Police Offer Reward in Horse Tail Thefts (AP)

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Police crack down on mobile phone thefts

Police crack down on mobile phone thefts 12/17/2003 06:08 AM
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Wis. Police Probe Parking Meter Thefts
(AP)

Wis. Police Probe Parking Meter Thefts
(AP) 07/20/2004 07:47 PM
AP - Maybe they were tired of the tickets. Thieves have stolen nearly $25,000 worth of city parking meters so far this summer, according to the Department of Public Works.

Police arrest man accused in string of
high-tech thefts

Police arrest man accused in string of
high-tech thefts 06/04/2004 12:39 PM
SiliconValley.com Jun 4 2004 4:47PM GMT

SCO and Microsoft offer reward for
MyDoom.b Leads

SCO and Microsoft offer reward for
MyDoom.b Leads 01/30/2004 07:06 AM
So far each company have offered up $250,000 dollars each for leads that will result in the arrest and conviction...

Wendy's offer reward over finger in
chilli (Reuters)

Wendy's offer reward over finger in
chilli (Reuters) 04/09/2005 10:16 PM
Reuters - Reports of a severed human finger in a bowl of chilli at a Wendy's restaurant have hit the firm's sales in the San Francisco area, a company spokesman says.

Police offer schools hi-tech scanners

Police offer schools hi-tech scanners 07/31/2004 09:01 PM
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Police offer schools weapon scans

Police offer schools weapon scans 08/01/2004 03:15 AM
Met chief Sir John Stevens says hi-tech scanners will be offered to schools to help stop pupils bringing in knives.

The long tail is fractal. Why I buy the
long tail, having been a skeptic

The long tail is fractal. Why I buy the
long tail, having been a skeptic 03/29/2005 03:01 PM
The long tail is jagged, fractal – perhaps as any market achieves maximum efficiency it starts to look like everything...

Stockton, California Police Offer Online
Crime Reporting

Stockton, California Police Offer Online
Crime Reporting 03/19/2005 02:27 AM
Officer.com Mar 19 2005 2:22AM GMT

Horse Race Now! Horse Race Tomorrow!
Horse Race Forever!

Horse Race Now! Horse Race Tomorrow!
Horse Race Forever! 01/07/2004 03:11 PM
The origins of the term "inside baseball" are in one writer's view of sports reporting during the 1980s. He's Bill James, now a famous scholar of baseball. The arguments he made then explain why the term migrated so easily to politics. The inside, said James, is a hall of mirrors.

Spot-On Solution for Car Thefts

Spot-On Solution for Car Thefts 08/10/2004 05:08 AM
Australia has a lot of auto thieves running around, but the application of thousands of tiny DataDots seems to be helping. By Stephen Leahy.

Car thefts link probed

Car thefts link probed 09/25/2004 11:46 AM
Police are investigating whether a number of car thefts in south Belfast are linked.

NYC Subway iPod Thefts On The Rise

NYC Subway iPod Thefts On The Rise 03/30/2005 12:55 AM

Reports of robberies in the subway system are up about 20 percent through mid-March -- a spike police officials blame on the ubiquitous portable music player, which can retail for about $100 to $500. By Associated Press

Estonian arrested over Web bank thefts

Estonian arrested over Web bank thefts 04/04/2005 01:17 PM
ZDNet UK Apr 4 2005 5:19PM GMT

iPod Devotees Rocked By Thefts

iPod Devotees Rocked By Thefts 04/16/2005 01:39 AM

Victims of growing crime in area say loss of playlist makes them feel violated. By Del Quentin Wilber, Washington Post

Patient IDs stolen in computer thefts

Patient IDs stolen in computer thefts 04/09/2005 07:57 AM
bizjournals.com Apr 9 2005 12:02PM GMT

IPod Devotees Rocked by Thefts
(washingtonpost.com)

IPod Devotees Rocked by Thefts
(washingtonpost.com) 04/16/2005 04:52 AM
washingtonpost.com - The burglar visited every room of Sara Scalenghe's Northwest Washington apartment, stealing an expensive digital camera and a gold necklace passed down from her grandmother. But Scalenghe did not begin seething until she confirmed her biggest fear: Her new iPod had been swiped, too.

High school investigates computer thefts

High school investigates computer thefts 08/28/2004 09:28 AM
AP via Newsday Aug 28 2004 1:48PM GMT

Army Probing Assaults, Thefts by U.S.
Troops in Iraq

Army Probing Assaults, Thefts by U.S.
Troops in Iraq 05/31/2004 06:41 PM
Reuters via Wired News May 31 2004 11:08PM GMT

Compliance: A horse is a horse

Compliance: A horse is a horse 04/19/2005 04:04 AM
One of the hottest topics over the past year is "compliance auditing."

