Word: piggybacks
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...need a license to plug a machine in and start transmitting data, or to write software that transmits new kinds of data. This means that voice transmissions can be made efficiently, both because anyone can improve upon the algorithms used to produce them and, more importantly, because they can piggyback off a much larger network designed to carry a huge variety of traffic that is, in some cases, much more demanding—consider, for example, that one huge and very lucrative industry has sprung up entirely around the demand (in a particular demographic) for live on-demand streaming video...
Students can vouch for other manifestations of the discontents of some of our less neighborly neighbors, dispatching the 5-0 to bust parties (Saturday night, no less) even as they piggyback Harvard shuttles to the Square, feast on subsidies from the University endowment and gleefully watch their property values soar ever-upward as they indiscreetly drop the H-bomb in just about every local real estate listing...
Students can vouch for other manifestations of the discontents of some of our less neighborly neighbors, dispatching the 5-0 to bust parties (Saturday night, no less) even as they piggyback Harvard shuttles to the Square, feast on subsidies from the University endowment and gleefully watch their property values soar ever-upward as they indiscreetly drop the H-bomb in just about every local real estate listing...
...connect. Crispin Porter & Bogusky helped make Canada's Molson beer the fastest-growing top-25 import in the U.S. last year as it built up buzz in the bars by slapping on beer bottles labels with oddly suggestive comments like "Skinny-dippers are people too." "Conventional branding tends to piggyback on pop culture," says Bogusky, 41, whose sneakers and long mane befit the college-dorm ambiance of CP&B's Coconut Grove offices. "But the mass media are too fragmented now, so you need to create your own pop culture...
...Therefore, House communities can take other precautions to address the problem of theft: Students can lock their room doors, and masters and tutors should advise them to do so. Additionally, the implementation of UKA makes it less likely that dangerous trespassers will convince resident students to let them piggyback; if all students are provided access at all times, excuses that one’s card does not work late at night will no longer...