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...week's end the maker of the SS7 network, DSC Communications, declared that flaws in its own software had triggered the plague of busy signals and dial tones. The Texas-based company said it would make alterations in the affected phone systems that should act "like a fuse on a power line" and prevent small glitches from escalating into major breakdowns...
...gloriously tacky. The reason is a burgeoning genre known as the infomercial. These are program-size commercials that are disguised as real shows. Usually half an hour in length, they are produced entirely by an advertiser whose goal is to get viewers to reach for the phone and dial that ever present 800 number. In order to make these pitches seem like actual shows worth watching, they feature bright-eyed hosts, enthusiastic studio audiences and bogus names like Incredible Breakthroughs and Amazing Discoveries. They are increasingly populated with celebrities. Victoria Principal, Ali MacGraw, John Ritter, Art Linkletter, Fran Tarkenton, Meredith...
WHILE OTHER STUDENTS TRUDGE between classes, libraries and dining halls, Wong leaves myth and legend in her wake. (Like Brother Blue and the Dial-A-Menu Man, she is some-thing of a campus folk hero, dashing around on her fluorescent bike.) Even during reading period, while most people hibernate in Lamont and Hilles, she manages to create excitement...
...elaborate lengths to stem the hemorrhaging, but the problem is getting worse, not better. One of the fastest growing schemes involves gaining access to corporate voice-mail systems and private branch exchanges (PBXs) that allow employees to make long-distance calls from remote locations. A clever scammer can dial into a company's PBX, take control of an extension and use it to call anywhere in the world. The fraud doesn't show up until the company is billed, 30 to 60 days later...
...have rafts that we cling to in bad weather -- consolations, little solidarities, numbers we dial, people we wake up in the middle of the night...