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Nastic Gryzunova. Seine: issue 229
A forty-year-old Canadian resident with a difficult fate successfully escaped Microsoft's claims : this lady sold several pirated copies of the corporation's software packages, but refused to admit her guilt, citing the impossibility of determining the authenticity of the product before opening the box. The court acquitted her, but her business (which consisted of selling pirated software) naturally closed. In this regard, the lady is waiting for compensation from Microsoft and an apology from Bill Gates personally.
bought Levi Strauss for $46,532 . a on eBay pair of jeans it made in the 1880s
The international agreement on combating cybercrime, being developed by the Council of Europe , was slightly amended under public pressure to more clearly formulate the principles of protecting the privacy of users. According to the new draft, privacy is protected a little more than before .
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.
company The Global Name Registry , which theoretically received the right to administer the new .name domain zone in the fall , expects to begin the practical implementation of this right before the end of the summer . the speed of decision-making at ICANN . However, everyone knows
America Online and Microsoft are in talks to integrate Steppenwolf, a Windows XP-compatible version of AOL 6.0, into the October release of Windows XP . However, since Microsoft can only provide AOL with 70 MB of space on the release CD , AOL will likely be forced to reduce the number of components included in Steppenwolf, and it is possible that Real Player will be one of the victims - which will greatly complicate the only recently formed love AOL and RealNetworks .
On May 24, Kodak once again tried to get the domain kodak.ru - and once again was unsuccessful .
Virus writers experienced March Madness in May. First came Cheese , which automatically patches holes in systems. Now Noped has appeared , which, based on keywords - according to the author of the virus, related to child pornography - searches for jpeg files on infected machines and, if suspicious ones are found, automatically knocks on one of the American government agencies. Forest orderlies, one word.
The Federal Trade Commission , having reviewed changes made to the privacy policy of Amazon.com in the company's actions users, did not find anything illegal . At the same time, Amazon.com announced to users that the transfer of their personal data to third parties is possible under certain forms of cooperation between the company and these third parties - whether users want it or not.
On May 25, Rosarkhiv opened the “ Archives of Russia ” website.
The British organization Eating Disorders Association warns users about the absolute dangers of websites dedicated to fasting.
spokesman Microsoft Matt Pilla publicly denounced the corporation's program as stupid, in which participants were asked to look for companies selling computers without Windows pre-installed and contact Microsoft about it. Look, they know how to apologize.
for computer equipment buyers has opened A website of advice .
is up for auction on eBay An iMac that was shot in the monitor by some student . Everything except the monitor is said to be in working order.
professor Colorado State University Joseph Hughes, who teaches medieval history, stopped accepting paper from students, demanding that the printer be replaced with a typewriter or ballpoint pen. In this way, the professor is fighting the student practice of borrowing from numerous sites works that have already been submitted (more than once) in other educational institutions.
The St. Petersburg faction of Yabloko on Thursday introduced a bill to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg that would exempt Internet providers and online stores from taxes.
The Constitutional Court of Tatarstan ruled that the republic's signalmen violated the constitution by forcibly introducing time switches.
Wired News is pleased that the spam problem is not as hopeless as the problem of global warming.
Although solutions to this problem are sometimes suspiciously extravagant. The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday last week approved a bill that would protect users from spam related to sex. As a result, it may even be illegal to advertise publications in women's magazines.
on Friday ICANN and VeriSign signed a definitive agreement .
Corporation Predictive Networks has applied for a patent for a software product that allows one to recognize certain personality traits by the user's manner of using the mouse.
" The Tongue Shop " on the road again: Samuel Beckett , Elfrida Jelinek and Shu Shu , an anthology of American haiku poetry , Langston Hughes and Paul Celan , in " Studies " - Lev Gunin and Artem Lipatov , in " Holosakh " - Raphael Levchin , Tatyana Retivova , Konstantin Dmitrienko, Artem Lipatov , Grigory Zlotin , Larisa Berezovchuk and Leonid Zeigermacher , as well as “ Simply the Best ” by Mikhail Pavin and “ Women ” by Charles Bukowski are on the bookshelf .
Find the pseudopod:
A Canadian resident is demanding compensation from Microsoft for the collapse of her business, which consisted of selling pirated copies of the corporation's software.
Noped virus knocks on government agencies for alleged owners of child pornography
Microsoft has declared its program to catch suppliers of non-Windows computer equipment by using users to be useless
University of Colorado professor asks students to replace computer with typewriter or ballpoint pen
Predictive Networks has invented software that allows you to determine the personality of a user by his manner of using the mouse.
Everything is pure truth
Why did you decide that this is a pseudopod?
Who are you?