"In the early 1970s, phone phreaks manipulated the……" — Charles Platt
"In the early 1970s, phone phreaks manipulated the long-distance system using blue boxes that they built from sketchy photocopied schematics that were often riddled with errors. Not many had the skill to do this. Phreaking was restricted to a select few."
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Charles Platt
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18 Quotes by Charles Platt
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At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal…
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The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions,…
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Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of…
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The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.
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Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer installations - is now a standard item…
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When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of…
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Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by…
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Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So…
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If low-temperature fusion does exist and can be perfected, power generation could be decentralized. Each home could heat itself and…
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Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode.…
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Even if major funding is obtained for cold fusion, conceivably the phenomenon could suffer from problems as intractable as those…
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In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation…
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