In Monday's attack, an Afghan police officer stood up in the back of a police pickup truck, grabbed a machine gun and started firing at the U.S. special operations forces and Afghan policemen in the police compound in Jalrez district, said the province's Deputy Police Chief Abdul Razaq Koraishi.

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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.

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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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One group of commandos sets up heavy machine guns on a ridge overlooking the village to cover for the other Special Forces who will be fanning out in the village below.

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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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Syrian state TV said that "special security authorities" destroyed five pickup vehicles equipped with machine guns used by "terrorists" in the Aleppo countryside.

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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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When I went into Khanaqin earlier today, very soon after it came under Kurdish Peshmerga control, I saw U.S. Special Forces moving into position, one of them on a truck-mounted machine gun, speeding into the town.

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That group of brainiacs came together to devise a new, even easier hack that allows someone with no special access to take complete control of a Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machine -- an example of which the team purchased legally at a government auction.

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