City PA jailed for stealing £4.3m

Grok Headline matches for City PA jailed for stealing £4.3m

City of Prescott Implements LiveTime®
Help Desk for City Wide IT Service
Management

City of Prescott Implements LiveTime®
Help Desk for City Wide IT Service
Management 09/08/2004 02:53 AM
This major municipality joins the list of converts to LiveTime’s scaleable, web-based solution. [PRWEB Sep 8, 2004]

Texas City in Lather Over Sweatiest City
Label (Reuters)

Texas City in Lather Over Sweatiest City
Label (Reuters) 06/18/2004 04:06 PM
Reuters - Consumer products maker Procter & Gamble Co. has learned the hard way how to alienate a city -- dub it the sweatiest in the country.

NYSIA and NY Tech Leaders Will Testify
to NY City Council on "How City
Government Can Support the Development
of New York City's Information
Technology Industry"

NYSIA and NY Tech Leaders Will Testify
to NY City Council on "How City
Government Can Support the Development
of New York City's Information
Technology Industry" 06/22/2005 01:51 AM
The hearing will address the current state of the tech industry in New York and address crucial workforce issues and trends. [PRWEB Jun 21, 2005]

MY CITY IT CITY: Boost for PCs, no
clarity on BPO tax

MY CITY IT CITY: Boost for PCs, no
clarity on BPO tax 07/09/2004 12:20 AM
ExpressIndia.com Jul 9 2004 4:50AM GMT

Stealing From an Infant

Stealing From an Infant 03/28/2005 03:03 PM
Bill Mann pulled out the calculator to figure out how much a corporate embezzler took from his infant son.

Holovaty on Stealing

Holovaty on Stealing 02/11/2004 09:44 AM

Read Adrian Holovaty's "Topix.net service policy: Hypocrisy in action"
well written... I agree... Topix just drains traffic from otherwise deserving websites, but then again, it might add traffic to those little websites it steals from... depends on how you look at it.

"Stealing" Music

"Stealing" Music 10/29/2003 01:14 AM
The music industry (aka RIAA) is on a hellish campaign to convince you that file traders are stealing music. They’re even about to start putting up television commercials to poke this into the mindset of the average American. The problem...

On stealing authenticity...

On stealing authenticity... 10/29/2003 12:10 AM

So I'm sitting at my new Powerbook watching The Man of Law's Tale when Cameron Marlow IM's me to say that he's in this conference watching a paper called, Visual Factors In Constructing Authenticity In Weblogs and they've just started citing the design of my site. It would probably be disingenuous of me to say that I just ripped off kottke, although when I first showed it to him, he did think it was a joke. Sigh. Anyway, it looks like an interesting paper:

The emergence of weblogs as contributing to the public sphere has returned concerns about authenticity in renewed form: readers who encounter weblogs must construct some basis of trust in the content and the subjectivity represented there in textual form. Many sources of authenticity are largely verbal (mutual citations, ideological coherence, recognized links, ease of access, ranking on index sites). Beyond these, however, there are visual cues which tend to promote confidence: these visual cues are more easily overlooked but nonetheless important in establishing the writers’ credibility.

Read the comments

Is anyone stealing your content

Is anyone stealing your content 03/08/2004 11:16 PM
With a lot of people covering world events, tech news etc then what is found many times is some of...

It's Not That They're Stealing, It's
That They're Lazy

It's Not That They're Stealing, It's
That They're Lazy 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
Exhibit A: An unattributed article on Google Bombing posted last month on the Web site of Glenn Beck, a radio talk show guy. Exhibit B: An article on Google Bombing from 2001 on Uber.nu, attributed to Adam Mathes. Compare and contrast. It's possible Beck purchased the article for reprint, but the lack of attribution, either to Mathes or So New Media, suggests against it. Assuming plagiarism, two questions: 1. After a decade of the existence of the Web, how is it that people still don't get the concept that content plagiarized from the Web is easily discoverable, particularly when posted on the Web? 2. Honestly, now, is it really that hard to rewrite? Unrelated article on the Glenn Beck site: The Death of Shame. (via Oliver Willis)

