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...astronomer originally started out in 1986 to find a 75-cent accounting error in his computer system. When he found that the extra charge was due to a mysterious hacker who had tapped into his system, he rigged his computer so that an electronic beeper would sound every time a hacker entered the system...
Stoll said the puniness of the accounting error initially drew his attention...
...even if time was running short and I was cursed with an extraordinarily unsympathetic computer room staffer, I was not yet ready to give up. I thought about the commands I had used, and realizing my error, I started to correct it. It was then that I ran into Problem Number...
...Concessions to assorted special interests, necessary to overcome the Democrats' competing proposal, were becoming prohibitively expensive. Instead he pressed ahead, matching the Democratic version in what amounted to a bidding war, betting that the damage could be repaired the same year with a second budget resolution. Now he concedes error; no comprehensive fix was made in 1981 or later. Yet Darman insists his course was correct because "it was important at the time to preserve the power of the presidency." The same imperative guides Darman today as he serves Bush under more difficult circumstances...
Those interested in the case are invited to obtain the public record, available at Middlesex Superior Court (Civil Action No. 86-2507, McKinney v. Harvard, et al.). The article was also in error when it suggested that I had been a drug dealer. Quite the reverse, I was a nationally respected drug educator, whose curricula materials were used in schools throughout the country, by the Armed Services and the Smithsonian Institution. My pharmaceutical firm extracts the legal drug THC from marijuana plants processed legally abroad...