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Sweetnurse shows how easy it is to be an Internet rip-off artist. The warnets provide an anonymous way to go online, and they are cheap at 30[cents] an hour. The hackers start by firing up an Internet Relay Chat program--software that connects them to a worldwide network of chat rooms. The next step is to make up a user name and find a chat room dedicated to credit-card fraud. There Sweetnurse verifies credit-card numbers--even numbers picked at random--to determine their credit limits and expiration dates, using the same types of automated programs deployed...
...record companies, the importance of their creative and business role to date cannot be denied. Record companies have invested enormous sums of money to find and develop talent, and to record and market music. They have been integral to the creative process, whether it is pairing a recording artist with the right song or helping to perfect that artist’s sound. On the business side, record companies have helped artists expose their music to the widest possible audience. It is well documented that record companies risk their capital knowing that only a few artists ever find that audience.Record...
...anyone considering a career in the arts, it’s difficult to escape the fear of becoming an archetypal starving artist. Imagine living like the characters in “La Bohème,” in an unheated garrett, always behind on the rent. Investment bankers don’t have to go through those trials and tribulations, do they?Compared to the sciences or humanities, where Harvard’s ability to lay foundations for future success is relatively unquestioned, there are persistent doubts about the relevance or future value of a Visual and Environmental Studies...
...through May 4, 2008. In the exhibition’s introductory text, Clifford S. Ackley, the MFA’s curator of prints and drawings, explains that the show’s “focus is on the sheer pleasure of looking and comparing how different artists in different times and places have inventively [rendered] the same subjects: the human figure, landscapes, birds and animals, fish and flowers.” There are “drawings” incised in metal, stone and clay; “drawings” on glass; “drawings?...
...People will see that tradition can be reinvented, can be transformed, and can have new life breathed into it,” says Thomas W. Lentz, the director of the Harvard University Art Museums. The paintings are grouped into five sections according to the way each artist addresses Chinese traditions: uprooted, abstracted, embraced, reasoned, and transcended. Collectively, the 51 paintings that comprise the show are extremely thought-provoking. Embedded in Chinese cultural and artistic traditions, yet molded by political and societal forces, these artists are a unique mix of past and present. Their art is crafted as much by calligraphy...