Larceny

Larceny is a crime involving the unlawful taking of the personal property of another person or business. It was an offence under the common law of England and became an offence in jurisdictions which incorporated the common law of England into their own law.

Larceny has been abolished in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland due to breaking up the generalized crime of larceny into the specific crimes of burglary, robbery, fraud, theft, and related crimes. However, larceny remains an offense in parts of the United States and in New South Wales,Australia, involving the taking (caption) and carrying away (asportation) of personal property.

Etymology

The word larceny is a late Middle English word, from the Anglo-Norman word larcin, or theft. Its probable Latin root is latrocinium, a derivative of latro, robber (originally mercenary soldier).

By nation

Republic of Ireland

The common law offense of larceny was abolished on 1 August 2002. However, proceedings for larceny committed before its abolition are not affected by this.

Larceny (Scheme implementation)

The Larceny Project is a set of computer programming languages, specifically Scheme implementations, using the Twobit optimizing Scheme compiler. Larceny is the back-end which compiles to native x86 or SPARC code, Petit Larceny is a Scheme to C compiler and Common Larceny is a Microsoft .NET compatible implementation running in the Common Language Runtime and generating Common Intermediate Language.

Older versions (<0.98) included support for the SPARC architecture in Larceny, and for Microsoft's CLR (Common Language Runtime) in Common Larceny.

Larceny supports all major Scheme standards (R⁵RS, IEEE/ANSI, R⁶RS and R⁷RS. The Larceny software is open source and available online.

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Larceny (film)

Larceny is a comedy film starring Andy Dick, Joshua Leonard, and Tyra Banks.

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Nautilus (secure telephone)

Nautilus is a program which allows two parties to securely communicate using modems or TCP/IP. It runs from a command line and is available for the Linux and Windows operating systems. The name was based upon Jules Verne's Nautilus and its ability to overcome a Clipper ship as a play on Clipper chip.

Nautilus is historically significant in the realm of secure communications because it was one of the first programs which were released as open source to the general public which used strong encryption. It was created as a response to the Clipper chip in which the US government planned to use a key escrow scheme on all products which used the chip. This would allow them to monitor "secure" communications. Once this program and another similar program PGPfone were available on the internet, the proverbial cat was "out of the bag" and it would have been nearly impossible to stop the use of strong encryption for telephone communications.

The project must move end of May 2014 due to the decision of Fraunhofer FOCUS to shut down the developer platform that hosted dozens of vital free software projects like mISDN, gpsd, etc.

Nautilus (video game)

Nautilus is a 1982 computer game for the Atari 8-bit series created by Mike Potter and distributed by Synapse Software. The players control a submarine, the Nautilus, or a destroyer, the Colossus, attempting to either destroy or rebuild an underwater city. The game is historically notable as the first to feature a "split screen" display to allow both players to move at the same time.

Gameplay

Nautilus started with player one in control of the submarine, visible in the lower pane of the split-screen display. The joystick allows the user to move left and right or rise and sink - the submarine was always pointed to the left or right. The player can shoot their Thunderbolt torpedoes to the right or left in the direction of travel. The primary task for the player is to move into location beside the various underwater buildings and destroy them with their torpedoes in order to expose their energy core, which can be picked up by moving over it. The player wins the level by collecting all of the cores.

GNOME Files

GNOME Files, formerly called Nautilus, is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. The name is a play on words, evoking the shell of a nautilus to represent an operating system shell. Nautilus replaced Midnight Commander in GNOME 1.4 (2001) and has been the default from version 2.0 onwards.

Nautilus was the flagship product of the now-defunct Eazel Inc company. Released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, Nautilus is free software.

History

Nautilus was first released in 2001 and development has continued ever since. The following is a brief timeline of its development history: