Small wireless broadband carriers in the bush are being forced to partner or perish as a bizarre consequence of a billion-dollar program aimed at improving regional phone services
Google has unveiled an enhanced version of its popular online mapping program
The proposed services access card is essentially identical to the Australia Card proposal for a national identity card overwhelmingly rejected 20 years ago, according to a privacy study to be released today
Windows Vista will be better equipped to protect itself from malicious rootkits than its predecessor, Windows XP, but because so many legitimate
applications use rootkit techniques, Microsoft has decided to implement two crucial anti-rootkit technologies only in 64-bit versions of its new operating system
A black bear picked the wrong New Jersey yard for a jaunt earlier this week, running into Jack, a territorial tabby, who ran the bear up a tree — twice — via RogueSun
John Perry Barlow — Grateful Dead lyricist, copyfighter, and co-founder of EFF — conducted an electronic debate with ex-congressman Dan Glickman, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America on the BBC’s web site. The exchange is fascinating in that it shows Glickman lives in an information vacuum and doesn’t have a clue about electronic media — via Boing Boing
UK music fans no longer face the threat of prosecution for copying their own CDs on to PCs or MP3 players, as long as the songs are only for personal use. Peter Jamieson, chairman of the British Phonographic Industry, said consumers would only be penalised if they made duplicates of songs for other people. Mr Jamieson also called for Apple – which makes the popular iPod portable music player — to open up its iTunes software so it is compatible with the technology of other manufacturers
It’s hundreds of times thinner than a human hair but as sensitive as a human finger. Researchers have devised a nanosheet
that can be wrapped around any surface — such as that of a surgical instrument or a robotic hand — to mimic the sensitivity of touch
A Taiwanese company called A-Zone International has given the iPod a retro spin with the iPod Dock Valve Station, a docking station that features an elegant 1940s-style valve amplifier
Toshiba announced a 2.5-inch hard drive with a 200GB capacity, effectively raising the bar for mobile storage. The drive uses a new technology called perpendicular recording
Cthulhu Scarf Felted Detail originally uploaded by Red Wolf
The Cthulhu scarf has been felted and is now ready to take on the world with all his tentacle-y menace. Well, perhaps after he’s dried.
Still a bit iffy on whether the extra length is a good or bad thing. As he’ll eventually make his way to Scotland, I’m sure the extra length will come in handy. For Australia, perhaps not. I may leave the length at two balls of yarn if I do another one.
What happens when you combine 200 litres of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It’s amazing and completely insane. The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser, and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. Over one hundred jets of soda fly into the air in less than three minutes. It’s an hysterical and spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas
Google has just released the Google Browser Sync extension for Firefox. This extension allows you to save your bookmarks, history and passwords on Google servers, effectively giving you a roaming profile
, which you can sync on any computer running Firefox (and the extension, of course)
The NSA is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in Internet technology — specifically the forthcoming semantic web
championed by the Web standards organisation W3C — to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals — via Slashdot
Cthulhu Scarf Knitted originally uploaded by Red Wolf
As the Yorick scarf has gone off to its happy new home, I thought I’d mod the pattern and go for something a little more tentacle-y. As I know what to expect from the yarn, I once more went for the Jo Sharp Luxury 8ply DK Pure Wool in violet, because you can never have too much purple in your life.
The pattern is based on Yorick from Knitty.
I dropped the jaw and left out the nose parts of the pattern and knitted each half until I ran out of wool. Then I added the tentacles using i-cord, used the remainder of the third ball to lengthen one half and grafted the two pieces together.
Now I just have to felt it. My hands will not be happy.
A recent vote in the US House of Representatives has led to a rejection of the principle of Net Neutrality from the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act (Cope Act), in spite of massive lobbying from prominent businesses
Microsoft is staking its claim in the high-performance computing territory with the launch of an OS specifically designed for computer clusters used by engineers and scientists
German police have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering a woman with a sausage. Authorities said the man had given a patchy account of events, acknowledging that he may have administered
a bockwurst
iTunes facing fresh legal attacks in several European countries. Government consumer protection agencies in Norway, Denmark and Sweden want Apple to lift restrictions that prevent customers from playing music they bought through iTunes on devices made by Apple’s rivals.
Microsoft acknowledged that it needs to better inform users that its tool for determining whether a computer is running a pirated copy of Windows also quietly checks in daily with the software maker. The company said the undisclosed daily check is a safety measure designed to allow the tool, called Windows Genuine Advantage, to quickly shut down in case of a malfunction. The EULA is suppose to disclose this daily call-in feature. Lauren Weinstein, who is co-founder of People for Internet Responsibility, was one of the first people to notice the daily communications to Microsoft
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