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One example is the Advanced Market Commitment tool, where donors pledge to purchase developing country disease-focused vaccines or medicines, giving companies a commercial buyer and thus a reason to risk their R&D investment and product development.
Darrell Issa, in charge of the US house of representative's investigation of the Justice Department's prosecution of Swartz, told the Huffington Post that "overprosecution is a tool often used to get people to plead guilty rather than risk sentencing… If someone is genuinely guilty of something and you bring them up on charges, that's fine.
Coleen Baik, a designer who previously worked at Twitter, has been using the live video streaming tool during a trip to North Korea as part of the Women Cross DMZ peace movement.
Federal Labor senator for the Northern Territory, Nova Peris, told Guardian Australia the register was "according to police and experts, the best tool to control alcohol supply and fight violent crime".
The Council of Europe has named it "the most effective tool for preventing and combating trafficking in human beings".
As in this IBM job ad: "The ideal developer will be passionate about cloud computing".
Compare My Energy is an online tool available in the UK that compares a consumer's energy usage with similar households in their area (though not yet for Wales).
A beginner's guide to the privacy tool "Computer experts argue that any legislative attempt to preclude THS from being available in the UK over Tor would be technologically infeasible," Post states.
Apple security director Augustin Farrugia told the court that the music was deleted for security reasons and that hackers including Jon Lech Johansen also known as "DVD Jon" and software such as the digital rights management removal tool Requiem had made Apple "very paranoid".
Before the era of laser theodolites and mobile computing, he depended on endless manual measurements that started respectively from the door of the Old Kirk at Bo'ness and Blair Castle, Culross – both known Ordinance Survey benchmarks.
