Word: seriality
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...Details have emerged slowly. Although the poisonings began in 1989, it wasn't until 1995 that police took notice. Soon it became clear they were dealing with a calculating serial killer, a Jack the Ripper of the canine world. That's why Chief Inspector Richard Skinner thinks the recent scrawling is a hoax, the work of a copycat. Skinner believes the real killer is not a publicity seeker, but someone wreaking methodical revenge on specific targets. "I don't think it's a lunatic just walking around wanting to kill dogs for the sake of it," Skinner says. "The person...
...serial dog poisonings have become a topic of obsessive speculation. Last year, Hong Kong University sociology postgraduates used the case in a criminal behavior course. Even a Swedish animal law expert, Helena Striwing, has become involved. She suggests the killer's target is not dogs. "He wants to hurt people," she says. "He is motivated to target and hurt the dog owners for some reason, to create misery." To that end, police offer a more prosaic premise. According to Skinner, the killer is likely annoyed by dog droppings along the footpath. "It's more probably a revenge thing," he says...
Though the audience winds up rooting for most of Arsenic’s disturbed oddballs, Mortimer’s brother Jonathan is the obligatory bad guy. Portrayed by Robert A. O’Donnell ’04, he is a serial killer that happens to choose an inopportune time to visit his childhood home. O’Donnell does an excellent job as the villain, lending Jonathan an appropriately sinister voice and laugh...
...they're doing, IMEIs can be almost as easy to alter as they are to access. Although some operators already bar stolen handsets from their networks, others say IMEI-based measures are ineffective, because criminals with access to the right software can hack into stolen phones and change the serial number, possibly to duplicate a legitimate IMEI. Block-ing stolen IMEIs looks "like a nice gesture towards the customers, but has no real impact," says Petr Stoklasa of the Czech Republic's RadioMobil. He says RadioMobil will embrace IMEI-based measures once manufacturers come up with serial numbers that...
...spite of initial resistance, operators in some countries are coming together to pool information on IMEIs. In France, the country's three main operators have announced they will create a single database for serial numbers by June in order to deter theft. In Britain, BT Cellnet and Vodafone agreed to join other national operators in utilizing IMEI-based security measures: over the next six weeks, the U.K.'s four major networks will start to exchange the IMEIs of stolen handsets. Ministers are also to introduce laws making it an offence to reconfigure phones...