Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 104

It's funny that I couldn't remember exactly. However, it seems that on October 3, Zhurnal.Ru turns four years old. I don’t know if it’s worth talking about the mummy’s birthday, but I’d like to think that he’s not really a mummy, he’s just in lethargy (“ don’t bury us - we’re sleeping ”), and will really come back to life .

Today the next cockroach race " Russian Internet Celebrity 2000 " began. Users are encouraged to mark names associated with specific network projects. In short, nothing has changed in the rules. Something is changing in the order of names in the TOP 2000, but whether this is important is a big question.

Artemy Lebedev Studio turned five years old on October 3rd .

The recording studio Capitol Records , which takes care of Radiohead , has indeed agreed on an advertising campaign for the band's new album through Aimster .

On October 3, a meeting of the appeal court took place , at which the RIAA's lawsuit against Napster was considered . Of course, the decision was not announced, and now it could come at any time.

Despite the Electronic Frontier Foundation's productive dialogue with the Secure Digital Music Initiative , the EFF again called on hackers, reverse-programmers, and other potential participants in the HackSDMI campaign to refrain from participating in it and not to contribute to the development of technology that restricts the rights of users to listen to and copy audio files for non-commercial purposes.

included board of directors EFF The Professor Lawrence Lessig , an American lawyer working in the field of high technology, also one of the candidates for the ICANN board of directors . Smart people unite; good sign.

On October 6, the Union of Internet Operators and the discussion club " IT-conference " are holding a press conference "Arbitration Court for the consideration of information disputes on the Internet." , will speak at the press conference All project participants, including judges .

An old, but greatly revised and much changed publication, 3DNews, has launched , which now appears as the Daily Digital Digest.

opened SUIDNet , an IRC network where all traffic is encrypted, .

opened On October 3, the seventh Moscow international exhibition Internetcom'2000 .

The Los Angeles Times will not calm down about the drug use of employees of high-tech companies. Now it turns out that in California only production workers and couriers are tested for this subject, no one touches “white collar” workers.

British consultancy group The Industrial Society has published a report which reveals that modern new economy practices are increasingly based on the experiences of those now over fifty . Not a damn thing is changing in this world, and humanity is still unable to come up with anything new.

A consortium of more than twenty domain name registrars in the .com, .net and .org zones has come up with new first-level domains for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers . Many other organizations did the same. As a result, yesterday ICANN published a list of applications for new domain zones . Note that there are a total of 213 applications (some are repeated, and most often - .xxx and .kids). Now all this triumph of human intelligence will be discussed .

Before the elections in the United States, it is appropriate to remember that in addition to real candidates for the presidency, there is one virtual one: Jackie Strike , who has been appearing as a candidate for several months (it’s a pity that she is not recognized by other participants in the election race). In my opinion, citizens are not taking a radical enough approach to finding the optimal candidate for the presidency of any country. I believe this is definitely Eliza , born in the sixties at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . We'll probably make "Elise" by Serge Ginzbourg our election campaign anthem. .