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Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 200
us The first of April taught a lot . That is, it taught me a lot personally. In particular, the fact that, generally speaking, there is no fundamental difference between real and imaginary news. Except for their relationship with reality, which is not fundamental. Therefore, in honor of the two hundredth issue, I intend to diversify my rather dull activities. Starting today, one imaginary piece of news will be published in Seine . Daily. Or almost every day. In exceptional cases of attacks of inspiration - more than one, but I would not count too much on attacks. Readers are invited to identify these pseudopods. Voting is below . I don’t yet know what to give to the person who guesses the maximum number of pseudopods in a month. Roman Grigorievich Leibov offers to give a screensaver with an autograph. My autograph, I warn you right away, is rather crooked.
Northwestern University of Psychology and Management Organization is holding the " Internet for Us " competition. Tundra for us. Why isn't there a "We are for the Tundra" competition?
I received a delightful spam in which they promise at www.islam.ru . to provide me with “sensational scientific evidence of the existence of God”
The independent recording studio TVT Records sued MP3.com for $292 thousand to compensate for its losses from the existence of My.MP3.com . MP3.com intends to file a complaint with the Second District Court of Appeal and fight there for the right of users to store online purchased and digitized recordings. Everything is as always , in general.
film studio The Warner Brothers has put together another film about hackers , the title of which lacks trombones and the plot lacks credibility .
Microsoft has come up with a method to combat viruses: the new Outlook 2002, included in Office XP, simply prohibits the launch of more than 30 types of attached files - including .exe, .vbs, .html. Let's ask ourselves, what files do Microsoft developers think users tend to send? Exclusively .gif and .jpg?
service The iMesh announced to its users that it has begun work to block the exchange of music recordings that are subject to copyright. The Recording Industry Association of America is not asleep.
The employees of the post office of the city where Craig Shergold lives (a young man who, as a child, collected the world's largest collection of postcards through chain letters ), suddenly found salvation: in Melbourne, a second young man of twelve years old was discovered, with the same disease and a persistent desire to outdo Shergold with his collection. Thus, the local post office simply forwards all postcards addressed to Craig to Melbourne. On his charge.
Canadian authorities have asked the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center to save 32 domains from cybersquatters, including GovernmentOfCanada.com, TheGovernmentOfCanada.com, DominionOfCanada.com, CustomsCanada.com, TransportCanada.com, EnvironmentCanada.com, HumanResourcesCanada.com and StatisticsCanada .com. What the Canadian authorities have to do with these domains, frankly speaking, is not entirely clear, but WIPO practice is known for its mystery and unexpectedness of decisions.
The British company BitArts , founded by some hackers with a turbulent past, has developed another virtually unbreakable encryption .
Richard Stallman gave a speech, the essence of which boils down to the fact that the abolition of copyright and the correct approach of the British authorities to the problems of disseminating information could save the UK from foot-and-mouth disease and many other problems .
The US Federal Communications Commission has published guidelines for determining what is decent and what is indecent in the context of radio and television broadcasts.
Yahoo! _ hired a special inspector who will search for and identify pedophile content.
corporation The CMGI , known for its unconventional approaches to squeezing money out of carelessly purchased projects (“well, little kitty, just a little more”), after a year and a half of terrible torment, despaired of squeezing at least something out of AltaVista and now intends to sell the search engine.
Representatives of the open source community intend to organize a meeting in the summer with the leadership of IBM, Hewlett-Packard and several other large corporations and try to convince them to give up a number of patents on important software products and finally support the community on whose developments many of the patented technologies are based. Find the pseudopods:
From today there will be at least one imaginary news in "Seine".
The new Microsoft Outlook prevents .exe, .vbs and .html files from running.
Craig Shergold has a successor.
Richard Stallman saves Britain from foot-and-mouth disease by destroying copyright.
CMGI Corporation intends to sell the AltaVista search engine.
Why did you decide that these are pseudopods?
Who are you?