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Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 125
The hopes of many users to receive up-to-date information about the course of the presidential elections in the United States were not justified . The resource of the terribly brave Matt Drudge lay there all night without getting up (and this was the only site about which it was known in advance that exit poll results would be published on it). MSNBC , ABCNews and CNN also writhed in agony. Not everyone is able to appreciate the progressiveness of the idea of upgrading systems before significant political events.
On the eve of the election, on the night of Monday to Tuesday, some funny people tried to hack the computer system of the Democratic National Committee , and with the website of the Republican National Committee this trick was successful by the end of election day. In general, a lovely mess was going on.
A court hearing will take place today in Paris, during which the judge will announce his decision regarding sales at Yahoo! items of Nazi symbols . According to this decision, Yahoo! will be ordered to deny access to these auctions to French users (since such sales are prohibited in France). On the website of the French branch of Yahoo! nothing of the kind happens, and the judge's decision concerns the American branch, to which the French naturally also have access. How the hell a French court explains to an American company what to do and what not to do is still unclear.
British Telecommunications is working on a system that allows you to create virtual doubles so that they can participate in video conferences.
On November 7, in honor of the day off, the official website of the restored Communist Party of the Soviet Union was opened .
" Virtual Sushi " has been replenished with an additional bunch of interviews, translations and reviews.
South Africa has trademarked its name and is trying to reclaim the domain southafrica.com from the Virtual Countries corporation , which has registered it since 1995. With each successive story like this, the comedy of WIPO's war against domain name hijackers becomes less and less exciting.
On Tuesday, the Chinese newspaper People's Daily (I can't say what it's called in Chinese) announced formal rules for publishing news online . Websites are prohibited from writing news on their own and are required to refer to state media with which the administration of network resources pre-concludes contracts. Representatives of the Chinese hi-tech sector take comfort in the vagueness of the concept of “news” - but clarifying it, presumably, will not be difficult for the Chinese authorities.
Today " Anecdotes from Russia " turns five years old, and therefore at 16:00 Moscow time a virtual meeting of the creators with everyone else will begin on the site.
The head of the Recording Industry Association of America, Hilary Rosen, sent a letter to Hank Berry, the head of Napster , and Napster developer Sean Fanning with a proposal to apologize to the members of the band Metallica . It is characteristic that Sean Fanning is a big fan of Metallica, which he reports in interviews at every opportunity.
CRN , based on data from independent consultant Sanford Bernstein, published lists of the ten most overvalued high-tech companies and the ten most undervalued companies . Representatives of the companies included in the first list, of course, immediately rushed to make excuses .