Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 208

The pseudopod guessing game continues .

Formula "what if?" gives a lot of space for speculation, which from a certain point of view can be considered the result of insight and creative impulse. What if machines become smarter than people - how can people be friends with them then ? This is not Kevin Warwick .

From April 23 to 27, the Expocenter on Krasnaya Presnya in Moscow will host the twelfth Comtek .

CERT Coordination Center begins selling the latest information on computer security threats to corporations. Until now, CERT has only shared this data with US federal agencies.

The US Department of Justice proposes to allow the FBI to continue to use system the Carnivore , with the proviso that an edited version of it will be used, which would not violate the privacy of other, unsuspected users.

In the UK, where police raided child pornography in March, a thirteen-year-old boy, among others, will be tried for possession of child pornography.

The Recording Industry Association of America explained in detail to the appeals court case should not be heard why the Napster by a full panel of judges, and also - in case the court decides to consider the case again - why Napster is wrong on all points of its argument.

Training Center On April 25-27, the Artemy Lebedev Training Center and the Microinform are holding seminars on web technologies .

The FBI is developing a special software product for law-abiding citizens. Those users who are inclined to believe that government surveillance of them on the Internet cannot harm them, since they are not doing anything illegal, will be able to use the client being developed to independently send the results of filtering their logs to the FBI, which will reduce the load on the Carnivore system mailbox .

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry , in a fit of activity (manifested in a particularly disgusting form in Taiwan), calculated and announced - not without triumph, one must assume - that due to the fact that American music buyers preferred mp3 to traditional media - and, Accordingly, Napster's sales decreased . As you know, there are also directly opposite versions, according to which mp3 and, accordingly, Napster contribute to the sales of CDs.

FilmWave.com . has published a film parody of "RIAA vs. Napster": a fifteen-minute action film that depicts the fight against illegal MP3 files in 2002 as today's fight against drug trafficking

survey A Gartner Group found that a third of the emails corporate employees receive at work are completely unnecessary, do not require immediate or any response, and are therefore business spam.

The companies " Masterhost " and HighWay.ru , which provide hosting services, announced the creation of a professional non-profit association of hosting providers .

Weird Cinema Day : a film (as far as one can judge only from reviews, however) about the disfigured soul of a technophile .

IBM launched an advertising campaign with the delightful slogan "Peace, Love and Linux." The city of San Francisco is very unhappy because the campaign uses a poster with a picture of a peace sign, a heart and a penguin painted on asphalt, and in San Francisco it is illegal to paint on asphalt.

Find the pseudopods:

CERT Coordination Center trades information about security holes
Thirteen-year-old boy to be tried for possession of pornography in UK
The FBI is developing a client version of the Carnivore system
Gartner Group estimates that 30 percent of email received by corporate employees is spam.
San Francisco city officials are offended by IBM for advertising with drawings on asphalt
Everything is pure truth

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