November 2001 Archive

30 November 2001

It would seem the dam has finally burst for Froggy ISP, as over half the staff at the company's Liverpool call centre had their employment terminated yesterday.

Most Australian service providers are pushing the wrong DSL services on to customers, with sting in the tail pricing to boot, hampering the uptake of broadband in the local market.

The environmentalist organisation Greenpeace said a high-ranking microbiologist in the US government's biological warfare program was likely behind the current wave of anthrax attacks that has cost the lives of five people.

Outraged at the exclusion of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, Greens call democracy impossible without representation of women. US Green Party officers travel to Europe for meetings with Green members of European parliaments and other Green officials and the European Federation of Green Parties.

More than 4 million Excite@Home broadband Internet customers could be left without access after the company said today it could not guarantee the supply of its service beyond Friday.

29 November 2001

The NSW department of Fair Trading has begun preliminary investigations into allegations that Nokia Australia has been selling mobile handsets with faulty displays.

If you find yourself paying for bundled proprietary software and don't actually install it, you can legally resell it no matter what the End-User License Agreement says. That's what Judge Dean D Pregerson wrote in his 'Order Re: Application For Preliminary Injunction' in the case of Softman vs Adobe.

A little-noticed provision in the new anti-terrorism act imposes US cyber crime laws on other nations, whether they like it or not. And in related news, thirty countries signed a controversial international treaty to combat online crime last week. Representatives of 26 Council of Europe member states, plus the US, Canada, Japan, and South Africa, put their signatures on the document at the international Convention on Cybercrime meeting in Budapest.

The annual pre-xmas swine slaughter in a south-western Hungarian village came to a shocking end on Saturday after one man died of electrocution while trying to stun a pig, whose owner then died of heart attack.

28 November 2001

Tempers have reached fever pitch in the local domain name game, with NetRegistry's CEO Larry Bloch describing marketing practices of certain competitors as 'a deceptively misleading, sneaky, slimy attempt to mislead the public'. An opinion much supported by other domain name resellers from across the country.

The much-loved but endangered water vole could soon be safe across much of London.

Search engine spiders crawling the Web are increasingly stumbling upon passwords, credit card numbers, classified documents and even computer vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers. The problem is not new, security analysts say: Ever since search robots began indexing the Web years ago, Web site administrators have found pages not meant for public consumption exposed in search results.

Australia is under pressure to establish a national cybercrime centre similar to those in the UK and US. Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty says cyber crime is costing some US$3 trillion — AU$5.8 trillion — a year world-wide.

27 November 2001

A court date was set Monday in the lawsuit brought by British Telecommunications against US-based Prodigy Communications Corp for patent infringement through the ISP's unauthorised use of the hyperlink.

Earth-orbiting listening posts are on active duty in the United States-led war on terrorism. Signal-seeking spacecraft not only play a critical role in eavesdropping on nations from on high, but also within the borders of the US itself.

French Stewart has agreed to trade places with Queensland Premier Peter Beattie and plans to seize control of Queensland with free beer.

26 November 2001

The world's biggest luddite, Senator Alston has retained his position as Communications and IT minister for the Australian government following a cabinet reshuffle today — despite opposition from within his party and widespread rumours that he wanted to step down.

Disgruntled employees have always posed dangers for businesses, but in the information age, that hazard has become far more sinister. GreenGrocer.com.au, a leading Australian e-tailer, learned this the hard way after its systems were violated by a trusted worker.

The Office of Government Commerce is threatening to dump Microsoft, citing increased licence fees that would cost the UK £60 million a year, representing an increase of 50-200%.

25 November 2001

Somalia's only internet company and a key telecoms business have been forced to close because the United States suspects them of terrorist links. Both companies have stated they are not linked to terrorists. Along with denying all internet access to Somalis, the closures have severely restricted international telephone lines and shut down vitally needed money transfer facilities.

Craft activities are not commonly associated with personal computers, yet for those who like to make paper crafts, or even design their own fabrics, a computer can be a very useful tool.

24 November 2001

Telstra cable users in Victoria and ADSL customers nationally suffered the repercussions of a denial of service attack last night, with services unavailable for up to four hours.

Companies with servers running Microsoft's database application should watch out for a new hacker tool that scans and then infects systems, network security experts have warned.

