"We don't dare to tell users that it's safe to enable Java again, " Adam Gowdiak, a researcher with Poland's Security Explorations told Reuters.

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Many of the other teachers don't dare to intervene.

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Ms. HERRERA: And I don't mean to sound, you know, ornery or anything, but I dare you to come take my class for a week.

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He always wondered why his grandmother pounced on him when he joked about getting sent to Sing Sing for bad behavior, scolding him, "Don't you dare use those words in front of your grandfather!"

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Is that prospect now being used to coerce testimony or settlements from midlevel executives who, while believing themselves innocent, don't dare risk a trial?

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