Stealing Nemo

Stealing Nemo 12/30/2003 01:37 PM
As if Steve Jobs needed another reason to call his lawyer, French author Franck Le Calvez has Sued Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios, citing claims of alleged plagiarism. LeCalvez is claiming damages for breach of copyright and trademark, and demanding that Nemo books and merchandise be pulled from French shops. The author asserts his book, Pierrot Le Poisson Clown, has been pulled from the shelves of French bookstores since it was “too similar” to the...

Apple: Innovate Doesn't Mean Stealing

Apple: Innovate Doesn't Mean Stealing 06/29/2004 10:42 AM
Why try to isolate a developer who is clearly dedicated to the platform? By Hadley Stern, Apple Matters (via MyAppleMenu)

Are developers stealing code?

Are developers stealing code? 06/03/2004 12:06 PM
ZDNet Jun 3 2004 4:29PM GMT

Clarification on the Stealing of
Content!

Clarification on the Stealing of
Content! 03/08/2004 11:16 PM
A few of you have sent me e-mails on a post I made yesterday on the stealing of content. I...

Sly Fox Caught Stealing Kan. Newspapers
(AP)

Sly Fox Caught Stealing Kan. Newspapers
(AP) 07/15/2004 08:42 PM
AP - Neighbors in a subdivision of this small eastern Kansas community have spent weeks trying to catch whoever was stealing their Kansas City Star newspapers.

Men Charged With Stealing $41K of
Clams (AP)

Men Charged With Stealing $41K of
Clams (AP) 07/30/2004 08:42 PM
AP - Two men were charged with grand theft Friday for allegedly stealing more than $41,000 worth of clams from an aquaculture farm in Cedar Key, officials said.

Stealing gallery space

Stealing gallery space 03/23/2005 08:34 PM

This is the best thing I've seen on the web in the last few weeks. An artist from the UK named Banksy went into four of NYC's most prominent museums -- the Met, the Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Museum, and the MoMA -- and installed four of his own pieces of art:

Dressed as a British pensioner, over the last few days Banksy entered each of the galleries and attached one of his own works, complete with authorative name plaque and explanation.

He says - "This historic occasion has less to do with finally being embraced by the fine art establishment and is more about the judicious use of a fake beard and some high strength glue." Banksy continues -"They're good enough to be in there, so I don't see why I should wait"

Staff at the New York Met discovered and removed their new aquisition early Sunday morning while Banksy's discount soup can print took pride of place in the MoMA for over three days before being torn down.

As of now, the other two pieces currently remain firmly in place.

Be sure to click through to see the photos. As far as I'm concerned, this is probably more interesting than most of whatever else is happening in the art world right now and instead of tearing it down, the MoMA should move it into their contemporary art collection. Thanks to ci tyrag for the link.

How the PC grinch is stealing Christmas

How the PC grinch is stealing Christmas 12/07/2003 09:46 PM
Irish Times Dec 7 2003 9:33PM ET

Stealing the Network: How to Own a
Continent

Stealing the Network: How to Own a
Continent 08/22/2004 07:30 AM
Cory Doctorow: Whil I was on holidays, I read Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent. This is the sequel to "Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box," and like the previous volume, it consists of short stories written by extremely talented hackers in which the computer bits are reported so faithfully that the books can be thought of as especially colourful HOWTOs, technical documents dressed up with narrative.

As such, they are terrific. I would much rather read a Stealing the Network volume than any hundred HOWTOs and Anarchy Filez: STN has the tone of a really good bullshitting session at a DefCon or Hackers on Planet Earth, hackers spinning war-stories about hacks they've pulled off, or have conceived of. Make no mistake, these are imaginative and brilliant technical people.