British rocket enthusiasts say they have successfully tested the most powerful rocket motor ever launched from the UK. The blast-off, to an altitude of 2134m, took place from a remote part of Scotland on 18 November.

23 November 2001

Paintings of mythical animal-human hybrids are among the oldest surviving art ever produced. New research suggests that minotaurs, satyrs, the werewolves beloved of Hollywood and even Egypt's animal-headed gods are latecomers to the art scene compared with the 'therianthropes' carved by the earliest artists on bone and painted on stone.

A fire-damaged painting by Claude Monet could be restored to its former glory, thanks to a technology designed to simulate the ravages of low-Earth orbit on spacecraft. Conservators at the institute are talking to space chemists at NASA's Glenn Research Centre in Cleveland, Ohio, after hearing of their success in removing an overzealous art lover's lipstick from an Andy Warhol painting. Their trick? They vaporise contaminants by blasting them with oxygen.

Bandwidth isn't cheap, and — despite the pre-election rhetoric — private schools don't have money to waste. Caulfield Grammar School's 80 boarders have been contributing significantly to the load by using peer-to-peer applications such as Napster and Gnutella. Now the school is cracking down.

A Hong Kong company hopes to sell signal jamming technology, previously used by the military to thwart lethal missiles, to block annoying mobile phone calls in places such as hospitals, places of worship and restaurants.

Thousands of tonnes of waste slag from steel mills can now be recycled into a range of useful products for building roads and pavements, and to substitute for virgin quarried products in concrete.

A Florida man died after a duck hit him in the head, knocking him off a personal watercraft and into a lake.

22 November 2001

A computer so small that a trillion of its kind fit into a test tube has been developed by researchers at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. The nanocomputer consists of DNA and DNA-processing enzymes, both dissolved in a liquid held in a test tube.

A new gravity map of the Earth suggests that if you want to lose weight you should go to India, where the pull of gravity is slightly less than it is elsewhere on the planet. You would be slightly less than 1% lighter there.

Tired of all that Spam? Try invoicing them for wasting your time, while it probably won't eliminate Spam, it sure makes the parasites think twice about doing it again.

A Salmon of Doubt — the sixth episode of Douglas Adams' Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series — will hit book shops next May on the anniversary of the writer's death.

One man was killed and another wounded when a brawl broke out in a Philippine karaoke bar over the quality of singing.

21 November 2001

A hands-on hacker course developed by US-based Foundstone ended up fully subscribed in Australia, with local course operator eSec looking to expand into Asia Pacific next year.

Japan's Super-Kamiokande telescope, which has helped answer fundamental questions about the Universe, is almost destroyed in an accident.

Hundreds of beetles will today set about attacking blue heliotrope, a major weed of Australian pastures and crops.

Astronomy's next great discovery may be found not by telescope, but instead with little more than a laptop computer, an Internet connection and a learned and persistent amateur. In fact, astronomers are already pulling new findings from old data, the start of what some say is a looming change in how science gets done.

A domain name dispute between a Chinese company and an Australian chemicals giant Orica Ltd is heating up with both sides refusing to compromise. The two-month-old dispute centres on the ownership of www.chemnet.com, one of the hottest domain names in the chemical industry.

20 November 2001

Telstra has cracked under pressure from the competition watchdog and the possibility of AU$10 million penalties and will reduce ADSL pricing in the wholesale arena, making it more viable for competitors to resell ADSL services.

Nokia's woes over repeated claims that it's selling defective mobile handsets seem to have been compounded by a survey which suggests that 69% of Nokia mobile phone owners have experienced problems with their handset's LCD.

The future of high flying ISP Froggy has been placed in doubt after its director's cash cow, Karl Suleman Enterprises, was placed into voluntary administration last week.

Complaints about anti-copying technology on Natalie Imbruglia's latest CD force her record label, BMG Entertainment, to issue replacements for angry consumers.

The incredibly shallow Miranda Devine foolishly tries to link anti-globalists and religious zealots — possibly because the 11 September attack has delayed delivery of that Gucci handbag she's been lusting after.

