March 2010
Warner Bros. Recruits Students to Spy on Pirates |... →
Warner Bros Entertainment UK is recruiting tech-savvy students to help the company with their anti-piracy efforts. During the 12 month internship the students will have to maintain accounts at private BitTorrent sites, develop link-scanning bots, make trap purchases and perform various other anti-piracy tasks.
During the 12 month internship, duties will include: monitoring local Internet forums...
'Ring tone therapy' sweeping mobile phone-mad... →
Japan is well ahead of the rest of the world in mobile phone technology: handsets that can pick up TV channels have been standard for years and in many shops payments can be made by swiping a phone over a sensor.
But the latest craze is ring tones said to be therapeutic.
Across Japan the arrival of spring is bringing out the cherry blossom but it is also making people reach for their ...
Top 10 Australian Internet filter lies →
Lie #1: The filter will help in the fight against child pornography. Lie #2: The filter won’t slow connection speeds. Lie #3: Conroy’s filter will stop your kids viewing harmful stuff online. Lie #4: The filter has been proven in Government trials. Lie #5: This plan is no different to what is already done with books and films. Lie #6: The ISP filter is similar to ones in other Western democracies....
The 4 Types of Emails Programmers Receive | Kevin... →
The Vague Email, The End of the World Email, The Red Herring Email and The Ideal Email
Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0 →
The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attemptimg to tighten their control of the Net, but at the same time, increasingly inventive netizens demonstrate mutual solidarity by mobilizing when necessary.
The Internet: a space for information-sharing and mobilizing
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Banks charging $2 ATM fees for transactions that... →
THE Australian Greens want to ban major banks from charging $2 fees for non-customers to withdraw cash from their ATMs.
The party will propose amendments to the trade practice laws to stop major banks charging for ATM use.
But it won’t advocate the fee ban for credit unions, building societies or independent ATM operators, such as corner shops and clubs.
Greens leader Bob Brown...
Australian Government: Don’t feed the trolls | EFA →
There are jerks on the internet. Given how many jerks there are off the internet, this shouldn’t surprise anyone. (I’m willing to bet that the first cave painting was barely dry before a jerk came along and drew an oversized penis on one of the animals.)
Nevertheless, the offensive defacement last week of two Facebook pages, tributes to slain Queensland children Elliott Fletcher and Trinity...
Protecting the community from burglars, murderers... →
South Australian E-crimes Police sent a take down letter to David Thorn the infamous email troller.
“Michael the Police Officer has kindly pointed out to me that it is a criminal offence to solicit money with the intent to purchase drugs and sell them at a profit. As such, I have amended the previous article accordingly. I did not mind caving on this request as I find the amended...
