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Tatyana Danilova. Nevod et al. Issue 16
Seine, etc. Issue 16
Review of current online events and publications
Tatyana Danilova
Publication date: January 11, 2002
Review of current online events and publications
Tatyana Danilova
Publication date: January 11, 2002
It will begin now , right now. It’s as if someone gave the go-ahead and glamorous typhoons blew out: digital lifestyle struck . It was explained to me that the nasty word “gadget” means electronic toys for adults and non-adults: spillikins, wicks, BlueTooth for GameBoy , talking clocks, wind-up parrots, refrigerators with a built-in video camera, playing mp3. Laptop advertising oozes sex: under the attractive silver casing┘ hides power┘ and the light weight (1.9 kg) and thin profile (only 2.1 cm at its thinnest point) become the ideal┘Everything about it, from the soft-to-rough surface for resting From the full-size keyboard to the silver metal keys and rounded back for easy handling, the keyboard is an example of grace and design for wearer comfort . Advance laptop with safe sex support? Why not, since computers are already being sharpened for MTV fans ? Ah, the incomparable 60s style for the iMac 2 .
According to TechDirt , the iMac 2 prototype was developed in Belgium six months ago and the drawing was sent to Apple Design. The author is amazed, but does not intend to sue.
-style mobile court An automated Judge Dredd remains a fantasy for now, but the state of Michigan is creating a virtual state court . Although the cyber court website has been operating for a year, the first cases will be considered only in October. Court hearings will be held by teleconference, which is faster and cheaper for the state. The cyber court will be tested on small civil claims.
Even the most compassionate judges are capable of inventing brutal punishment . I won't retell this . I just can not . Unheard of.
The super news feed united eleven (on the opening day) news feeds in Russian.
Cornell University accused Hewlett-Packard of stealing intellectual property , namely technology developed and patented by Cornell University. How ethical is it for universities and laboratories to profit from publicly funded developments, asks Jeffrey Benner in Public money, private code . Patent protection of academic research has become a rule that scientific administrators strictly adhere to. If such practices had been used in the 1980s, the Internet would not have existed as a worldwide medium . Berkeley researchers working in the 80s. under a contract with the Ministry of Defense, they supplemented the Unix version with the TCP/IP network protocol and this development became a standard - practically what is called the Internet today - thanks to open source. It doesn't matter whether it was a conscious gift to society or whether the scientists didn't know what they were doing. What matters is that If today's practice of applying intellectual property laws had been in use 10-15 years ago, the whole world might not have come into existence . Lawrence Lessig, in his article in the Washington Post , compares the development of communications in the United States, Canada and Korea and notices an alarming fact: the development of broadband communications in the United States is artificially restrained in favor of corporations - the rights holders of music and video content, who fear that their profits in the form of pirated copies will flow away through a broadband network. In addition, broadband threatens existing pricing arrangements. Napster and MP3.COM not only sought new ways to deliver content, but also promoted independent artists outside the network of labels that controlled the music industry. Now the experiments are over, and those who did not understand this are immediately dragged to court.
At the meeting “The Future of Music” it was determined that this very future is possible in four options:
a) you can download and listen to any recording for free via a high-speed wireless Internet connection directly to your favorite wristwatch;
b) no one will pay anything and songwriters will earn money through concert tours and selling T-shirts;
c) a handful of corporations will control all recorded music, restricting access and exploiting musicians;
d) musicians and listeners will come into direct contact and will not need intermediaries.
After wandering through the Matrix of Wisdom to the Sea of Agile Rabbit and then to the Brocken Saints, the real world remains somewhere below. You remember that it’s time to return, in an attempt to get into a working mood, you go to Lenta.ru and there, in amazement, you read that Colonel Gaddafi has become a co-owner of Juventus.
Viruses are written not out of a thirst for Herostratus glory, but because :
- it’s better to catch my harmless virus, find out about the hole in the protection and close it, than to be attacked by an attacker targeting your secrets - for example, they try to point out the vulnerability of Microsoft.Net web services;
- we, virus writers, provide work to computer security specialists;
- antivirus companies are alive only because we exist, but where is their gratitude?
- any other way to inform a company about gaps in its software means the risk of being accused of malicious hacking and, therefore, of violating intellectual property rights, or even of blackmail for profit;
- this is a joke, don’t you understand?!
- we are Internet orderlies, whoever is not patched is not to blame;
- they teach fools, therefore, we are also Internet teachers;
- look, I can infect flash files;
- I’m not a dirty trickster, but a spy , an advertising agent , a fan of Kournikova, The Matrix , Britney Spears (underline as appropriate).
page The Russian Google.com was defaced on the night of January 7-8 . It is not yet known whether it was a hack or a “joke” by a volunteer translator . The Russian inscription on the search button and some menus were replaced by the unknown pimple with the worldly names of him, the pimple, and close relatives. (Show up, unknown sufferer, I sympathize with your family story, I want to know the continuation and for this I will give you a whole fence.) But in this world we are not alone: the next day problems began for users of pages in other languages.
ZeoSync times reports that small amounts of data sent can be losslessly compressed by up to 100 . Compressing arbitrary amounts of information is a task that cannot be solved within the framework of known algorithms, and it is still unknown whether this is a hoax or a revolution, a Nobel Prize and a shake-up in the foundations of the telecommunications business. The company has filed a patent covering technologies called Zero Space Tuner and BinaryAccelerator. Commercial use of the discovery will take place no earlier than 2003.
The new standard driver's license being developed by the US government will contain, among other data, fingerprints . Civil liberties advocates interpret the move as an internal ID slip; Homeland security advocates and the Department of Transportation see fingerprint registration as inevitable.
New album of mobile phone ringtones features animal voices recorded by David Attenborough's sound engineer; tones that soothe newborns, a melody from a movie about (of course!) Harry Potter and a recording that simulates an orgasm. The most popular download is Harry Potter.
Korea and Japan are planning to develop a 4G mobile network (video conferencing and movies-on-demand by phone, nothing has been reported about wireless delivery of popcorn and Coca-Cola); the British government is developing an anti-theft system for mobile phones ; Motorola offers to attach a dynamo to the phone , and in Moscow it is introducing a security system based on the use of cell phones with a built-in GPS receiver - “ Mobile Bodyguard ”.
company The NewsStand offers a service that seems strange at first glance: sending newspapers in .pdf format . Of course, you can read the newspaper for free on the website, but, firstly, the online version does not contain advertisements, and secondly, the usual “paper” design of the issue carries unconsciously perceived information - headline size, font, location on the page, etc. d. These unconsciously perceived codes speed up the assimilation of information from a printed sheet, since all of us, readers, master the technique of viewing “diagonally” in the usual order and taking into account individual signs, codes and filters. Web pages do not provide this opportunity, and you have to resort to an unusual amount of reading in a row. This will be fifth. The sixth benefit is the ability to quickly archive entire numbers.
Deposits of raw materials for social art, or a gift for a nostalgic grandfather , or a collector's dream - in a word, the art of a propaganda poster.
TheRegister tells how a group of actors introduces children (offline - to avoid addiction) to the dangers of the Internet, TheInquirer teaches online ethics , Guardian Unlimited lessons gives stylistics - but what is going on there in England? Is it treacherous that an educational campaign is being carried out without an announcement?