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...home and plant a device in the computer that would broadcast every keystroke. A more efficient method would have been to plant a bug enabling them to turn on the computer from another location, call up the internally stored files and transmit them by either radio or telephone modem to the FBI's waiting machines; the computer and modem would have been turned off by a remote signal. While in his house, the FBI might also have copied the diskettes he had on hand. And, surveillance experts say, they could have done all this without the suspect's ever knowing...
...could empirically prove that there is such a thing as a free lunch. Nowadays I hardly ever think about the credit I could get by attending Frequent Flyer support groups around the globe -- or the five miles I could earn by transmitting this article to the office on my modem. Mostly I'm to be found saying, "Come on. It's easy, it's free, and you can earn free tickets. They say this guy Faust never paid for a ticket in his life...
Network users in the Quad have found the new connections convenient, particularly because of the ability to log in to the system without a modem...
...that is starting to change, however, as successive waves of netters demand, and eventually get, more user-friendly tools for navigating the Internet. In fact, anyone with a desktop computer and a modem connecting it to a phone line can now find ways into and around the network. "The Internet isn't just computer scientists talking to one another anymore," says Glee Willis, the engineering librarian at the University of Nevada at Reno and one of nearly 20,000 (mostly female) academic librarians who have joined the Internet in the past five years. "It's a family place...
...length video movie -- are already available on the network. And last spring, writer Carl Malamud began using the Internet to distribute a weekly "radio" interview show called Geek of the Week. Malamud is undeterred by the fact that it takes a computer about an hour over a high- speed modem to capture the 30 minutes of sound that a $10 radio can pick up instantly for free. But bandwidth capacity has nowhere to go but up, says Malamud, and its cost will only go down...