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I Knew You Were Going to Do That

Matt Clarkson was going to end poverty by willing the leaders at the G8 summit to do so. According to his recent press release, Clarkson planned to ask visitors to his website to “take part in a meditation to psychically influence leaders of the G-8 summit to make poverty history.”…

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The Poop Heard Round the World

Have you heard about “Dog Poop Girl”? No, she’s not some new style superhero, although I do believe that her partner, Dog Poop Man, has made an appearance on “Whose Line Is It Anyways?” (couldn’t you just watch Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie for hours?) No, Dog Poop Girl is…

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Sasser Suspect Scores Suspended Sentence

Sven Jaschan, the German teenager who created the Sasser worm, has now been convicted of creating Sasser, and has received a suspended sentence for his deeds, along with an order to perform community service. The twenty-one month suspended sentence is due in large part to the fact that Jaschan was…

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Cell Phones Boon, Bane During Aftermath of London Blasts

In a twist of irony, perhaps dichotomy (or perhaps both), the widespread usage of cell phones has turned out to be both a boon and a bane in the hours immediately following the terrorist attacks and explosions in London earlier today. As might be expected in this wireless age, cell…

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Sasser Suspect Sven Speaks (and Confesses)

Sven Jaschan looks like, and by most accounts is, a typical teenager. That is, except for that small matter of bringing hundreds of thousands of computer systems around the world to a screeching halt – or at least a snail’s paced crawl – with his unleashing of the Sasser worm….

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Post Script: Karla Homolka Released from Prison

A short post-script for those interested in the continuing horror saga of Karla Homolka. Our readers will remember that Ms. Homolka was at the center of an extremely ugly murder trial, in which she and her lover were found guilty of horrible crimes against children, and, relevant to these pages,…

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China Joins International Anti-Spam “London Plan” – Good Net Citizens or Good Business?

As the battle heats up over whether to allow China to acquire major United States business holdings, China has turned its attention to another global business issue: spam. China has long been known as a major source of spam – indeed it is often cited as the second-largest conduit of…

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It’s Our Internet, And You Can’t Have It, Says U.S.

Al Gore may not have really invented the Internet, but we can still bloody well control it, the U.S. seems to be saying. In a gesture which is being seen by some as the U.S. thumbing its nose at the global Internet community, the U.S. has drawn a line in the sand and said, in essence, “possession of the Internet is 9/10s of the law”. Or something.

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U.S. Phisher Implicated in Global Phish Netting

In case you had any doubts about the global nature – the complex world-wide intricacies – of phishing networks, doubt no more. Case in point: Douglas Harvard and Lee Elwood were both sentenced in England this week to several years in jail for their part in a global phishing scam….

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Wireless, Wireless, Wherefore Art Thou, Wireless? Shakespeare in the Unwired Round

But, soft! What light through yonder Windows breaks? Windows Mobile that is, as historic Stratford-on-Avon goes not only digital, but unwired to boot. With wireless hotspots, provided by British Telecom, throughout, Stratford-on-Avon has essentially created a fully connected wireless touris..er..town. Visitors can rent networked PDAs for about $14.00 US per…

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Canadian Adult Entertainers Unwilling to Bare All to New U.S. Rules

It seems that adult-themed websites in the United States aren’t the only ones up in arms over the new U.S. “Age Records” rule for adult content websites, which became a reality this week. Not only are adult industry performers in Canada concerned about the new rules, which require that anyone…

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Friends Don’t Let Friends Dial Drunk (or Text SMS, Either)

Ok, forget drinking and carrying nude pictures of yourself on your cell phone. There is something even more stupid that you can do while drinking, with a cell phone. Drunk dialing, or drunk texting (text messaging) on your cell phone.

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A Public Service Announcement from the Internet Patrol and a Friend

This almost reads like one of those urban legends which you forward to a friend. Only it isn’t. It really happened, to a friend of ours, just last night. So our friend Sean would like us remind you: Don’t Speed You’ve seen it on the crazy cop shows. You’ve heard…

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Microsoft Admits to Censoring in China

Earlier this week Aunty reported to you that Microsoft was censoring Chinese users of its new Chinese-based web and blogging portal. Today Silicon.com is reporting that Microsoft has confirmed this in an email to Silicon.com, in which Microsoft admits that it does maintain a list of forbidden words and phrases,…

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MSN Joins Google and Yahoo in Blocking Chinese Users from Accessing, Using Forbidden Terms and Content

There’s a hue and cry being raised about Microsoft’s new MSN portal in China not allowing Chinese users to access or share certain “forbidden” sites and ideas on the Internet. In particular, Chinese users of MSN’s blogging service, MSN Spaces, are forbidden from using certain terms in their blog entries,…