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...customers. Accessing systems almost at random, the student gave the name set of standard answers to demands for password identification from the large computers on the network--hello, test, sysop--ht might type, as his screens filled with logos from systems thousands of miles away. Finally he hit the jackpot, Instead of a flat "password invalid" message the screen filled with additional information: how to open files, change the names of things, even rewrite the operating language of the computer to cause the system to shut down...
...sleeping wife, "You're never going to believe this. I think we're millionaires." She did not believe it either. But 5, 38, 42, 18, 17, 1-a combination Pagano put together by chance, using a phone number on a passing taxi-won him a $20 million jackpot, the largest lottery prize ever paid to a single individual. A retired carpenter, the newest emblem of fortune's fancy insists that his 21 yearly checks for $761,904 (after some taxes are withheld) will not change his lifestyle. "I got my house, I got my tomatoes...
There is still a lot of money on the ta ble, but after Kansas City all bets have been settled. That was not summer thunder in the air- over Arrowhead Stadium. It was the unmistakable sound of the Jacksons hitting the jackpot, all to the strains - yes, Michael sings them both -of Billie Jean and Beat...
...game that captures the most attention-and headlines-in those states that have it. Typically, the player picks six numbers from 1 to 44 and waits to see if they pop up in the Ping Pong-ball contraptions used to select winning combinations. If no one wins, the jackpot accumulates. Another game is the instant lottery, with scratch cards that let players know immediately if they have...
...rich on what they're making, so they invest a dollar and wish." But despite well-publicized accounts of overnight wealth (see box), a person is about 31½ times as likely to be killed by lightning as to win New York State's Lotto jackpot. "Sure, somebody wins," says Myron Powell, a retired Congregational minister who fought against the Massachusetts lottery a decade ago. "But 900,000 people lose, most of whom could not afford to play to begin with...