Without the Internet, my friend Mordy never would have asked me the question that led to this post.
The system depended on a central brain that would analyze global Internet traffic patterns to identify friend from foe.
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For teens, he says, such software inspires resentment and only leads to kids looking for other sources of Internet access, like a friend's computer.
Maybe he gained some social benefit by sharing the video with a friend or a broader Internet audience.
HSBC's Ms Arena, that the Internet is the consumer's friend.
Al Sayed said when he saw the video, he told his friend to take it off the Internet because the act was so perverse.
She said a friend typed in her name into the internet search engine Google, and showed her her brother's name on a site detailing America's Most Wanted list.
He went to the main square in Cairo that morning, talking with a friend on the mobile phone before both Internet and cellphone networks were cut off by Egyptian authorities in the morning.
The internet and Wine-searcher.com can be your friend, as well.
Mr Koike's interest in Japan's Internet prospects was fuelled in February 1999, when a friend invited him to a new-business conference in Tokyo organised by Japan's trade and industry ministry.
Even though Tofield missed the submission deadline, the Internet knows all about his animated cat, and duly rewarded his feline friend!
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In practice, it becomes more like a friend passing along a DVD to another friend than like making a file available simultaneously to the entire internet.
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Does CouchSurfing represent something new, then, or is it simply an Internet-enabled version of the age-old practice of crashing with the friend of a friend of a neighbor of a third cousin of someone you sat next to on a bus?
"I love the Internet, " says Casey Lau, a 26-year-old Chinese Canadian who with friend John Wong, 30, co-founded ActionAce.
The Internet is, in any case, set up in a way that makes it difficult for computers to distinguish friend from foe.
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