Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
The possible windows pad is an advertising feint.  Just like M$ announced
the Surface when Apple's iPhone Buzz sucked all the oxygen out of the market
before it's release the pad is a peice of advertising vaporware intended to
keep the M$ name in circulation.

To be fair there are a few surface' platforms out there but not many.  Has
anyone ever seen one in use?

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:05 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:

 So what is fictitious that you are talking about?

 On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:51 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:

  On Mar 8, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
 
  Sort of like the Ipad right now.
 
 
  No, the iPad exists. You can drive nails with it. It is not yet available
  for retail sale, but that is not the same as being fictitious.
 
 
 
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Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-09 Thread Jeff Miles
From the little I know of the case and a bit of common sense, I find 
this case pretty cut and dried. If the computer was stolen, the school had the 
right to track it. If it wasn't and the school only wanted $55 for insurance 
not paid, they had every right to track it if they knew who had it and who 
hadn't paid. But they had no right to invade that persons privacy. We have laws 
against that even for credit card companies calling a person at work and in 
other bothersome ways. We're in no brainer territory here.
If someone steals my computer (and I can figure out how to do this) I'd 
invade their privacy to find it. But I'm not going to give one to the neighbor 
and then use the ability to see if he's shagging my wife (if I had one).


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On Mar 6, 2010, at 6:50 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Tony B ton...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 What victim? What crime? Some of you are getting ahead of yourselves.
 There are no victims, and nobody has been charged with a crime. By
 your own admissions, the worst that happened here is that somebody in
 the school district failed to make it more clear that monitoring would
 be taking place. Fine, but that's no crime.
 
  The school system has already admitted that they failed to notify
 anyone outside of the school system, other than local police, that
 they were employing any sort of monitoring by way of webcams.  They
 didn't even tell the students who were using the computers.  That goes
 well beyond your suggestion that the worst that happened was that the
 school district failed to make the monitoring more clear.  They
 essentially didn't tell anybody anything.
 
  What we have here is the use of technology in a aberrant, possibly
 abusive and perhaps illegal fashion.  Parents who have failed to pony
 up a $55.00 insurance fee on a piece of equipment that has been
 foisted upon their child for school work should not be subjected to
 surveillance of their dwelling as a result.  That kid had been taking
 the computer back and forth to and from school daily, and just because
 that fee had not been paid and the student was therefore not supposed
 to be taking the computer off school property, that was no reason to
 delve into knee-jerk surreptitious spying.  Call the parents and ask,
 Does Blake have his computer?  He does?  Well, that's good.  Listen,
 I just need to remind you that his insurance fee for that computer is
 past due, and it would be best were that to be paid as soon as
 possible, okay?  Thank you.  Goodbye.  However, and as it is said, if
 the technology is available, IT WILL BE USED.  If not, how else does
 one justify its cost and existence?
 
  See what happens when technology takes the place of human contact?
 How do you like those robotic phone calls?  Automated telephone
 response systems with their endless menus and then you get cut off
 anyway?
 
  For what it is worth, the school system has put the two tech workers
 involved on paid leave.  For what?  For simply doing their job and
 following orders?  The school system claims to have ceased all webcam
 surveillance after orders to do so as issued by a Federal judge.
 Apparently the judge thinks something illegal may have been taking
 place.  The company that makes the tracking software has removed the
 camera activation feature from all future releases of its product.
 Looks like a fair amount of activity fueled by retrospect is taking
 place on various fronts.
 
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Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-09 Thread Jeff Miles
This is beginning to sound like a school IT department with way to much 
time on it's hands.


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On Mar 6, 2010, at 7:19 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:58 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 One article stated the two on paid leave had a 'private' website where they
 were storing pics taken from webcams.
 
  Yes, allegedly accessible by the local police department.  I would
 wonder why the use of a website to provide photos to the police for
 the purpose of tracking down lost and stolen computers?  First of all,
 police departments do not hunt for lost items.  They are not a lost
 and found agency.  They hunt for stolen property because it is
 assumed that a crime has taken place.
 
  Almost all of the incidents wherein cameras were activated were for
 misplaced computers, not ones that had been reported as being stolen.
 There were only 42 incidents of reported activation of laptop cameras,
 with only a handful of those related to computers reported as having
 been stolen.  A website for that?  Why not just e-mail the photos on a
 per-case basis of reported thefts?  This is truly technology run amok.
 
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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:47 AM, John Duncan Yoyo
johnduncany...@gmail.com wrote:

 To be fair there are a few surface' platforms out there but not many.  Has
 anyone ever seen one in use?

  Yeah, on TV shows and in movies, thanks to CGI and animation.

