July 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Simply jimmyd on tim may
by Matthew X 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

SJD Editorial Note: Although Mr. Clark refrained from calling Mr. D'ull an asshole, it is plainly evident that had he done so, he most likely would NOT have labeled Mr. D'ull a "run-of-the-mill asshole." Mr. Clark most likely would have referred to Mr. D'ull as a "quintessential piece of thieving porn shit asshole," or possibly a "shameless bottom-feeding rip-off artist asshole." It is the opinion of this website that the two, specific types of assholes that Mr. Clark most likely would … [View More]have described Mr. D'ull as being would be preferable than the non-specific "run-of-the-mill asshole" the Chief Reporter of this news site has recently been labeled. If you'd like more information on assholes, please read the editorial that immediately precedes this story. jimmyd _writes "I received an email from David Aaron Clark today. He felt he needed to comment on the "Dave Hardman Goes Berserk" story. David Aaron Clark alleges, "There are obviously huge gaps in this story. Mark D'ull, the owner of Best Parts Video, is a shameless bottom-feeding rip-off artist who doubtless was not paying Cathy her money. He's John T. Bone's former salesman, and he has ripped me off on two titles -- one of which he simply didn't pay me for, the other of which I never sold him -- my original "Asianatrix," which was released through Bowen's Cream (but never paid for -- he bounced the checks and made off with the master)." As if that weren't enough, David continues to describe his dealings with D'ull. "D'ull, since then, has counterfeited the release; he was selling it behind my back during the short time I was associated with Best Parts, doing Some graphics and a bondage tape for them. Would that Dave had really caused some damage, because D'ull is the quintessential piece of thieving porn shit who preys on the industry. Cathy West, on the other hand, has always been straight up -- and so, despite his personal travails, has Dave." When I wrote yesterday's story, I believe I mentioned there might be more to it then what I was told. Readers should note there is no evidence that D'ull somehow mitigated Hardman's behavior. David Aaron Clark's alleged dealings with D'ull have--to my knowledge--nothing to do with David Hardman's alleged dealings with D'ull. David Aaron Clark's point-of-view in this matter, however, is newsworthy, and therefore we decided to publish it for our reader's interest. The staff of this website would look forward to Mr. D'ull's rebuttal in these matters SJD Editorial Note: Although Mr. Clark refrained from calling Mr. D'ull an asshole, it is plainly evident that had he done so, he most likely would NOT have labeled Mr. D'ull a "run-of-the-mill asshole." Mr. Clark most likely would have referred to Mr. D'ull as a "quintessential piece of thieving porn shit asshole," or possibly a "shameless bottom-feeding rip-off artist asshole." It is the opinion of this website that the two, specific types of assholes that Mr. Clark most likely would have described Mr. D'ull as being would be preferable than the non-specific "run-of-the-mill asshole" the Chief Reporter of this news site has recently been labeled. If you'd like more information on assholes, please read the editorial that immediately precedes this story. jimmyd _writes "The other day I was called a 'run-of-the-mill asshole.' Normally, I have a sticks-and-stones attitude towards name-calling. But I must admit this