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...point was just to make the computer work,"Tarr said. "The original designers never intendedUnix to be this operating system that governs theInternet. It was never supposed to be more thanthe system for two guys who wanted to program...
...biggest problems facing would-be entrepreneurs and consumers on theInternet-- keeping credit card numbers secure -- might be solved if a new agreement lives up to its promise. Microsoft and Visa said today they're developing software that by late next year will keep Visa card numbers private by issuing passwords to customers. After that, the firms said, other credit card companies will also be able to use the software. That big-hearted clause drew grudging approval from MasterCard, Visa's main competitor, which said it was "committed to a strategy of supporting the consumers' ability to use card-based payment...
Less than 24 hours after 2,600 employees of the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner walked out, both papers appeared on theInternet-- as did one by the striking workers. Both the Chronicle and the Examiner were set to go on the Internet later this month -- but the strike moved up the date to Wednesday morning. The strikers tabloid, the Free Press, hit the 'net Thursday morning, featuring favorite columnist Herb Caen and a scoop on Dianne Feinstein's bid for re-election to the Senate. The Free Press reported thatFeinstein employed an illegal alienin the 1980s, a fact...
...Knowles says such courses are unlikely tohappen at Harvard. Students will still have tocome to Cambridge, the dean predicts, because noone can get a proper Harvard education over theInternet from, say, Nebraska...
...Internet would have made such a classeasier and cheaper, but the interactive calculuscourse has since disappeared from the ExtensionSchool course catalogue. And there remain somedoubts as to the ultimate effectiveness of theInternet in teaching...