国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
In Greece, bill 3037/2002 is signed into law. The controversial law is an attempt to ban illegal gambling throughout the country following an incident in which a member of the ruling political party, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), was caught on video in an illegal gambling establishment. One of the first effects of the bill is to shut down all videogame arcades and internet cafes overnight. Later, the enforcement of the ban on internet cafes will be relaxed, but the ban on all arcades will continue indefinitely, despite widespread outrage.
At the DefCon hacker conference, Team iFiber Redwire sets a Guinness world record for Wi-Fi connectivity when it connects two computer 124.9 miles apart via an unamplified 802.11b link over for three hours. One computer is positioned on top of a mountain in Nevada with a 12 foot satellite dish, while the second is positioned on a mound in Utah with a 10 foot dish. The accomplishment breaks the 55.1 mile record set by the prior year’s competition. Read more at Unwired Adventures.
Integrated Media Measurement Inc. (IMMI) releases the result of a national poll the reveals that a fifth of U.S. television viewers are using the internet to watch primetime programming online, particularly professional women, ages 25 to 44. According to the poll, fifty percent of those users are using the internet as a television substitute, while the other half are using it to catch programming they missed at its regularly scheduled time. It is the first study to show that significant numbers of people are being drawn away from their televisions by the internet.