Roberto Sol Cabrera, a Mexican citizen, was stopped at a random check at Mexico City's international airport after arriving from Lima.

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Mejia already was a little behind after his arrival to camp from the Dominican Republic was delayed because his visa was flagged for an apparent random identity check.

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However, people are unlikely to confess to breaking the law, and tax inspectors do not usually check on a random sample of the population.

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According to an ongoing investigation by the Washington Post, who initiated the McColo shutdown, the Srizbi bots have been programmed with a mathematical formula that in the event of a shutdown generate a random but unique web address to check for updates.

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The random 18-digit code plus two check digits will have a four-digit prefix added and it will have intelligence in it.

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Therefore testers make choices, to stay with the metaphor, they decide to check the main roads, to check Manhattan and to do some random checks.

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Check photos of all these, and Casio's random "Works with iTunes!"

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At the time, people were unfamiliar with the concept of a computer password, which required structuring a scene early in the film in which the main character, played by Matthew Broderick, sneaks into his high-school principal's office to check out a piece of paper showing a list of random words.

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Check out a few screens of the store in the gallery, and the Random Thoughts blog link below for firsthand impressions from a beta tester.

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