Ex-economist sentenced to nearly 3 years

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Economist.com | 100 years of Einstein

Economist.com | 100 years of Einstein 12/31/2004 12:43 PM
On the eve of the 100th anniversary of his annus mirabilis, an overview of Einstein's early career .. Economist .. Quote:

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Spammer sentenced to nine years

Spammer sentenced to nine years 04/08/2005 08:28 PM
globetechnology.com Apr 9 2005 12:31AM GMT

Ex-USC President Sentenced to Three
Years

Ex-USC President Sentenced to Three
Years 12/30/2003 01:36 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 30 2003 0:39AM ET

Spammer sentenced to 7 years

Spammer sentenced to 7 years 05/31/2004 03:25 PM
News.com.au - Fri May 28, 01:35 am GMT

Man sentenced to 2 years for Internet
plot

Man sentenced to 2 years for Internet
plot 07/07/2004 06:29 AM
Dailyprogress.com - Wed Jul 7, 05:53 am GMT

Spammer sentenced to 9 years in prison

Spammer sentenced to 9 years in prison 04/09/2005 07:57 AM
Chicago Tribune Apr 9 2005 11:39AM GMT

Spammer sentenced to 7 years in prison

Spammer sentenced to 7 years in prison 05/27/2004 06:30 PM

Supremacist Hale Sentenced to 40 Years
(AP)

Supremacist Hale Sentenced to 40 Years
(AP) 04/06/2005 02:34 PM
AP - Avowed white supremacist Matthew Hale was sentenced to 40 years in prison Wednesday for trying to have a federal judge killed — the same judge whose husband and mother were murdered five weeks ago by a deranged man with no connection to Hale.

Spammer Sentenced to Seven Years in
Prison

Spammer Sentenced to Seven Years in
Prison 05/27/2004 07:51 PM
A man who sent 850 million junk e-mails through accounts he opened with stolen identities was sentenced to as many as seven years in prison.

Spammer Sentenced to 9 Years in Jail

Spammer Sentenced to 9 Years in Jail 04/08/2005 05:13 PM

Spammer Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison
(AP)

Spammer Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison
(AP) 05/28/2004 07:40 AM
AP - A man who sent 850 million junk e-mails through accounts he opened with stolen identities was sentenced to up to seven years in prison on Thursday.

Computer hacker sentenced to nearly four
years

Computer hacker sentenced to nearly four
years 03/25/2005 04:56 PM

White Supremacist Hale Sentenced to 40
Years

White Supremacist Hale Sentenced to 40
Years 04/06/2005 03:34 PM
Matthew Hale was convicted of plotting to kill a federal judge a month after briefly becoming a suspect in the slaying of the judge's mother and husband.

eBay Art Scammer Sentenced To Four Years
In Prison

eBay Art Scammer Sentenced To Four Years
In Prison 05/27/2004 12:11 PM
Not only is eBay a PR platform if you want to sell unusual items, but it's also quite the scam platform, for those trying to sell bogus items. Years ago, we wrote about the hype surrounding a painting that was being sold on eBay. As the price shot up, rumors began spreading that the painting was by Diebenkorn. Of course, it quickly came out that it was all a big scam, and the guy behind it had some friends register a bunch of fake names to bid up the price of the painting and then spread rumors about its origin. Now, that scammer has been sentenced to four years in prison - which seems a bit extreme for lying about a painting on eBay. Still, it also raises questions about how people value art. Shouldn't people value art for the work itself, and not who actually created it?

Man sentenced to nine years in first
spamming felony case

Man sentenced to nine years in first
spamming felony case 04/09/2005 03:54 AM
Prosecutors said Jeremy Jaynes used the Internet to peddle pornography and sham products and services such as a "FedEx refund processor," and at the time of his arrest was considered among the top 10 spammers in the world. Thousands of people fell for his e-mails, and prosecutors said Jaynes' operation grossed up to $750,000 per month. Jaynes, 30, was convicted in November for using false Internet addresses and aliases to send mass e-mail ads through an AOL server in Loudoun County, where America Online is based. Under Virginia law, sending unsolicited bulk e-mail itself is not a crime unless the sender masks his identity.

Retail hacker sentenced to 1 1/2 years
in prison

Retail hacker sentenced to 1 1/2 years
in prison 12/03/2003 04:57 PM
SiliconValley.com Dec 3 2003 4:14PM ET

Hacker in Lowe's case sentenced to nine
years

Hacker in Lowe's case sentenced to nine
years 12/19/2004 03:11 PM
Two 21-year-old Michigan men were sentenced -- one to nine years and one to 26 months in federal prison -- for conspiring to hack into the IT systems of national home center chain Lowe's Companies Inc. and stealing customer credit card information.

