TREEPODS: Carbon-Scrubbing Artificial Trees for Boston City Streets
Trees naturally filter and clean our air, but in today’s heavily polluted world, it’s just too huge of a task…
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A climate of change is dawning (we hope)
On 12 December 2009 a group of activists met at Martin Place in Sydney to challenge the irrational, unscientific and…
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Australian Egyptians rally behind protesters
Updated 1 hour 22 minutes ago
Thousands of protesters have defied the curfew imposed in major cities after a day…
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Skype security weaknesses could endanger 'vulnerable users'
Users of free internet phone service 'exposed to interception, impersonation and surveillance', warns Privacy InternationalCharles Arthur
guardian.co.uk,
Wednesday 16 March…
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Data retention proposal pinned on VoIP
Government raises law enforcement concerns.
The Attorney-General's Department has fingered the shift from landline telephones to IP telephony as the…
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action George Washington H1N1 / Health Issues Shared How Mercury…
WHAT you were matters less than what you are, so it can't hurt Julia Gillard to admit her past --…
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Listening CCTV goes from pilot to reality in Coventry
As reported yesterday by the Sunday Times, a network of microphones connected to CCTV cameras that can monitor conversations and…
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How the Murdoch press keeps Australia's dirty secret
12 May 2011
The illegal eavesdropping on famous people by the News of the World is said to be Rupert…
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Scirus - for scientific information
Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches…
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The dark side of the Syrian internet
Surveillance and spamming — how the Syria’s embattled regime and its supporters battle protesters on social media. Jillian C York reports…
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Forecaster: Two phenomena responsible for world's bizarre weather
A graphic outlining sea temperature anomalies the first week in January shows drops in the Pacific as air temperatures rise…
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Gillards Says Assange Has Acted Illegally
Illustration: Spooner
Instead of pursuing the website for espionage, Australia should question potential US misconduct.
Western governments have gone into…
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Prices rise as New Zealand passes emissions trading scheme
Petrol and power prices have risen sharply in New Zealand after the government introduced a controversial emissions trading scheme.
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Neuromancing the stone: Ludlam’s OzLog war
Technologists and civil libertarians remained riveted to their screens right around Australia today as the intimate details of one of…
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Mubarak Stepping Down Amidst Groundbreaking Digital Revolution
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down, more than two weeks after the protests that began January 25 in the…
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Drew Goddard From Aussie Band Karnivool Shares His 2 Cents On The NWO Agenda
Hey everyone,
Since the website went live around the same time last year we’ve had a number of bands from…
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Scientology says it's just like Salvos
The Church of Scientology has compared itself to The Salvation Army, during a Senate inquiry.
The Church of Scientology has…
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Open Wi-Fi 'outlawed' in Digital Economy Bill
The government will not exempt universities, libraries and small businesses providing open Wi-Fi services from its Digital Economy Bill copyright…
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Facebook Deletes Official Alex Jones Page Over Gadsden Flag
Social networking giant has embarked on a move to ban Tea Party material as part of wider cybersecurity agenda for…
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Did Stevens say Barnaby's not fit for the job?
Nearly. I've a softer spot for Barnaby
The Reserve Bank Governor has declared himself at odds with Coalition finance spokesman…
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Internet 'kill switch' bill gets a makeover
A Senate proposal that has become known as the Internet "kill switch" bill was reintroduced this week, with a tweak…
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9/11 conspiracy discussed on the floor of Parliament
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Unionist’s 9/11 comments stupid and wrong: Gillard | ABC…
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How To Stop Domain Names Being Seized By The US Government
As the United States authorities continue with their domain name seizure policy, file-sharing, streaming and link site operators around the…
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Australia proposes ban on 1000s of plants including national flower
Posted on February 22, 2011 by geobear7| 45 Comments
From info at Garden Freedom
Legislation being proposed in Australia would…
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Pentagon: Let Us Secure Your Network or Face the ‘Wild Wild West’ Internet Alone
Companies that operate critical infrastructures and do not voluntarily allow the federal government to install monitoring software on their networks…
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Obama "IP czar" wants felony charges for illegal Web streaming
By Nate Anderson
| Last updated about 15 hours ago
The Obama administration wants to make sure that the illegal…
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Huge Security Flaw Makes VPNs Useless for BitTorrent
Millions of BitTorrent users who have chosen to hide their identities through a VPN service may not be as anonymous…
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FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited
WASHINGTON--The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two…
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Climategate: five Aussie MPs lead the way by resigning in disgust over carbon tax – Telegraph Blogs
Climategate: five Aussie MPs lead the way by resigning in disgust over carbon tax By James Delingpole Politics Last…
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DNS filtering: absolutely the wrong way to defend copyrights
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has called the PROTECT IP Act "a threat to our economic future and to our international…
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Were the Polish elite abducted and killed in Poland? No evidence of bodies at crash site fuels speculation
Polish TV journalist Slawomir Wisniewski who was among the first to reach the crash site of the Tupolev plane containing…
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