Date: Thursday, 04/17/2003 05:50 PM
From: Mike Wilson ([email protected])
Subject: Voicemail Hackers Phone It In
It would seem to me that AT&T has a responsibility to make sure that the person paying for the call actually authorized the billing ("Voicemail Hackers Phone It In," April 17, 2003). If this were taken to court, all the victim would have to say is "Did I authorize this call?" The answer is clearly no.
It makes one wonder what would happen if a prank caller called AT&T and ordered $2 billion worth of products to be shipped to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Would they demand the President pay for it (with a 30 percent discount, of course)? Absolutely disgraceful.
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Date: Thursday, 04/17/2003 07:28 PM
From: anonymousthanks ([email protected])
Subject: Story: Voicemail Hackers Phone It In
Has anyone considered that AT&T is doing the "spamming" to generate revenue ("Voicemail Hackers Phone It In," April 17, 2003)?
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Date: Friday, 04/18/2003 05:03 AM
From: thomas murray ([email protected])
Subject: Will Genetic Engineering Kill Us?
While academia is necessary, modern innovation owes its existence to mavericks and the military ("Will Genetic Engineering Kill Us?," April 16, 2003). The slickest not the fittest will thrive. One only has to look at the demise of the dinosaurs to see that what enables a species to dominate can become the root cause of its extinction due to sharp environmental changes.
As for the absurd notion that we control the environment, the recent weather in New York where it was 88 degrees Fahrenheit one day and 46 degrees the next shows the incredible chaotic nature of global weather patterns.
Science, while a wonderful thing, is nothing compared to the unimaginable, beautifully complex simplicity of the thing we humans call the universe.
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