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Your best pick-up line: “Is that a mirror in your pocket or am I just seeing...
Favorite childhood toy: Polly Pocket...
...user's computer, then pops up a little box-looking for all the world like it's been generated by Microsoft-warning the computer has been infected. It then asks the user to click on a link to download anti-spyware. The money goes into the rogue's pocket, and the computer is still sick. "That's as sneaky as it gets," says Moll. "Spyware is advancing in sophistication, and is playing on weakness in the user. There's still a relatively low adoption level of anti-spyware products, and that means there's a tremendous opportunity out there...
MICROWAVE OVEN In 1946 Percy Spencer, a Raytheon Corp. self-taught engineer studying radars, tested a vacuum tube called a magnetron, and something unusual happened: a candy bar in his pocket melted. The intrigued scientist placed popcorn kernels near the tube and then an egg, watching in amazement as the kernels popped and the yolk splattered. Spencer realized that exposure to low-density microwave energy could cook food quickly, and he created the first commercial microwave a year later. Smaller models followed, revolutionizing a certain kind of cooking...
...rife with risk. In Livedoor's case, driving up the company's stock price may have become a dangerous obsession. Unable to achieve fast enough growth through normal business operations, it allegedly misled the public in order to goose its stock, sell some of its shares, then pocket the proceeds as profits...