Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 142

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship Sergei Glazyev, during parliamentary hearings on bills regulating e-commerce , told deputies how terrible life would be if the Internet was not regulated by law. In which, of course, he was enthusiastically supported by citizens from the Ministry of Communications , the Federal Securities Commission , the Central Bank and the Ministry of Justice . Glazyev described the future in the absence of laws as follows: “The scale of collapses in it may even exceed the scale of damage received from the financial pyramids that collapsed in 1998” (quote from the agency Monitor ). Given the current average level of awareness of our excellent statesmen in matters relating to the Network, the main thing is to find an effective analogy and shout it in the face of the listener as unexpectedly as possible.

During the same hearings, the participants agreed to form a single working group on e-commerce, which is still called group “e”.

Documents from the December 1 court hearing in George W. Bush's lawsuit to extend the counting deadline in Florida counties website were published on the US Supreme Court immediately - an unprecedented case , since all recordings of court hearings are usually distributed after the end of the process, and the Supreme Court was prohibited use sound recording equipment and television cameras. Of course, there are no television cameras on the website, but there are full transcripts.

Analysts suspect their next favorite topic in dot-com coverage will be labor unions.

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority , the administrator of the .ca domain zone, ended its "start over" promotion on Friday. Since the beginning of autumn, all Canadian domain name administrators have been asked to re-register their domains by December 1: the CIRA administration considered that the running domain registration system needed a reboot. did not survive the reboot About 45 thousand domain names .

The website of the group “ Daughter of Monroe and Kennedy ” has opened with stories and poems by Svetlana Chapurina, as well as mp3s, photographs and reviews.

EMusic , as promised, caught 35 thousand files from its catalog among Napster users and 600 people participating in the exchange of these files. The Napster administration has been asked to block these people from accessing the service . The administration has so far only managed to shrug, reasonably noting that every day they are asked to turn someone off.

Linguists are offended by the Internet for the destruction of the Spanish language and the massive penetration of English terms into it.

Websites created by teenagers have been found to violate laws regarding the protection of children's right to privacy. Formulated and approved, by the way, by adults.

Inspired by the experience of Parisian judge Jean-Jacques Gomez, German opponents of the distribution of Mein Kampf intend to seek a ban on the sale of such literature not only in Germany, but also - in the future - in Europe in general. Great times are coming . A crowd of adults was scared of someone's sour ideas - okay; they are still trying to impose this fear on new environments, having already infected the old ones.

InfoWorld interview published another with Kevin Mitnick . Surprisingly sane. Doubts about the integrity of his sanity seem to have been premature. If a person comes out of prison and says that the first thing he learned there was not to trust the authorities, he is definitely normal.