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...that followed was his unshakable sense of vocation. From childhood, he knew he wanted to do comedy and that he could be good at it if he applied himself with a monk's dedication. "I loved to work really hard," he says. One of his happiest memories is practicing card tricks all day at Merlin's. At 15, he had the maturity to realize that a career in comedy wasn't a matter of "I'm funny. Now I'll be funny in public." A disciplined apprenticeship was the prerequisite for overnight stardom...
...Senate Committee on Finance. Grassley wanted to know how Kenneth Copeland--who as a church leader pays no taxes but is expected to plow revenue back into the public welfare--got a private plane and whether flights to Hawaii and Fiji qualified as business trips. Grassley sought credit card receipts and the numbers of the church's offshore bank accounts...
Sweetnurse and his sidekicks are shopping online--but they have no intention of paying. Though the rest of the world calls it credit-card fraud, the youths here have given it a more innocent name: "carding." Thousands of young Indonesians, particularly in college towns like Bandung and Yogyakarta (in central Java), have turned to the practice for fun and profit. At least 20% of Internet credit-card transactions in Indonesia are fraudulent, according to a recent study by the online-security company ClearCommerce, based in Austin, Texas, which has identified Indonesia as one of the worst countries for cyberfraud...
...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 by credit-card companies and banks for that purpose. He jots down a number, then goes shopping. Usually he selects books...
...more is on the way. One service already attracting a lot of attention is a pilot project between MeritaNordbanken, the Finnish cell-phone maker Nokia, and Visa International, the credit-card company. Nokia will soon have available in Finland cell phones that contain two chips, one for mobile-telephone service and one from Visa that adds a nifty credit-card function to the handset. The Visa chip will allow a customer to hold the phone near a cash register and push a button to pay a bill rather than having a clerk swipe a credit card. The digital mobile phone...