While the models were first cast and the paint was first mixed in New Jersey, the actual balloon was manufactured in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with the help of a 3-D scanning program and a special machine that seals urethane panels.

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When you sign-up for the service, you are invited to install software on a PC or a Mac that creates a special folder on your machine.

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Smokers are asked to put a coin into a machine which opens doors to a special smoking area.

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No surprise, the machine concludes that fat people have a special need for ShapeWorks.

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He could run a special decryption program in a different part of the machine, and make the key appear there.

NEWYORKER: Machine Politics

Special emphasis in this decontrol proposal is on computers, machine tools, and telecommunications equipment.

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Nintendo sank into a loss the previous fiscal year largely because of price cuts for its hand-held 3DS game machine, which shows three-dimensional imagery without special glasses.

NPR: Nintendo Chief Rules Out Price Cuts For Wii U

Some people benefit from a special mouthpiece or a CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machine that keeps the airway open and prevents long pauses in breathing during sleep.

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In addition, you should consider avoiding plaintext-password network services: The POP3, FTP, and Telnet daemons pose a special risk because their passwords pass unencrypted across the open network, sniffable by any nearby machine along the way.

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Beyond the sheer horsepower of the machine, the feature that may do the most for realism is the PlayStation 2's special graphics chips.

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