That is, people actually digging up copper wire from the ground, stealing it, and selling it for scrap.
The Net is stimulating commerce, not just stealing it from existing outlets.
The service's flat fee offers an alternative to pay-as-you-go stores such as Amazon.com, which appeal to music listeners who want to get access to lots of music every month without stealing it.
The service's flat fee offers an alternative to pay-as-you-go stores such as Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ), which appeal to music listeners who want to get access to lots of music every month without stealing it.
Well, while it's sitting there, it's vulnerable to somebody who hasn't got any food coming along and stealing it, and that means you've got to have social rules and regulations to be able to make sure that the system doesn't fall apart from people just stealing.
It's to make sure you aren't stealing cable, so it stores all your account information and descrambling stuff.
It usually involved him stealing the ball from a clueless opponent and taking it down the court for a leisurely layup while the nosebleed section, where I was sitting, erupted in joy.
Less sophisticated but almost as costly to retailers is return fraud, the practice of stealing merchandise and returning it to the store for a full refund.
Once the phishers purloin your account information, they can get right into your bank account and start stealing money or transferring it to other vendors to buy jewels and other merchandise.
It would require stealing market share not only from Apple and Google but Microsoft.
Improved defense makes stealing a lot harder than it once was.
"If you go in and take something that doesn't belong to you, it's stealing, " says Richard Busch, attorney for Bridgeport Music, the Detroit label that sued over the NWA recording.
Its report, released in mid-April, is extraordinarily detailed, naming Major-General Salim Saleh, the brother of Uganda's president, Yoweri Museveni, among the senior Ugandan and Rwandan commanders whom it accuses of stealing diamonds, gold, coltan (a mineral), timber and ivory.
Ladies-in-waiting and courtiers sought it out, even stealing unrevised pages from her room.
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As hearing declines the brain dedicates more resources to interpreting the information it is sent, stealing brain power which would be used for other functions.
It was that Clinton had won by stealing their issues and then selling them better than they had, had not honored the office, and it was time to get it back.
"It was either these guys stealing the company or me getting fired, " he says.
It did rather well, stealing a lot of votes from Mr D'Alema's Democrats of the Left.
He was arrested this month in New Hampshire in connection with stealing drugs from a hospital, and it's believed he infected 30 people in that state with hepatitis C through infected syringes.
The Knicks slowed down in the second and Washington was within seven late in the period, but New York scored seven points in the final 50.3 seconds, with Raymond Felton stealing the ball from Wall and laying it in with 1.3 seconds left to make it 58-43.
She hopes others will want to produce Stealing Clouds or maybe create a play like it in their community.
Of course it could be that they are stealing or maybe just taking a longer time to find products.
To me, the unauthorized taking of person's photo and selling it for profit is akin to stealing a valuable asset from that person.
It accused Mr Rivera and others of stealing data from Sony using a hacking technique known as an SQL injection.
It was crawling under the table and stealing the afikoman, a half piece of matzoh without which the service couldn't conclude.
So part of what we've been trying to do is to make sure that we're getting the enforcement side of this tight, make sure that if we've got a trade agreement with China or other countries, that they are abiding with it -- they're not stealing our intellectual property or making sure that their non-tariff barriers are lowered even as ours are opened up.
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The staff was notoriously bad at locking this case, and it turned out the visually impaired customer was stealing electronics.
Bruce Schneier, an internet-security expert, thinks it is a bit like worrying about spammers stealing a copy of the telephone directory.
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The reason that the Navy Marine Corps Intranet has been impervious to intrusions while criminals were stealing terabits of information from other military networks is that it is managed as a single end-to-end system by one well-equipped company.
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Costco is so good at the grocery business, he adds, it has succeeded at doing the seemingly impossible, stealing customers from grocery chains operating at super-thin margins.
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