Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 113

As promised by Jennel Brown from Salon Magazine , representatives of the Secure Digital Music Initiative completely deny that the samples of audio file protection technologies presented for the demonstration hack were actually hacked.

Americans argue which is worse - when users are monitored by authorities or when the private sector does the same. There is an opinion that the private sector is worse. I wonder what you need to do to be worse than the government?

"Russian POP", which until recently was a section of the old Vesti.Ru (and even earlier existed independently in Mr. Parker's Madhouse ), will be revived as part of Zema.Ru from October 23 .

For all my skepticism about secular news as a genre (I had to abandon past enthusiasm and admit that, apparently, readers are least interested in other people), the idea of ​​​​a gossip column that Ezhinka writes. I personally like

From October 16 to 21, Yandex will organize an online press conference with members of the Academy of Russian Television. At the same time, you can vote for the nominees for the TEFI Award - it will be the people's choice.

The online version of the Pravda newspaper is now published in English , as Wired News reports with delight .

Yandex Yandex announced the opening of a new service, Guru , a “product selection system based on artificial intelligence . ” For us, suffering from the syndrome of difficult act of choice, this is very important.

District Judge Ronald White dismissed 's MP3Board lawsuit against the Recording Industry Association of America . The company supports a system for searching mp3 files - including pirated ones, of course. The lawsuit required the court to recognize the legality of this type of activity. Now that the lawsuit has been dismissed, American lawyers fear that the next step will be to make any automated search engines that find anything other than legal material illegal.

The resource X-3m.ru , dedicated to extreme expeditions, has been opened. We will start with the International Complex Expedition to the South Pole.

"Most understand that the value of an easy-to-remember domain name is secondary to the quality of the management and business plan . " Oh no, oh no - they went about their business again . Commitment to the idea of ​​​​the value of an easy-to-remember domain name takes on the proportions of some kind of general insanity.

has opened The website of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Antimonopoly Policy .

The Ukrainian search system <META>-Ukraine has compiled a register of Ukrainian sites .

On October 21, the second open American billiards tournament Internet Open 2000 will take place .

An electronic store for old books " Russian Book " has opened. The creators claim that you can find any book there. Kurbatov and Skanavi were no longer found. Such a pain.

The black population of South Africa is unhappy that there are too many white people working in the information technology and communications sector . Too many Chinese. Too many Jews. We know - we played.

If, after my death, some unpleasant personalities ask me why on October 17, 2000 I wrote almost exclusively about the Russian Internet, I will say that I am a Russian nationalist. This, however, does not apply to South Africa.