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Java applet
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applet written in the Java programming language. They can run in a web browser, or in Sun's AppletViewer, a stand alone tool to test applets. Applets are used to provide interactive features to web applications that can not be provided by HTML. They are executed in a sandbox by most web browsers, preventing them to access local data. The code of the applet is downloaded from a web server and the browser either embeds the applet into a web page or opens a new window showing the applet's user interface. Since Java's bytecode is platform independent, Java applets can be viewed by browsers for many platforms, including Windows, Unix, MacOS or Linux. For applets to be compliant with MS Windows operating systems, applet code has to be developed using Java compatible
J.C.R. Licklider
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that this was a very important concept. In 1968, J.C.R. Licklider became director of Project MAC at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he had provided the initial funding for while at DARPA. Project MAC produced both the first computer time-sharing system, CTSS, and one of the first online setups with the development of Multics in 1965. Just as important, Multics was the direct ancestor of the Unix operating system developed at Bell Labs by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie in 1970. So many of Licklider's visions are still with us today that the effect of his ideas can scarcely be quantified, especially with the explosion of the World Wide Web and the general Internet.
J. Jonah Jameson
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cast ever since. His first name has never been revealed, but is presumably "John", as in the name of his son John Jameson. Spider-Man's Tangled Web #20, with a publishing date of January, 2003, featured the story "Behind the Mustache" which focused on his childhood and years as a teenager. According to it he was born to David and Betty Jameson. His father was an officer of the United States Army, a war veteran decorated as a hero but an abusive husband and father. As a result he grew convinced that "No one's a hero every day of the week" and "Even the real heroes can't keep it up all the time". Jonah was a Boy Scout during his childhood. In high school his interests were mainly boxing and photography. He
KV55
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has not made the problem any simpler. It is male, but opinion is still somewhat divided on the age of the corpse; more recent examinations [1] have suggested a younger age around 20, too young for Akhenaten, but there is some evidence that these age estimates are not very accurate. Some have argued that it is Akhenaten himself, while others suggest that it is Smenkhkare. One possibility which has been suggested, if the mummy is indeed that of Smenkhkare, is that the tomb at one point held Tiy, Akhenaten and Smenkhkare; when it was later opened (possibly as a result of being discovered during the excavation of KV6, the tomb of Ramses IX, immediately above it) two mummies were removed, with the intent of leaving the heretic's desecrated coffin, but a
Kudzu
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to reinfestation of an area. Mechanical methods involve cutting vines just above ground level and destroying all cut material. Close mowing every month for two growing seasons or repeated cultivation may be effective. Cut kudzu can be fed to livestock, burned or enclosed in plastic bags and sent to a landfill. If conducted in the spring, cutting must be repeated as regrowth appears to exhaust the plant's stored carbohydrate reserves. Late season cutting should be followed up with immediate application of a systemic herbicide (e.g., glyphosate) to cut stems, to encourage transport of the herbicide into the root system. Repeated applications of several soil-active herbicides have been used effectively on large infestations in forestry situations. Efforts are being organized by the U.S. Forest Service to begin a search for biological control
Kuiper belt
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more infrared. KBOs are so far from the sun that they are very cold, hence produce blackbody radiation around 60 micrometres in wavelength. This wavelength of light is impossible to observe on the Earth's surface: astronomers thus observe the tail of the blackbody radiation in the far infrared. This far infrared radiation is so dim that the thermal method is only applicable to the largest KBOs. The diameter of the smaller objects is estimated by assuming an albedo: the diameter of such bodies should be taken to be a rough guess. The largest known KBOs, with diameter measurement technologies, are: Number Name Equatorial diameter (km) Mean distance from sun (in AU) Date discovered Discoverer Diameter method Pluto 2320 39.4 1930 Clyde Tombaugh occultation Charon 1270 39.4 1978 James Christy occultation 50000
Kristen Britain
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found paddling a canoe in stillwater, ambling through the woods to mountain summits, or sitting along the rocky shore listening, watching, and daydreaming. This is her fantasy, at least. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Published Works 1.1 Green Rider Series 1.2 Short Stories 2 External Links Published Works Green Rider Series Green Rider (ISBN 0-88677-858-1 US paperback; ISBN 0-671-03303-4 UK paperback) First Rider's Call (ISBN 0-88677-861-1 US hardcover) Short Stories Linked, on the lake of Souls Avalonia External Links Kristen Britain's Home on the Web SciFan page
Kraven the Hunter
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man of his age, height, and weight who engaged in intensive regular excercise. His physical strength, in particular, was of the Olympic calibre. Special Abilities: Kraven was a gifted hunter, marksman, and tracker. He had more exceptional fighting skills than Spider-Man as he was able to hold his own against the web-slinger, even without the serum.
