May 2005 Archive

31 May 2005

Clayton Hallmark, on IndyMedia out of Argentina, predicts that cheap Asian computing appliances with an Open Source Operating System on a chip will be the ultimate Microsoft killer. References to the US$220 Mobilis out of India suggest the begining of newer, more powerful and cheaper things to come

The British Medical Journal has discovered something which may have escaped the attention of the less well-informed reader: that long pointy knives are sharp and can be stuck into people thereby causing them damage or even provoking a death-related incident. The solution? Oblige long pointy knife manufacturers to make the knives less pointy by rounding off the tips

30 May 2005

Looks like Microsoft will not support IE7 on Windows 2000. It should be no surprise that we do not plan on releasing IE7 for Windows 2000... Some of the security work in IE7 relies on operating system functionality in XPSP2 that is non-trivial to port back to Windows 2000. While security fixes will still be available until 2010, I guess that means the only browsers with tabs for W2K will be Opera and Firefox. All the details about an Microsoft product's fall into senility available at the lifecycle page. Which pretty much means Microsoft are shooting themselves in the foot and handing the browser game over to Mozilla, Opera and other alternatives

Some of the largest Israeli companies are involved in the major industral espionage case, in which private investigators implanted specially crafted Trojan horses on the computers at unsuspecting companies in a bid to obtain priviledged financial and technical data. Given the current state of Windows security and advances in spyware, probably any company has become a very easy target for such spy attack from competitors

Internet security company CipherTrust on Thursday breathed life into its ZombieMeter, a new system that tracks traffic from compromised PCs around the world

29 May 2005

The suspicious package that caused Interstate 75 and Daniels Parkway to be shut for more than an hour Monday was not an explosive pipe bomb — but rather wrapped-up plastic foot-long penis. Someone took construction-grade plastic, molded it into a penis and wrapped it with duct tape, said Lee County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Charles Ferrante. They wrote 'Happy Father's Day' on the duct tape... — via Warren Ellis

Two WWII-era Japanese soldiers have been discovered living in a Filipino jungle. They knew the war was over, but they still saw no reason to come out of hiding for all these years. According to Japanese media reports, the pair had been living with Muslim rebel groups and at least one of them has married a local woman and had a family. It has been speculated there could be as many as 40 Japanese soldiers living in similar conditions in the Philippines — via BoingBoing

28 May 2005

Microsoft has alerted users that Netscape's latest browser appears to break the XML rendering capabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Dave Massy, a senior programme manager for IE, warned users in a blog posting that after installing Netscape 8, IE will render XML files as a blank page, including XML files that have an XSLT transformation. What a week for Netscape 8.0; first the browser needed several fixes hours after its release, then it was discovered that without IE installed, Netscape 8.0 will not install, and now IE needs Netscape uninstalled to work

Judicial activism is taking hold in France, much to the dismay of the recording industry, as judges are beginning to suspend the sentences of convicted file swappers. Further, they believe they are starting a revolution against the draconian laws at the base of the industry's legal agenda, and that sometimes laws need to be changed. Says Judge Dominique Barella of the laws against file swapping in today's society: It is similar to the sociological consequences of the Prohibition period in the U.S. (during the 1920s). Certain laws can have unexpected consequences on society

First there was the printing press, around 1452. Then, in 1799, there was lithographic printing. And now, in 2005, there's bacterial printing. The new technique allows live bugs to be pressed onto solid surfaces at very precise distances from each other and in a variety of patterns. The aim is to explore how bacteria influence each other at various distances. Understanding how they operate will help efforts to develop new ways to thwart their attacks on the human body

27 May 2005

A 50,000-strong swarm of spider crabs has clustered at the southern end of Port Phillip Bay, delighting Museum Victoria scientists who managed to film the rare gathering. Marine scientists Mark Norman and Julian Finn said the crawling carpet of crabs covered an area the size of a football ground. Dr Norman said the crabs were normally found in small groups in the bay and Bass Strait. The reason for the mass gathering was not known, but it was likely to be related to breeding

Angered by the growing number of internet scams, online vigilantes have started to take justice into their own hands by hacking into suspected fraud sites and defacing them

