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While the Internet is likely to have a huge appeal, surfing the Web on the phone is still impractical because the screens are tiny. So designers have come up with a micro-browser that lets the user surf for information by pressing a number on the dialing pad instead of fumbling with a computer mouse. While typing e-mail on phones is a hassle even with the latest technology, voice-recognition software will enable users to dictate directly to their cell phone...
Less word-like passwords will help prevent dictionary attacks in which a "malicious user" uses combinations of words to hack into another student's account, said Rick Osterberg '96, coordinator of Residential Computing Support...
Some of the true and false statements on the quiz included: "There's nothing wrong with forwarding chain letters, as long as no money is involved," "Harvard's computers may not be used for pranks or practical jokes" and "A computer Systems Administrator or User Assistant may ask me for my password in order to provide assistance...
...that was then. Today, I am a senior philosophy concentrator and serve as online-technology chair at the very newspaper you are reading. In addition, I am employed as an advanced support computer user assistant by Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS), the people who brought you the Pink Book, the Science Center Help Desk and a 50-megabyte quota for your Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) account, among other goodies. Don't call me with your computer problems, though. Really. I'll hang...
...have measured, over the course of two years, the deleterious effects of a mere hour a week of Net use. They reported an average increase of 1% on a depression scale, four-tenths of a percent on a loneliness scale and a loss of 2.7 members of the user's social group. I check into the WELL, one of the oldest and therefore most depressing of the so-called online "communities," and the usual gang is tearing up the report like junkyard dogs with a rag doll...