The article doesn't require registration or any subscription, but I'll post it here anyway:
WHITE PLAINS -- The thieves were voracious, filching flat-screen televisions and computer games, purloining iPods and DVDs, even making off with a box of liquor and a set of car rims in a burglary two weeks ago at an apartment three young people shared here. Luckily, they also took two laptop computers.
One of the laptops was a Macintosh belonging to Kait Duplaga, who works at the Apple store in the Westchester mall and thus knows how to use all its bells and whistles. While the police were coming up dry, Ms. Duplaga exploited the latest software applications installed on her laptop to track down the culprits and even get their photographs.
On Wednesday, the police arrested Edmon Shahikian, 23, of Katonah, and Ian Frias, 20, who lives in the Bronx. Virtually all of the property stolen from the apartment was recovered at the two men's homes. They face charges of burglary and possession of stolen property; Mr. Shahikian was released on $3,500 bail, while Mr. Frias was at the Westchester County Jail, held in $7,500 bail.
"It doesn't get much better than their bringing us a picture of the guy actually using the stolen property," Daniel Jackson, the deputy commissioner of public safety in White Plains, said in a telephone interview on Friday. "It certainly made our job easier. The fact that they knew who these guys were certainly added solvability."
The high-tech solving of the White Plains burglary, which was reported Friday in The Journal News, is one of several recent cases in which the police and crime victims have turned the keyboards on their adversaries, so to speak, taking advantage of computer software and other high-tech tools.
In March in Modesto, Calif., for example, the police recovered a stolen computer containing vital personal information, including Social Security numbers, belonging to the public school system's 3,500 employees. Detectives used tracking software on the computer to apprehend a suspect, who had a long criminal record. The police said he had stolen the computer from a data processing firm, perhaps with the intention of committing identity theft.
Here in White Plains, a break in the case came on Tuesday when a friend of Ms. Duplaga's sent her a congratulatory text message on the return of her stolen computer. "She said, 'I don't know what you're talking about,' and her friend said, 'Well, you popped up as being online,' " Mr. Jackson said.
He said that Ms. Duplaga immediately signed on to another Macintosh computer and, using a feature called "Back to My Mac," was able to gain access to her missing laptop remotely. She could see that that the person who had her computer was shopping for beds, Mr. Jackson said. Then it occurred to her that she could activate a camera on her laptop and watch the thief live.
At first, the photo application revealed only a smoky room and an empty chair, Mr. Jackson said, but then a man sat down. Ms. Duplaga, again using remote technology, typed in the command to snap a photo. "When you take a picture with that computer, it shows a countdown, and when it does, this guy figures out what's going on," Mr. Jackson said. "It all clicks for him, and he puts his hand up to cover the lens, but it was too late. She had already taken the picture."
Had the suspect been a complete stranger, the photographic evidence would have been a "great lead," but not the decisive clue, Mr. Jackson said. He said that when Ms. Duplaga described the tattooed subject of the picture to one of her roommates, the roommate replied: "Oh, I know exactly who that is -- it's Ian," referring to Mr. Frias.
Mr. Frias and Mr. Shahikian, it turns out, had been among the guests at a party at the apartment weeks before, and were friends of friends of the victims, as Mr. Jackson put it. Ms. Duplaga was able to retrieve a photograph of Mr. Shahikian from the laptop as well, but Mr. Jackson was not aware of the circumstances. Mr. Jackson said that
2. Windows users which think Add/Remove programs means Remove programs (because in Windows you can't Add any programs via this menu...). This, however, can be countered by having a package manager advertised properly.
Actually, you can use "Add or Remove Programs" to add programs, it's just under used. On my XP box at work, there is a button that says "Add New Programs" underneath "Change or Remove Programs" that lets the user specify the installation path for a program. Granted, it's ass backwards compared to double clicking an installer, but that doesn't negate that fact that one can install a program using Add/Remove Programs.
A default installation of Thunderbird is not really anything like Outlook. It's more like Outlook Express - email only. By using extensions, Thunderbird can have calendars, tasks, etc.
Grandparent is a troll, but the PS2 has a blue LED on the eject button. Similarly, the PS3 has an blue LED to indicate that there is a disc in the system. It also has a red LED when the system is in standby which turns green when the system is on.
You could always disable all of the network stuff in iTunes. Turn off the store, turn off playlist sharing, etc. I have iTunes on my PC at work and all it does is play back music from CDs and mp3s; nothing network related.
Except Microsoft didn't fire a bunch of the people from Rare, they left. (A good number of them formed Free Radical.) Also, I wouldn't exactly call the people at Bungie talentless, especially the people who were behind the (now free) Marathon series.
McGrew, what is your obsession with Uncyclopedia lately? I've seen no less than 4 stories where your comment has contained a link to them. Yeah, off topic, I know...
I bought one of those Dell Ubuntu machines and it seems to handle Vista Ultimate fine for the little bit I've used it. I spend almost all of my time on my Linux partition though.
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I'm surprised that a program written in 2008 doesn't support ALSA, but there you go.
If I have RhythmBox open (not even playing music), VLC will refuse to play back any sound. (This is using ALSA on Ubuntu 8.04 btw.)
I guess that depends, is it an annoying flash ad?
VCR recorder, is that like an ATM machine? ;)
The article doesn't require registration or any subscription, but I'll post it here anyway:
WHITE PLAINS -- The thieves were voracious, filching flat-screen televisions and computer games, purloining iPods and DVDs, even making off with a box of liquor and a set of car rims in a burglary two weeks ago at an apartment three young people shared here. Luckily, they also took two laptop computers.
One of the laptops was a Macintosh belonging to Kait Duplaga, who works at the Apple store in the Westchester mall and thus knows how to use all its bells and whistles. While the police were coming up dry, Ms. Duplaga exploited the latest software applications installed on her laptop to track down the culprits and even get their photographs.