26 May 2005

Amnesty International has accused governments around the world, including Australia's, of abandoning their commitments to human rights in the so-called war on terror. The human rights group said the international community lacked the willpower and the means to prevent and punish atrocities. Amnesty's 308-page annual review covered 145 countries. In it, it said the anti-terrorism tactics used have not only failed to prevent attacks on civilians, but encouraged what it described as the rampant abuse of human rights

The new version of the iPod plugin for Winamp allows you to copy music from your iPod to your computer

eBay have removed the MI5 bugging device from auction soon after a verified bid of $3000.00 was made. Sinn Fein are now selling it on their online bookshop via BoingBoing

25 May 2005

Two Star Wars fans are in a critical condition in hospital after apparently trying to make light sabres by filling fluorescent light tubes with petrol via Charlie Stross

The FTC and more than 30 of its counterparts abroad, including Australia, are planning to contact ISPs and urge them to pay more attention to what their customers are doing online. Among the requests: identifying customers with suspicious e-mailing patterns, quarantining those computers and offering help in cleaning the zombie code off the hapless PCs

Hackers have found a way to lock up the electronic documents on your computer and then demand money over the Internet to get them back

24 May 2005

Evidence is mounting that many Australians will miss out on next-generation ADSL services such as video-on-demand, unless Telstra upgrades its copper network

Australian government agencies have shut down more than a dozen local web sites that sought to solicit credit card details from unsuspecting consumers

23 May 2005

A particle accelerator is being used to reveal the long-lost writings of the Greek mathematician Archimedes, work hidden for centuries after a Christian monk wrote over it in the Middle Ages. Highly focused X-rays produced at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre were used last week to begin deciphering the parts of the 174-page text that have not yet been revealed

22 May 2005

Jorge Cortell, a teacher at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, was forced to resign after a talk about P2P networks — via BoingBoing. Jack eloquently points out, in the comments, that Jorge Cortell has lost all credibility in Spain thanks to him being a lying sack of shit with a resumé full of fake degrees

A new monkey species has been found in the highland forests of Tanzania. The monkey was discovered almost simultaneously by two research teams on separate mountain ranges and is the first new African monkey to be found in more than 20 years. It also instantly becomes one of the rarest and most critically endangered primates on Earth

Pedro Luna, an archeologist from the Instituto Nacional de Cultura in the southern city of Cuzco has announced that builders have found the fossil of a giant armadillo — which lived up to 2 million years ago and would have been the size of a Volkswagen Beetle — in southern Peru — via Beyond the Beyond

South Korean scientists say they have made stem cells tailored to match the individual for the first time. Each of the eleven new stem cell lines that they made were created by taking genetic material from the patient and putting it into a donated egg. The resultant cells were a perfect match for the individual and could mean treatments for diseases like diabetes without problems of rejection — via Warren Ellis

21 May 2005

A man killed and skinned his mother then draped himself in her skin and stepped out to direct traffic. The 42-year-old, identified only as RZ, hit her head with a heavy blunt instrument. He then cut her throat and chopped off both her arms. Then, with a long–bladed meat knife used for filleting meat from bones, he spent eight hours skinning the 76-year-old. After the killing, the man dressed himself in his mother's skin and took to the streets of Vlaardingen, Holland. He was seen directing traffic in her skin and dressed in one of her dresses as he recited texts from the Bible — via Warren Ellis

Finland has received what appears to be the first doctoral dissertation on traditional forest trolls. Master of Philosophy Camilla Asplund Ingemark, 30, has researched the subject for six years. She will defend her doctoral dissertation, which is classified as a work on folklore, at the Åbo Akademi University in Turku. The study describes the world of trolls according to the beliefs in the folklore of Swedish-speaking Finns — via Improbable Research

BitTorrent development is occurring at a furious pace. At the beginning of May, an Azureus update added distributed tracker and database features. A couple of days ago, Bram updated BitTorrent to include support for trackerless torrents in the new BitTorrent 4.10 beta

Foxtel is exploring the delivery of its digital pay-TV services using Telstra's copper network in an effort to tap into 780,000 apartments nationwide

20 May 2005

Donald Kendrick has been accused of breaking into a church and using the pastor's computer to look at pr0n. He was arrested Tuesday night after a scuffle with Charleston police Constable George, who was responding to a report that a light was on inside the First Presbyterian Church — via Warren Ellis

