Two held for stealing cars, computers

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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.

Cross-dressers accused of stealing cars,
driving them to pageants

Cross-dressers accused of stealing cars,
driving them to pageants 05/05/2004 06:47 AM
Drag queens steal cars for travel to pageants

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Computers add fun, safety to concept
cars

Computers add fun, safety to concept
cars 03/25/2005 05:23 PM
Soon you might have more computing power parked in your driveway than in your home office.

A revolution in engineering is turning
cars into computers

A revolution in engineering is turning
cars into computers 07/11/2004 01:48 AM
Taipei Times Online Jul 11 2004 5:53AM GMT

Hand-held computers to draw up power
bills

Hand-held computers to draw up power
bills 12/12/2003 08:57 PM
The Hindu Dec 12 2003 7:47PM ET

Sony Life Insurance says stolen
computers held customer info

Sony Life Insurance says stolen
computers held customer info 09/17/2004 04:29 AM
Mainichi Interactive Sep 17 2004 7:41AM GMT

In conferences held in Cairo: Fujitsu
Siemens Computers presents ways to
optimize IT client infrastructures

In conferences held in Cairo: Fujitsu
Siemens Computers presents ways to
optimize IT client infrastructures 05/20/2004 04:12 AM
Mena Report May 20 2004 8:43AM GMT

Tow Truck Drivers Push Cars into
Tow-Away Zone then hold cars for ransom

Tow Truck Drivers Push Cars into
Tow-Away Zone then hold cars for ransom 03/22/2005 04:59 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Tian says: "On March 7th, I took photos of a tow truck driver that damages a vehicle then tries to get away in Phoenix.

Sunday night (March 20th), Phoenix news channel 15 used a bait car and discovered that local tow truck company(s) would actually push cars into tow-away zone first, then held the cars as "hostages" for ransom."

I just watched it. The TV crew set up a white SUV as a bait car, and parked it legally. Time and time again, tow trucks would push the car into a red zone, snap a photo, and tow it away. Of course, when the TV crew showed the owner of the tow truck company how his drivers had pushed the car into the red lane, the owner denied responsibility. "I didn't push it," he said.

Arizona lawmakers have been half-heartedly writing legislation to stop this (isn't it illegal to do this already) but the tow truck has so far been able to convince them not to ruin the good thing they've got going. Link to RealMedia file. The segment starts about 20:15 into the broadcast.

"technology makes new cars too expensive
to repair, which may lead to disposable
cars"

"technology makes new cars too expensive
to repair, which may lead to disposable
cars" 04/21/2004 10:19 AM

Madeleine Begun Kane, Humor Columnist,
Humor Columns About Cars, Politics,
Privacy, Work, Marriage, Technology,
Money, Law, Music, Computers & Dubya's
Dayly Diary

Madeleine Begun Kane, Humor Columnist,
Humor Columns About Cars, Politics,
Privacy, Work, Marriage, Technology,
Money, Law, Music, Computers & Dubya's
Dayly Diary 12/26/2003 04:15 PM
"Carnival of the Vanities." - www.madkane.com .. MadKane.com political humor as a whole .. Mad Kane’s Notables Weblog .. Madeleine Begun Kane .. entries .. Madkane

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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...

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 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.

"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...

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.

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.

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City PA jailed for stealing £4.3m

City PA jailed for stealing £4.3m 06/14/2004 10:10 AM
A City secretary who stole millions of pounds from her bosses is sentenced to seven years in prison.

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

[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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

IE Certificate Stealing (Phising) bug

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

RE: IE Certificate Stealing (Phising)
bug

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

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

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.

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.?

Are developers stealing code?

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

Like stealing chocolate bars and
satellite TV...

Like stealing chocolate bars and
satellite TV... 11/16/2003 09:37 PM
The Mob Inside Your Computer! Better bust out some SpyBot!

Stealing gallery space (kottke.org)

Stealing gallery space (kottke.org) 03/24/2005 08:43 AM
UK guerilla artist Banksy installs own pictures in four museums .. so he put them up himself .. beautiful works .. viaKottke .. kottke

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Is your cat a target for
password-stealing hackers?

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

Professor Accused of Stealing Manure
(AP)

Professor Accused of Stealing Manure
(AP) 04/06/2005 06:02 PM
AP - A Harvard economics professor has been accused of neglecting the standard market practice of paying for goods and services by trying to steal a truckload of manure from a horse farmer.
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