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  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Sex with police in exchange for freedom?

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 03/03/2011

    » Police officer gets sentenced to six years in jail.

  • TECH

    US request for Twitter account details 'outrageous': Assange

    AFP, Published on 15/02/2011

    » Washington's efforts to get Twitter to hand over information on the accounts of people connected to WikiLeaks is "outrageous," WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Monday.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    Julian Assange arrested

    Terry Fredrickson, Published on 08/12/2010

    » One of the world's most famous and mysterious men was arrested yesterday, but the charges were unrelated to his work.

  • TECH

    Leak gets plugged

    Database, Published on 08/12/2010

    » The night they drove old Julian down - the attacks on Mr Assange's Wikileaks ranged from Bangkok to Seattle and far beyond, as the bizarre Australian discovered why it's not a terrific idea to tick off 200 governments at once; once he actually started dribbling out the first of some quarter of a million US State Department cables, his wikileaks.org was hammered by denial of service attacks by various hackers worldwide, and then by legal and commercial takedowns; eventually, http://www.wikileaks.org disappeared from the Internet because Internet service providers (amazon.com, everydns.net) canned it, usually in their own self-interest; PayPal shut and locked the WikiLeaks account for alleged illegal actions, meaning sympathetic folks could not send money, and of course there is the Interpol red notice from Sweden, which thinks Mr Assange can assist authorities with their enquiries into some rape cases; a Swiss firm issued the domain name wikileaks.ch and while it resisted demands to censor Mr Assange's documents, it came under withering denial of service attacks as well; Wikileaks appealed to Internet users worldwide to mirror his site.

  • ADVANCED NEWS

    How should abortion laws be handled in Thailand?

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 04/11/2010

    » The arrest of a young 17 year-old girl after she attempted to perform an abortion on herself with drugs obtained over the internet has sparked a renewed debate on how these sensitive cases should be handled.

  • TECH

    Yahoo switches off search

    Database, Published on 01/09/2010

    » Yahoo, which began life as a searchable list of the best Internet web sites, ended all Internet searching for users in the US and Canada - and soon, for the world; Shashi Seth, senior Yahoo president for vice, said he was thrilled and excited to announce that effective Aug 24, all Internet searches at yahoo.com - text, image, video, whatever - were automagically switched to Bing, the Microsoft search engine, "with more markets to come" presumably including Thailand; the end of Yahoo searches marked "great work and partnership" between Yahoo and Microsoft, apparently, and it was a "milestone" in Yahoo history; comment Number 1 at the blog where Mr Seth made the announcement asked for a moment of silence for the end of Yahoo as a search company, because "They have ceased to exist in the universe they created".

  • TECH

    Intel and McAfee team

    Database, Published on 25/08/2010

    » Intel Corp may be the world's biggest chip maker, but it paid $7.68 billion to buy McAfee, the anti-virus company; the purchase took 18 months and made a lot of lawyers rich, and the purchase price was 60 percent per McAfee share higher than the market value; presumably, Intel has figured out some way to build the McAfee software into its hardware for future security features on laptops and phones; knowing the way that McAfee has stopped all viruses and malware worldwide, that is comforting.

  • TECH

    What a shame

    Database, Published on 18/08/2010

    » Oracle, which recently bought Sun Microsystems - and thus the rights to Java - sued Google for using and misusing Java in the Android operating system and the world's new, most-popular smart phones; Google broke seven different patents, and Larry Ellison's Oracle has demanded a jury trial; Google briefly noted what a shame it is that "Oracle has chosen to attack both Google and the open-source Java community with this baseless lawsuit," and a bunch of lawyers are going to get new Mercedes before this one is finally settled with a huge exchange of money.

  • LEARNING

    The dark side of Thailand

    Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/03/2010

    » There is an ad on Thai TV at the moment for a product that whitens your armpits. That's right. Your armpits. That's all; nothing else. You think I'm joking, but I'm not. It's an ad for a roll-on deodorant, but the main thing is not that you smell nice. Rather, your underarms will be white.

  • LEARNING

    No sex please, We're Thai

    Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 28/02/2010

    » As I write this, a Thai soap opera is going on in the background on my non-flat television. A handsome man in a dirtied shirt is staggering and holding a gun. He is clearly distressed - not through any acting talents, god forbid, but his shirt isn't tucked in and that's a dead giveaway in any Thai soap. His hair remains perfectly combed, and facial features remain as rigid as those of a khunying shuffling out of an Emporium botox clinic.

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