Month November 2007

Kevin Rudd, the just elected new Prime Minister of Australia, has pledged to make global warming a major priority, sign the Kyoto Protocol, and bring the troops home from Iraq. This is astoundingly good news, assuming that he does as…

Not satire.

Some hacked into a WordPress blog and created an admin account for himself. The bloggers found the database entry for the account. The password was semi-encrypted using a technique called MD5 into what is called the hash. On a hunch,…

Crime is increasing in a affluent, religious area of Sydney, Australia – and authorities think “mortgage stress” is a major factor. That financial problems lead to increased crime is only news when it happens to the well-off.

Because it can’t effectively be implemented until at least 2025, which is far too long to wait, assuming it could even work.