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[CGUYS] Apple Developer Agreement

2010-03-09 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
All Your Apps Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement

  So today we're posting the iPhone Developer Program License
Agreement—the contract that every developer who writes software for
the iTunes App Store must sign. Though more than 100,000 app
developers have clicked I agree, public copies of the agreement are
scarce, perhaps thanks to the prohibition on making any public
statements regarding this Agreement, its terms and conditions, or the
relationship of the parties without Apple's express prior written
approval.

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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread mike
I didn't even know MS was working on a pad like device...I know HP has the
slate which is a finished product and due soon.  There are a lot of devices
coming out that are pad like devices, some more expensive than others.  I
seriously doubt when MS saw the iphone they said to themselves 'holy cow we
need to make a multitouch device the size of a small car to fight them!'

No one said the ipad was imaginary, making up stuff never helps your
case..and have you seen the ipad?  It is a big ipod touch.  Aside from size,
what is the difference?

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:35 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:

 On Mar 9, 2010, at 7:47 AM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:

 The possible windows pad is an advertising feint.  Just like M$ announced
 the Surface when Apple's iPhone Buzz sucked all the oxygen out of the
 market
 before it's release the pad is a peice of advertising vaporware intended
 to
 keep the M$ name in circulation.


 Exactly. We are a few weeks away from being able to walk into an Apple
 Store to buy an iPad. M$ is still doodling and has not even settled on the
 processor necessary to run it. That's a big difference.

 Apple also has a track record of big successes with this type of product.
 M$ has a record of failure and vaporware.

 It is interesting how the WFBs will say in the same breath that the iPad is
 nothing more than a big iTouch and then claim that it is an imaginary
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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread tjpa

On Mar 9, 2010, at 7:47 AM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
The possible windows pad is an advertising feint.  Just like M$  
announced
the Surface when Apple's iPhone Buzz sucked all the oxygen out of  
the market
before it's release the pad is a peice of advertising vaporware  
intended to

keep the M$ name in circulation.


Exactly. We are a few weeks away from being able to walk into an Apple  
Store to buy an iPad. M$ is still doodling and has not even settled on  
the processor necessary to run it. That's a big difference.


Apple also has a track record of big successes with this type of  
product. M$ has a record of failure and vaporware.


It is interesting how the WFBs will say in the same breath that the  
iPad is nothing more than a big iTouch and then claim that it is an  
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Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-09 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Jeff Miles jmile...@charter.net wrote:

        This is beginning to sound like a school IT department with way to 
 much time on it's hands.

  Conversely, there is this current situation in Montgomery County, MD
at Churchill High School where a student or students installed
keylogging software on computers used by teachers.  They did that in
order to obtain passwords to school system computers that they then
accessed to enhance the grades of about 60 classmates, perhaps for
money.  What do we have here?  Students interested in computer
technology for the purposes of using that knowledge for criminal
activity?  Or, was this all just a prank, and the kids were going to
'fess up when their report cards came out?  I seriously doubt that
would have happened.

  Various students who have been interviewed said that they all feel
so much pressure from both parents as well as school officials to
excel to extreme degrees that it is not surprising that some students
would resort to such behavior.

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Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-09 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Not only that had not been informed of better more reliable ways to 
track lost/stolen laptops.  Lojack for computers.


Stewart


At 05:21 AM 3/9/2010, you wrote:
This is beginning to sound like a school IT department with 
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Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-09 Thread Chris Dunford
 Various students who have been interviewed said that they all feel
 so much pressure from both parents as well as school officials to
 excel to extreme degrees that it is not surprising that some students
 would resort to such behavior.

Perhaps, but it doesn't explain why they allegedly lowered the grades of some 
students they didn't like.


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Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-09 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall

Depends on what standard of ethics you rely on here.

Stewart


At 06:28 AM 3/9/2010, you wrote:

  Various students who have been interviewed said that they all feel
so much pressure from both parents as well as school officials to
excel to extreme degrees that it is not surprising that some students
would resort to such behavior.

  Steve


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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Yes the local DMV uses touch screens for their Drivers tests, and one 
of the Big Orthopedic clinics uses windows touch screen laptops for 
their staff, medical records.


Stewart


At 06:47 AM 3/9/2010, you wrote:

The possible windows pad is an advertising feint.  Just like M$ announced
the Surface when Apple's iPhone Buzz sucked all the oxygen out of the market
before it's release the pad is a peice of advertising vaporware intended to
keep the M$ name in circulation.

To be fair there are a few surface' platforms out there but not many.  Has
anyone ever seen one in use?

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:05 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:

 So what is fictitious that you are talking about?

 On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:51 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote:

  On Mar 8, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
 
  Sort of like the Ipad right now.
 