As stories, these pieces are sometimes clumsy. The prose rarely rises above journeyman level (it's at its best when the authors stick to declarative, Hemingwayesque sentences, but too often they stray into "colourful" similes and descriptive phrases that can be cliched and even unintentionally funny), and there's not a lot of characterization to be had, and virtually no character development. That said, the book is still a rip-snortin' read, mostly because while it's not the best fiction ever written, it is some of the best, most engaging technical nonfiction you're likely to find.

A couple of the stories are very funny -- I'm particularily fond of the "A Real Gullible" piece, which is an homage to one of the great hacker farces of all time, Real Genius. There's a lot of that kind of nerd humour and nerd folk art sprinkled throughout this volume, and for that alone, it's worth reading.

It's a good formula and a smart one, too: how else could you produce a tech book that was still worth keeping in print 18 months later? Link

RE: IE Certificate Stealing (Phising)
bug

RE: IE Certificate Stealing (Phising)
bug 05/01/2004 11:51 AM
Michael Wojcik (May 01 2004)

Software Worthy Of Stealing

Software Worthy Of Stealing 08/15/2004 06:12 AM
The Mac OS is in John Dvorak's Top 10 Most Important Software Programs, ever.

Men Charged With Stealing $41G in
Clams (AP)

Men Charged With Stealing $41G in
Clams (AP) 07/31/2004 10:16 PM
AP - Two men were charged with grand theft Friday for allegedly stealing more than $41,000 worth of clams from an aquaculture farm in Cedar Key, officials said.

Stealing domain's continue

Stealing domain's continue 11/19/2003 01:39 AM
How would you like to wake up one morning load your web browser and the domain you have worked so...

Stealing an Election: Are These
Instructions?

Stealing an Election: Are These
Instructions? 08/31/2004 05:09 PM

Black Box Voting: Diebold GEMS central tabulator contains a stunning security hole. Manipulation technique found in the Diebold central tabulator -- 1,000 of these systems are in place, and they count up to two million votes at a time. By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes only seconds to change the votes, and to date not a single location in the U.S. has implemented security measures to fully mitigate the risks.

If this is true, it's perhaps the worst news yet in a saga that is monumentally scary: the prospect that voting machines aren't just flawed, but perhaps open to direct tampering. No one should trust Diebold to begin with, given its woeful security record, a track record that should have disqualified it entirely from selling voting machines. But if this is proved out -- and where are the authorities, anyway? -- it ought to be the last straw.

Counterpoint: Downloading Isn?t Stealing

Counterpoint: Downloading Isn?t Stealing 01/08/2004 08:50 PM
The New York Times Upfront asked me to contribute a short piece to a point/counterpoint they were having on download.?

[s2n] Borrowing or stealing panel

[s2n] Borrowing or stealing panel 04/08/2005 12:47 PM
Terry Fisher runs a panel. Bill Alford wrote a book about the Chinese views of "intellectual property," called To Steal a Book Is an Elegant Offense. He says that the Chinese have a sense of the past as a living, shared context. One makes one's mark not by breaking from the past (as our Romantic geniuses do) but by making it one's own. "Copying doesn't carry the same dark implications as in the West." Unfortunately, I missed most of what Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club, had to say. When I came in, he was speaking charmingly about noticing...

IE Certificate Stealing (Phising) bug

IE Certificate Stealing (Phising) bug 04/30/2004 05:37 PM
E.Kellinis (Apr 30 2004)

Stealing Back the Airwaves

Stealing Back the Airwaves 05/07/2004 05:01 AM
As summer camps go, it's unusual. In four days, you can learn to build transmitters and antennas, and get advice on handling any FCC agents wondering about your new radio station. By Jason Silverman.