really bothered me. It wasn't the 'asshole' part, but the other, the 'run-of-the-mill' part, that stung like a bee. If you're going to be an asshole, or rather, be considered an asshole by others, your level of 'asshole-ness' should count for something. It should be asshole-specific. It should be the type and kind of asshole that would allow description, e.g., 'What a low-life, trailer park, white trash, degenerate lying asshole he is,' or 'What a backstabbing, fuck-his-own-Mother, prick of an asshole he is!' I don't know about the rest of you, but if I'm going to be an asshole, I'd rather be a backstabbing, prick of an asshole, than a generic, vanilla, run-of-the-mill asshole. At least being a backstabbing prick of an asshole has some bite to it. And it partially explains (at least in simplistic, broad terms) what kind of an asshole the asshole is. It may not be very complimentary, but it is to-the-point. And when people hear it, they at least have some idea of what kind of an asshole they're dealing with, or what kind of an asshole they're being called. But the run-of-the-mill asshole? Everyone's clueless. They will simply think this person should be lumped in with a million others like him, you know, just your average asshole, which I guess is what this person was saying about me, and like I said, that hurt. Not to mention the fact that in the porn biz, a business so jam-packed, so intensely populated with every kind of stinking asshole known to man and woman that it's busting at the seams with them, to be called a 'run-of-the-mill asshole' truly fucking sucks! It's bad enough I have to endure those three-and-a-half star reviews from AVN, but now I'm just a three-an-a-half star asshole? That sucks beyond belief! Personally, in all my endeavors (asshole or otherwise), I've always tried to be something other than a Brand-X, plain-paper-wrapped, generic kind of guy. Most of the things I've pursued in my life have, at the very least, had the potential to stand out--to be remembered, to shine. I'm not saying I've always succeeded at these things, and if truth be known, I mostly have not. But at least in the design stages these endeavors included even more detailed plans to make the overall plan's outcome a memorable one. In the case of being an asshole, and there have been more than a few times when I've diligently worked at being one, I've always, always, always tried to be both a complete asshole, and quite intentionally, a very specific kind of asshole: An asshole that stands for something, no matter how bad of an asshole that something might make me. And now, I get this email--from someone I've known for more than a few years--and granted this someone is pissed at me for something I'm not going to get into, and in his anger, calls me a 'run-of-the-mill asshole.' More specifically, saying I've become a 'run-of-the-mill asshole,' which means that it's been an evolutionary kind of thing. And by doing so, he does not even give me credit for being any kind of special asshole. Well, like I said, that hurt. But I promise this, not just to you, the guy who's labeled me a 'run-of-the-mill asshole,' but I promise everyone from now on whenever I'm intent on being an asshole, I'm going to be a complete, total, and very specific kind of asshole! My eyes are wide open now. I have seen the light of the great asshole spirit, and I vow to be the kind of asshole that other assholes will aspire to be. I will be a premium, Grade-A, asshole! And who knows? Maybe someday I'll be fortunate enough to become an uber asshole! [View Less]

