As it stands, puny ISPs pay for services without a clue about how the terms compare.

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Jack Gantos is author of the Joey Pigza books, Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade without a Clue and Hole in My Life.

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However, most of us graduate from high school without a clue as to how to run a business, unless we happened to be part of a family that owned one.

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Does Steve Jobs strike you like the McCardle acolytes who want to be a writer like Ernest Hemingway living in Paris of the 1920s without a clue of what the reality of that path will be today?

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Like ancient Polynesians who set off over the horizon in their sailing canoes without a clue where they would land, the first kitesurfers pushed out through the waves without knowing how to sail broadside to the wind.

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Ichoose of Dallas and other shops are developing ever-shrewder software that lets online merchants scan rival sites, adjust prices on the fly and steal customers, all without leaving a clue.

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It was such a simple hole in his system and one that I could have exploited without him having a clue what was going on.

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Beyond that, there isn't a major outcry to keep tweeting -- my first clue that the Twitterverse will survive without me.

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