Rapid City Journal: Serving Rapid City
South Dakota

Rapid City Journal: Serving Rapid City
South Dakota 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
CNN needs to send his spy-outing slandering ass to the curb where it belongs .. CNN's Novak under fire for calling American Indians election thieves .. Native American-insulting bidness

rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2004/01/09/news/local/top/news 01.txt
track this site | 6 links

"Rapid City Journal: Serving Rapid City
South Dakota"

"Rapid City Journal: Serving Rapid City
South Dakota" 01/11/2004 03:46 PM

Man Says He Was Run Over, Beaten, After
Stealing Sister's Playstation

Man Says He Was Run Over, Beaten, After
Stealing Sister's Playstation 07/20/2004 10:53 PM
Wave3.com - Tue Jul 20, 05:36 am GMT

Two charged for stealing 92 million AOL
addresses

Two charged for stealing 92 million AOL
addresses 06/23/2004 10:27 PM
ZDNet Australia Jun 24 2004 2:35AM GMT

Man Sentenced for Stealing, Cleaning
Cars (AP)

Man Sentenced for Stealing, Cleaning
Cars (AP) 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
AP - Colin Sadd might be the man you'd prefer to steal your car, but he's going to jail again.

Is your cat a target for
password-stealing hackers?

Is your cat a target for
password-stealing hackers? 08/12/2004 07:35 AM

Web Virus May Be Stealing Financial Data

Web Virus May Be Stealing Financial Data 06/25/2004 01:33 PM
AP via Newsday Jun 25 2004 5:01PM GMT

Web Virus May Be Stealing Financial Data
(AP)

Web Virus May Be Stealing Financial Data
(AP) 06/25/2004 02:02 PM
AP - A mysterious Internet virus being spread Friday by hundreds and possibly thousands of infected Web sites may be aimed at stealing credit card and other valuable information, security experts warned.

Jury: Stealing a Kiss Isn't a Crime (AP)

Jury: Stealing a Kiss Isn't a Crime (AP) 07/01/2004 05:36 PM
AP - Stealing a kiss is not a crime, a jury has decided.

Man Accused of Stealing Boy's Socks (AP)

Man Accused of Stealing Boy's Socks (AP) 07/08/2004 07:21 AM
AP - A man accused of grabbing a 9-year-old boy, carrying him behind a Kroger store and stealing his socks has been arrested on kidnapping and robbery charges.

Aaron Swartz - Downloading Isn't
Stealing

Aaron Swartz - Downloading Isn't
Stealing 01/09/2004 10:12 PM

Aaron Swartz

The New York Times Upfront asked me to contribute a short piece to a point/counterpoint they were having on download. (I would defend downloading, of course.) I thought I managed to write a pretty good piece, especially for its size and audience, in a couple days. But then I found out my piece was cut because the Times had decided not to tell kids to break the law. So, from the graveyard, here it is.

Stealing is wrong. But downloading isn’t stealing. If I shoplift an album from my local record store, no one else can buy it. But when I download a song, no one loses it and another person gets it. There’s no ethical problem.

Music companies blame a fifteen percent drop in sales since 2000 on downloading. But over the same period, there was a recession, a price hike, a 25% cut in new releases, and a lack of popular new artists. Factoring all that in, maybe downloading increases sales. And 90% of the catalog of the major labels isn’t for sale anymore. The Internet is the only way to hear this music.

Even if downloading did hurt sales, that doesn’t make it unethical. Libraries and video stores (neither of which pay per rental) hurt sales too. Is it unethical to use them?

Downloading may be illegal. But 60 million people used Napster and only 50 million voted for Bush or Gore. We live in a democracy. If the people want to share files then the law should be changed to let them.

And there’s a fair way to change it. A Harvard professor found that a $60/yr. charge for broadband users would make up for all lost revenues. The government would give it to the affected artists and, in return, make downloading legal, sparking easier-to-use systems and more shared music. The artists get more money and you get more music. What’s unethical about that?

Footnotes and lots of comments on Aaron's site.

Grok Description matches for City PA jailed for stealing £4.3m
GrokA matches for City PA jailed for stealing £4.3m

City PA jailed for stealing £4.3m

The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: