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Missouri lottery winner to validate $3.1 million winning ticketNews Story
Missouri Lottery asks man to 'Show Me'He bought a lottery ticket at the Mini Mart in Ava. On Saturday he hit the jackpot. At least he thinks so.Now, an Ava man must wait until Wednesday or Thursday for state lottery officials to verify whether his lottery ticket will turn him into a $3.1 million winner in the Missouri Lottery. The man turned in his ticket Monday morning at the Ava convenience store, said worker Rhonda Yost. Her co-worker was on duty when the man arrived. She said he was just lik
Sep 21, 2004, 6:54 am - Todd - Lottery News

The National Lottery Subscription ServiceReply
The problem is not being out of State and buying a ticket in Massachusetts, I buy tickets in Indiana, Kentucky and West Virgina when ever I travel them. The problem is I have to be in the State of purchases to collect any prize and it states that in Answer #4. According to the Ohio lottery website and I think the same thing applies in Massachusetts, MegaMillions States have agreed not to sell MegaMillions tickets out of State so only people within the state (living there or visiting there) can
Sep 6, 2004, 10:52 pm - RJOh - Lottery Discussion Forum

Scratch off Secruity-retail levelReply
I would guess that the person who is in charge of the lottery scratch off distribution knows which books have big winners in them. If they didn't it would be possible that a series of winning ticket books could end up in one or two zip codes instead of spread out across the state. There are numbers printed on the front and back of the ticket books/rolls these must be tracking codes as well as security codes.In Maryland if you have a winner they first swipe it thru a scanner. Then they type in th
Sep 2, 2004, 1:26 am - four4me - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Lottery petition attacks computerized drawingsReply
Doc The lottery acts as a broker,they get a set amount of moneyfrom every dollar bet.Calif takes not more than 16 percent if you lookat section 8880.4.Doesn't matter if there is 1 or 1000 winners to themthey still get there cut and thats all.there's sections that state they can'tuse the money for anything else but education and expenses.So what good is it for themto know what numbers people are playing or not.They have 3 STAND ALONEcomputers not hooked up to any data lines in a safe. Und
Aug 30, 2004, 7:23 pm - paintbrush - Lottery News

Really need help! CPU Usage 100%!Reply
THe thing about zone alarm is it never gets fully removed by just uninstalling...http://nh2.nohold.net/noHoldCust25/Prod_1/Articles55646/ManualUninstall.htmlI tried zone alarm back with windows98, it shut down my port 1433 which meant I could no longer get my SQL server to work. Out it came, but not after some registry tweaking and file hunting/deleting.I now run a 1-2 punch, Norton SystemWorks and AVG (a free virus checker from http://www.grisoft.com ) with norton's firewall. No matter how secu
Aug 22, 2004, 9:33 am - hypersoniq - Lottery Discussion Forum

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Quote: Originally posted by unseen on August 18, 2004 I went a year without any firewall on my computer without any problems but I wouldnt go a week without some type of virus protection and I dont even open attachments and what not. I have a firewall now but what I'm saying is it is horrible advice to go online without virus protection. Thats like sleeping with a bunch of people without protection...dventually it will catch up to you if you're using Windows and Internet Explorer and Outlook Exp
Aug 18, 2004, 3:56 am - Fwup - Lottery Discussion Forum

Really need help! CPU Usage 100%!Reply
Quote: Originally posted by Fwup on August 17, 2004Todd,No system is 100% secure, and I wouldn't recommend that the owner of a multi billion dollar company use my methods to protect his servers. However, an average computer user on an average system that doesn't engage in high risk activities, and is complaining about low system resources, can use a router in place of software. I've run security checks on my system and compared it to reviews I've read for firewall software, and in every case my
Aug 17, 2004, 5:09 pm - Todd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Really need help! CPU Usage 100%!Reply
Todd,No system is 100% secure, and I wouldn't recommend that the owner of a multi billion dollar company use my methods to protect his servers. However, an average computer user on an average system that doesn't engage in high risk activities, and is complaining about low system resources, can use a router in place of software. I've run security checks on my system and compared it to reviews I've read for firewall software, and in every case my D-Link router performs better than the software. An
Aug 17, 2004, 4:59 pm - Fwup - Lottery Discussion Forum

Minnesota Powerball winner may appear todayNews Story
It's likely that someone in Minnesota is already a multimillionaire. Check your tickets, folks, it could be you.A single jackpot-winning Powerball ticket worth up to $98.7 million was sold in Minnesota; it was the second time in the past two months a big winner was sold there.The winning numbers drawn Saturday night were 4-10-11-18-43 and the Powerball was 41. Only one ticket matched all six numbers.The jackpot is worth $98.7 million if the winner takes the annuity option, which would pay out $3
Aug 16, 2004, 9:33 am - Todd - Lottery News

Sex attacker wins £7m on lottery
A man serving life for attempted rape has won what is believed to be 7m on the National Lottery. Iorworth Hoare, 52, was on release from Leyhill open prison in Gloucestershire when he bought his winning ticket for Saturday's Lotto Extra draw.He is understood to have been staying at a bail hostel in Middlesbrough.The size of his winnings has not been confirmed by Camelot, but Saturday's 21m Lotto Extra jackpot was shared by three winning tickets.Hoare was nearing the end of a life sentence afte
Aug 11, 2004, 5:51 am - willesden - Lottery Discussion Forum