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Technology Review - Ghana's Digital Dilemma (fwd)
by Jim Choate 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/zachary0702.asp -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Rant: The U.S. facing the largest financial collapse ever
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

On Thursday 11 July 2002 13:32, Tim May wrote: (Regarding SS and other USG liabilities) > Charge it...some future generation will pay. At 02:25 PM 7/11/2002 -0400, Steve Furlong wrote: >I hope not. Addressing only the SS issue and not other USG debt, I'm attempting to organize a nation-wide grassroots movement. On a to-be-announced "F-day", every member of the movement will kill a designated old fart, one who has long since taken back out of SS anything s/he put into the system … [View More]

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Slashdot | Network Intrusion Detection Systems Fail to Impress (fwd)
by Jim Choate 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/11/1646203.shtml?tid=172 -- ____________________________________________________________________ When I die, I would like to be born again as me. Hugh Hefner ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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"How to get a top 10 ranking on the top 20 search engines for under $500"
by SearchEngine8177249＠yahoo.com 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

"How to get targeted visitors for 1.2 cents per visitor" by Dan Millman Would you like to drive targeted quality traffic to your site for between .2 cents and 1.49 cents per visitor? You can. On the internet, quality targeted traffic is the lifeblood of any online business. One of the reasons so many don't succeed is that 10% of the websites get 90% of the traffic. With this method, your site can become one of those 10% and as a result, your business will grow. How can you do it? How can you … [View More]get targeted visitors for under 2 cents per visitor? By optimizing and submitting your site to the top 20 search engines using proprietary optimization methods. The strategies and techniques I will talk about can get you top 10 rankings on virtually all the free search engines for your targeted keywords. Q. What is the cost per visitor with this method? The cost per visitor with this method generally varies between .2 cents per visitor and 1.49 cents per visitor. This is less than the paid search engines (which have a minimum cost of 5 cents per visitor), banners (minimum cost 30 to 35 cents per visitor) and other methods such as lists (50 cents to $2.00 or more per visitor). The free search engines are simply the best, most effective and affordable way to advertise online. For this reason, more web-based entrepreneurs have made money from the search engines than from all other methods combined. Lets take a look at the numbers. There is no "typical" website with average traffic. However, most websites with good rankings on the search engines will get anywhere from 50 to 1000 or more visitors a day depending on the number of keyword targeted, the keyword's popularity, and how attractive the website's title is. Lets say you're on the low end of that spectrum only getting 100 visitors a day. My company charges $395 for 1 year's worth of search engine submission. It is reasonable to assume that it will take 2-3 months to get your listings ranked well on all the engines(the engines take time to reindex their rankings-you will start to get traffic within 3 to 5 days, some will begin delivering traffic after two to three weeks and others will take 2-3 months). You'll be up to speed before that but to take the most negative possible assumption, if it takes 3 months to get fully up to speed and the total service lasts for 12 months, that leaves 9 months of ranking well on the engines. We've said you get about 100 targeted visitors a day, so 9 months of ranking well means you get: 9 months * 30 days per month * 100 visitors per day = 27,000 targeted visitors per year $395 (total cost) divided by 27,000 (total # of visitors) = 1.46 cents cost per visitor That means you are paying 1.46 cents for each targeted visitor for that year. No other method of marketing has costs that low. The second lowest cost per targeted visitor will be found in the pay-per-click search engines which charge a minimum of 5 cents per targeted visitor. Other methods of advertising such as banner advertising, lists, etc. will cost several times that-- anywhere from 30 cents to $2.00 or more per targeted visitor (see my discussion of these methods elsewhere on this site). Therefore, the free search engines are the cheapest, most cost effective way to advertise. More web-based entrepreneurs make money from the search engines than from all other advertising methods combined. Q. How hard or easy is it to be profitable with the search engines at .2 cents to 1.49 cents per targeted visitor? Lets assume you sell a product with a profit margin of $50 per new customer (most entrepreneurs products have higher profit margins-more on that below). At $50 profit per sale and 1.43 cents per targeted visitor your breakeven conversion rate will be: $50 (profit) divided by $0.0143 (cost per targeted visitor) = 3417 breakeven conversion rate That means that you need to make a sale to 1 in 3417 targeted visitors to break even(or a 0.029% conversion rate). If you