The blogger known as Fake Steve Jobs claimed his lawyers forced him to shut down.
Romney's biggest weakness, according to some experts, is that he often comes across as fake.
Often they are distributed via infected email attachments or disguised as fake software-update alerts to trick people into installing them.
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Fake and Butterfield designed it to handle photos for people who live on the Web, "digital natives, " as Fake calls them.
As fake holidays go, this is at least no worse than Odometer Day (May 12) or Mailman Food Drive Day (May 14).
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Even though the speech was quickly revealed as fake, it did have some accurate details--which has improved its credibility among some developers.
That is why we leaked over 100 songs on Myspace.com as fake band names over the last year and then made a compilation of the 11 most popular songs and called it Neon Bible!
He spoke on the same day that CBS announced he will deliver at on-air apology Sunday for a "60 Minutes" report on drug trafficking that was based on a documentary uncovered as fake.
The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has told computer users to be wary of potential e-mail scams, as well as fake anti-virus and phishing attacks regarding the Japan earthquake and the tsunami disasters.
According to Network World, some 22.4 percent of Google searches performed since June produced malicious URLs (such as fake antivirus sites or malware downloads) as part of the top 100 search results, as opposed to 13.7 percent in the second half of 2009.
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But what did people expect from a movie that started life as a fake trailer for the 2007 movie Grindhouse?
Tesla Motors chief executive Elon Musk has branded a New York Times review of his company's electric saloon car as "fake".
Just like the source of a potentially phishy email, the URL that you are being sent to may be easily spotted as a fake.
The group hosted as many as 40 fake pages on each of those botnet-hosted sites, and lured users to the sites with spam emails.
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And although dealing with the media can be a treacherous business, as the fake sheikh saga shows, PR seems very often to have its desired result.
Sounding a little embarrassed, Mr Li admits this is the first year he has attempted to work as a fake boyfriend instead of travelling home to see his own family in China's central Hebei province.
Now that the alleged Sony Nexus phone has been exposed as a fake we don't know if there will be any surprises left, but if you want to buy anything from Google's brand then patience (or at least shopping around) is probably your best strategy.
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The efforts involved observing, from behind mirrored glass, as people in fake minivan interiors used ketchup.
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Following an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) he described his business affairs from 1996 as "all fake".
The technology is so precise, Atick says, that it can't be fooled by disguises such as wigs or fake beards.
It goes a little further than this as well: very similar to the situation within the UK where we have a proliferation of these fake charities as well.
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For more than a year Lyons anonymously posted a satirical blog about the innermost thoughts of Fake Steve Jobs. (Several months ago the New York Times outed Lyons as the author.) Lyons has triumphantly demonstrated that the humor of the Fake Steve Jobs postings works as a full-length novel.
He said that as an elder he could not wear a fake costume, but he could see a place for fake fur in the church as membership continued to swell and the prices of leopard skin seemed to be rising.
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The reporters were posing as representatives of a fake financial firm based in Liechtenstein.
In the weird world of Web 2.0, new forms of entertainment such as Second Life and fake CEO blogs blur the boundary between what is real and fake.
The results showed that participants given the fake cigarette as treatment, and who were identified as being heavily dependent on the behavior of smoking, had a quit rate roughly 3.5 times higher than those in the standard-treatment group (67% vs. 19%).
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The same month, Wired signed on as a sponsor of the Fake Steve Jobs Web site.
Issues such as excessive alcohol consumption, fake IDs, and serving alcohol to minors remain prevalent problems in the community.
The Americans were brought out of Iran masquerading as crew members of a fake Hollywood sci-fi movie scouting locations.
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