 
  No, the iPad exists. You can drive nails with it. It is not yet available
  for retail sale, but that is not the same as being fictitious.
 
 
 
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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
MS has released a required set of hardware requirements for their 
phones and manufacturers are developing said phones at present.


Lets be real Tom they may be slow but they are working on it.

Not everyone may be a clueless as you are to reality.

Stewart


At 08:35 AM 3/9/2010, you wrote:

Exactly. We are a few weeks away from being able to walk into an Apple
Store to buy an iPad. M$ is still doodling and has not even settled on
the processor necessary to run it. That's a big difference.

Apple also has a track record of big successes with this type of
product. M$ has a record of failure and vaporware.

It is interesting how the WFBs will say in the same breath that the
iPad is nothing more than a big iTouch and then claim that it is an
imaginary product.


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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread Stewart Marshall

He is up tight because I said it is not reality yet until it hits the shelves.

I say that about anything until it hits retail shelves.

The Windows Mobile 7 phone is not reality until it hits store shelves.

In my opinion the phone I most want to look at the Motorola Devour is 
not reality until it hits store shelves.  (All I can find is a stupid 
dummy phone to look at.)


Stewart




At 09:31 AM 3/9/2010, you wrote:

I didn't even know MS was working on a pad like device...I know HP has the
slate which is a finished product and due soon.  There are a lot of devices
coming out that are pad like devices, some more expensive than others.  I
seriously doubt when MS saw the iphone they said to themselves 'holy cow we
need to make a multitouch device the size of a small car to fight them!'

No one said the ipad was imaginary, making up stuff never helps your
case..and have you seen the ipad?  It is a big ipod touch.  Aside from size,
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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread Chris Dunford
 Yes the local DMV uses touch screens for their Drivers tests, and one
 of the Big Orthopedic clinics uses windows touch screen laptops for
 their staff, medical records.
 
 Stewart

Rev, I think the question was about surface platforms, which are different from 
simple touchscreens. They're typically big, expensive tables with 
touch-sensitive screens that cover most of the
surface. At some point they'll be sensitive to more stuff, e.g., you'll be able 
to just put your camera anywhere on the surface, and the system will recognize 
what it is  be able to do useful things
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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread tjpa

On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:31 AM, mike wrote:

I didn't even know MS was working on a pad like device...


Actually two. One based on WINCE 6.5 and one on Zune. The two teams  
are reportedly spending a good bit of their resources on backstabbing  
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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread Stewart Marshall

There are some out there but I do not know of any.

Frankly just look like a big toy to me.

Stewart



Rev, I think the question was about surface platforms, which are 
different from simple touchscreens. They're typically big, expensive 
tables with touch-sensitive screens that cover most of the
surface. At some point they'll be sensitive to more stuff, e.g., 
you'll be able to just put your camera anywhere on the surface, and 
the system will recognize what it is  be able to do useful things

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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread mike
Another typical ms blunder. Stand in a circle and develop software..hope to
take out your competition...another ms software group.

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On Mar 9, 2010, at 10:31 AM, mike wrote:   I didn't even know MS was
working on a pad like device
Actually two. One based on WINCE 6.5 and one on Zune. The two teams are
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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread Reid Katan

Quoting phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com:


On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:47 AM, John Duncan Yoyo
johnduncany...@gmail.com wrote:


To be fair there are a few surface' platforms out there but not many.  Has
anyone ever seen one in use?


  Yeah, on TV shows and in movies, thanks to CGI and animation.


You mean, like that iPad commercial tat was posted here the other day?  
I mean seriously, *nobody* holds something *that* still. Especially  
when they're poking at it. It doesn't move. It looks like two hands  
(mostly one though) poking at a green screen, with pictures of people  
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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
Yes, M$ seems to announce work on a new me-too project every time Apple
starts releasing a new product.

Thank you, 
Mark Snyder 
-Original Message-
MS has released a required set of hardware requirements for their 
phones and manufacturers are developing said phones at present.

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Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-09 Thread Art Clemons

mike wrote:

You seem to not understand that after finding who had the 'stolen' laptop
they spent zero time in telling the parents the boy had taken it without
permission.  It never came up.  They just called the kid in and tried to
accuse him of doing drugs.  Then they had to backtrack and explain why they
were even watching kids over the cam.
  
I do understand what apparently happened.  The fact there was poor 
quality vice squad activity with the pictures still doesn't make the 
original activity awful.  I also note once again that right now the only 
sources for the innocent candy usage are the student, the family of the 
student and lawyers for the family of the student.  There wasn't police 
involvement.



I hate to put it this way but if the student had been taking drugs, we 
would expect school officials to intervene in the same circumstances.  I 
am probably more concerned with privacy than many, that still doesn't 
put me into a camp that makes this as awful as some on here make it. 

