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...Games. We even scrambled to fill the stadiums so that the events could look perfect on TV - admittedly, we were only occasionally successful at that one. Some of us schlepped to Olympia, the sacred birthplace of the Games, to watch a Russian woman shot putter on steroids try to steal the event. (She was caught and tossed out.) But now the party's over, the carnival has left town, and we're left feeling less than triumphant. Some of it is just the inevitable morning-after blues. But there's more to it than that. As we sweep...
Myers said the Heisenberg Uncertainly Principle implied that a hacker could not steal a key encoded in weak light waves en route to its destination without altering the key itself...
Myers added that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle guaranteed that a hacker could not steal the same code that would ultimately be received...
...quantify exactly how much money a luxury brand loses to counterfeiting, since investigators and manufacturers say most people who buy fakes wouldn't pay for the real thing anyway. The larger risk is that the brand will get devalued. Brandmakers fight counterfeiting "not because they feel this will steal a genuine quantifiable sale from them," says luxury-goods analyst Andrew Gowen of Lazard & Co. in London, "but because of the overexposure of the brand...
...outdoor mall near the Mandalay Bay, which will further the invasion of stores such as Saks, Macy's, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom, now housed at the Fashion Show mall, which is close to finishing a $1 billion renovation. And downtown is building a giant furniture showroom that hopes to steal business from San Francisco and maybe even North Carolina. Mayor Goodman hopes that in the future people will think of Vegas for gambling, sex and furniture...