Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 103

is taking place from October 1 to October 10 The second round of voting Independent Directors for ICANN as part of the ICANN @Large Membership program .

Internet provider Rinet , which will celebrate its fifth anniversary at the end of October, is announcing a competition of humorous miniatures about the Network .

How many strange things people do. For example: on bad roads in a jeep; not because there is no other road, but because the point is precisely in bad (very bad and impassable) roads. Such a special sport .

The Council for Excellence in Government asked Americans about their views on the government's move to the Internet . It turned out that, on the whole, they were happy with the alliance, with the exception of the possibility of voting online - paranoia reigns among the masses, and people think that voting for the president on the Internet is unsafe. Let's see what they'll be singing in four years.

came into force in the United States On Sunday , the digital signature law - digital signatures were legalized. A day before this significant moment, journalists were puzzled by the level of their security . As usual, it's scary time.

On September 29, two Dutch hackers hacked Slashdot.org , did not destroy anything, published a message on behalf of the site administration about their action and honestly reported to the administration about what exactly they did and where there were holes in the system.

today Hearings begin case in the Recording Industry Association of America v. Napster . The parties' attorneys will tell Judge Marilyn Hall Patel their thoughts on the RIAA's lawsuit; the decision will follow at any time after this (from several days to several months). However, nothing good can be expected from Madame Patel - in July she had already ruled on the preliminary closure of Napster, and in the last minutes before the decision was to be implemented, the company was saved by the appeal court.

Networking luminaries Robert Kahn , head of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives , and Vinton Cerf , senior vice president of network architecture and technology at MCI WorldCom , with the upcoming US presidential election in mind, published an open letter in support of Gore .

On October 5, awards will be presented to the winners of the “ Golden Url 2000 ” competition.

on eBay Scott McNealy are being sold workstations Five Sun Blade autographed by Sun CEO Microsystems . Paper traditions have made their way here too.

Throughout October, Ernst & Young will train hi-tech employees to hack websites and tell them about holes in Windows NT and Unix. Let them know how bad things really are with security.

MP3.com , announced the Million Email March in support of the new Music Owners' Listening Rights Act 2000 introduced in Congress last week. According to this bill, as we remember, it is allowed to copy CDs online, store them online and be able to listen to them (if the user proves that he already has the corresponding physical CDs).

An unexpected gift from The Register : a porn site whose heroes are chairs . A particularly touching disclaimer: the visitor must confirm that he "understands that by pressing "Enter" he acknowledges that he is a nerd who has reached the age of majority in terms of his country, state, county, city and/or suburb, and is too afraid to enter the store and buy real pornography "

We tried to do the math and found that in the hi-tech world, crowds of people use drugs (lots of money, lots of work, lots of stress). However, there are no exact figures. (Concord, Calif.) director New Leaf Treatment Center Alex Stalcup says 40% of his patients work in technology. On the basis of which in the Los Angeles Times is written the corresponding article . The question is: is there anyone in Concord, California, other than people working in technology? Nevertheless, the word has been spoken. I hope the topic of Internet addiction can now be forgotten with a light heart: the spread of drug addiction due to the dot-coms is a much more juicy plot twist; besides, it is necessary to attribute at least something other than global warming to the development of technology.