Word: scam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Blondie, now in the second year of his 13-year sentence? He remains a stranger to remorse: "We didn't invent the system, or the ways to scam it to do the job. We inherited it. We were its custodians. Now others...
...NANNY: FEDS SLAP FINES IN RED SMUT SCAM...
Kids aren't the only ones the government wants to protect from cyberporn. The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated refunds of $2.75 million for thousands of U.S. customers who unwittingly racked up charges in a Net sex scam in which supposedly free Websites rerouted modem connections through the former Soviet Republic of Moldova, taking lascivious surfers on a very costly ride...
...genuine artificial intelligence with a crude front end (you type as if chatting on America Online). She is also spellbinding. Indeed, our conversation with Julia was so realistic my girls, convinced that a carbon-based life-form was doing the real typing, insisted the whole thing was a scam. "Do you like cats?" Julia asked us. "Nope," I typed back, nudging Zoe and Ella to watch as I tripped up the primitive program. "I like pizza." "Great," replied Julia. "I go crazy for pizza." Doh! Next, Ella, the bawdiest member of her first-grade class (she can sing virtually...
This is not a bad premise for a cautionary science-fiction tale. And anyone who has cheated on an expense account can identify with a character like Hawke's, working a much bigger scam on a bureaucracy quiveringly alert to genetic impostors. A lost eyelash, a bit of exfoliated skin left on his keyboard could undo him--especially when the cops, led by a very querulous Alan Arkin, suddenly descend on his facility and, as they investigate a murder, start subjecting everyone's detritus to genetic spot checks...