can sell one visitor in 3416 targeted visitors or more, you will make a profit. It is safe to say that if your site is at all capable of selling products, you will get a conversion rate better than this. A typical sales conversion rate for a good web site is anywhere from 1 in 75 to 1 in 500 depending on what it sells, the sales process, the content, the sales letter, the price, the site, and other factors. Also, your profitability in this equation is the total profitability of getting a new customer. For example, if you sell a vitamin and make $50 profit on the first sale, but 80% of your customers come back to reorder, your total profitability is $250 per new customer (an 80% reorder rate means the average customer buys 5 times so 5 * $50 = $250). Similarly, if you sell a newsletter subscription for a $69 profit and the average person subscribes for 2 years, your average profitability is $69 * 2 or $138 per customer. Q. How many targeted visitors can I expect with this method? That will vary depending on your site's title, description, keywords you go after, etc. Our clients typically get anywhere from 50 to 1000 visitors a day based on their site's title, description, the keywords targeted and other factors. Q. How long will it take? You can be submitted within 48 hours. The speed with which the engines will index your site varies. Most engines take between 2 weeks and 2 months. Q. Why do you submit sites to over 3500 search engines if most of the traffic goes through the top 30? Two reasons. First, the 3500 smaller engines account for about 20% of search engine traffic and that traffic is easy to get. Two, the top 30 engines rely on what's called 'link popularity'. That is, the number of other websites linking to yours. The more links there are to a page, the higher it will rank. By submitting the site to 3500 small engines, the site's link popularity will shoot up. Over 3500 small engines will link to your site, and this will help boost your rankings on the top engines. Q. Are all search engine submission services the same? No. The only companies which offer services comparable to ours charge between $800 to $3000 or more. They will usually optimize your site for 30 to 50 keywords. We will optimize your site for an unlimited number of keywords. The cheaper submission services you find on the net for between $29 and $99 will mass submit your site with off-the-shelf submission software. They will not optimize your site or use any kind of proprietary strategies. These services will typically get your site ranked around below the top 50 rankings-for example, between 4000 to 5000 for your keywords. If your site ranks say 4611 for a given keyword, you will get little or no traffic. We encourage you to check and even try our competitors. If you try one of the cheap services, chances are very good you won't be satisfied. If you try one of the competitors who charge $3000 or more, you will have wasted over $2500. Q. Is there a money-back guarantee? Yes. We offer a 12 month no questions asked satisfaction guarantee. Only one of our competitors offers a guarantee like ours(he charges $45,000 a year-- see price comparison chart below). Some of our competitors offer guaranteed rankings but only one other one offers a no-questions-asked full money back satisfaction-based guarantee. We can do this because to date, less than .1% of our clients in the past 7 years have ever asked for a refund. 12 months is a good amount of time to see the kind of traffic you'll get. If our past experiences with our clients are any indicator, you'll be so happy with the traffic you get and your sales that you'll want to continue the service. Q. Is there a limit on the number of keywords I can go after? No. Most of the search engines will only look at the first 25 keywords in your metatags on each of your pages. We will submit every page on your site so this gives you the opportunity to go after an unlimited number of keywords. Q. How does your service work? We will submit and resubmit your entire site every 48 hours. This does three things. One, if you make any changes or target any new keywords, we will go after those within 48 hours and the changes will be updated in the search engines as fast as possible. Two, if the search engines ranking algorithms change, we will alter the optimization and submission strategy for your site accordingly to tailor it to the engines. Three, there is always a downward pull on most sites because other companies are trying to take your position at the top of the engines. By reoptimizing and resubmitting your site over and over again every 48 hours, we make sure your site does not move down in rankings. Q. Can you guarantee me a specific ranking like #2 on Google for the keyword "horseshoes"? No, no one in the industry can guarantee you a specific ranking on the free (non-pay-per-click) search engines. Anyone who says they can isn't being completely honest-- legitimate search engine services don't guarantee a specific ranking. There are just too many factors involved in ranking such as the number of competitors you have, your link popularity, your keywords, your metatags, your content, and various others to be able to predict with certainty a specific ranking. Furthermore, the same site will sometimes fluctuate in the rankings-ie. Going from #2 to #5, etc. Therefore, it is impossible for anyone to guarantee you a specific ranking. We do the