Since the Plesetsk Space Centre began operations in northern Russia forty years ago, tonnes of man-made debris — first stages of rockets mainly — have fallen to earth, generating both a cash opportunity for local villagers, and a source of danger. Some villages survive only on this cosmic garbage, unable to find other ways to make ends meet — via BoingBoing

A small digital camera apparently planted by an unidentified voyeur to shoot up passing skirts caused a brief bomb scare near a Manhattan subway station

19 May 2005

Six of the world's biggest computer companies — Microsoft, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Apple and Netgear — are trying to crack one of the CSIRO's patents. The CSIRO developed groundbreaking technology in 1996 that allows computers to network with each other without cables. The technology is now built in to most laptop computers and manufacturers pay the CSIRO a licence fee to use it. CSIRO chief executive Dr Geoff Garrett said the system made it possible to increase the speed of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) by a factor of five

The densest materials known have been made to levitate on a pool of liquid air. The trick may one day be used to separate precious minerals, metal and gems from rock and soil

Fluff is a composting material made from recycled household garbage that can also be extruded into posts, timbers and other construction materials. It uses undifferentiated household waste and processes it into pathogen free Fluff in 30 minutes. Composite Products of America extrudes the Fluff into 8" x 8" tongue and groove posts or landscaping timbers for the building of retaining wall or small one room structures. There is even a bench made of extruded fluff currently located in the Tennessee State Capital Building — talk about adding waste to the government — via BoingBoing

18 May 2005

Researchers at the University of Essex are using Linux and tiny embedded computer modules to build fleets of unmanned aircraft that fly in flocking formations like birds, while performing parallel, distributed computing tasks using Bluetooth-connected Linux clustering software. The Gridswarm project includes model trainers that can fly 120mph, while a parallel Ultraswarm project uses co-axial helicopters. A prototype of the later is believed to the world's smallest flying web server. The aircraft will run Linux on embedded computing modules from Gumstix — via Slashdot

Carnegie Institution researchers have learned to produce 10-carat, 12mm thick diamonds at rates of about 100µm per hour, which in the diamond business is blazingly fast. These aren't industrial diamonds either, but gem-quality stones. The goal is to create a 300 carat diamond in whatever shape they want — via Science Blog

Microsoft has confirmed that the upcoming version of its Internet Explorer browser will include tabbed browsing, a feature made popular by competitors Opera and Firefox

17 May 2005

Sporadic shooting continued today in an eastern Uzbek city where an uprising sparked a crackdown by security forces that left up to 500 people dead, and a human rights group reported that clashes in another town killed an additional 200

Animal Liberation Victoria's ten year fight to shut down the Learmonth puppy farm, the largest in Australia, has ended in victory with Ballarat Council announcing the farm will close at the end of July 2005. The misery is almost over for the dogs, but not for owner Dr Ron Wells who has been called up before the Victorian Veterinary Registration Board and asked to explain cruelty and neglect allegations

In the four years since its introduction, the iPod has proven to be a versatile little device. Despite a relatively closed architecture, hackers have found their way in. Content creators and software makers put information at your fingertips when you're on the go. Would-be designers have added to the fashionable stylings of the now-ubiquitous white ear buds. Hardware makers and enthusiasts have augmented the iPod with new add-on gadgets. For fun, Jason Kottke has compiled a bunch of hacks, add-ons, accessories and such

16 May 2005

The identity of a man found wandering on a beach on the Isle of Sheppey in an evening suit and who will not talk but who expertly plays piano concertos for hours is baffling police

A Japanese research team has developed a fuel cell that runs on blood without using toxic substances, opening the way for use in artificial hearts and other organs. The biological fuel cell uses glucose, a sugar in blood, with a non-toxic substance used to draw electrons from glucose, said the team led by Matsuhiko Nishizawa, bio-engineering professor at the graduate school of state-run Tohoku University

15 May 2005

A battery with a lifespan measured in decades is in development at the University of Rochester, as scientists demonstrate a new fabrication method that in its roughest form is already ten times more efficient than current nuclear batteries — and has the potential to be nearly 200 times more efficient

Hyper-Threading, as currently implemented on Intel Pentium Extreme Edition, Pentium 4, Mobile Pentium 4, and Xeon processors, suffers from a serious security flaw. This flaw permits local information disclosure, including allowing an unprivileged user to steal an RSA private key being used on the same machine. Administrators of multi-user systems are strongly advised to take action to disable Hyper-Threading immediately

