As NPR tells it, the theater decided to offer these people some fare that they would want, complete with curbside service, so to speak, and a server call button.

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So I asked my bookkeeper Susan, who lives near my house, to go and check on the server and to call me when she was there.

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While some ISPs would have simply changed the way it manages user passwords and moved the file to a different server, this ISP opted to call the FBI.

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To be sure, struggling server vendor Sun Microsystems sounded a downbeat note during its earnings call last week, sending technology shares broadly lower.

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In Germany, Heise Online, an online news site, last year faced a temporary restraining order preventing it from publishing reader comments that call on others to overload a company's server by massively downloading a program.

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