Not even two weeks ago, prosecutors won a case against another programmer named Samarth Agrawal.

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Obviously this clumsy manual method would not often be used in practice, and the services of a computer programmer would generally be required to automate it.

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Gerhartsreiter, 52, has pleaded not guilty to the killing of John Sohus, a 27-year-old computer programmer.

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Although he is a skilled programmer, he says Anonymous has grown quickly because you do not need to be tech savvy to become involved.

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"We're not celebrities, the characters of the Blue Men are, " Goldman, a former software programmer, happily admits.

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The second, developed with the help of Sid Stamm, a programmer, sends a special message with every page request asking that the user not be tracked.

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Paul Rademacher, a programmer at film studio DreamWorks SKG, was looking for an apartment and, when he was not rendering Shrek 2, figuring out how Google Maps worked.

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But while the act requires that cable systems not engage in anticompetitive behavior toward independent programmers, there is no requirement that a cable operator carry any particular independent programmer.

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