Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 157

In connection with the upcoming holiday, which probably won’t be called anything today, I offer a collection of attempts to understand our bleak high-tech fate in the year 2000 and predictions of our happy high-tech fate in the year 2001.

Reflections: Janet Kornblum in USA Today ; technology and business staff collectively at Salon Magazine ; Scott Petersen at eWeek ; Carl Kaplan in the New York Times Cyber ​​Law Journal .

Predictions: Jesse Berst at Jesse Berst's Anchordesk (three versions) and Charles Cooper at ZDNet News .

The Ministry of Communications has decided to create a Center for Network Domain Names . The story begins ominously, but the continuation inspires some minimal optimism: the co-founders of the Center are the Union of Internet Operators , the Association of Documentary Telecommunications , the Center for Internet Technologies and RosNIIROS . Judging by the composition of the co-founders, the situation is not too bad. We continue monitoring.

Microsoft is facing another antitrust trial - this time in connection with the corporation's planned acquisition of Great Plains Software .

Twilight of the Gods opened the Ctrl.ru project - a map of Russian countercultural projects. That is, the author calls him that.

Clever editors of online media came up with the idea of ​​demanding payment for placing links to their articles. Albuquerque Journal - $50 per link per article. L o c a l b u s i n e s s . c o m and L a t i n o . c o m - from one to five links for free. This has nothing to do with legislative norms, of course - but what an invention.

, which disappeared from the Medialingua server MultiLex ( Kub told me , for which I thank him very much), is located on Rambler - here . Everything is very confusing.

article The New York Times convincingly proves that artificial intelligence is all around us , but we are so accustomed to its manifestations that we no longer consider them manifestations of artificial intelligence.

New sections are opening on HTB.ru : “ Around NTV ” (love stories of the television company and the authorities), “ Hero of the Day ” (detailed information about the participants in the program) and “ Topic of the Day ” (materials of the nightly news broadcast).

The Catholic Church is the largest Internet service provider in the Philippines . It can only be worse in a country where the largest Internet provider is the presidential administration.

e-Business East calculated the data obtained from the Fortuna Club and MyOffers.ru websites and published the summary results of surveys on user preferences in the field of cinema and video. It turned out interesting , but somehow pointless.

As it turned out as a result of a study by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter , the largest American companies intend to spend less money on information technology in 2001 than was planned for 2000 (in comparison with data, respectively, as of December 1999). In my opinion, this only means that in 2000 they acquired the lion's share of what they needed, and have not yet digested it.

Here is a little life in “ Boboshki and Marzans by Methodius Kobylkin ”.

The American National Security Council predicts denial-of-service attacks in connection with, I won’t say which holiday. Not funny.

Highway.Ru and Formoza Software House have entered into a partnership agreement with the Russian Youth Union. I would not have made a sound about this if it were not for the rationale for this step. Quote (CNews): “ The goal of the new union is, on the one hand, to make Internet resources more accessible to children and youth, on the other hand, to use the Internet to distract young people from negative social phenomena , to increase the level of education and social relevance of young Russians .” Honestly, that’s what it says there - “ distract young people from negative social phenomena "That is, let the Russian Youth Union in its entirety crowd into the " kpobatka nau " and not see or hear the rubbish that is happening around. I kept wondering why offline it is believed that going online means escaping problems. Now I everything is clear. This is a deliberate policy of corporations to process immature brains.

sold on Amazon.com Authors of books were offended by the store's administration for opening a used book department, since sales of old publications could interfere with sales of new ones. Second-hand book departments in offline stores seem to have not bothered anyone until now.

The National Institute of Social-Psychological Research studied the preferences of Russian Internet users and, to the deep amazement of themselves and observers, discovered that online youth are not very fond of virtual sex . Still would. With such and such quality of communication.

Virtual sushi for a holiday without a name: “ Territory of the Big Buddha ” (a report on the Tokyo tour of “ Aquarium ”) and the mysterious life of “ Their Workshop ”.

Yandex held a monstrous action - more than eight thousand people (who for the purpose of the action are called “the people of the Russian Internet”), it is unclear with what joy they congratulated our virtual representative on an unnamed holiday for a whole week. The result can only be attributed to a poor-quality session of mass hypnosis. Such enthusiasm for power is generally disgusting; on the Internet - especially.

Happy New Year. Censored.