"Not only is this Microsoft's largest patch load on record, but 23 of the vulnerabilities are rated at the most severe level, " he added.

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Similarly, airline passengers would have been far less inconvenienced in December if carriers had not been running at near-record load factors and if they had been keeping a few extra planes on hand for emergencies.

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The easy choice here is the Vanguard Health Care Fund, a no-load with low expenses and a superb performance record: 16% a year since inception in 1984.

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One feature you're not getting with this unit -- besides the inability to record OTA programming -- is DRM support, so if you want to load up your PlaysForSure- or FairPlay-protected tracks, you'll need to strip out the copy protection with one of those handy pieces of software first (not that we'd ever encourage that sort of behavior, of course).

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