Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 210

Actis Systems reinvents itself (which, as usual, is associated with employee layoffs ) and simultaneously spits at its former president Pavel Cherkashin (the founder of the company, by the way), intending to sue him for libel and “discrediting the honor and dignity of the company’s shareholders and causing damage to Actis' business." I don’t see any possibility of understanding what’s really going on there, since you’re not inside, but outside. That's why I won't try.

The British company Envisional has calculated that users who download ringtones for their mobile phones cost the recording industry a million dollars a day - of course, until now no one has paid the studios anything for using these ringtones. The rationale for this figure is up to Envisional. In addition, these melodies sound in such a way that any normal musician, in my opinion, would be embarrassed to admit their authorship.

Argus announced that shortly after the start of the demonstration hacks system of its PitBull - on Saturday morning - the group of Polish hackers "Last Stage of Delirium" won a victory . True, the group members did not take advantage of holes in the PitBull system itself, but a hole in Solaris 7 for Intel X86.

The FBI nabbed two of our savvy compatriots, who are now charged with almost all the hacks that law enforcement agencies have failed to uncover over the past year. The Russians are a terrible force, of course, but not as much.

And the Star Tribune published a heartbreaking story about how in Russia people become hackers out of despair and the inability to find a way to earn money that does not contradict the law. Well, that’s also an option, of course.

The airport in Burbank, California, was closed for six hours after police thought they had found a bomb. The bomb was supposed to be found in the Titanium Powerbook G4 - due to the titanium from which the computer shell is made, the police were not immediately able to verify that there were no parts inside that could explode.

The first virus has appeared , designed for The Bat users : a certain Sveta Kovaleva - conditional, of course - sends her image, to which is attached a virus and a Trojan horse, the harm from which is not fatal, but noticeable .

The World Wide Web Consortium agonized for two years and finally gave birth to a specification for XML Schema , designed to automate data exchange. It is now being read by the consortium's director, Tim Berners-Lee, and there is a good chance that the specification will be adopted as a standard. Although not all experts are enthusiastic about it, and there are already a number of alternative, less confusing specifications.

The Better Business Bureau , Federation of European Direct Marketing and Eurochambres are developing a code for conducting online business - in particular, resolving disputes about cross-border transactions. Amazing. One of the initiators is the collective mind of psychopaths, which prohibits placing a link to your site without permission, and the other, as far as one can understand, is engaged in direct advertising, including soap advertising. It’s better not to think about Eurochambres’ field of activity at all.

CNN, with the support of IBM and Sony Electronics, will create an online news video archive .

opened yesterday The Russian Internet Search Cup .

New.net entered into an agreement with Juno Online Services ; plus another 14 million people, that way.

Families of victims of the Littleton school attack have filed a lawsuit against 25 companies, most of which produce computer games (including, of course, the makers of Doom). The plaintiffs hope to force companies to stop selling adult computer games to children.

The Recording Industry Association of America has won again: The US Patent Office has confirmed that radio stations are not exempt from paying fees for broadcasting music on the Internet. I know exactly how this will all end. The RIAA will collapse.

Professor Edward Felten's team, which at one time refused to officially participate in the HackSDMI competition , but independently studied the holes in the anti-copy protection samples of audio files proposed for hacking, received the latest Chinese warning from the SDMI Foundation . Felten has prepared materials for a security conference in which he will participate; among these materials are the results of his unofficial participation in HackSDMI . If the materials are disseminated, SDMI told Felten, the professor faces legal action.

service The Inter-VPost is running out of voice mailboxes - that is, its administration claims so.

According to the American Psychological Association , increased consumption of peanut butter in childhood and especially during puberty contributes to the development of computer science abilities in general and hacking in particular. In Russia and some other countries where peanut butter is not widespread, according to psychologists, chocolate butter is quite suitable .

As it turns out, getting rid of the letter combination ".com" in the company name is a very common trend .

One Gary Carlson sold on eBay about five hundred fake farewell personal pardon letters signed by Clinton: “ I, William Bubba Clinton, President of the United States, hereby grant a full, free and absolute pardon to (so-and-so) for all crimes against the United States which he, (so-and-so) committed ." Starting price is $6.95 each.

Find the pseudopods:

Cell phone ringtones cost the recording industry a million dollars a day
Airport closed due to search for bomb in Titanium Powerbook G4
Families of Littleton school victims sue video game makers
Peanut butter boosts hacking skills
and five hundred fake pardon letters signed by Clinton were sold on eBay
Everything is pure truth

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