Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 120

The Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy has calculated that with time-based payment for telephone conversations, on average in Russia, a minute will cost 6 kopecks . And at the same time , they tell us that the introduction of time-based work will not affect the development of the Internet.

Starting November 9, RosNIIROS makes changes to its already mysterious regulations .

Voting on the future official appearance of Russia has moved under the auspices of the Vocal-Instrumental-Analytical Internet Academy "Singing Hearts" named after Edita Piekha .

By decision of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, received AltaVista 43 domains containing various misspellings of the word "altavista" (aliavista, auavista and antavista, in particular).

Scot Petersen 's eWeek offered comments his take on Bill Gates' on the Microsoft hack news .

has Salon Magazine a lengthy review latest novel of Bruce Sterling's .

The Italian authorities have rebelled against the dominance of Microsoft products and are considering the possibility of a nationwide transition to open source software.

Two half-crushed Japanese men, after a month of email correspondence, met and committed suicide in an organized manner . According to the tradition already described in world literature .

BBC News Online published its own version of the history of hacking , based on the definition of hacking given in the 60s by MIT . First on the list, therefore, was the invention of ARPAnet.

It turns out that the crazy project of building a monument to the Internet, which was first discussed last summer in connection with the corresponding intention of the International Social Movement " Towards the Third Millennium ", is now trying to revive the ridiculous " Union of Internet Users " (both organizations are characterized by the fact that their servers are in permanent knockout ).

Co-founder of Sun Microsystems Corporation Bill Joy continues to scare humanity with the horrors of the uncontrolled development of high technology - now at the Camden Technology Conference .

Rodney Brooks, director Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the MIT and one of the founders of iRobot , meanwhile to the same audience prophesies the inevitability of the merger of human beings with robots and other technological advances. Which is especially funny because the theme of this year's Camden conference is: "Being Human in the Digital Age . "

And Applied Digital Solutions next week intends to introduce a chip with the promising name Digital Angel, which is implanted into the body (or glued to the skin on top) and allows online monitoring of the body’s location, as well as blood sugar levels and pulse rate. 2:0 is not in Bill Joy's favor.