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...brokerage-firm margin clerk sitting at a keyboard in Denver changes a few letters on a computer screen and magically transforms 1,700 shares of Loren Industries stock worth $1.50 each into the same number of Long Island Lighting shares selling for more than ten times that price. A keyboard operator processing orders at an Oakland department store changes some delivery addresses and diverts several thousand dollars' worth of store goods into the hands of accomplices. A ticket clerk at the Arizona Veterans' Memorial Coliseum issues full-price basketball tickets, sells them and then, tapping out codes on her computer...
Most misdeeds boiled down to what Donn Parker, a computer-crime watcher at SRI International, calls "data diddling"--entering false numbers at a keyboard. To pay for his wife's drug purchases, for example, a programmer at a savings and loan company in Los Angeles transferred $5,000 into his personal account and tried to cover up the switch with phony debit and credit transactions. The error was picked up in a routine bank audit. Among the 15 programmers and ten students nabbed, the offenses committed most often were thefts of software and telecommunications services. The rest of the crimes...
...album's most beautiful song is undoubtably "Song For You Far Away." With its eloquent lyrics and compelling guitar and keyboard accompaniment, this song spotlight's Taylor's warm and familiar style...
Sheltered by an umbrella, Levinson accompanied the group on a portable electronic keyboard...
Chris Difford and Glenn Tillbrook join forces on the songwriting, as in days of yore. Although the group had waited until 1983 to break up, it effectively lost its bearings after Argybargy in 1980, when keyboard wizard Julien "Jools" Holland decided to pack...