And it has existed already in other -- through other means, through other communications.
It has existed as long as there has been a consumer electronics industry.
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It has existed in some businesses (call centers, tech support) for years.
If and when face-recognition technology improves to the point where surreptitious cameras can routinely recognise individuals, privacy, as it has existed in the public sphere, will in effect be wiped out.
But shorter term, at least looking back more than a decade, it certainly has existed.
Uploaded without his knowledge before he knew such a thing as YouTube existed, it has clocked nearly 12 million views, and still adds thousands daily.
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For those unaware, DigiTimes doesn't have the purest reputation when it comes to nailing Apple rumors, and given that a low-end iPhone has been rumored for nearly as long as the iPhone has existed, it's even more unclear if there's a reason to put more stock in this one compared to those prior.
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But with Siri, which Apple acquired only a little over a year ago and quickly integrated into its mobile operating system iOS, Apple has done what it has done many times before: By nailing the user experience, Apple once has again taken a technology that already existed and made it feel so natural that you wonder how you ever did things any other way.
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It shows the extent of anxiety that has existed at times in the Department of Health - and perhaps still should.
As it turns out, this flaw has actually existed since 1997, back when Phil Zimmermann, the original developer of PGP, added the data-recovery feature as he sought to commercialize the product for corporate use, Jones points out.
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It has been decades since such a museum forum existed for such a wide range of products.
If life ever existed on Mars, evidence for it has proven elusive.
Cronyism has existed in the US since before it was a nation.
The social graph has existed for some time, and it has made Facebook more knowledgeable about who we talk to and what we like than any other organization in history.
For example, the strategy of buying low PE stocks has existed for a long time, and it is certainly well-known, but folks still follow it.
While finding the Higgs boson won't tell us everything we need to know about how the universe works, it will fill in a huge hole in the Standard Model that has existed for more than 50 years, according to experts.
Often they assume that they are all stolen, but it is worth remembering that the art market, black or otherwise, has existed for a long time.
The phenomenon has most likely always existed, but we just talk about it more because life seems to be passing us by more quickly and we want a buzzword to hold onto.
It needs to change, because the church has big problems, most of which existed before 2002 and have nothing to do with sex abuse.
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Salary discrimination has existed for a very long time, continues to exist and to claim it is now completely up to women to just demand what they are worth does not square with the evidence for women who are trying to do that.
Yet it might be even harder to persuade almost everyone to pay a new federal tax where none has existed.
The text as it existed at the end of that New York session fell into my hands last week ( The Guardian has helpfully posted it).
And Facebook has made it more difficult for game companies to acquire new users by shutting down many of the viral channels that existed before.
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