In conjunction with Chrome's built-in protection, Chromebooks allow schools' IT teams to manage security and scalability through one dashboard.

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Moreover, money funds offer some built-in protection.

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You probably already know that Sony BMG has started selling at least some CDs that include built-in copy-protection, making it difficult to play the CDs on a computer using any media player other than the one bundled on the CD, and limiting the number of copies you can make.

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It also makes Social Security somewhat unique in that very few other pension benefit programs have built-in inflation protection at no additional cost.

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You'll find that most of the money getting squirreled away in these accounts is taxable assets and not from retirement plans, which obviously enjoy built-in tax protection.

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The TSA has defended the scanners, promoting their built-in privacy protection measures including blurring of faces and making it impossible for the machines to store or send the images.

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But the so-called "Big Five" record labels, which control 85 percent of U.S. record sales, say built-in copy protection is the only way they can safeguard their music from freeloading downloaders.

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That is, as an over-populated island we allow far too much housing to be built in flood plains and provide inadequate protection for those in flood endangered areas.

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