Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 112

for beta testing is being released to the public The Anti-Capitalist Operating System .

After some torment and promises, the Zema.Ru resource opened (we unite, let me remind you, by place of birth). The tone of the explanations, however, slightly puzzles me - but this may be my Moscow chauvinism.

Humanity continues to wait for emails from Mars .

A story about unprofessional blackmail : a certain William Culbert threatened the editorial office of the Daily Mail , where at some point he worked, with hacking of computer systems and a week-long paralysis of the newspaper. I wanted to sell information about holes in the system to a competing publication, the Daily Express , but the employees there turned out to be conscious and reported to the police. Culbert ends up serving a year and a half in prison. You have to blackmail smartly because...

administration The NASDAQ , which, as you might guess, owns the nasdaq.com domain, sued Myriad Corporation from Kansas, which operated a porn site at nasdeq.com. Jealousy, by the way, is a bad feeling. Why suffer, moreover, if the Registrars.com database clearly says “ expires on 13-Oct-2000 ”.

has opened Exit Banner Nerwork , in which participants exchange only one banner, and that is the “Exit” button. All this is called "conservative-portographic links to sites." Well, in fact, it’s not always possible to get to www.disney.com using the “exit” link.

All six developed by the Secure Digital Music Initiative samples of protection for audio files , which were left to the mercy of hackers, were hacked - almost no one noticed.

Sun Microsystems Day on October 24th is hosting Sun Developer . For some reason, in this context, the clumsiness of the word “developer” is especially obvious.

On October 12 , Intel held its first meeting dedicated to organizing a working group to develop peer-to-peer standards, which Intel is so attached to. The participants' comments were perplexed, but generally rather friendly.

sister Napster's company, Scour.com , declared itself bankrupt , making no secret of the fact that the sole purpose of this move was to protect itself from lawsuits from film and recording studios .

Shareholders of the Ziff-Davis Corporation on Friday agreed to merge the corporation with CNET Networks . Young monsters continue to methodically chew the old ones.

On October 12, were presented magazine's Wired as chosen by its readers, Readers Rave 2000 Awards, . Poor Shawn Fanning was kicked and given the “techno-renegade” award (although Napster itself was declared the best music site and the most innovative young project, and received a third prize in the form of a cube for the best guerrilla marketing). Wired readers declared the chief prophet of the apocalypse , the tireless Bill Joy from Sun Microsystems .

Kevin Mitnick gave an interview to Yahoo! Internet Life , in which, in particular, he proposed using biometric data - DNA, for example, to identify citizens, and for this purpose maintaining a federal DNA database. Mitnick's desire to be useful to the American government is starting to frighten, really. A mocking comment from The Register : "And he hasn't changed much since his imprisonment; still exceptionally smart, still incredibly stupid . " It seems that he still did not escape the lobotomy in this cuckoo's nest, although he manages to more or less hide it. It's a pity.

Not news to many of us, but a reason to feel that we are not alone in our misfortune: The Dallas Morning News published an article about the difficulty people have in learning to turn off their computers, how they get confused between work and non-work hours, and how they suffer from it. I want to live in a world where people are tormented by such things.

Marshall McLuhan returns from oblivion, states the New York Times.

If, after death, some unpleasant personalities ask me why I practically ignored the Russian Internet on October 16, 2000, I will say that I am a rootless cosmopolitan.