14 May 2005

Goliath is the oldest oversized coffin company in the United States, at 2.1m wide it's certainly the biggest coffin the Goliath Casket Company had ever built. The 2.1m casket was built for a 408kg man who died in Alaska — via Paul Mellen

Scientists have announced the discovery of an unknown family of rodent sold as food in Laos. The species studied by scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society is known locally as kha-nyou and is thought to have split from other rodent families millions of years ago — via BoingBoing

Leader Propulsion Systems has prototyped a centrifuge gun that spins up ball bearings and releases them at speeds of 300 meters per second, equivalent to a handgun. Inventor Charles St George says that a large US defence contractor has signed on to further develop the weapon, appropriately named DREAD. Oddly enough, it looks and works a hell of a lot like a toy I have — via BoingBoing

13 May 2005

Don't put your iPod through the washing machine. And if for some reason you do, don't try to fix it with a screwdriver. That's the advice of fire investigators probing a small explosion that burned a hole in the bed of a Melbourne teenager who tried to perform emergency surgery on his ailing mp3 player — via Lucie

Sick of being ignored by the major carriers, an Adelaide council has signed off on a contract to build its own broadband network with state government assistance. Salisbury City mayor Frank Zappia said that up to 66% of the municipality's estimated 5,000 businesses are currently unable to gain access to broadband services. The situation forced the City of Salisbury to take matters into its own hands and scratch together $1 million from its own and state coffers to fund its own broadband network

Google has stopped downloads of Accelerator, blaming capacity problems, after some users complained their privacy had been invaded

12 May 2005

Self-replicating robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction. Scientists at the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York have created small robots that can build copies of themselves — via meta-roj blog

Toshiba has developed a new DVD-ROM: 45GB spread over 3 layers. The new discs have the ability to record twelve hours of high-definition movies on a single disc. They've also added a dual-layer hybrid ROM disc comprised of a dual-layer HD DVD-ROM side and a dual-layer DVD-ROM side

Microsoft has come up with a unique solution to the legendary Blue Screen of Death in the next version of Windows. With the release of Longhorn, the Redmond behemoth has added a red screen to face users when their system crashes. They just don't get it

Yahoo plans to launch a trial version of Yahoo Music Unlimited, a new, aggressively-priced online music subscription service. For an introductory price of $59.88 a year, or $6.99 when paid monthly, the service will give users access to over 1 million songs from all major record labels and most independent labels. Don't get too excited, Yahoo will offer tracks in the appalling Microsoft's Windows Media Audio format

11 May 2005

Mark Hachman, a Yank living in London, tried to get broadband connected to his apartment and fell afoul of BT bureaucracy: Someone, raised amidst the elegant lattice of custom and tradition that serves as the foundation of English society, came up with a very elegant, very British, solution to broadband policy here. And it absolutely, positively sucks

AOL is launching a beta version of AOL Instant Messenger Mail, with a free web mail service containing 2GB of storage — via Geek News Central

A power outage at one of eBay's major hosting facilities in the San Francisco area hit the popular online auction service late Monday

10 May 2005

Google and security experts said a recent outage of the internet search giant's web site was not caused by hackers. Heading off fears that the brief blackout was a web hijacking incident Google said it was not a hacking or a security issue

Two vulnerabilities in the popular Firefox browser have been rated extremely critical because exploit code is now available to take advantage of them. The update is now available

Scientists believe they have found a wholly new species of mammal deep in the heart of one of the richest, least studied and most endangered wildlife areas on Earth. The discovery of an apparently new kind of fox in the dense forests of central Borneo is an extremely rare event. Only a handful of new mammals have been discovered in the whole world over the past 70 years

A stray nursing dog in Nairobi, Kenya discovered an abandoned baby in a plastic bag and carried her back to its other puppies. It's not clear how many days the dog took care of the infant before she was found — via BoingBoing

09 May 2005

Brazil has rejected the retarded monkey boy's AIDS-relief money because it came with strings attached: a requirement to condemn prostitution, rather than working with sex-workers to promote safe sex. The Bush AIDS money comes with requirements to block abortion, birth control and sex education in favour of abstinence programs — via BoingBoing