next best thing which is to completely guarantee your satisfaction with our service or your money back. A satisfaction based no question asked 100% money-back guarantee is the best anyone can do at this time. Q. Which search engines will I be submitted to? You will be submitted to all of the top free search engines. These include Yahoo, Google, MSN, AOL, Lycos and others. These engines get lots of searches. Therefore, if your page ranks well, you will be able to get lots of quality targeted traffic for people who do searches on your keywords. In addition, you will also be submitted to about 3500 smaller search engines. These search engines will deliver some traffic to your site because they are much easier to rank high on. Q. What are the drawbacks of your service? There are two. One is that it takes time to get ranked on the engines. Different engines take different lengths of time to re-index their rankings. You will start to see some traffic in the first 4 to 5 days, but most of the engines won't index you until 2 weeks to 2 months after you've been submitted. The other drawback is price. Even though we charge between 13% and 50% of what our competitors charge, our service is still not inexpensive. Q. How good are you guys at getting top rankings? We are among the best in the industry. We know countless tricks about the search engines. For example, that most search engines will only look at the first 25 keywords in your metatags, that the search engines prefer domain names of three words or less, that the search engine spiders will often only look at the beginning of the web page, and on and on and on. There are 62 factors in our optimization and submission process. All of these factors are used to optimize your page to a degree that few of our competitors especially the low price ones are capable of replicating Q. What if my site can't sell? Many people are unsure if their site can sell before they get a good amount of quality targeted traffic. Our 12 month, no-questions-asked money back guarantee allows you to see if your site can sell without taking any risk. This is a great way to test to see if your site can sell with no risk. Q. How do you guys compare in price to your competitors? Here is a comparison chart: Company name-------------------------------Price--------------------------------# of Keywords Search Engine Experts---------------------$395/year-------------------------------Unlimited Ezrankings.com-------------------------------$750 setup plus $125/month----10 Positioned1.com------------------------------$1000-$1500 plus $100/month--30 CustomerMagnetism.com-----------------$2995/year-----------------------------15 $5995/year-----------------------------45 $9995/year-----------------------------100 TopTenRanking.com------------------------$7,198 setup plus $1,199/month--100 Reinventbusiness.com---------------------$45,000/year---------------------------Unlimited SEOInk.com-----------------------------------$3,500/6 months----------------------25 Iprospect.com---------------------------------$12,500/month to $40,000/month--Depends on package Q. How can you afford to offer such a bargain compared to your competitors? We can afford to offer a bargain compared to our competitors for several reasons: 1. Some of our competitors spend upwards of $5 per click on the pay-per-click search engines like Overture to attract business. As of this writing, the top bid for the keyword "Search Engine Optimization" on Overture is $8.56. If we did that, we would have to raise our prices as well. But we rely on our own search engine expertise to drive almost all of our business although we do use other methods as well. 2. Some competitors have large sales staffs that will spend hours on the phone with you trying to convince you to part with over $1000. The way they operate is by making you fill out a form on their website to get a pricing quote. This form asks for your phone number and other personal information. Their price is usually so high that they will not publish it on their website. A few days after you give your phone number, you receive a call and you are then quoted the astronomical price. That's not the way we do business-- we have no sales staff and you will not be getting any sales calls from us. 3. Good old-fashioned greed. We can make a good profit at this price and just because others charge over $800 doesn't mean we need to. Imagine getting tons of quality traffic and a dozen or more sales a week. Our service will more than pay for itself ten times over. If it doesn't happen, you can cancel, even if you've used our service for 11 months and 2 weeks and there are only 2 weeks of the service left. We will refund all of your money back no questions asked. The next step is up to you. All that's left to do now is take action. To get more information free, send a blank email to MoreInformation4(a)smartautoresponder.com - You will be sent more information after we get your response. For more Information Send a request to: MoreInformation4(a)smartautoresponder.com My best for your success, Dan Millman Vice-President and Software Engineer Search Engine Experts, Inc. P.S.: To get more free information, send a blank email to MoreInformation4(a)smartautoresponder.com and you'll be sent more information after we get your response. This article and all information contained herein is Copyright 2002, Search Engine Experts, Inc. [KIYs5] [View Less]