Maine man sentenced to 6 years for eBay
scam

Maine man sentenced to 6 years for eBay
scam 04/07/2005 06:17 PM
A federal judge sentenced 21-year-old Charles Stergios of Brunswick, Maine, to more than six years in prison for perpetrating an extensive Internet fraud scheme using the eBay Web site.

German Sentenced to 5 1/2 Years for
Microsoft Fraud

German Sentenced to 5 1/2 Years for
Microsoft Fraud 07/22/2004 10:00 PM

Reputed Aide to Osama bin Laden
Sentenced to 32 Years

Reputed Aide to Osama bin Laden
Sentenced to 32 Years 05/03/2004 07:21 PM
A federal judge in Manhattan sentenced a man who was reputed to have been a top aide to Osama bin Laden to 32 years in prison for stabbing a jail guard three years ago.

"Computer geek" sentenced to 13 years
for making ricin

"Computer geek" sentenced to 13 years
for making ricin 04/19/2004 04:23 PM
Ken Olson, a former employee of Agilent in Spokane Washington, was sentenced to 13 years for making ricin, a highly toxic chemical derived from castor beans. It's very easy to make ricin and castor beans are legal to possess and are readily available. Prosecutors say Olson was plotting to kill his wife and take up with his mistress. Olson's wife and mistress have teamed up to defend him.

The trouble began Aug. 21, 2001, when a co-worker at Agilent found an 80-page document on how to make a bomb. The co-worker took the document to supervisors, who traced it to Olsen's computer. Company investigators examined his Internet logs and discovered Olsen had spent more than a year researching explosives and poisons. They found books in his cubicle on how to kill people without leaving a trace and a piece of paper with calculations of dosages for a 150-pound person — the approximate weight of his wife.

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News: Maine man sentenced to 6 years for
EBay scam

News: Maine man sentenced to 6 years for
EBay scam 04/08/2005 08:35 AM
A 21-year-old man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Maine to more than six years in prison for perpetrating an extensive Internet fraud scheme, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Maine.

German Sentenced to 5 1/2 Years for
Microsoft Fraud (Reuters)

German Sentenced to 5 1/2 Years for
Microsoft Fraud (Reuters) 07/22/2004 09:55 AM
Reuters - A German man was jailed for five and a half years Thursday for repackaging cheap versions of Microsoft Corp. software and selling them on at a higher price.

Montana: A Teen Who Tried To Kill A
Woman So He Could Have Sex With Her
Corpse Is Sentenced To 50 Years In
Prison

Montana: A Teen Who Tried To Kill A
Woman So He Could Have Sex With Her
Corpse Is Sentenced To 50 Years In
Prison 04/15/2004 11:47 PM
to use his unfettered time

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Chinese Internet Journalist Du Daobin
Sentenced To Four Years Of House Arrest

Chinese Internet Journalist Du Daobin
Sentenced To Four Years Of House Arrest 06/11/2004 05:55 PM
Epoch Times Jun 11 2004 9:40PM GMT

Indiana Man Sentenced To 15 Years In
Prison For Child Pornography High-tech
Distribution

Indiana Man Sentenced To 15 Years In
Prison For Child Pornography High-tech
Distribution 04/12/2005 04:55 PM
United States Department of Justice Apr 12 2005 7:17PM GMT

Economist.com

Economist.com 02/14/2004 08:01 PM
this article on the science of love .. more» .. more

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The Economist gets it

The Economist gets it 05/11/2004 03:40 AM
That bastion of British Toryism, and the center of what in the 19th Century was called liberalism, and would now be called Libertarian Conservatism, The Economist Magazine, has called for Rumsfeld's resignation, in prose and by its choice of cover photo: From the editorial: The scandal is widening, with more allegations coming to light. Moreover, the abuse of these prisoners is not the only damaging error that has been made and it forms part of a culture of extra-legal behaviour that has been set at the highest level. Responsibility for what has occurred needs to be taken—and to be seen to be taken—at the highest level too. It is plain what that means. The secretary of defence, Donald Rumsfeld, should resign. And if he won't resign, Mr Bush should fire him.... That approach was epitomised by the setting up of a prison camp at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba in 2001. The decision to detain combatants caught in Afghanistan for an indefinite period, with no access to lawyers and no legal redress, was understandable as a short-term response to the threat of terrorism and to ignorance about who might actually be terrorists, but it was nevertheless both wrong and disastrous for America's reputation. It was wrong because it violated the very values and rule of law for which America was supposedly fighting, and soon produced evidence of double standards: some American citizens captured in Afghanistan were allowed to stand trial in American courts in the normal way, but such rights were denied to mere foreigners, every single one of whom was labelled as a dangerous terrorist by Mr Rumsfeld, regardless of any evidence. It has been disastrous for America's reputation because of that hypocrisy but also because it has become a symbol of a "we'll decide" arrogance. The Geneva conventions that have governed the treatment of prisoners of war for decades were waved aside. And the argument used to justify America's rejection of the new International Criminal Court—that its soldiers would be vulnerable to unreasonable persecution, with necessary military actions defined as crimes—looked ever more hollow. Thanks to Guantánamo, critics could argue that America really does need the check of the ICC, and that its claim that abuses would readily be dealt with in domestic courts was also hollow. ... But the culture that it represented, with all prisoners considered guilty until proven innocent, with dubious interrogation methods widely considered to...

