Why Air Conditioner Thefts are Heating Up
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Just another reason to curse the hot weather: thieves are mining AC cooling coils to sell on the black market
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They've stolen cars, used drugs and forged checks. When California is burning, they fight fires.
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Homes are increasingly filled with refrigerators, plasma TV sets, and lap pools that drive up energy costs.
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This server room is having some cooling issues -- due to the inverse ratio of money spent on servers to money spent on air conditioning, reports an IT pilot fish there. But things are about to get worse.
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Faced with increasing threats of theft of consumer data, credit-card companies are rolling out higher security plastic.
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By Dennis Rockstroh, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 23--Q I am in desperate need of advice, and I think I'm being strong-armed.   We had an estimate/proposal with a local air conditioning installer to have a new furnace and air conditioning installed.
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SAN JOSE -- Stealing the merchandise was the easy part. The ring of young men and women had become pros at snatching cashmere sweaters, perfumes and other expensive items from the likes of Abercrombie & Fitch, Victoria's Secret and Pottery Barn.
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An 'urban heat island' effect, fed by the city's growth, is trapping heat and making temperatures soar.
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Criminals do not normally monitor commodities markets, but high metals prices have grabbed their attention, fuelling more thefts of copper wire and other items whose metal components can be sold for scrap.
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For Boeing, laptop thefts are beginning to become somewhat of an epidemic. For the third time in 13 months, one of the company's notebook computers has gone missing, this one containing the names and social security numbers of about 382,000 workers and retirees.
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By Brian Bergstein, Associated Press  For sale: A technology security company. Which one? Pretty much any of them.   Companies that specialize in computer security are being snapped up at a furious rate.
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People who heat their homes with oil, electricity or propane Â almost half the country Â are likely to see prices rise.
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A midsize sedan and a luxury SUV that also comes as a pickup are the cars most likely to have problems with theft, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
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When a pair of convenience store robbers use hot coffee as a weapon, a dozen other crooks steal their idea. But terrorists are not nearly that predictable. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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An explosion in demand for air conditioners that rely on ozone-depleting refrigerants in India and China is becoming a fast-growing threat to efforts to combat global warming.
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As the summer swelters on, skyscrapers and apartments around the city will be cranking up the air conditioning and pushing the city's power grid to the limit.
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Criminals are not the only ones profiting from identity theft; financial institutions are making money, too.