On Wednesday, the police arrested Edmon Shahikian, 23, of Katonah, and Ian Frias, 20, who lives in the Bronx. Virtually all of the property stolen from the apartment was recovered at the two men's homes. They face charges of burglary and possession of stolen property; Mr. Shahikian was released on $3,500 bail, while Mr. Frias was at the Westchester County Jail, held in $7,500 bail.
"It doesn't get much better than their bringing us a picture of the guy actually using the stolen property," Daniel Jackson, the deputy commissioner of public safety in White Plains, said in a telephone interview on Friday. "It certainly made our job easier. The fact that they knew who these guys were certainly added solvability."
The high-tech solving of the White Plains burglary, which was reported Friday in The Journal News, is one of several recent cases in which the police and crime victims have turned the keyboards on their adversaries, so to speak, taking advantage of computer software and other high-tech tools.
In March in Modesto, Calif., for example, the police recovered a stolen computer containing vital personal information, including Social Security numbers, belonging to the public school system's 3,500 employees. Detectives used tracking software on the computer to apprehend a suspect, who had a long criminal record. The police said he had stolen the computer from a data processing firm, perhaps with the intention of committing identity theft.
Here in White Plains, a break in the case came on Tuesday when a friend of Ms. Duplaga's sent her a congratulatory text message on the return of her stolen computer. "She said, 'I don't know what you're talking about,' and her friend said, 'Well, you popped up as being online,' " Mr. Jackson said.
He said that Ms. Duplaga immediately signed on to another Macintosh computer and, using a feature called "Back to My Mac," was able to gain access to her missing laptop remotely. She could see that that the person who had her computer was shopping for beds, Mr. Jackson said. Then it occurred to her that she could activate a camera on her laptop and watch the thief live.
At first, the photo application revealed only a smoky room and an empty chair, Mr. Jackson said, but then a man sat down. Ms. Duplaga, again using remote technology, typed in the command to snap a photo. "When you take a picture with that computer, it shows a countdown, and when it does, this guy figures out what's going on," Mr. Jackson said. "It all clicks for him, and he puts his hand up to cover the lens, but it was too late. She had already taken the picture."
Had the suspect been a complete stranger, the photographic evidence would have been a "great lead," but not the decisive clue, Mr. Jackson said. He said that when Ms. Duplaga described the tattooed subject of the picture to one of her roommates, the roommate replied: "Oh, I know exactly who that is -- it's Ian," referring to Mr. Frias.
Mr. Frias and Mr. Shahikian, it turns out, had been among the guests at a party at the apartment weeks before, and were friends of friends of the victims, as Mr. Jackson put it. Ms. Duplaga was able to retrieve a photograph of Mr. Shahikian from the laptop as well, but Mr. Jackson was not aware of the circumstances. Mr. Jackson said that
You use CMD+SHIFT+3 to take a screen shot on a Mac. Then again, it saves it to a file on the desktop, and not to the clipboard.
Since it's a quote, you might want to break it to its author, Benjamin Franklin.
Motorola made PowerPC chips in the beginning, but IBM was the one making the G3, G4, and G5 chips.
2. Windows users which think Add/Remove programs means Remove programs (because in Windows you can't Add any programs via this menu...). This, however, can be countered by having a package manager advertised properly.
Actually, you can use "Add or Remove Programs" to add programs, it's just under used. On my XP box at work, there is a button that says "Add New Programs" underneath "Change or Remove Programs" that lets the user specify the installation path for a program. Granted, it's ass backwards compared to double clicking an installer, but that doesn't negate that fact that one can install a program using Add/Remove Programs.
A default installation of Thunderbird is not really anything like Outlook. It's more like Outlook Express - email only. By using extensions, Thunderbird can have calendars, tasks, etc.
Google Apps allows you to bring your own domain. So instead of user@gmail.com, it could be user@mycompany.com.
Chances are your laptop cannot run at a resolution where you would even enjoy this experience.
Speaking as a Wii owner, changes are that his laptop runs at a higher resolution than the Wii.
Well, what were you looking for, an argument?
Well, I guess they really blue that one.
Well, if you've ever seen the comments on youtube videos, you know it's definitely possible to, as you put it, defecate, on the internet.
As pretentious as he may seem sometimes, Cory Doctorow seems to do pretty well. Most of his work is available on the Project Gutenberg.
they'll probably charge for Pets Of Unusual Size too.
Personally, I don't believe they exist.
Grandparent is a troll, but the PS2 has a blue LED on the eject button. Similarly, the PS3 has an blue LED to indicate that there is a disc in the system. It also has a red LED when the system is in standby which turns green when the system is on.
You could always disable all of the network stuff in iTunes. Turn off the store, turn off playlist sharing, etc. I have iTunes on my PC at work and all it does is play back music from CDs and mp3s; nothing network related.
Except Microsoft didn't fire a bunch of the people from Rare, they left. (A good number of them formed Free Radical.) Also, I wouldn't exactly call the people at Bungie talentless, especially the people who were behind the (now free) Marathon series.
As long as Judge Reinhold is involved!
For what it's worth, Aspyr is only responsible for the PC and Mac port of the game. The PS3 and 360 versions of the game were done by Neversoft.
McGrew, what is your obsession with Uncyclopedia lately? I've seen no less than 4 stories where your comment has contained a link to them. Yeah, off topic, I know...
I bought one of those Dell Ubuntu machines and it seems to handle Vista Ultimate fine for the little bit I've used it. I spend almost all of my time on my Linux partition though.
Some of use couldn't shop around even if there was viable competition form insurance companies. Why? Two words: Pre-existing condition.
I don't know about other states, but in Ohio you're asked to declare a party when you vote in a primary.