Konqueror
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(including BSD and, recently, Microsoft Windows, although Windows support is very limited). It functions as a file manager, web browser, and file viewer. Like the rest of the "kdebase" package, Konqueror is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 User interface 2 Web browser 3 File browser 4 File viewer 5 KIO 6 See also 7
Knowledge navigator
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version of the system, eventually sending video from it to the "blackboard" to show a video of a volcano that is exploding. In a final installment a user scans in a newspaper by placing it on the screen of the device, and then has it help him learn to read by listening to him read the scanned results, and prompting when he pauses. The idea would be the foundation for work on Apple Newton handheld device. Newton was released before the technology was mature however, and proved to be a commercial failure. However, the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web would indeed fulfill the vision of the Knowledge Navigator. See also: Dynabook
Knowbot
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of bot that collects information by automatically gathering certain specified information from web sites. This article (or an earlier version of it) contains material from FOLDOC, used with permission.
Knowledge representation
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frame or just frame has been used. A frame consists of slots which contain values; for instance, the frame for house might contain a color slot, number of floors slot, etc. Frames can behave something like object-oriented programming languages, with inheritance of features described by the "is-a" link. However, there has been no small amount of inconsistency in the usage of the "is-a" link: Richard P. Gabriel wrote a paper titled "What IS-A is and isn't", wherein 29 different semantics were found in projects whose knowledge representation schemes involved an "is-a" link. Other links include the "has-part" link. Frames suffer from the frame problem of knowledge linking. Scripts are a type of frame that describes what happens temporally; the usual example given is that describing going to a restaurant. The steps
Klaatu
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song "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft", recorded on their first album, was covered by the Carpenters in 1977. For more information on the Beatles rumors, see [1] Official Klaatu web site The band takes its name from the name of Michael Rennie's character in the science fiction movie The Day the Earth Stood Still from 1951.
Klez
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is the worm, whose internals vary somewhat. Unlike previous worms such as Sircam, which were quickly squelched, Klez is still going strong. The main reason is that Klez sets the From: address as well as the To: address of the mail it sends out to addresses it finds in the web browser cache. Thus, if the recipient has a procmail recipe to reply to worms with a warning, the warning is misdirected, and the infected user never finds out that he is infected until his computer crashes. See Also Melissa worm Morris worm SQL slammer worm Code Red worm Sircam Blaster worm Sobig worm
Killer ants
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The new world army ants have recently been separated from the Dorylinae. Driver ants (Subfamily Dorylinae) The Old world, esp. West Africa and the Congo Basin See below. Army and Driver ants appear to be the most dangerous of the killer ants. Driver ants can reduce a tethered cow to polished bone in several weeks. A few cases of human deaths (inebriated or infant) have been reported. Unlike the army ants of the new world, old world army ants lack a functional sting, but this is more than compensated for by their razor-sharp, falcate mandibles. Dorylus spp. colonies also reach larger sizes than Eciton. Pictures These images are copyrighted as indicated, and are used by permission (see Talk page for details) from the author, Bart Drees, Director, Texas Imported Fire Ant
King's College, Cambridge
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and Carols on the BBC from the chapel on Christmas Eve. The Chapel is widely seen as the symbol of Cambridge, for example in the logo of the city council. Alumni of the College include E. M. Forster, Rupert Brooke, Alan Turing, John Maynard Keynes, Salman Rushdie, and Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend. The College is located at King's Parade, Cambridge CB2 1ST, UK, and is the only Oxbridge College to have "1ST" in its postal code. Links: Official Web Site
Kiosk
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case, the data may be stored locally (e.g. on CD-ROM) or accessed via a network using some kind of distributed information retreival system such as Gopher or World-Wide Web. This article (or an earlier version of it) contains material from FOLDOC, used with permission.
KHTML
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by the KDE project. It was created for and is used in KDE's Konqueror file and web browser. The engine was later adopted by Apple for its Safari browser, and the company promised to return all improvements to the main code branch. Another company using KHTML for their product is YellowTAB - the company that bought the rights of BeOS. It is written in C++ and licensed under the LGPL. It supports HTML 4, CSS 1 and 2, DOM and JavaScript. Some extra abilities and quirks from Internet Explorer are supported, even though they are not part of the HTML standard definition. KHTML is fast, but less error tolerant than the Gecko layout engine, its main open source rival and core of the Mozilla browser.