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RE: IP: SSL Certificate "Monopoly" Bears Financial Fruit
by anonimo arancio 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

On 12 July 2002, Peter Gutmann <pgut001(a)cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > (However, I do think that anyone wanting to compromise your security will use > this morning's MSIE hole to do it rather than buying a CA key. OTOH it'd be a > great universal skeleton key for government agencies charged with protecting > the world from equestrians). Damn those equestrians and their great horse sense!

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RE: IP: SSL Certificate "Monopoly" Bears Financial Fruit
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

"Lucky Green" <shamrock(a)cypherpunks.to> writes: >"Trusted roots" have long been bought and sold on the secondary market as any >other commodity. For surprisingly low amounts, you too can own a trusted root >that comes pre-installed in >95% of all web browsers deployed. I'd heard stories of collapsed dot-coms' keys being auctioned off, that being the only thing of value the company had left. It makes the title of Matthias' paper even more appropriate. (However, I do think … [View More]

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DNA databases to be classified
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

Scientists build polio virus from scratch Scientists have built the virus that causes polio from scratch in the lab, using nothing more than genetic sequence information from public databases and readily available technology. The feat proves that even if all the polio virus in the world were destroyed, it would be easily possible to resurrect the crippling disease. It also raises the worrying possibility that bioterrorists could use a similar approach to create devastating diseases such … [View More]

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by mdera＠celiknet.com 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

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Insight on the News Email Edition
by Insight on the News 11 Jul '02

11 Jul '02

INSIGHT NEWS ALERT! New stories from Insight on the News are now online. http://www.insightmag.com ............................................... Folks, John Berlau did it again with his expose of the 50,000 research audits planned by the IRS. It seems that a lot of you objected, and he created a "delicate situation" for them. Sorry about that. Its still posted in case you missed it http://www.insightmag.com/news/257505.html. And find out why the big business associations are … [View More]cozying up to the terrorists http://www.insightmag.com/news/257525.html. Read on for more doings in Washington. Until next time, I remain your newsman in the Bunker. ............................................... THE 3 TERRORISTS AND THE TOPLESS BAR Have you heard the one about the 3 men with Arab names who threatened a San Antonio stripper and said they were going to blow up military installations? Read on. http://www.insightmag.com/news/257864.html ............................................... WHY IS BIG BUSINESS JUMPING IN BED WITH TERROR? James Edwards asks in the war against terrorism, just whose side is big business on? Surprisingly, perhaps, big business' Washington mouthpieces including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the National Restaurant Association increasingly have become cozier with radical leftists. http://www.insightmag.com/news/257525.html ............................................... THE PLEDGE FIASCO---HOW COULD IT COME TO THIS? Thomas Sowell writes now that the ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has been protested all over the land, perhaps we might step back and consider the broader implications of the fact that such a decision could have been made in the first place. http://www.insightmag.com/news/257527.html ======================================== New evidence reveals why Benjamin Franklin was the key to America's independence Of the many roles Benjamin Franklin played in his storied life, he is perhaps most familiar as America's first genius experimenter and inventor. Yet in this groundbreaking new biography, award-winning biographer James Srodes shows why Franklin's greatest invention may have been America herself. Indeed, in FRANKLIN: THE ESSENTIAL FOUNDING FATHER, Srodes argues, "without Benjamin Franklin, there may not have been an independent United States." Order your copy today and save 20% off the bookstore price. Click here: http://www.conservativebookservice.com/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=C5968&sour_cd=I… ======================================== THE TEACHERS UNIONS ANTI-VOUCHER BATTLE PLAN Jennifer Hickey reveals that the June 27 ruling issued by the Supreme Court in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris has raised the ire of teacher unions and other special- interest groups, which have sworn to do battle across the nation. http://www.insightmag.com/news/257506.html ............................................... BOYS WILL BE. . . . WHAT? Wood West offers his opinion about the trend of turning Schools Into No- Testosterone Zones http://www.insightmag.com/news/257515.html ............................................... SYMPOSIUM--PRO & CON: IS THE MEDIA PROMOTING ANTI-CATHOLIC BIAS? http://www.insightmag.com/news/257516.html MICHAEL SCHWARTZ SAYS--YES: Stereotyping, a lack of depth and political correctness are all too prevalent. PETER HART SAYS--NO: The media have performed a service by exposing this crisis and pushing for reform. ======================================== INSIGHT SUBSCRIPTION SPECIAL! Save $50.83 (Off Our Newsstand Price) https://www.collegepublisher.com/insightsub/subform1.cfm ======================================== You have received this newsletter because you have a user name and password at Insight on the News. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, visit "http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=unsubscribe". You may also log into Insight on the News and edit your account preferences on the Web. If you have forgotten or don't know your user name and password, it will be emailed to you after visiting the following link: http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=emailPassword&serialNumber=16oai… [View Less]

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