Subway thefts of iPods surging as device
becomes status symbol

Subway thefts of iPods surging as device
becomes status symbol 04/02/2005 09:20 AM
Chicago Tribune Apr 2 2005 12:35PM GMT

Army Probing Assaults, Thefts by U.S.
Troops in Iraq (Reuters)

Army Probing Assaults, Thefts by U.S.
Troops in Iraq (Reuters) 05/31/2004 03:50 PM
Reuters - The Army is investigating reports of assaults against Iraqi civilians and thefts of their money and jewelry by U.S. troops during patrols, raids and house searches, defense officials said on Monday.

Congress Primed To Pass Laws Requiring
Disclosure Of Data Thefts

Congress Primed To Pass Laws Requiring
Disclosure Of Data Thefts 04/15/2005 09:45 AM
Information Week Apr 15 2005 1:49PM GMT

High-profile identify thefts force
govt., industry to take action

High-profile identify thefts force
govt., industry to take action 03/28/2005 06:16 AM
The recent rash of identity thefts has businesses and government agencies exploring new options for locking down resources and setting policies to prevent easy pilfering.

NetFlash: High-profile identify thefts
force govt., industry to take action

NetFlash: High-profile identify thefts
force govt., industry to take action 03/31/2005 05:10 AM
It used to be only a paranoid few who worried about the proliferation of personal data in electronic form. Now, though, everyone can see the “paranoia” was justified - with 635,000 consumer complaints related to fraud and identity theft logged with the FTC last year and a rash of organizations revealing that personal information was compromised. Finally, it looks like this is enough to get Congress’ attention. High-profile identify thefts force govt., industry to take action http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/032805-identity-theft.html?net

Wag the Tail

Wag the Tail 05/14/2004 10:51 AM
Wag the Tail version 0.1 released

Mac Tail, iPod Dog?

Mac Tail, iPod Dog? 05/21/2004 01:01 AM
Is this a sign that Apple views the current Mac platform entering a period of relative stability after six years of flux? By Matthew Rothenberg (via MyAppleMenu)

root-tail 1.1

root-tail 1.1 04/12/2004 07:21 AM
Allows printing of text directly to the X11 rootwindow

Erasing the tail

Erasing the tail 09/26/2004 09:23 AM
The NY Times Magazine article on blogs makes the same old error. Viewing blogs through the media lens, only the left-hand of the side of the power curve is visible. As Matthew Klam, the article's author says: In a recent national survey, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that more than two million Americans have their own blog. Most of them, nobody reads Thus, the tail of the power curve — which is probably at least 5 million blogs long — gets erased. In fact, the tail is where blog are having their most important effects. That's where...

Wagging Your Tail

Wagging Your Tail 03/14/2005 06:02 PM
Executive recruiter Dave Hardie on the benefits of leaving gracefully, consumer-products experience, and balancing We versus I.

The Long Tail

The Long Tail 12/31/2004 07:10 PM

The Long Tail: Here's something entertaining in an odd way. This page will pull a blog entry out of the...void.

Click "Next Item" to get another one. They come from blogs all around the world, and are presented with no context or other information (there is a link if you want to actually visit the site the entry came from).

Only about half of the entries I looked at were in English. All of them were posted in the last two minutes.

I can't figure out why this was so addictive. It's like little snippets of communication from anywhere and everywhere.

Tail gunning

Tail gunning 01/04/2005 02:08 AM
Wired editor Chris Anderson has started a good blog to follow up on his Long Tail essay and seed the ground for a book on the subject. Cory Doctorow takes Anderson to task for his "middle-of-the-road" stance on efforts to lock down intellectual property via increasingly desperate and continuingly futile technical schemes for digital rights management (DRM) -- schemes that tip the balance between propertyholders and the public way too far.

Anderson is dead right in elucidating the way the Net economy restores market value to works that are not big hits. The story of the next few years will be one about whether that market in "long tail" intellectual goods (I wrote about its promise in October) thrives in the same open environment that allowed the Net itself to evolve and prosper -- or shrivels under the furious weight of technical and legal efforts to squeeze every last dollar from every last little hair on the long tail. My money is on the former, happier outcome. But it won't turn out that way without persistent and stubborn resistance -- which we can thank Doctorow and the EFF for ringleading -- to the "we control the horizontal, we control the vertical" paternalism and anti-consumerism of the DRM mafia.

(For a little example of what happens when rights holders hold too many cards, check out the sad saga of "Eyes on the Prize," the documentary that is the "principal film account of the most important American social justice movement of the 20th century," in a Stanford professor's words from Wired News' account. "Eyes on the Prize" can't be publicly shown or distributed because "the filmmakers no longer have clearance rights to much of the archival footage used in the documentary." You want your audiovisual history? Pay up first!)

