I'd once again send that picture of the Kup statue to Roger, and his "Dat's right, Jack!"

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Gullatto added that companies should update their antivirus DAT files more regularly in order to avoid future incidents.

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More formats would follow, including DAT, MINI-disc and DCC, but no physical medium would ever truly topple the ubiquitous CD.

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After exporting Bitcoin private keys from wallet.dat file, data is stored in a TrueCrypt container on three separate flash drives.

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It features carvings of the phrase "Who Dat" and multiple fleur-de-lis symbols, meant to honor the Super Bowl championship-winning New Orleans Saints.

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Like most drive wiping devices, the Guard Dog employs massively powerful magnets that not only render hard drives useless, but VHS tapes, DAT tapes, ZIP drives, and any other magnetic media to boot.

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Google also said that it has new 3-D imaging and rendering technology, which will extract more dat from the higher-resolution aerial photographs captured by a fleet of planes working exclusively on behalf of Google.

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