Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. -- Jane Wagner China Outlines 4 Scientific Goals For Moon Project Chang'e I, China's moon probing project is proceeding in full swing in a well-organized way. China's first moon probing is planned to be launched in three years. Four scientific goals have been set for the first stage of the program, Chang'e I moon orbiting project. GameSpy Sends DMCA-Based C&D To Security Researcher Luigi Auriemma has found several security holes GameSpy software over the past few months. He has reported them all to GameSpy but never got a response... until today, when he got a threatening letter from their lawyers. It says he's violating the DMCA, he needs to cease-and-desist, yadda yadda yadda. Steadicopter's prototype pilotless helicopter stolen The helicopter was stolen a few days after the completion of its test program and final test flights Hot Wheel Optus confirms home ADSL OPTUS has announced it will soon begin offering ADSL to residential customers, after finalising negotiations to use Telstra's infrastructure. Water on the Moon? Scientists Await Definitive Answer The latest effort by science to answer whether there's ice on the moon has come up empty. There's no sign of a lunar skating rink in the mysterious polar craters -- or even a big slab of ice. Lunar poles are as dry as dust: study Any lingering hopes that the Moon may contain hidden deposits of ice at its poles have been dashed by a study using ground-penetrating radar, which shows that even at its extremities, Earth's satellite seems waterless. "Linux is great" says Microsoft Microsoft has admitted it has a soft spot for Linux – but it thinks open source users don’t share the same enthusiasm. Star Trek Actor Returns to WWII Internment Camp A cypress root harvested from an Arkansas swamp 60 years ago is one of the few mementoes Star Trek actor George Takei has from his childhood at a World War II internment camp. Veteran Skylab Astronauts Trade Notes with ISS Crew Some of America's first astronauts to work aboard an orbiting space station took time Monday to compare notes with the Expedition Eight crew now living at the International Space Station (ISS). U.S. and Russia View Space Station Safety Differently It was just four high-energy batteries, the kind that are found in a lot of military equipment such as walkie-talkie sets and night vision equipment. Similar batteries already were being used on the International Space Station. Egypt bans Carrey film EGYPTIAN authorities have banned the Jim Carrey film Bruce Almighty, saying the comedy infringes on God's sacredness. Gold nugget unearthed A 158-OUNCE gold nugget has been found by a prospector in Victoria's central goldfields north of Maryborough. Cup mistake nets punter $2.6m A MYSTERY punter walked away with a cool $2.6 million dollars after a TAB operator incorrectly entered his trifecta bet on the Melbourne Cup. Opera singer moons his audience Prosecutors today asked a Rio judge to postpone a hearing on whether or not Thomas would face indecent exposure charges for mooning the audience following an opera performance in August. Kangaroos run riot near Paris IT does not resemble any desert plain in outback Australia, but around 50 kangaroos which escaped a French animal park 30 years ago are happily living wild in a forest west of Paris. The SCO situation got a whole lot stupider SCO, IBM battle heats up SCO said Wednesday that it has filed subpoenas with the U.S. District Court in Utah, targeting six different individuals or organizations. Those include Novell; Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel; Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation; Stewart Cohen, chief executive of the Open Source Development Labs; and John Horsley, general counsel of Transmeta. So what now? Linux Torvalds is responsible for IBM's alleged leaking of source code from SCO UNIX to Linux? IBM Subpoenas SCO Investors, Analysts NEW YORK - The legal battle between SCO Group and IBM is widening, as IBM has sent subpoenas to investors and analysts who have supported SCO. (C) Shouting Red Goanna Inc. A wholly subsidiary of Screaming Blue Wombat Inc. / Avenging Green Seahorse Industries