Written by a (spiritual) descendant of Dickens?

[Mark Mandel]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Marc Velasco <marcjvelasco at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >"It appears that desktop-based applications are more secure from face
> > >value,
> >
> > Incomprehensible.  Or did he mean "more secure from Facebook"?
> >
>
> "from face value" --> at face value, at first glance, at first blush, etc.

Perhaps semantically = 'out of the box'?

m a m

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