Khat
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the other psychomotor stimulants, amphetamine, methamphetamine, and cocaine. User Population It is estimated that several million people are frequent users of khat. Many of the users originate from countries between Sudan and Madagascar and in the southwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula, especially Yemen. In Yemen, 60% of the males and 35% of the females were found to be khat users who had chewed daily for long periods of their life. The traditional form of khat chewing in Yemen involves only male users; khat chewing by females is less formal and less frequent. In Saudi Arabia, the cultivation and consumption of khat are forbidden, and the ban is strictly enforced. The ban on khat is further supported by the clergy on the grounds that the Qur'an forbids anything that is harmful
Key signing party
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claims to belong to. If participants are resonable confident that a key is OK they will then sign it, strengthening the Web of trust. GPG Keysigning Party Howto Zimmmermann-Sassaman key signing protocol
KeenSpace
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free domain names, hosting, and updating for web comics. Although much of the material is of questionable quality in infrequent updates, the best ones eventually make it to KeenSpot, recognized as the top notch source for non-syndicated webcomics (A number of the very biggest ones, though, do not use KeenSpot's services).
Kevin & Kell
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Kevin & Kell "Kevin & Kell" is an web comic by syndicated cartoonist Bill Holbrook. His other (newspaper) strips include On the Fastrack and Safe Havens. It is an anthropomorphic comic set in a world based on hunting and predation. Kevin & Kell is about (and named after) Kevin Kindle (a rabbit) and his wife, Kell Dewclaw (a wolf), and their family. Kevin & Kell is not the oldest comic strip on the Internet, but is the first strip syndicated online. It began as a feature on CompuServe before moving onto Bill's website at http://reuben.org/~holbrook. It is now a feature on AOL's ToonVille service. and has two other websites dedicated to it - Herdthinners, Inc. and Kevin & Kell The backstory: Two lonely people - he was divorced, she was
Kettering University
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to social interaction, featuring many student clubs, including The Technician (Student Newspaper) The Reflector (Student Yearbook) "WKUS" (Student Run Radio Station, currently without a license, and broadcasting on an internal TV channel) Firebirds (Car Enthusiasts, involved in a carshow, and several rallies across eastern Michigan CRAKU (CR@KU, College Republicans at Kettering University) CCC (Campus Crusade for Christ, B-Section Only) CIA (Christians In Action, A-Section Only) SWE (Society of Women Engineers) SHPE (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers) The university boasts that 100% of its seniors are employed or accepted to graduate schools before graduation. Kettering University web site
Keygen
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piece of software. It is typically used as an adjunct to software piracy. The advantage of using a keygen (as opposed to just finding a serial on the web) is that the generated key will be unique, (as it is generated on the spot using the same methods as the software vendor) and not traceable or in use by the legitimate owner. These are usually written by cryptology enthusiasts.
Kennett Bros
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Classic New Zealand Mountain Bike Rides, a national guidebook, which became a best seller. They have produced new editions every three years since then. In 1995 Paul launched the Mountain Bike New Zealand Web, the online home for most New Zealand mountain bikers. In 1997 they co-organised a round of the UCI World Mountain Bike Cup in Wellington. In 1998 they started building the Wellington City Council owned Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park, which recently received a national recreation award and a national conservation award. External Links: Official website Mountain Bike New Zealand Web World Mountain Bike Cup Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park
Keeping Up Appearances
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(Richard Bucket) Judy Cornwell (Daisy) Geoffrey Hughes (Onslow) Shirley Stellfox (Rose (1)) Mary Millar (Rose (2)) Josephine Tewson (Elizabeth) David Griffin (Emmet) George Web (Daddy) Anna Dawson (Violet) Jeremy Gittins (Vicar)
Kendra initiative
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using the Internet to discover, use, share and pay for digital media such as music, web content, books and films, by creating compromises between the desires of producers and consumers of digital media. See also: micropayments metadata intellectual property copyright file sharing MusicBrainz
Ken McVay
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methods used by revisionists to promote it. He is the founder of the Nizkor Project, one of the first (and largest) World Wide Web sites dedicated to exposing the truth about Holocaust revisionism and the hate groups that promote it. One of the most active participants on the newsgroup alt.revisionism, McVay describes himself as a person who found himself moved to action by the efforts of Holocaust revisionists on the newsgroup to promote "factual evidence" that he found to be poorly presented and claims that were vague at best. He also opposed the idea of censoring and suppressing the revisionists, as authorities and experts on hate groups often did. A former United States Marine and retired service station manager, McVay found that he had an ample amount of spare time to
Keokuk, Iowa
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with 25.4% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 25.5% from 25 to 44, 22.9% from 45 to 64, and 17.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 88.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 83.9 males. The median income for a household in the city is $31,586, and the median income for a family is $39,574. Males have a median income of $31,213 versus $21,420 for females. The per capita income for the city is $17,144. 11.9% of the population and 8.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 15.7% are under the age of 18 and 13.4% are 65 or
Keyword spamming
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spamming Keyword spamming is a method of constructing web pages that trick search engines to achieve better ranking and receive more traffic. Such pages use repeated or unrelated search terms which makes a document seem relevant to search engines in areas where it is not. Some use cloaking, making search terms visible only to bots and not to page visitors.
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