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Economist.com | Iraq

Economist.com | Iraq 05/08/2004 02:04 AM
Resign, Rumsfeld .. needs to go .. more

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Economist.com | Wal-Mart

Economist.com | Wal-Mart 04/18/2004 07:15 AM
more» .. report

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Economist.com | The science of love

Economist.com | The science of love 02/15/2004 09:19 AM
this link about science and it's understanding of love .. the neurobiological basis of love

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Economist.com | Copenhagen Consensus

Economist.com | Copenhagen Consensus 06/04/2004 06:49 PM
Copenhagen Consensus .. more»

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Economist.com | Saudi Arabia and oil

Economist.com | Saudi Arabia and oil 05/31/2004 12:38 PM
"This theft is indeed the biggest theft ever witnessed by mankind in the history of the world." .. this excellent Economist article .. The threat to Saudi oil supply

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Economist Set to Become New Leader of
India

Economist Set to Become New Leader of
India 05/19/2004 10:30 AM
Manmohan Singh, who oversaw India's first wave of economic liberalization in 1991, will be the country's next prime minister.

Economist.com Latin today

Economist.com Latin today 01/23/2004 08:47 PM
LONG LIVE LATIN .. Roman Rebound .. more»

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Economist Tackles WiMax

Economist Tackles WiMax 02/01/2005 09:13 PM
And I mean tackles! Pins it to the mat: This article lays out the land in a way that I appreciate: WiMax is an incremental enabling technology not a radical shift in view. No WiMax equipment has been sold yet. None will be sold for at least six months. When it does--and pre-WiMax turns into true WiMax--customer premises equipment will still be pretty steep compared to commodity devices available today. I had a long talk with SkyPilot the other day, which uses 802.11a-like technology to offer fairly good broadband speeds across long distances. Their tech is totally commoditized. Their CPE cost is $349--for a single unit. It goes down quite a lot (they wouldn't say how much) in quantity. They're about to announce some big customers for their production gear. WiMax isn't about whether broadband wireless is a viable service to offer. It certainly is. There's no question about that. It's whether a particular instanciation of that technology has any bearing on the deployment unless is has particular advantages that make something possible that wasn't. (That's part of the issue with early MIMO gear for the home, too.) As I read this Economist article, the real issue isn't whether a company like Qwest would choose SkyPilot's 802.11 over Alvarion's pre- or post-certified WiMax. Rather it's whether "plenty good enough today for real deployment" trumps "much better but much more expensive in the future until we deploy a lot of it." WiMax has a huge array of benefits for carriers that want to roll out WiMax in the same way they deployed DSL: few truckrolls (because of good non line of sight protocols) and lots of ratcheting in bandwidth offered to provide discrete services that mimic DSL and cable modems. These benefits are more appealing to carriers that are trying to integrate broadband wireless into an existing portfolio. These carriers are also in a better position to bundle applications on top of WiMax thus making it more reasonable for them to eat or subsidize a $500 CPE cost than even a large regional ISP or municipality. WiMax might be the flavor that telcos and related firms opt for because of consistency, standardization, and technical features. But it doesn't mean that potentially billions of dollars of other gear might not be sold in the meantime that has a very similar function and utility for the non-operator market. The article also walks...

Economist: Buggy whipped

Economist: Buggy whipped 07/04/2002 02:19 AM
The problem, as they saw it, was the complexity of modern software—especially operating systems and productivity suites. “Twenty, or even ten, years ago, software was actually reliable,” one software developer admitted. That was because the cryptic operating systems on desktop computers at the time (CP/M and MS-DOS) were far smaller and more tightly coded than today's graphical beasts. The software written for bigger machines used to be more reliable, too. Before IBM was forced to “unbundle” its software, computer makers controlled both the program code and the hardware it ran on—and could thus integrate them properly. That was one of the reasons why IBM's mainframes and Digital Equipment's minicomputers had such a reputation for reliability.

Readers had no trouble identifying the two leading culprits. One was the practice of re-using chunks of old software for doing set things. “Over time, code-reuse leads to massively complex and prodigiously huge software programs, full of ‘magic code' that nobody understands or wants to touch,” said another programmer. Analysing such programs was more like archaeology than computer science. “They are full of ‘midden piles' and ‘rock strata' containing artefacts and fossils that once had a clear purpose but whose function is now lost to history.”

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the economist on old media and bl0gs

the economist on old media and bl0gs 07/06/2004 09:44 AM
good quote by glenn reynolds at the end
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Ex-economist sentenced to nearly 3 years