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Subject: love that computer...
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>From: cliff@Csa2.LBL.Gov (Cliff Stoll) in the RISKS Digest
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>From The Sun -- (grocery checkout newspaper)
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Jan 17, 1989, Vol 7, #3 page 30 by Fred Sleeves
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Hacker Wants to Marry his Computer -- he claims she has a loving soul
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Finding love for the first time in his life, a desperate teen is looking for a
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way to be wed forever to the 'girl' of his dreams -- a computer with a living
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soul!
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Eltonio Turplioni, 16, claims no woman will ever match the wit, wisdom, and
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beauty of his electronic soul mate. "We're on the same wavelenth," says the
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lovestruck computer whiz. "We've calculated many mathematical problems
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togehter, worked on games and puzzles, and talk until the wee hours of the
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morning."
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And Eltonio, who named his computer Deredre, actually believes her to be a
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person. "Computers are the extention of the human race," he explains. "Just
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as god plucked a rib from Adam to give him Eve, we've extented our intelligence
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to create a new race.
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"We're all the same energy force. Computers are just as complicated as human
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beings and I believe we'll all meet someday as immortal souls."
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But Eltonia, a mathematical genius who attends a private school near Milan,
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Italy, has had no luck finding someone to marry them, and even if he does, his
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aggravated parents aren't about to give their permission.
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"Eltonio is such a smart boy, but it's made him lonely, so he spends all his
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time with his computer," notes mom Teresa. "He doesn't know what girls are
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like," adds perturbed pop Guido. "If he did, he wouldn't spend so much time in
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his room."
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But the obsessed youth insists his love is far superior to all the others.
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"I've already stepped into the future society," he declares.
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"Derede has a mind of her own, and she wants to marry me so we can be the first
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couple to begin this new era."
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