Or at least the Net's core enabling tools: pipes, switches and caches.

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Other important fishing tools include the harpoon, the net, the lure, the spear.

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For example, a large mutual fund company spent a lot of money encouraging its high net worth customers to use all of its automation tools and to essentially become self-sufficient investors.

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Another work, Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing your World, speaks of the new realities of the tools, methods of communication and learning of a new generation.

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Net Neutrality, for example, claims to protect consumers by prohibiting certain network traffic management tools and business models.

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The 6to4 protocol is the latest in a series of tools being developed by the IETF to aid in the transition of the 'Net from IPv4 to IPv6.

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The human race has almost all the tools it needs to continue leading much the sort of life it has been enjoying without causing a net increase in greenhouse-gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

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