Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 134

Judge Jean-Jacques Gomez stood up again , confirming on Monday his preliminary decision of May 22: according to his verdict, the American corporation Yahoo! French users should be blocked from accessing their auctions that sell items of Nazi symbols. A final decision was delayed while the judge spent the last six months consulting with experts who would decide whether the task was technically feasible. Technically, of course, anything is possible. This, however, does not add a logical component to the judge’s actions: why the French court is trying to regulate the actions of an American company is still not obvious. It is less obvious how the French side will be able to force Yahoo! implement the demands of the verdict and what the French can do if Yahoo! refuses to comply with court demands.

Our respected online fellow citizens in the Info-Business magazine share their impressions of the threatened introduction of state control over the language of official documents.

Artists are suing Bill Gates' brainchild, Corbis Corporation , for the illegal use of their works.

The Register publishes a report of a speech by Duncan Campbell , a British investigative journalist involved in international electronic surveillance systems, at an unnamed journalism conference.

Artist Tom Kemp created works that are claimed to be a new word in art, since they were created using only a Palm. Upon publication, critics and artists immediately began to quarrel over whether the use of new technical methods for creating a work of art constituted grounds for considering it in itself innovative.

USA Today has a long article about how Kevin Mitnick regrets what he did (that is, for which he has already served more than four years in prison).

Experts note, not without horror , that hacktivism is becoming more widespread - and, accordingly, the further it goes, the more dangerous it is for corporations suffering from endless satisfaction. It's a shame that Kevin Mitnick is in such a hurry to repent.

There is a new progressive approach to organizing the work process: all employees sit at home, and in offices where their presence is required, instead of them there are solid monitors and the required presence is ensured by video conferencing technology. That is, in fact, this experiment has so far been carried out with one lady from the Westin hotel in Santa Clara, but the direction of movement was chosen correctly. People need to be isolated from each other in order to protect the environment from unnecessary interruptions.

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