A man who use a wire coat hanger to fish a cocaine-filled balloon from his throat wound up in surgery after accidentally hooking himself. While a Des Moines convenience clerk on the phone with police was describing the man who just robbed him when the incredibly stupid suspect returned to the store and corrected the description.

19 November 2001

After sealing a landmark deal to make itself China's first foreign television broadcaster, AOL Time Warner has formed an alliance with a China-backed conglomerate to invest in media-related projects. AOL is to invest US$20 million — AU$38.52 million — in a new joint venture investment company with Shanghai Industrial Holdings.

Microsoft has borrowed some open-source concepts in its shared source strategy, but makes no secret of the commercial benefits of its move. The company's manager of international policy law and corporate affairs, David Kaefer, said Microsoft accepted that some widely-held beliefs about the fundamentals of the software business would have to change, but remained opposed to elements of the free software movement.

Imagine a sporting knee guard that tells you if you have landed the wrong way in activities such as AFL football, skiing or netball. Learning to land correctly with its help would mean savings of millions of dollars in medical treatment, particularly for ligament injuries.

Consumer groups will call on the financial services regulator to investigate Australia's Internet banking capacity after technical problems Thursday locked millions of frustrated customers out of the cyber branch.

18 November 2001

Australian scientists have unveiled a breakthrough computer tool for the design of a new generation of energy-efficient buildings.

Three newly appointed female journalists are on Radio Kabul, reading the news, presenting music and chatting away on the very waveband the Taliban reserved for its puritanical and always music-free Radio Shariat.

X-Force — an Internet Security Systems anti-hacking team — takes its job very seriously, even taking to the streets of Sydney for security threat analysis in the form of drive-by hacking.

Microsoft has issued a patch almost a week after a vulnerability was revealed in Internet Explorer that would allow hackers to gain access to someone's cookies and expose the sensitive information they contain.

17 November 2001

Last week, the WTO issued a cease and desist order against Verio Inc, the company which is hosting the gatt.org web site. The WTO claims that the parody site violates copyrights owned by the WTO, and they have asked for the site to be shut down.

Windows XP's search system includes a bizarre feature that appears to exclude files with non-Microsoft file extensions, under some conditions. It is however so odd that it's surely got to be a bug, rather than monkey business. But you could go as far as saying it's one of those MS things that inconvenience other companies if they don't do things the new way we're doing them in Redmond.

Weapons that fire high-intensity sonic bullets could be used by sky marshalls to incapacitate terrorists who try to hijack passenger aircraft. The US Department of Defence is assessing the technology following the attacks on 11 September.

For over 30 years, John Wamsley has been striving to save Australia's indigenous wildlife. But his methods, which involve fencing off large areas of land and eradicating all alien species such as foxes and rabbits, have made him extremely unpopular. He has received several death threats and spent time in prison.

People can strengthen their muscles by imagining that they are exercising them, according to study findings presented Sunday at the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting in San Diego, California.

16 November 2001

Greenpeace vessels have been involved in a stand-off in the Antarctic with Japanese whaling ships in an attempt to disrupt the planned killing of 400 Minke whales.

Large numbers of Adélie penguins are dying from an unidentified disease near the Australian Mawson base.

The Mars Odyssey spacecraft has uncovered preliminary yet tantalising evidence for water near the surface of Mars and away from the permanently frozen north polar ice cap.

In a move that raises corporate branding to new levels, a North American tyre maker is offering $16,000 to people willing to alter their family name and embrace the company's Dunlop-Tire moniker as their own.

Oracle's top executive told computer hackers on Monday night that his software is so secure they would never be able to break into Oracle's Web site, a boast that may be taken by many as a challenge.

The annual meeting of ICANN began this week with a warning from a US congress member that unless domain registrars can verify their customers, Congress may step in and force them to do it.

Sylvester Stallone may bring, Rambo, his one-man army out of retirement and send him back into Afghanistan 13 years after his last mission.

Katherine Knight, who murdered her de facto — and, in a nightmarish ritual of death, skinned him, cut off his head and cooked parts of his body — received no mercy for her horrifying crime. The 46-year-old former abattoir worker now has the dubious distinction of becoming the first woman in Australia to be jailed for the term of her natural life.

A homeless boy who shocked Chile in June when he was found living with a pack of dogs has run away from a children's home where he was being looked after.

