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| Jon Lech Johansen Jon Lech Johansen (born November 18, 1983 in Harstad, Norway), also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian (his father is Norwegian and mother is Polish) who is famous for his work on reverse engineering data formats. He is most famous for his involvement in the release of the DeCSS software, which decodes the content-scrambling system used for DVD licensing enforcement. Jon_Lech_Johansen | |
| Anti-copyright Anti-copyright refers to the complete or partial opposition to prevalent copyright laws. Copyright is a branch of intellectual property which affects literary and artistic work. Copyright is known as the author's rights for copies to be only made by the author or with his/her authorisation in form of a license.The classic argument for copyright is the view that granting developers temporary monopolies over their works encourages further development and creativity by giving the developer a source of income. Anti-copyright | |
| Philippe Starck Philippe Patrick Starck (born January 18 1949, Paris) is a French Product designer and probably the best known designer in the New Design style. His designs range from spectacular interior designs to mass produced consumer goods such as toothbrushes, chairs, and even houses.He was educated in Paris at École Nissim de Camondo and in 1968, he founded his first design firm, which specialized in inflatable objects. In 1969, he became art director of his firm along with Pierre Cardin. Philippe_Starck | |
| Buzzword A buzzword (also fashion word and vogue word) is a vague idiom, usually a neologism, that is common to managerial, technical, administrative, and political work environments. Although meant to impress the listener with the speaker's pretense to knowledge, buzzwords render sentences opaque, difficult to understand and questionable, because the buzzword does not mean what it denominates, yet does mean other things it ought not mean. Buzzword | |
| Office of Strategic Influence Talk:Office_of_Strategic_Influence | |
| Illegal prime An illegal prime is a prime number that represents information forbidden to possess or distribute, because when interpreted a particular way, it describes a computer program which bypasses copyright protection schemes. Distribution of such a program in the United States is illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Illegal primes are a subset of illegal numbers. Illegal_prime | |
| Cybersquatting Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting), according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price. Cybersquatting | |
| Harry Hill Dr. Matthew Keith Hall (born 1 October 1964), better known as Harry Hill, is a triple BAFTA award-winning English comedian, author and television presenter and former medical doctor, who began his career in comedy with the popular radio show Harry Hill's Fruit Corner. Harry_Hill | |
| Renault This is about the company; for other uses see Renault (disambiguation). Renault | |
| Hacktivism Hacktivism (a portmanteau of hack and activism) is "the nonviolent use of illegal or legally ambiguous digital tools in pursuit of political ends. These tools include web site defacements, redirects, denial-of-service attacks, information theft, web site parodies, virtual sit-ins, virtual sabotage, and software development." Hacktivism | |
| Today programme Today, sometimes referred to as the Today programme to avoid ambiguity, is BBC Radio 4's long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, which is now broadcast from 6am to 9am from Monday to Friday and from 7am to 9am on Saturdays. It is also the most popular programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks. Today_programme | |
| Ginger Baker Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (born 19 August 1939, Lewisham, South London) is an English drummer, best known for his work with Cream. He is also known for his numerous associations with New World music and the use of African influences and other diverse collaborations such as his work with the rock band Hawkwind. Ginger_Baker | |
| BitKeeper BitKeeper is a software tool for distributed revision control (configuration management, SCM, etc.) of computer source code. A sophisticated distributed system, BitKeeper competes largely against other professional systems such as Rational ClearCase and Perforce. BitKeeper is produced by BitMover Inc., a privately held company based in Campbell, California and owned by CEO Larry McVoy, who had previously designed TeamWare. BitKeeper | |
| Opteron The Opteron is AMD's x86 server processor line, and was the first processor to implement the AMD64 instruction set architecture (known generically as x86-64). It was released on April 22, 2003 with the SledgeHammer core (K8) and was intended to compete in the server/workstation market, particularly in the same segment as the Intel Xeon processor. Processors based on the AMD K10 microarchitecture (codenamed Barcelona) were announced on September 10, 2007 featuring a new quad-core configuration. Opteron | |
| SMS/archive1 Talk:SMS/archive1 | |
| Safari (web browser) Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Apple has also made Safari the native browser for the iPhone OS. A version of Safari for the Microsoft Windows operating system was first released on June 11, 2007, and supports both Windows XP and Windows Vista. Safari_(web_browser) | |
| Smartphone A smartphone is a mobile phone offering advanced capabilities, often with Smartphone | |
