Word: rasters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spend 10 minutes punching it into the set-top box. Raster shows up and starts to bother me: ``Can I help you with anything...
...time I've punched in the 256th digit, I've become a little testy with Raster and said some rude things to him. I'm not proud of it. Then I hear something that's music to my ears: ``I'm sorry, I didn't understand you,'' Raster chirps. ``Please check your cable connections -- I'm getting some noise on the line...
...Your equipment requires maintenance,'' Raster says. ``Please contact the cable company...
...Unless you've broken into the accounting firm's vault,'' I say, ``there's only one way you could have those numbers. You've been eavesdropping on my little chats with Raster. You've tapped the line coming out of this set-top box, haven...
...acne-ridden, high-IQ teenage hackers who play sophomoric pranks on the Establishment.'' ``The thought had crossed my mind,'' I say. But the fact that the cartoon sloth can give me such a realistic withering look, as he is doing now, suggests a much higher level of technical sophistication. Raster only has six facial expressions and none of them is very good. ``Your brother runs an ad agency...