At the ubiquitous convenience stores throughout Japan, cashiers now ask if customers need chopsticks rather than sticking them into checkout bags by default.
Unable to tell whether someone really objects to behavioral ads or whether they are sticking with Microsoft's default, some may ignore a DNT signal and press on anyway.
It is often a lingua franca of conferences, for example, and many journal articles in fields as diverse as astronomy, child psychology and zoology have English as a kind of default language.
If it is trying to upset Google, which relies almost wholly on advertising, it has chosen an indirect method: there is no guarantee that DNT by default will become the norm.
Apple's stance on these issues emerged post-Snowden, when the company started putting in place a series of technologies that, by default, make use of encryption to limit access to people's data.
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19. 这个问题等于默认确实已犯了错误。
The question was a tacit admission that a mistake had indeed been made.
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20. 这些商品出口有官方的默认。
The goods were exported with official connivance.
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21. 对一些基本工作权利的承诺得到默认。
The promise of some basic working rights draws murmurs of approval.
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22. 普遍默认了联合国的制裁。
There was general acquiescence in the UN sanctions.
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23. 他默认政府违反了规定。
He tacitly admitted that the government had breached regulations.
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24. 所以我只能默认他有罪。
So I can only assume that he was guilty.
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25. 冰盖被默认为是稳定的。
The ice sheet was assumed to have been stable.
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26. 现在，人们默认灵长类动物和其他一些哺乳动物独自站在认知进化等级的顶端。
Now, it's been assumed that primates and some other mammals stood alone at the top of the hierarchy of cognitive evolution.
Enrollment in business schools exploded in the 1970s and 1980s and created the assumption that no one who pursued a business career could do without one.
Heilbroner's theory has become doctrine in some economics textbooks: for example, Monte Palmer disparages nontechnological rural development projects as inhibiting constructive change.
It's all very well to say that, but someone comes to the door and says "electricity" or "gas", and you automatically think he is OK, especially when he shows his card.
