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...expected to remember such numbers, of course; no one except a computer. That is why they are printed on every check, or on the driver's license, ready to be shown to the highway patrolman who has just seen the Target run a stop sign. The computers apparently can't deal with a complicated concept like the name Otto, but they will know almost instantaneously whether F18332, etc., has forgotten any parking tickets or whether the 22-digit bank account includes any checks that bounced...
...From patrolman, he stepped up to sergeant; then, lieutenant; finally, captain. Now, Evans has reached the limit of the books, he says...
...order catalog. The trail led to a young New Jersey enthusiast who used the alias "New Jersey Hack Sack" and communicated regularly with other computer owners over a loosely organized network of electronic bulletin boards. A computer search of the contents of those boards by Detective George Green and Patrolman Michael Grennier, who is something of a hacker himself, yielded a flood of gossip, advice, tall tales and hard information, including excerpts from an AT&T satellite manual, dozens of secret telephone numbers and lists of stolen credit card numbers...
Screenwriter James DeMonaco peoples the precinct with a Grand Hotel's worth of character clich??s: the grizzled patrolman (Brian Dennehy) who's ready to retire; the woman cop (Drea de Matteo) who can out-tough the macho men; the motormouth con (John Leguizamo) who sees ways of escape in the encroaching anarchy. This bunch could start a brawl in a bus line. But they need to become a community fast to fight an enemy whose siege tactics are as unfathomable as they are unstoppable...
...HUPD Patrolman Ryan Stanton, whose father, Captain Jack Stanton, has been with HUPD for over 30 years, said his father’s job was the driving force behind his desire to join the force...