Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 214

The Ministry of Communications wants money. Money. And more money. Therefore, hosting services now require Internet and hosting providers to have a license from the Ministry of Communications . Leonid Reiman's demagogy about the development of telecommunications in Russia is not capable of deceiving even a complete idiot.

The participants did not like Comtek . company The 1C , in particular, threw a tantrum because it was too noisy .

Google is very diligent in restoring Usenet archives purchased from Deja.com . Just very slowly .

According to Gartner Group, three out of ten mobile phone owners do not use SMS because they lack a normal keyboard in addition to the phone.

Participants of the Information Hiding Workshop discuss how to hide from surveillance on the Internet : there is no hope for laws, especially since there is still tension with clear laws.

On Tuesday, the appeals court will review the district court's decision to ban 2600: The Hacker Quaterly from linking to sites publishing DeCSS .

And an additional argument against plugging any copyright holes created by the existence of the Internet with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is the story of Professor Felten audio file protection , who was forced to refuse to publish a report on holes in SDMI's under pressure RIAA and SDMI. Everything works out almost successfully, and the participants of the mentioned Information Hiding Workshop , in the end, can read this report from the screen .

The Federation of Internet Education and the Russian Youth Union today at 14.30 are holding a campaign “ Youth for UPGRADE! ” near the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow. They will bury a computer with a 286 processor , and on the grave they will write “Here lies an unmodernized computer.” All this is done as a sign of protest against old methods of education. I have nothing against new methods, but burying the 286th car is disgusting barbarism, and it only confirms the intention to raise from these very young people who are for the upgrade a generation of hopeless users who are not able to do anything without a VERY high-quality car.

Corporation IBM announced the opening of the eLiza project - the development of self-managing servers that can, if necessary, heal themselves. That is, duplicating a biological system capable of maintaining homeostasis. Death to system administrators.

The National Infrastructure Protection Center promises American companies attacks from Chinese hackers between April 30 and May 1.

In the UK they are also preparing terribly seriously for these attacks, but the alleged organizers of the online riots on May 1 are silent and not breathing .

, a company InterTrust that develops systems for protecting video and audio files from unauthorized copying, has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation : according to InterTrust lawyers, the mechanisms used by Microsoft in Windows Media Player violate the InterTrust patent .

management Napster is so effective in implementing filters that make it difficult to share files that are subject to copyright that they have to apologize to users : along with counterfeit files, they hide filters that are completely legal, which was not intended at all.

The British Patent Office recognizes that internet copyright legislation is generally quite unhelpful . True, the Patent Office, of course, did not realize the need to revise the concept of copyright as such.

Here is David Turetsky's guide for those falsely accused of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act - this is, of course, not very relevant in Russia, but useful as additional reading.

fired from CNN Journalists opened their own website : half-parody, half-exposure .

Here's something exotic : the Lego Porn site . I wonder if the Lego manufacturer will sue.

CNN journalist Andrea Thompson was not fired despite the discovery that she posed nude for Black & White Magazine and the photos were published online. The editors of TedsTurnovers.com interpret this as follows: why Andrea Thompson was not fired, although she posed nude, and the creators of the site were fired, although they did NOT pose nude. This is logic.

At Santa Clara University , apparently smart people explain to each other that the Internet is just a tool and should be used carefully: The Network, you see, while providing enormous opportunities for the development of diverse communities, leads to a loss of self-identity .

70% of companies that have been subject to hacker attacks are ready to attack the offenders in response, the editors of InfoWar.com counted . I think it's great. Self-regulation in action.

Representatives of Procomp (aka Project to Promote Competition and Innovation in the Digital Age), of course, immediately reacted to the news about the forced bundling of Windows XP with a media player, rightly seeing it as yet another confirmation of Microsoft’s reluctance to compete fairly in the market. Microsoft, of course, is quick to justify itself.

Amazon.co.uk still removed the fake ones A HREF="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004Z1Q2/qid%3D988294021/sr%3D1-8/202-0811361-6507059" TARGET ="_blank">reviews of Red Hat Linux 7.0 Deluxe, signed by Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds.

The Online Hip-Hop Awards are being postponed " due to safety and other reasons ." What would that mean?

The ultra-precise Canadian Millennium Clock hates Sundays and loses an hour every Sunday.

The Butler Group promises that by 2005, wireless devices will finally defeat the PC .

All nominees for the Webby Awards are American projects. And for the rest of the world this is extremely offensive .

Never hire "weak" students - you don't know what will happen. For example, a Linux terminal built into a toaster .

Find the pseudopods:

Three out of ten mobile phone owners do not use SMS
IBM plans to develop servers capable of self-support
InterTrust sues Microsoft for patent infringement
70% of companies surveyed by InfoWar.com are ready to fight hackers using hacker methods
Ultra-precise Canadian watches go crazy on Sundays
Everything is pure truth

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The results of the month of guessing games will be announced on May 1st. With the obligatory critical analysis, of course.