The modern technology of e-mail and laser printing speeded up the publication of complete volumes of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the archaeological finds of the 20th century.

15 November 2001

A report, produced by Brazil's National Network Against the Trafficking of Wild Animals, estimated that local traffickers of endangered animals earn about $1 billion a year, causing untold losses to the country's natural habitat.

Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison is gunning for Microsoft once again, this time with a new strategy aimed at the giant's commanding lead in e-mail software.

Be Inc shareholders have formally approved the transfer of key assets to Palm Inc. The deal was voted through yesterday and, realistically, only a board coup stands in the way of the transfer taking place. But over at BeUnited, campaigners are hopeful that they can catch the great BeOS operating system should it be dropped in the resulting shake-out. BeOS has been neglected for eighteen months and is unwanted by Palm — which have paid for the engineers, not a desktop OS.

It would not take much for a malicious hacker to shut down the Internet, researchers at a meeting of the body that oversees Web address allocation warned on Tuesday. An attack designed to flood the Web's master directory servers with traffic 'is capable of bringing down the Internet', Paul Vixie, a speaker at the ICANN annual meeting.

14 November 2001

Ofoto, an online photography service, will release new software that aims to streamline the process of ordering digital photographs. The software will 'auto detect' prints from a digital camera and allow users to order prints before uploading the images.

'Linux is the long-term threat against our core business. Never forget that!' Microsoft Windows Division Veep Brian Valentine exclaims in a confidential memo to his Sales Brownshirts obtained by The Register.

Telstra's ADSL service in Queensland is flaking out on users who are enduring connection problems and timeout errors when logging on.

Forrester analyst John McCarthy, currently visiting Australia, exposes the flaws in ten common myths about the Internet, including suggestions that the dot-com era is all washed-up.

13 November 2001

Nokia is allegedly aware that it has been selling mobile phones with inherent design faults, according to a former employee of the company. The allegation has been supported by an independent mobile phone repair service, Melbourne-based Phone Medic.

Microsoft Security Manager Scott Culp revealed unilateral steps the company has taken to throttle the exchange of vulnerability information relevant to their famously buggy products, clearly in hopes that patches and fixes can be fed to consumers discreetly, without ever realising they've been at risk to attack.

Warner Bros, the makers of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, were accused by one of the film's stars, Zoe Wanamaker, of penny-pinching with the mostly British cast.

12 November 2001

Pirates have hijacked Harry Potter just hours before his big-screen debut and turned him into a counterfeit DVD.

Despite dramatically tighter security at US buildings since the terrorist attacks, a House panel is giving the US Government failing marks for lax protection of federal computer networks.

A conservative council said private companies could not provide internet service in Iran, but some lawmakers and technology experts disputed its right to rule on the matter. An estimated 1000 ISPs throughout Iran could be affected if the ban is enforced, one expert said. Iranians currently have unrestricted internet access.

The ion propulsion engine is the first non-chemical propulsion to be used as the primary means of propelling a spacecraft. The first flight in NASA's New Millennium Program, Deep Space 1 is designed to validate 12 new technologies for scientific space missions of the next century. Ion propulsion was first proposed in the 1950s and NASA performed experiments on this highly efficient propulsion system in the 1960s, but it was not used aboard an American spacecraft until the 1990s.

11 November 2001

A newly reported vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer allows hackers to steal or corrupt cookie information on a user's desktop through a malformed URL at a Web site or in an HTML e-mail.

Gates has taken credit for the genesis of open-source software. He has said that Microsoft made it possible by standardising computers: 'Really, the reason you see open-source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines' — an interesting spin on things indeed.

The Justice Department has decided to listen in on the conversations of lawyers with clients in federal custody, including people who have been detained but not charged with any crime, whenever that is deemed necessary to prevent violence or terrorism.

10 November 2001

Two British PhD students have designed a computer program to crack bank security codes which potentially gives them access to hundreds of thousands of PIN numbers.

When two Bell Labs scientists invented the transistor in 1947, it was as tall as the face of a wristwatch. Now, another Bell team has made a transistor from a single molecule, small enough to fit about 10 million on the head of a pin.

AllTheWeb offers near real time indexing, allowing users to search more than 3000 online news sources for stories updated less than an hour earlier.