A school resource officer arrested an 11-year-old Rawlinson Road Middle School student Wednesday after the boy went to school with ten nails in his pocket — via meta-roj blog

08 May 2005

Researchers from the University of California and the Doheny Eye Institute have successfully implanted a tiny electronic eye implant with a video camera mounted on a pair of sunglasses into 6 patients, allowing them to detect light and motion. The implant is a 4-by-4 grid of electrodes which connects to damaged photoreceptors (rods and cones) on the patient's retina. It works by stimulating the photoreceptors, transmitting signals through the optic nerve to the brain. The implant only works on patients with degenerated rods and cones, and is named after Argus, the Greek god who had 100 eyes. If the implants continue to be a success, the artificial retinas could be available to the public within the next three years — via Slashdot

Vacuum Elevators of Florida have released a one-man elevator system that easily slots into buildings. It looks and works much like a pneumatic tube message delivery system, but larger. It has gone on sale in the US for around US$20,000 and uses only electricity to power vaccum-inducing suction turbines that can lift 204kg several floors up. They claim it provides a smooth ride but from the video it looks like it could use some oil — via Slashdot

Morse Code is actually faster than text messaging. 93 year old Gordon Hill transmitted a message faster than 13 year old Brittany Devlin, despite Devlin's liberal use of texting slang. And the fabulous quote they were they sending: Hey, girlfriend, you can text all your best pals to tell them where you are going and what you are wearing — via textually

Scientists from University of Michigan have developed a new type of fibre-reinforced bendable concrete. The new concrete looks like regular concrete, but is 500 times more resistant to cracking and 40% lighter in weight. Tiny fibres that comprise about 2% of the mixture's volume partly account for its performance. Also, the materials in the concrete itself are designed for maximum flexibility. Because of its long life, the Engineered Cement Composites (ECC) are expected to cost less in the long run, as well

07 May 2005

The rise of the iPod and digital video technology has forced the federal government to rethink copyright laws. Under current laws it is illegal to copy a CD onto a digital music recorder such as an iPod or to videotape a television program. But millions of Australians breach these sections of the copyright laws as a matter of course every day

US courts have struck down the FCC's broadcast flag requirement. In a stunning victory for hardware makers and television buffs, a federal appeals court has tossed out government rules that would have outlawed many digital TV receivers and tuner cards in the US from mid year. The EFF has details on the flag and the official ruling is online for examination

Apple's Bonjour — also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks — is now available for Windows. A Bonjour icon shows up in Internet Explorer to enable Bonjour browsing, along with the Bonjour Printer Wizard. The benefits would appear to be for Apple customers (more Bonjouring with more networks) and to gain Apple switchers by enticing Windows customers — via Slashdot

Australia is doing trial runs with a technology which could connect conventional phone numbers with web pages, internet fax services and other online resources. Subscribers to an ENUM service register their other contact details, then set up rules that control how and when calls to their phone are routed. For example, calls from anybody but close family could be routed straight to voicemail between 6.00pm and 11.00pm. Because it connects to any IP service, incoming callers could also use phone numbers to access web sites, the Skype VoIP application, faxes and other applications

06 May 2005

Two animal welfare experts, Dr Temple Grandin of Colorado State University and Dr Ian Duncan of the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, said they resigned as advisors to fast-food chain KFC after the company asked them to sign an agreement preventing them from speaking publicly about its policies on such issues as animal slaughter

In Australia the unemployed have to fulfill a mutual obligation requirement in order to receive welfare payments. What this means is that recipients of welfare payments have to be involved in some sort of activity that improves their chances of finding employment. Until now this has included various types of community service and training and education programs. Recently an organisation called CommunityCode has been established to allow recipients to fulfill this requirement by contributing to OSS projects — via Slashdot

Following the Federal Court decision that the Department of Immigration has breached its duty of care by failing to provide adequate psychiatric treatment for two Baxter detainees, Senator Kerry Nettle revealed another case where DIMIA spent $13,159 to prevent him from receiving proper psychiatric treatment

Jeff Ferguson, a teacher who encouraged students to drink milk until they vomited as a classroom experiment, has lost another attempt to win back his job. Superior Court Judge E. Lynn Johnson ruled Monday that the Johnston County school board had sufficient cause to fire him — via Improbable Research