A lot of IT departments put similar software or try to add said software 
to company issued laptops and employees seem willing to sign forms 
allowing the company to take reasonable means to recover said laptops.  
Remember a lot of missing laptops that later get recovered just get 
used by folks around the employee without telling the employee.  It's a 
good argument for encrypting drives with real encryption too.


I also note that according to the Philadelphia Inquirer today, there is 
a former AUSA in charge of investigating what the district and its 
employees did with the activated computers and how many pictures got taken.


http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20100309_District_hires_firm_to_probe_computer_camera_use.html


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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread tjpa

On Mar 9, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Reid Katan wrote:
You mean, like that iPad commercial tat was posted here the other  
day? I mean seriously, *nobody* holds something *that* still.  
Especially when they're poking at it. It doesn't move. It looks like  
two hands (mostly one though) poking at a green screen, with  
pictures of people holding their iPads and animation added after the  
fact.


See. As I wrote: true believers believe the iPad doesn't exist.


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Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-09 Thread Art Clemons

mike wrote:

No, that's not right, the administrator said explicit the software was used
narrowly only to recover stolen/missing property.  His words.

  
Wait a moment, a laptop is supposed to be in school, it's not there and 
nobody has permission to remove said laptop from school.  What is the 
status of the laptop except missing?  Does that not meet both the legal 
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Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-09 Thread mike
Trouble is from what was said they knew who had it.

On Mar 9, 2010 10:58 AM, Art Clemons artclem...@aol.com wrote:

mike wrote:   No, that's not right, the administrator said explicit the
software was used  narrow...
Wait a moment, a laptop is supposed to be in school, it's not there and
nobody has permission to remove said laptop from school.  What is the status
of the laptop except missing?  Does that not meet both the legal and
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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad COMMERCIALS

2010-03-09 Thread Reid Katan

Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com:


See. As I wrote: true believers believe the iPad doesn't exist.


Troll, er, Tom, try to follow along. . .


On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:47 AM, John Duncan Yoyo


To be fair there are a few surface' platforms out there but not many.  Has
anyone ever seen one in use?


Quoting phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com:


Yeah, on TV shows and in movies, thanks to CGI and animation.


On Mar 9, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Reid Katan wrote:


You mean, like that iPad commercial tat was posted here the other day?


No mention of a non-existent iPad.


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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread Stewart Marshall

It exists, but not in reality yet.

The Ipads in the commercials are prototype editions, not consumer versions.

They have to be prototype as the commercials had to be in the bag a month ago.

Let us see the consumer product and then we can comment.

Stewart


At 11:53 AM 3/9/2010, you wrote:

On Mar 9, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Reid Katan wrote:

You mean, like that iPad commercial tat was posted here the other
day? I mean seriously, *nobody* holds something *that* still.
Especially when they're poking at it. It doesn't move. It looks like
two hands (mostly one though) poking at a green screen, with
pictures of people holding their iPads and animation added after the
fact.


See. As I wrote: true believers believe the iPad doesn't exist.



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Re: [CGUYS] Twist in school spying scandal

2010-03-09 Thread Art Clemons
On 03/09/2010 01:03 PM, mike wrote:
 Trouble is from what was said they knew who had it.


Nope, they knew after they had pictures from the webcam, not before.
Suspecting someone has something and having proof that same individual
has it are two different things and usually two different sets of
circumstances too.

It should be noted that the parents filed this suit after they too had
been informed of the possible drug usage and the record of the possible
drug usage wasn't removed from the student's record.


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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall 
popoz...@earthlink.net wrote:

 Yes the local DMV uses touch screens for their Drivers tests, and one of
 the Big Orthopedic clinics uses windows touch screen laptops for their
 staff, medical records.


But that sure isn't the surface.  I know a Grad student that uses a M$ based
tablet but it isn't a NEW iPad competing M$ TABLET (TM).  Tablet support was
in VISTA.

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Re: [CGUYS] A Multigenerational Look at the iPad

2010-03-09 Thread Wayne Dernoncourt
Stewart Marshall
 He is up tight because I said it is not reality yet
 until it hits the shelves.

I thought the MS slate/pad/tablet thingie was called the
Courier, last I heard it was very much in the prototype
stage.

I don't know if they're going to run Windows Mobile 7 or
Windows 7 on it.

 I say that about anything until it hits retail shelves.

 The Windows Mobile 7 phone is not reality until it hits
 store shelves.

 In my opinion the phone I most want to look at the
 Motorola Devour is not reality until it hits store
 shelves.  (All I can find is a stupid dummy phone to
 look at.)

Yup

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Take care  | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't
Wayne D.   | supply this, at least not directly
My reality check just bounced


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