Assuming the Long Tail isn't clipped by DRMania, we face an ever-expanding banquet of media goods. The BBC sounds an alarm. We are coming face to face with the scourge of "digital obesity":

Gadget lovers are so hungry for digital data many are carrying the equivalent of 10 trucks full of paper in "weight". Music, images, e-mails, and texts are being hoarded on mobiles, cameras laptops and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), a Toshiba study found. It found that more than 60% kept 1,000 to 2,000 music files on their devices, making the UK "digitally fat".

Or maybe not. The term is a ludicrous oversimplification and distortion; we keep all this stuff around precisely because we can now -- because it doesn't fill trucks, it fills infinitesimal chips and drives, and it's easier to keep everything around than to worry about cleaning house. Carrying the stuff around? No problem. Finding it? Harder. Finding time to absorb it all? There's our rub.

Obesity is simply the wrong metaphor. Thi s post by Rajat Paharia hits closer to the mark:

I'm finding that the "digital photo effect" is starting to make its way into my music and video experiences as well. What's the DPE? My ability to produce and acquire has far outstripped my ability to consume. Produce from my own digital camera. Acquire from friends, family, Flickr, etc. This has a couple of ramifications: 1. I feel behind all the time. 2. Because there is so much to consume, I don't enjoy each individual photo as much as I did when they were physical prints. I click through fast. 3. Because of 1 and 2, sometimes I don't even bother.

I first noticed this phenomenon back in the late '80s, when I switched from buying music on vinyl to CDs, and noticed how quickly I stopped listening to an entire 50-60 minute CD if the first track or two didn't grab me. Of course, this kind of impatience coincided with the speeding up of my professional life and my crossing the threshold into my 30s. Something tells me that the problems Paharia and I and perhaps you are facing in this realm of overload may not feel so dire to today's teenagers and twenty-somethings, for whom this thick soup is a native muck.

Still, the "I feel behind all the time" phenomenon is real enough, as today's RSS addicts know -- and as indicated by the rising popularity among the geeknoscenti of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" methodology, with its promise of liberation from uncomfortable behind feelings.

I'm not liberated yet. Behindness surrounds me on all sides. But finding stuff is getting easier. I'm slowly trying to teach myself the methodology that Doctorow has modeled for several years now: If you want to be able to find something in the future, don't bury it in your files -- blog about it, put it out on the Net, where Google will never lose it, and if for some reason you can't find it, someone else will probably have picked it up and saved it for you.

So to hell with bookmarks, and long live the blogmark. Here's a handful:

Lexis Nexis Alacarte: No longer the preserve of big-media newsrooms -- now in handy personal-journalism size.

For years, I tuned my guitar with one of those little electronic tuners in a plastic box; but when they were two, my kids decided that it made a great toy and disembowelled it. Well, all that is solid melts into Net: Today you don't need a physical object, all you need is a Net connection and a browser. Just Google "guitar tuner" for a bunch of options; I liked this one for its retro look.

Feel-good link of the day: First it was the beer and wine, now it's spicy food! Curry may help block Alzheimer's disease. (It's the turmeric.)

FC Now: Opportunities in the Tail

FC Now: Opportunities in the Tail 06/22/2005 02:39 AM
If you haven't yet heard - or used - the phrase 'the long tail,' you're not buzzword compliant for 2005. Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired Magazine, coined the phrase in an article that appeared last fall in that magazine....

Organizing the Long Tail

Organizing the Long Tail 02/05/2005 10:04 PM
The Long Tail is one the few things about the blogosphere that seems new. Here’s an obvious question: is there any structure lurking in that Long Tail, or is it just an undifferentiated skinny pointy blob? The answer starts here...

J2SE 1.5: A Tiger By the Tail

J2SE 1.5: A Tiger By the Tail 06/28/2004 06:08 PM
JavaOne -- The Standard Edition is slated for a fall release via the Java Development Kit (JDK).

Incentives along the Long Tail

Incentives along the Long Tail 06/05/2005 11:21 PM
Chris Anderson has just published a great piece on his Long Tail blog called The dangers of "Headism". Go read it if you're into all that. If you're not into all that, I still think this picture is worth a thousand words: It explains a lot of what I've had to explain and re-explain to people in recent months. Heck, go to his post anyway just to look at the other pictures. They're simple but explain things nicely....

Catch A Tiger By Its Tail

Catch A Tiger By Its Tail 06/29/2004 10:55 AM
Following up on my previous entry on Tiger's Search Technology I'll hit on the other announced features and additions with my personal feelings summing up...

Wired 12.10: The Long Tail

Wired 12.10: The Long Tail 10/07/2004 04:15 PM

Extending the Long Tail

Extending the Long Tail 12/22/2004 01:52 AM
Meanwhile, Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wired, (no relation) has just launched The Long Tail, the blog that follows his seminal article on the subject. Even better, he's got a book coming out on the topic. Now we just need a "most popular unpopular items" chart....
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