It used to be pretty tough to find out your security vulnerabilities, but that's changed. The prestigious SANS Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, working with the FBI, has developed a top 20 list of common vulnerabilities that leave Internet sites open to attacks — it comes as no surprise that Microsoft IIS is the most vulnerable.

09 November 2001

Former chief of detectives in the Chicago Police Department, William A Hanhardt, pleaded guilty today in Federal District Court to charges of running a sophisticated jewel-theft ring across several states for more than a decade. How did the detective find the people to rob? He used law enforcement computers and databases to get information about travelling jewellery sales people.

Sweeping proposals to give law enforcement agencies access to the communications records of every UK telephone and internet user will not be restricted to anti-terrorist investigations, despite assurances to the contrary from the home secretary.

The largest complete fossil of a cockroach has been found in the United States. The insect, about the size of a mouse, lived 55 million years before the first dinosaurs walked the planet.

The Zimbabwe government charged Geoff Nyarota, the editor of the only independent Daily News, with fraud yesterday as part of its campaign to silence one of its most biting critics in the press.

Researchers from Queensland's Griffith University have developed a smart image sensor which may provide the base technology for the development of artificial eyes.

A web site called the Wayback Machine last week opened a gateway to more than 10 billion archived web pages. But it also opened a can of worms. The site has been using software robots to record web pages since 1996. But these include pages that were later removed by site owners because they contained material that was pirated, illegal, or deemed too sensitive. Now where's my pet boy Sherman.

08 November 2001

In an e-mail sent to media and the Government, Net pioneer, Robert Elz, drew the battle lines for yet another stoush with the newly installed Internet naming body, auDomain Australia (auDA) over their plans for org.au. Last month Elz found himself officially supplanted by auDA as the top dog in the Australian domain space.

The liquid crystal display of the Nokia 8210 mobile phone model is defective, according to several users, with evidence supplied to ZDNet Australia seemingly giving support to the claims — no great surprise there. The 3210 was a lemon and instead of recalling the worthless piece of junk, Nokia instead withdrew them from sale.

A small Australian company, InterSect Alliance, has released an innovative Linux-based security tool, in an attempt to set the open-source darling on the path towards acceptance within organisations.

A toddler brought a bag of pot to his day care centre, leading to the arrest of his mother and her boyfriend. Police said that the toddler showed up with a bag of marijuana he got off the kitchen table. After being alerted by a day-care teacher, police got a warrant to search the couple's apartment yesterday afternoon.

Farhad Azad is hoping to bring back Afghanistan's cultural history. With his web site, he wants to archive what he believes to be a vital piece of Afghanistan's history.

07 November 2001

Greedy and stupid legal eagles are once again on the war path. The notorious anal Hungry Minds have served a cease and desist on 'Black Blocs for Dummies' over use of their 'for Dummies' trademark; and wanker extraordinaire Jerry Falwell has demanded a parody site be removed and the domains handed over to him.

Microsoft Deutschland seems to have accidentally pirated itself by shipping the same copy of Windows XP over and over again. Sort of, anyway. German sites 3Dwin.de and Heise Online report that numerous copies of XP with the same product key have been turning up, and naturally these won't activate, because they've been activated already.

A Japanese gangster fired his gun and injured two policemen on Friday after they caught him trying to peek up a woman's skirt.

06 November 2001

Iridium, the US$8 billion low orbit satellite telephony system that collapsed under a mountain of debt in 1999, has been relaunched in Australia and Asia under new ownership.

According to a panel of industry experts, e-business is not a lost cause, but is simply waiting for the 'right touch from the right entrepreneurs' to prove its sustainable viability in the Australian market. Given the right business plan, an understanding of the Internet and the confidence of your customers, your business might just be the Internet's Prince Charming.

Online retailer Amazon.com is launching a customer credit program, which it bills as a virtual credit card, in a move to lure more customers into its site just weeks ahead of the height of Christmas shopping.

IBM's eLiza project — short for eLizard — believes that computer systems should be able to work the same way that lizards do. They ought to be able to self-monitor, self-regulate, self-adjust, self-heal and self-optimise. Moreover, such capabilities should span the hardware, storage, operating system, network, messaging and application software environment.

