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Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 114
On October 14, the Moscow youth branch held of Yabloko a picket in front of the Russian government building : young people demanded that funds be allocated from the 2001 budget for the development of the Internet in Russia. Action, of course, comes first, but there is something sickeningly naive in the very idea of making such claims to the government - unbearable good-naturedness to the point of idiocy.
" Network Literature " published " Rhymes on the March " by Georgy Zherdev . Isn’t it true, Dmitry Kuzmin , this is also not a setatura?
The Anti-Defamation League has published a guide to identifying the symbols and logos of Nazi organizations and other major enemies of the ADL. A resource that is no longer useful for parents who protect children from unwanted content (and this is, in theory, intended for parents), but for abstract lovers of such symbolism.
Today there will be a presentation of the Parterre project - a system for online and telephone booking of tickets for Moscow cultural events. Logic dictates that if the presentation is today, the project should start working in full force today.
has been released Version 2.1 program of the AccessWatch , which webmasters really like to use to calculate statistics.
The court continues to sluggishly drag out the April lawsuit against eBay . In the spring, the largest auction site was sued: it was required to recognize its status as that of a dealer and oblige its administration to require certificates of authenticity from sellers of sports memorabilia. Although Judge Linda Quinn rejected several of the plaintiffs' claims, the case will continue.
The organizers of the annual Russian-American summer literary seminars in St. Petersburg have announced the opening of the 2001 session. Although, unfortunately, summer is still very far away. But now you can apply for participation .
Stephen King , having finally sorted out his accounting (in the end, 75.61% of readers paid for the third chapter of “Plants” against the required 75%), announced his intention to continue : the fourth chapter is published on October 23 and will cost two dollars.
The Kostroma Regional Center for New Information Technologies opened the Kostroma regional portal a month ago and is very proud of it.
America Amnesty International makes online protest letters part of its protest campaigns . All this is called " Torturers, Welcome to the Information Age ". Logical, of course, but who would be surprised by letters of protest now?
On October 15, the 911.ru resource dedicated to security was opened ; topics - from hackers to "child on the street".
German Member of the European Parliament Ilka Schröder filed a complaint with the German federal prosecutor's office against "unknown suspects, especially American and British, and possibly also the German federal government for supporting and tolerating the Echelon system . "
" Yabloko " and the Union of Right Forces jointly opened the website of the public foundation " Business Initiative ": they are discussing the problems of protecting the rights of entrepreneurs and initiatives regarding small and medium-sized businesses.
file sharing system among the creators of the Gnutella There is confusion and vacillation .
The Register is putting its eyes and brains to work trying to figure out have been hacked samples whether the audio file security submitted by the Secure Digital Music Initiative . So they will argue at least until the November SDMI meeting: “No way!” - "Way!" - "No way!" - "Way!" . And so seven times, citizens judges.