05 May 2005

When an online exortionist comes calling, threatening a DDoS, do you pay or fight? For many, paying may seem like a sensible option when compared to going out of business. CSO Magazine has a riveting article about how an online gambling site and a DDoS specialist teamed up to take on such an extortionist. When everybody else was rolling over and paying, this company risked its very existence to fight back

Wink, a beautifully written free program for creating Flash-format animated tutorials has been chosen to receive a Noble Piece Prize, the prize that honours the craftsmanship of Alfred Noble, who worked at the Jacquard Loom factory in France. Previous winners of this prize include the Digital Bicycle web site

iiNet has registered key trademarks — iimovies, iimusic and iimedia — which reveal it is considering a push into movies and music delivered over the Internet

04 May 2005

NSW will be the first Australian state to outlaw unauthorised spying of employees using technologies including video cameras, e-mail and tracking devices with the introduction of the Workplace Surveillance Bill 2005 to state parliament today. The new laws will make it a criminal offence to take part in any form of covert surveillance unless an employer can prove they had reasonable suspicion of wrong doing by an employee

Rex Cabo, an actor and director in adult movies since the early '90s, died 28 April in a bizarre suicide. He jumped from the eleventh floor of the Cooper Arms high-rise on Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach, landing on a parked police car — via Warren Ellis

03 May 2005

Adelaide's CityLan network is being relaunched. Sometime in the last two weeks they decided to open it up for free use to anyone in Adelaide's CBD, pending full commercial launch

Aiming to prevent mass piracy of digital TV programs, especially over the Internet, the Federal Communications Commission has mandated a new copy-protection scheme called the broadcast flag. The FCC's ruling, which goes into effect this July, lets you make a backup copy of flagged shows, but no further copies

02 May 2005

Interesting follow up on the story concerning the killing of an italian senior intelligence agent by US Forces during an hostage rescue mission (AKA the Sgregna Case). Yesterday the Italian public received this PDF file containing an extremely detailed US military report on the alleged accident. Many lines in the report were blacked out as the author probably considered them unclassified, yet sensible information (like the name who the guy who shot the car). It turns out the author don't know jack about PDF and here is the unblackened report [DOC Format] in all its details, most probably exposed by some computer savvy guy in italian media — via MetaFilter

Christie's auction house has won the right to sell off a $20 million art collection by beating rival Sotheby's in a children's game. Japanese art collector Tashi Hashiyama was unable to decide which of the prestigious auction houses should handle his collection, which featured works by Picasso, Van Gogh and Cezanne. To settle it, he had them play scissors, paper, rock to decide

There is a new PC that's powered via a network cable rather than through a wall socket. The computer only requires 12 watts, lower than the upper limit of 15.4 watts that power over ethernet (PoE) can supply. PoE could end up being a universal power supply system as the cables and connectors for it are the same all over the world. By contrast power sockets and plugs differ by country

Scientists at Princeton University successfully programmed bacteria to behave like computers, assembling themselves into complex shapes based on instructions stuffed into their genes. Though applications may not come for a while, in the future this technology may be used in devices to detect bioterrorism chemicals

01 May 2005

Four witnesses say the drug-dealer, Man Singh Ghale, who Indonesian police claimed died while resisting arrest [BugMeNot] was well enough to smile at neighbours and walk to a police car after being shot in the leg. Wouldn't want the bloke implicating half the Indonesian police force for corruption now, would we? Offing him behind closed doors ties up loose ends nicely and makes for a handy scapegoat

Researchers at Melbourne University have grown diamond particles 1/1000 of a millimetre on optical fibres which they can use to transmit single photons of light at a time. The diamonds are grown on the optical fibre by raining carbon molecules onto the tip of the fibre. They claim that by transmitting information in single photons, any interception of transmitted photons will be useless to the interceptor, and thus the message will be completely unhackable. Transmission speeds are currently slow — 120km/h — but are expected to speed up

Acting Immigration Minister Peter McGauran says an Australian woman who was deported by mistake four years ago is missing overseas. The woman's case is one of a number Mr McGauran has referred to the inquiry investigating the detention of Cornelia Rau, who was kept in immigration detention for 10 months even though she is an Australian resident. Mr McGauran says a search is under way for the woman and says there might be other cases of the same severity

According to an US International Trade Commission report, Israel is among the world's worst offenders when it comes to violation of intellectual property rights

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