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LOGIC BOMBER GETS OFF
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A disgruntled programmer escaped a prison sentence recently, despite
causing over £30,000 worth of damage to his former employer's computer
system. Gareth Hardy planted a logic bomb in the system at Chilworth
Communications, a direct mail company, after a series of arguments with
the MD. The logic bomb was activated after he left in September 1990,
and scrambled all their files.
At the Old Bailey, Hardy admitted to making unauthorised modifications
to computer material with intent to pervert or inhibit access, contrary
to section 3 of the Computer Misuse act 1990, although he claimed that
the did not mean it to go off.
Hardy was sentenced to 140 hours of community service and ordered to
play £3,000 compensation. His new employers were unaware of the charges
against him until his court appearance and he now faced being demoted.
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MONSTERS IN LONDON, GAMEMASTERS IN BRUM
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Bruce Everiss, proprietor of the All Formats Fair, was recently reported
as saying that the fairs " are going 'monster' on us ". This wasn't the
impression I got at the Nov 14th show in London. If anything the number
of stands has fallen since it moved from the scruffy but characterful
Old Horticultural halls to the relatively plush and anonymous Novotel.
Still, the organisers cunningly timed their Birmingham show at the
Motorcycle museum to co-incide with the much hyped Gamesmaster Live at
the nearby NEC.
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MORE TV GAMES
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Further to my comments on TV computer shows, it seems that Bad Influence
at least may support the ST. A viewer wrote in to complain that all TV
computer shows ignore the ST. Andy Crane promised that ST software
reviews will be included in future shows.
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A CAUTIONARY TALE
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This letter recently appeared in my local paper, and I think, while
being quite sad, serves as a warning to never trust the sale of your
computer equipment (though heaven forbid, not your ST) to a computer
illiterate!
' I am appealing to the couple who came and bought my young son's
Nintendo entertainment system & games from our house. I was out at the
time and my husband saw them about buying all the games for £40. My son
was selling the games seperately, but my husband gave them everything in
two bags.
With the sale of the items seperately and saving up his pocket money for
some considerable time, he would have had enough to buy the Super NES.
The tears and look of disbelief on his face when I told him about the
mix-up would I hope touch the heart of this couple. So please get in
touch as my son is £50 out of pocket and his dad's in the dog house. '
- How much do you want to bet the couple don't go back, especially after
reading how much they've got for nothing! That's life I s'pose.
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GULF WAR STARTS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND ...
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COMPUTING magazine reports that Stormin' Norman Schwarzkof and his
Pentagon pals are the latest recruits to the video games craze. US
millitary top brass videotaped the entire Gulf War using cameras in
planes and tanks etc and thousands of hours of it was digitized and fed
into Concurrent simulators. These are just posh versions of arcade
virtual reality games. The result is the world's biggest and most
violent video game which Pentagon officials can replay their favourite
moments of the war.
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SNIPPETS
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* The Falcon's super internal 2.5 inch IDE hard disk is already old hat.
Hewlett Packard have come up with a 1.3 inch drive, albeit with a
storage capacity of only 21 megabytes. A number of other manufacturers
have developed 1.8inch drives, and IBM are shipping some of their PS/2
models with 2.88mb 3.5inch floppy drives - double the Falcon's capacity.
* CORRECTION - last time I told you of a daily computer section that
could be found on ORACLE, the ITV teletext service. Unfortunately by the
time you got to read it, ORACLE had, like some ITV companies lost their
franchise and a new service taken over. Luckily TELETEXT on 3 (the new
incumbent) had the foresight to include 5 pages of daily computer/video
games news and reviews, starting on Page 370.
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