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Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 225
The Brazilian Ministry of Justice on Friday accused of anti - the Brazilian branch of Microsoft Corporation competitive behavior in the financial software market. Of course, on Monday a Microsoft representative denied all accusations .
On May 18, registration of students for courses at the Artemy Lebedev Training Center began .
Specialists from IBM have invented antiferromagnetic coupled media (AFC) technology - a way to quadruple the capacity of a hard drive - up to 400 GB.
1. Every day Seine publishes one piece of news that has nothing to do with reality. It's called a pseudopod. You need to guess it .
2. pseudopod is published in each issue A maximum of one .
3. The point “Everything is the honest truth” is not a pseudopod. It means that all the variants listed as candidates for pseudopods are not pseudopods either. Am I clear?
4. It is very advisable to indicate at least your name, so that later I will have the opportunity to identify you and give you another idiotic prize.
5. The prizes are invented by the author of these lines, and their meaningfulness turns out to be appropriate.
The Hong Kong company RegTime.Net announced the start of registration of completely Russian-language domains (in the Cyrillic zones .com, .net and .org). The registration system is complex and confusing and requires additional effort from the user (which greatly reduces the likelihood of success). Cyrillic domain zones do not exist in nature, so Cyrillic domains, of course, are useful, but can only be used to redirect to normal ones. RBC , which is a VeriSign- accredited registrar of Cyrillic domains in the .com, .net and .org zones, is furious .
We are in mourning. The editors of Attrition.org announced their intention to stop maintaining an archive of copies of hacked sites, as they can no longer cope with their number. This does not mean that Attrition.org is closing completely - detailed statistics on hacker activity will be updated. But without mirrors it will be bad.
Corporation Hewlett Packard in the USA has opened a program for recycling obsolete computers . Logic dictates that they simply need to be made from the very beginning so that they can be upgraded - but, probably, this will be at the next stage of human development.
Representatives of the Art.LebedevGroup holding applied to the Ministry of Labor and Social Development of the Russian Federation with a request to include a web designer and HTML coder in the Unified Tariff and Qualification Directory of Works and Professions of Workers.
The Olympic Committee prefers strange forms of love with the Internet. Now I have put tickets for the Winter Games up for auction , for example.
The Business Software Alliance calculated and found that on average 37% of software in enterprises in the world is pirated copies. In Vietnam, this figure is 97%, so Vietnam is now enemy number one for the BSA.
Webnoize promises a reduction in users of p2p networks with the introduction of fees for their use - at least at the initial stage. Marvelous.
The " Non-Electronic Mail " service has opened, providing delivery of electronic cards/letters/whatever to offline addresses .
Chunks of Star Wars: Episode II leaked onto TheForce.net , and then, thanks to the quick response of Lucasfilm, disappeared from there without a trace .
In London, it is planned to introduce a scheme to combat the theft of mobile phones, which has already been tested in Amsterdam - the police will continuously send SMS messages to the number of a stolen phone , informing that this phone is stolen. They probably hope that the thief will lose his nerve after several days of living with a constantly beeping phone - and certainly no one will buy such a phone from him.
The Anglican archdeacon of Blackburn has been defrocked after child pornography was found on the disk of his computer, which was sent for repairs.
On May 17, a new website of the Union of Right Forces was opened . This might be of interest to someone.
In protest (relatively speaking) against the wild decision of the National Arbitration Forum about Aimster's illegal use of the aimster.com domain, The Register " as a trademark registers the letter combination " ster . The Register is also considering registering the "be" and "go" trademarks.
continues Talk about a possible merger of Rambler with Yandex .
Corporation Invicta Networks , headed by former head of the KGB encrypted communications department Viktor Sheymov and former CIA director James Woolsey, announced the development of a fundamentally new system that allows you to hide on the Internet by continuously changing your IP address. The cooperation of the KGB and the CIA sometimes produces amazing results, it must be said.
From May 20, Rostelecom increased tariffs for international telegraph services - this is a reaction to the decline in telegraph profitability (not least due to the development of the Internet). It is clear that raising prices will not make telegraph services more attractive - perhaps for some time Rostelecom will be able to squeeze more out of those who, for some reason, cannot yet refuse telegrams. It is unlikely that this model will live long, however.
A pre-election survey of young British voters has shown that they have much clearer ideas about Lara Croft than about British politicians.
In the Voronezh region, lovers of non-ferrous metals found a fiber-optic cable from the Transtelecom company at a depth of a meter and dragged it 300 meters away. Note that the fiber optic cable does not contain non-ferrous metals.
Find the pseudopod:
Attrition.org refuses to maintain an archive of hacked sites
Art.═Lebedev═Group asks the Ministry of Labor to include a web designer and HTML coder in the Unified Tariff and Qualification Directory of Works and Professions of Workers
Anglican Archdeacon of Blackburn defrocked for possessing child pornography
A former KGB officer and a former CIA director together came up with the technology of online hide and seek
Fans of non-ferrous metals stole 300 meters of optical fiber from Transtelecom
Everything is pure truth
Why did you decide that this is a pseudopod?
Who are you?