US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld is unhappy with the existing propaganda systems in place and insists that the US must create a more effective, 24-hour propaganda machine
or risk losing the battle for the minds of Muslims
It appears that one of the largest eDonkey2000 communities is no more. Often occupied by over 1 million eDonkey2000 users spread over several servers, Razorback2 is often regarded as the very lifeblood of this network. It is being reported the Federal Belgian Police have raided and seized Razorback2’s servers. In addition, it is suspected the administrator of Razorback2 is currently in custody — via digg
Citing the Prevention of Terrorism
act, British Police have arrested and interrogated three of the stars of the award-winning film The Road to Guantanamo
, together with the three ex-Guantanomo detainees on whose story the film is based — via Feòrag
American hard rocker and political activist Henry Rollins says a fellow passenger on his flight out of Auckland reported him to Australian anti-terrorism authorities for reading a scholarly work on the rise of militant Islam. He said the official told him that though her department did good work, it also received a lot of letters submitted by lunatics
. Rollins replied on his web site: Please tell your government and everyone in your office to go fuck themselves. Tell them twice. If your boss is looking for something to do, you can tell him I suggest he go fuck himself. Baghdad’s safer than my hometown and your PM is a sissy
— via Feòrag
A federal judge ordered the Bush administration on Thursday to release documents about its warrantless surveillance programme or spell out what it is withholding, a setback to efforts to keep the programme under wraps — via digg
A plague of identity theft is afflicting South Korea’s online gamers, with almost a quarter of a million cases reported. Many of the stolen identities are being used in gaming farms in China as part of a $1 billion a year black market in cash and items from online games. In the farms, ranks of low-paid workers work 14-hour shifts performing repetitive tasks in online games in order to generate gold and other valuable items. These items can then be sold to players overseas
The cult television series Monkey is being remade in its home country Japan. If you know which TV character was born from an egg on a mountain top
and the lead line of in the world before Monkey, primal chaos reigned
, you probably have the ABC to blame. Parts of the series were shot in New South Wales at Stockton Desert near Port Stephens and the Blue Mountains last year
Broadband customers of Australia’s largest ISPs — Telstra, Optus and iiNet — can use peer-to-peer file-sharing services such as BitTorrent and Kazaa without being throttled by their ISP, at least for now
A group of New Zealand school children have found the remains of what is believed to be a 40 million-year-old giant
penguin. The remains were found last month near Kawhia, on the west coast of the North Island, by children looking for fossils for a nearby natural history museum. Bones from the largest ancient giant penguin, found in New Zealand more than 130 years ago, indicate the bird stood about 1.5 metres tall and weighed more than 100 kilograms
Google has formally rejected the US Justice Department’s subpoena of data, arguing the demand violated the privacy of users’ searches and its own trade secrets. Responding to a motion by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Google also said in a filing in US District Court for the Northern District of California the government demand to disclose web search data was impractical
Apple appears to have invoked the DMCA to stop the dissemination of methods allowing Mac OSX to run on chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. The chatter at the OSx86 Project was stifled Friday after the forum was served with a notice under the DMCA and Win2osx.net, another web site that hosts discussions related to getting Mac OSX onto chips with the x86 instruction set, was also down
Dean Kamen, the engineer who invented the Segway, is puzzling over a new equation these days. An estimated 1.1 billion people in the world don’t have access to clean drinking water, and an estimated 1.6 billion don’t have electricity. Those figures add up to a big problem for the world‚Äîand an equally big opportunity for entrepreneurs. To solve the problem, he’s invented two devices, each about the size of a washing machine that can provide much-needed power and clean water in rural villages
The first experimental demonstration of quantum telecloning has been achieved by scientists at the University of Tokyo, the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and the University of York. Telecloning combines cloning (or copying) with teleportation; ie, disembodied transport. The scientists have succeeded in making the first remote copies of beams of laser light, by combining quantum cloning with quantum teleportation into a single experimental step. Telecloning is more efficient than any combination of teleportation and local cloning because it relies on a new form of quantum entanglement — multipartite entanglement — via Warren Ellis
The City of Chicago wants to blanket its streets and neighbourhoods with a wireless Internet signal, granting residents and visitors access to the Web wherever they are — on streets, in homes, offices and shopping malls. Chicago’s chief information officer said that the city will invite technology companies to submit proposals this spring on how to build and offer citywide wireless broadband [BugMeNot]
Houston’s police chief is suggesting putting surveillance cameras in apartment complexes, downtown streets and even private homes. Scott Henson with the American Civil Liberties Union calls Hurtt’s proposal to require surveillance cameras as part of some building permits — radical and extreme
Paul Dell builds web sites. So, he has had a URL stating as much: dellwebsites.com. Somehow, Dell, the giant computer vendor thinks that people would be confused by that is and is suing for 100,000 Euros in damages — via digg
Amazon is in advanced talks with the four global music companies about a digital-music service that could be launched as soon as this summer. It would feature Amazon-branded portable music players, designed and built for the retailer, and a subscription service that would deeply discount and preload those devices with songs
Telstra is likely to proceed with its next generation broadband network regardless of the regulatory outcome it receives, an analyst says. Goldman Sachs JBWere analyst Christian Guerra said broadband was critical to Telstra’s future and Australia’s largest telco could not afford to abandon the fibre to the node (FTTN) rollout altogether
Microsoft will close the book on its appallingly bad FrontPage web design programme with the release of Office 2007, formerly known as Office 12, late this year
Noted physicist Dr Franklin Felber will present his new exact solution of Einstein’s 90-year-old gravitational field equation to the Space Technology and Applications International Forum in Albuquerque. The solution is the first that accounts for masses moving near the speed of light. Felber’s antigravity discovery solves the two greatest engineering challenges to space travel near the speed of light: identifying an energy source capable of producing the acceleration; and limiting stresses on humans and equipment during rapid acceleration — via Warren Ellis
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