On more than one occasion, I completely forgot I was streaming video rather than watching a file stored on my iPad.

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Under the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), a file stored on a hard drive in your home has greater protection than information stored with a third-party.

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When the software is improperly installed, the information can be exposed, for instance by being stored on a file that is accessible to web surfers, he said.

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The software converts media stored in one file format to those used by the other devices in a system that mimics the process of ripping a CD onto a computer.

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Yes, a cave and, yes, the retirement records are stored in 35, 000 metal file cabinets.

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After exporting Bitcoin private keys from wallet.dat file, data is stored in a TrueCrypt container on three separate flash drives.

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In a Forrester survey of 4, 650 US consumers conducted online in August 2012, 31% reported that they had a credit card on file with Amazon, compared with 18% that have one stored with Apple, and 5% with Google.

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For the end user, this means that when you plug the USB stick into your TV, the streaming copy of Troll 2 you just rented from Amazon (for instance) will appear as a file that you can click on and play, as if it was locally stored.

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The LTFS LTO file system allows modern digital tape storage to be used like NAS file systems and simplifies the use of magnetic tape libraries and allows faster access to the content stored on them.

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