Sexy Jihad

In an unexpected bout of common sense, dutch academics have agreed to release all their papers directly, thereby surpassing the normal (and expensive scientific journals):
Scientists from all major Dutch universities officially launched a website on Tuesday where all their research material can be accessed for free. Interested parties can get hold of a total of […]

The Register writes:
A Netherlands proposed tax on MP3 players could devastate sales of hard disk players, and set up international waves over copyright legislation.
The tax is being proposed by the Stichting Thuiskopie foundation, and is set to become law in the Netherlands in a few short months unless the European Commission finds a reason to […]

A student at some high school in Winchester (US), has been arrested for writing a story about zombies shooting up his school. Apperantly, according to the police, writing a story like this constitutes planning a terrorist act. Excerpt:
A George Rogers Clark High School junior arrested Tuesday for making terrorist threats told LEX 18 News Thursday […]

It looks like Mr. Sigarchi has been jailed for 14 years. This is just a travesty. I can’t believe someone can be put away just for blogging what’s on his mind. This is pitiful, just pitiful. Excerpt:
An Iranian weblogger has been jailed for 14 years on charges of spying and aiding foreign counter-revolutionaries.
Arash Sigarchi was […]

Tecmo has sued users of an Internet message board devoted to hacking into popular games, including its “Ninja Gaiden” and “Dead or Alive,” to change their codes, the publisher said on Wednesday.
The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Chicago, accuses Web site administrators Mike Greiling of Eden Prairie, Minn., Will Glynn of Davie, Fla., […]

A leaked list containing the names of some 240,000 people who allegedly spied for Poland’s former communist regime has overtaken sex as the hottest search item on the Internet in Poland, press reports has said.
“This thing is huge. We have recorded around 100,000 Internet searches a day for the list, which is 10 times the […]

A white South African boer (famer) has apparantly fed one of his black employees to the lions. An excerpt:

A WHITE farmer and two of his black employees, accused of feeding a sacked farm worker to the lions, went on trial for murder yesterday in the most racially charged case in South Africa’s recent history.
A […]

Boingboing has an article on how someone was sent to jail after using Lynx & Solaris to make a donation for tsunami victims online. Excerpt:
For donating to a Tsunami appeal using Lynx on Solaris 10. BT [British Telecom] who run the donation management system misread an access log and saw hmm thats a non […]

French security researcher Guillaume Tena, who is working at Harvard University, faces 4 months in prison after being sued by Tegam for reverse engineering its Viguard antivirus software and publishing exploit codes for a number of vulnerabilities. According to a ZDNet article, he could also be sued by Tegam for 900,000 euros in damages. An […]