Fans of the Loch Ness monster who hope to catch a glimpse of the legendary creature could be in luck thanks to a moving Webcam now filming the murky depths of the Scottish lake.

05 November 2001

A clash of the mammoths could have taken place in what is now southern England thousands of years ago. Fossils found in Buckinghamshire and Norfolk suggest that two types of mammoth lived side-by-side in prehistoric times. Scientists believe herds of more advanced mammoths moving south from Siberia encountered primitive European ones.

Scientists have confirmed that cyanobacteria, one of the most ancient forms of life still living on Earth, have the genetic capability to synthesise cellulose, the polymer that gives plants their stiffness. The information could eventually lead to genetically modified bacteria being employed to make paper and other wood-derived products, reducing the need to cut down forests.

Telstra recently announced a shake-up of its residential broadband service, launching a range of pricing plans costing up to $446 per month.

The CIA's clandestine New York station was destroyed in the 11 September attack on the World Trade Centre, seriously disrupting United States intelligence operations while bringing the war on terrorism dangerously close to home for America's spy agency.

Christian Silbereis won first prize at his high school Halloween costume contest. But school officials found his outfit a little too shocking and suspended him. He went as female genitalia.

04 November 2001

Complaints from Sony have led to the removal from the web of unauthorised computer programs that teach the Aibo robot dog to perform new tricks. However, the move has upset many Aibo enthusiasts.

Microsoft has told members of its free Hotmail service that their e-mail accounts will be closed if they do not use them at least once a month.

Gay rights advocates hailed a Washington Supreme Court decision holding that gays may be entitled to the estates of partners who die without wills.

Attempts to make Windows XP pirate-proof seem to be failing. Only days after Microsoft launched the new version of its Windows operating system, pirate versions of the software are circulating online and in Asian street markets.

03 November 2001

A Queensland court has sentenced a local computer hacker to two years jail for breaking into the computer-controlled sewerage system of the local council and deliberately releasing raw sewerage into local creeks and parks.

The model train has met the microprocessor. A new generation of digital model trains are helping engineers share the rails, and a more realistic ride.

Nearly a century ago, something exploded in the skies over the Tunguska region of Siberia with a force rivalling an atomic explosion. It left in its wake a scarred landscape littered with tens of thousands of felled trees, and a mystery that has plagued scientists for decades, defying explanation.

Any gay British minister taking their male partner to Malaysia would be thrown out of the country, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has warned.

Microsoft's blockage of competing Web browsers from MSN.com has been good news for some plucky rivals: They are experiencing record traffic and downloads, and a leading Internet authority is heaping scorn on the software giant.

Google has been quietly testing a new feature that offers snapshots of Web pages alongside ordinary search results.

02 November 2001

Some people trying to access Microsoft's MSN.com with a non-Microsoft browser are finding themselves locked out. Although the software leviathan's Internet Explorer easily reaches MSN, other browsers — such as Opera, Mozilla and some versions of Netscape — run into trouble.

The cookie, a simplistic identification tag that most Internet users unknowingly carry when surfing the Web, runs the risk of being outlawed under a proposed privacy directive from the European Commission.

The theft of props from the set of the Harry Potter film is being investigated by police after items were put up for sale on the internet.

Opponents of junk e-mail are claiming victory in a high-profile spam case this week, saying recent action in the US Supreme Court effectively grants states the right to rein in spammers in the absence of federal anti-spam laws.

Online retailer Amazon.com shaved millions of dollars from its technology costs last quarter by switching to the Linux operating system, a disclosure that could provide some guidance for other companies seeking to cut expenses in a stagnant economy.

01 November 2001

Case studies presented in this year's Australian Banking Industry Ombudsman annual report could serve as warning of the potential hazards online banking creates for consumers.

The administrator of embattled etailer E-Store, Ian Purchase, has revealed the company is in deliberations with two parties that have expressed interest in assisting it out of debt.

Hackers in Hong Kong are routinely breaking Microsoft's digital media copyright protection system and helping themselves to broadband encrypted content, including games, films and music videos, according to a report in the South China Morning Post.

A beer advertising campaign in the American state of Utah has offended members of the Mormon faith. The furore surrounds the promotion of a new beer called Polygamy Porter, after the authorities decided against banning any advertising which played on religious themes.

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