Earth, which makes it one of our closest neighbours — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian Sex Party says the organisers of the largest annual music event in the Northern Territory have banned safe-sex advocates from handing out condoms and information — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Watching a report on asylum seekers on 7.30 tonight, one of our daughters spoke up unexpectedly: I don’t understand. Shouldn’t we help them? Why do they keep talking about how they should stop the boats?
Yes, we should help them,
I said.
Then why do they want to stop the boats? What’s wrong with the boat people?
We tried to explain that there was nothing wrong with asylum seekers, that they were scared people who couldn’t live in their home countries any longer because of war or not being allowed to practise their religion. That sometimes they needed to leave so urgently that they made a risky trip in a boat halfway across the world to look for a country that would let them live there.
So we should help them, but why don’t people want them to come here?
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police must avoid the temptation
to abuse anti-terrorism laws by using them as a net to round up innocent people — particularly in the run-up to next year’s Olympics, the Government’s terrorism watchdog has warned — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Enter the Victorian branch of the Australian Education Union, that on Friday called for all monies going to ACCESS Ministries to be withdrawn. Citing ACCESS volunteers who taught their young charges gems like, Buddha is Satan’s friend
, the union said that Paddison’s comments were an affront to students in a our secular government schools and a clear breach of the federal guidelines for the national school chaplaincy program [that prohibit proselytising]
.
The AEU’s stance follows that take by Professor Gary Bouma, an Anglican Priest and the UNESCO chairman of Interreligious and Intercultural Relations. Denouncing the ACCESS curriculum as crap
, Bouma bemoaned an education department ill equipped to stand up to religious bullies
like ACCESS. Several days later, he signed an open letter with a handful of other religious and social inclusion experts. Addressed to Federal and State decision-makers, including the Prime Minister, it called for the replacement of scripture with general religious education taught by trained teachers, not evangelical Christian volunteers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Pam of Gingerbread Snowflakes shares an easy way to create small scale saori weaving projects on the go with a mini loom and yarn scraps. I loved reading about the freeform style of saori.
Self expression in it’s purist form. And because it is almost a form of meditation, it can heal and restore the mind and heart.
and
I use Saori as a meditation. The only conscious choice I make is the yarn itself at the beginning of the project. How and where those yarns appear in the weaving – I leave that up to the universe.
Very nice! And I love that she mentions how those of us with large embroidery floss stashes can replicate the effect on an even smaller scale — via CRAFT
Some would call it slave labour, others a labour of love, but the result has a strength and durability to match the remarkable amount of time spent putting it together, link by link. If it sounds shockingly archaic, just remember: part of craft is the act of making — the finished product, for many, is an after-effect of that Zen-like construction process.
The shape itself is a play on the construction itself — a two-dimensional flooring lifted into three dimensions through components with structural density and height-maintaining stability. Three colours come from electroplated coatings, while galvanised steel wire is used throughout. Designed by Philippe Malouin and company — via Dornob
The nation’s independent computer emergency response team, AusCERT, is working with the federal government’s CERT Australia to streamline operations and provide complementary services — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tarantulas eject silk through their feet to anchor themselves to slippery, vertical surfaces, say scientists.
The discovery, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, shows how these large but very fragile spiders avoid potentially lethal falls — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Facebook revolution has retreated from this dusty Jordanian town on the Syrian border.
In a bid to quash a rebellion now entering its third month, the Syrian government, perhaps one of the world’s most Internet-unfriendly, has shut down pretty much all electronic communications inside the country and to overseas. Cut off from the World Wide Web, protestors, journalists and human rights activists have resorted to communications networks from another era.
And for that, Ramtha, a Jordanian town of about 100,000 people 80 kilometres north of the capital of Amman, has become a virtual switchboard for news coming out of Syria, not to mention a swarm of refugees seeking to flee the carnage that has taken some 800 lives across the country, according to a United Nations estimate released last Friday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The private company entrusted to carry out file-sharing network monitoring for the French government has been hacked. Trident Media Guard, which is responsible for gathering data for so-called 3 strikes warnings, now has some of its scripts and secrets out in the wild, an event which has the potential to upset the smooth of Hadopi — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The malaria parasite can ensure it keeps a host body all to itself by preventing further malarial infections, according to international researchers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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