Up front there are minimal LED indicators including one for power, another for network connectivity and finally Sling's upside-down "U" that lets you know when someone is using it.
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Amazon, for example, utilizes an IP address locator, to check to see whether the computer someone is using to make a purchase is in a location that makes sense for that credit card holder, says Brady.
Someone or something is using me to untangle the tangled plot over whose direction I have as little influence as the pen has over the poets who wield it, or man over the gods who manipulate him, or the knife over the murderer.
While he said he recognized that it can be off-putting if not entirely unfeasible to charge your audience, if someone else is building a business using your customer base (a la applications) you deserve a cut.
Most fan fiction is published on the Internet (see fanfiction.net), and it's usually preceded by disclaimers noting that the writer is using characters or settings from someone else's work.
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When someone who has enabled the feature is unable to login using the normal means, they can click "forgot my password" and request that keys be sent to their specified friends via Facebook message.
We generally think of the shutdown of sites like Napster and Megaupload as being about stopping unauthorized copying, but the real point is to ensure that if someone finds a profitable business model using copyrighted content, they have a strong incentive to get a license to use the content.
But using those services means confidential data is stored on someone else's servers, where it can be exposed to anyone who subpoenas it from Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) or Yahoo!
Using LinkedIn, I can quickly figure out whether someone is worth speaking to, which saves me a lot of time.
In contrast, for someone using affordable loss reasoning, the idea of getting underway is far more important than having a fixed goal, because they understand they have no idea of knowing ahead of time whether their idea will truly work as imagined.
Clever Wherever is a web app that geo-locates someone and warns them about dangers nearby using Department of Transport accident data, police crime data and Google places general data.
Analysis by 5 live Investigates suggests someone in Leicestershire is more than 40 times more likely to be deprived of their liberty using the safeguards in the Mental Capacity Act than someone in Tower Hamlets.
Apple using that design without paying a fee is clearly trying to use for free what someone else is already paying for.
"It's relatively easy to spot a driver using a cellphone, but it's very tough to figure out whether someone is making improper eye contact with the dashboard, " said Koshiro Sawaguchi, of the Tokushima Police Department.
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What they mean by Facebook party is of course someone sending out invitations to a party on Facebook and sending then in clear, without using the privacy settings to restrict invitations to friends or family.
Apple is an example of a company that was pretty good at using an alternative approach, since they had someone in Steve Jobs who was extremely good at predicting or forecasting what was going to work in the market.
Sadly, the image of someone using hard work and talent to rise phoenix-like from the ashes of an unhappy youth is more myth than reality.
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Using a sensor and the camera on the front of the phone, the phone recognizes that someone is looking at the screen with facial recognition software.
Or is the problem on AIRNB worse, because the idea is that the rooms are much, much cheaper than anything else, hence opening up the chance that someone may be using your property for less than legal reasons?
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