general domain news - 8 May

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Al-Qa'ida has moved its base to Asia, G8 leaders say
The al-Qa'ida terrorist network is believed to have moved
its operational base to central Asia, home affairs
ministers from the G8 industrial nations said yesterday.
...
The ministers also agreed to set up a database containing
150,000 images of child pornography and pictures of alleged
paedophiles in an attempt to improve intelligence-sharing. 

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=403584
 http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=31894&pt=n

http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=1C882EF4-1BC2-4A44-911D-2E7288CBCCD8

Even Tough Laws May Not Kill Spam
Two proposals aiming to curb unwanted commercial e-mail
being considered by Congress don't go far enough to
eliminate spam, say some antispam advocates.
 http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110572,00.asp

UK Online age verification scheme will protect children and
cut fraud
A new online age verification scheme designed to prevent
fraud and protect children promises to help online
retailers' increase sales of age-restricted services by
allowing people who do not have credit cards to prove their
age.

http://www.cw360.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=121519&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=6&liChannelID=20&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1

Reporter seeks UN help in AU Net case
An American journalist who's facing trial in Australia over
an article posted on a U.S.-based Web site is taking his
fight to the United Nations.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story/0,2000048590,20274189,00.htm

Escape game wires the minister
It's a dose of virtual reality that the Immigration
Minister could probably do without: a computer game in
which players try to escape from Australian detention
centres has received $25,000 in federal funding. The game,
Escape from Woomera, will be modelled on four of the
country's most contentious detention centres. It received
the money from the Australia Council, the federal arts
funding body, last month.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/29/1051381951157.html

Wired cubicles take Net to new frontier
The world's first portable lavatory with Internet access is
due to be unveiled in Britain this summer.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s848696.htm

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=2690481

Australia cierra una página web y detiene a 3 estudiantes
La policía australiana cerró hace unos días un sitio en
Internet por piratería de música y procedió al arresto de
tres estudiantes acusados de violación de derechos de
autor, que según estimaciones del cuerpo policial los daños
a la industria discográfica han podido ascender a 60
millones de dólares australianos (34 millones de euros).

http://delitosinformaticos.com/noticias/10522165775482.shtml

Competition spurs broadband in Europe 
Britain, France and most other European countries are
adopting broadband services, which permit fast Internet
connections, more quickly than Germany.
 http://www.iht.com/articles/95464.html

NetAlert gets a lifeline
INTERNET porn watchdog NetAlert has been thrown a $500,000
lifeline in industry support and the prospect of further
federal funding, according to executive director Alan Tayt.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6386946%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

30-year sentence in Internet-linked sex death
A Connecticut judge Tuesday sentenced a man to 30 years in
prison in the death of a teenage girl he met on the
Internet.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/LAW/05/06/internet.sex.death/index.html
 
House panel votes to restrict Internet gambling
A House subcommittee voted Tuesday to make it harder for
Americans to gamble on the Internet, opting not to consider
an alternative proposal that could lead to states
legalizing and taxing online casinos.

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/880144p-6134857c.html
 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58755,00.html

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/5805117.htm

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