Thursday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on October 27, 2005 at 3:33:51 PM
The server move will be happening today. I have already moved ASE Labs over to the new server, but the database is a bit older. You'll be able to access ASE Labs by going to http://www.aselabs.net until the DNS filters through.
IE7 to use TLS only. Good.
Girls in the games.
Man made islands upset environmentalists.
IE7 to use TLS only. Good.
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In a posting on the Microsoft Internet Explorer blog, IE program manager Eric Lawrence said that IE7 would support the Transport Layer Security protocol (TLS) by default. Existing versions of IE automatically use the SSL 2.0 protocol, which is weaker than TLS, to encrypt user data, although it is possible to manually switch to TLS.
Girls in the games.
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Amanda Crispel, assistant program director for electronic game and interactive development at Champlain College in Burlington, Vt., said that only 18 of the program's 100 students are women. Of course, there has been no shortage of conversations about finding ways to get more women into the game industry. But it can be hard for such discussions to get attention, said Christopher Sherman, executive director of The Game Initiative, which organized the women's conference.
Man made islands upset environmentalists.
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Dubai, one of seven semi-autonomous states of the United Arab Emirates, is the leading commercial center in the Gulf region and has ambitious plans to boost its thriving tourism industry to prepare for when its low oil reserves run out. But environmentalists say the futuristic island developments have taken a heavy toll on the present ecosystem.