LJ Index

  1. Pentagon transactions in $trillions for which there is no accounting: 2.3
  2. Approximate amount in $millions wasted by the Pentagon in the last two minutes: 2
  3. Number of moons in the Solar System with diameters larger than the planet Pluto: 8
  4. Kilometers by which the diameter of Earth's Moon exceeds that of Pluto: 1176
  5. Hours between the crawling of a barely-exposed Web page by an email-harvesting robot and the arrival of its first spam: 8
  6. Estimated ten-thousanths of a second by which Earth's rotation will be slowed by global warming by 2100: 1
  7. Percent by which the world's over-65 population will grow by 2025: 100
  8. Percent by which the world's number of children will grow by 2025: 3
  9. Number of wireless public "hot spots" scheduled for deployment in Korea before the Soccer World Cup this summer: 25,000
  10. Percentage of users who arrive at Web sites by direct navigation or bookmarks (rather than search engines), as of February 6, 2002: 52
  11. Same as above, one year earlier: 46
  12. $Millions in reported Yahoo profits in 2000: 71
  13. $Billions in losses Yahoo would have had in 2000 if option expenses had been factored in: 1.3
  14. Percentage of engineers whose career interests solidified before or during 10th grade: 59
  15. Percentage of engineers who "decided pursue their careers because of an affinity for math and science — and their desire to innovate and explore new approaches to everyday actions": 79
  16. $billions in pocket change circulating in the United States: 7.7
  17. Number of operating systems bundled with a $399 PC at Walmart.com: 0
  18. Number of Wal-Mart stores worldwide: 4382
  19. Low end of estimated range of Linux users: 2,403,060
  20. High end of estimated range of Linux users: 60,076,500

Sources: 1-2, CBS News, January 29, 2002; 3-4, Solarviews.com; 5-6 DSL Reports <www.dslreports.com>; 6 Astronomy.com; 7-8, United States Census Bureau; 9, Wireless World Forum; 10-11, ZDNet UK, sourcing WebSideStory; 12-13, Fortune; 14-15, Mathsoft survey of 1200 engineers <http://www.mathcad.com/>; 16, Business 2.0; 17-18, Wal-Mart; 19-20, LinuxCounter, February 21, 2001.

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http://slashdot.org/science/02/01/30/2048201.shtml

New Census data shows that as of September 2001, 143 million Americans, or about 54 percent of the population, were using the Internet, and new users were adopting the technology at a rate of better than two million per month.

Children and teenagers are leading the way. Ninety percent (or 47.4 million) of children between the ages of 5 and 17 now use computers at home and at school; 75% percent of 14- to 17-year-olds, and 65 percent of 10- to 13-year-olds use the Internet. Households with children under the age of 18 are more likely to access the Internet (62.2 percent) than households with no children (53.2 percent).

US Department of Commerce press release, <http://osecnt13.osec.doc.gov/public.nsf/docs/Evans-Census-Online>Evans: Census Data Show America is Online [1], and report, <http://www.esa.doc.gov/508/esa/nationonline.htm>A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use Of The Internet [2].

[1] <http://osecnt13.osec.doc.gov/public.nsf/docs/Evans-Census-Online>
[2] <http://www.esa.doc.gov/508/esa/nationonline.htm>

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