| Transmeta Transmeta | |
| Radio-frequency identification Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader.Most RFID tags contain at least two parts. Radio-frequency_identification | |
| Fucking, Austria Fucking () is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf, in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria.The village is located north of Salzburg, four kilometres (2.5German border. Fucking,_Austria | |
| Spinach Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is an edible flowering plant in the family of Amaranthaceae. It is native to central and southwestern Asia. It is an annual plant (rarely biennial), which grows to a height of up to 30leaves are alternate, simple, ovate to triangular-based, very variable in size from about 2-30flowers are inconspicuous, yellow-green, 3-4fruit cluster 5-10seeds. Spinach | |
| Hedy Lamarr Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and scientist. Though known primarily for her acting (she was a major MGM contract star), she also co-invented an early form of spread spectrum communications technology, a key to modern wireless communication. Hedy_Lamarr | |
| AmigaOne AmigaOne is a trademark, which was used with agreement of Amiga, Inc. by UK computer vendor Eyetech Group Ltd., exclusively for the purpose of selling various hardware for running AmigaOS 4. AmigaOne | |
| Steve Ballmer Talk:Steve_Ballmer | |
| SQL slammer (computer worm) The SQL slammer worm is a computer worm that caused a denial of service on some Internet hosts and dramatically slowed down general Internet traffic, starting at 05UTC on January 25, 2003. It spread rapidly, infecting most of its 75,000 victims within ten minutes. SQL_slammer_(computer_worm) | |
| Timeline of computer viruses and worms This is a timeline of noteworthy computer viruses, worms and Trojan horses. Timeline_of_computer_viruses_and_worms | |
| Fictional country A fictional country is a country that is made up for fictional stories, and does not exist in real life. Fictional lands appear most commonly as settings or subjects of literature, movies, or video games. They may also be used for technical reasons in actual reality for use in the development of specifications, such as the fictional country of Bookland, which is used to allow EAN "country" codes 978 and 979 to be used for ISBN numbers assigned to book Fictional_country | |
| Fisking fisking, or to fisk, is blogosphere slang describing a point-by-point criticism that highlights perceived errors, or disputes the analysis in a statement, article, or essay. Eric S. Raymond, in the Jargon File, defined the term as The British newspaper The Observer defined fisking as "...the practice of savaging an argument and scattering the tattered remnants to the four corners of the internet (named after Robert Fisk of the Independent, whose columns are considered soft targets)" Fisking | |
| Fisking Talk:Fisking | |
| Quark, Inc. Quark, Inc. (founded 1981 in Denver, Colorado) is a privately owned software company best known for QuarkXPress. It is called Quark because the company's goal is to "create software that would be the platform for publishing", just as quarks are the basis for all matter. Quark,_Inc. | |
| OASIS (organization) The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is a global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business and web service standards. Members of the consortium decide how and what work is undertaken through an open, democratic process.Technical work is carried out under the following categories OASIS_(organization) | |
| Very High Bitrate Digital Subscriber Line VDSL or VHDSL (Very High Bitrate DSL) is a DSL technology providing faster data transmission over a single flat untwisted or twisted pair of copper wires. These fast speeds mean that VDSL is capable of supporting high bandwidth applications such as HDTV, as well as telephone services (Voice over IP) and general Internet access, over a single connection. Very_High_Bitrate_Digital_Subscriber_Line | |
| London congestion charge London congestion charge is a fee for some motorists travelling within those parts of London designated as the Congestion Charge Zone (CCZ). The main objectives of this charge are to reduce congestion, and to raise funds for investment in London's transport system. London_congestion_charge | |
| Xandros Xandros is both the name of a line of operating systems and Xandros Corporation, the company which creates them. Xandros Desktop is a Linux distribution. The name Xandros is derived from the X Window System and the Greek island of Andros. headquartered in New York City. Xandros | |
| International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI (the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) is the organization that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is headquartered in London, UK, with regional offices in Brussels, Hong Kong, Miami and Moscow.Its stated mission is to promote the value of recorded music, safeguard the rights of record producers and expand the commercial uses of recorded music. International_Federation_of_the_Phonographic_Industry | |
| Immigration policy An immigration policy is any policy of a state that deals with the transit of persons across its borders, but especially those that intend to work and to remain in the country. Immigration policies can range from allowing no migration at all to allowing most types of migration, such as free immigration. Traditionally it was very common to have a racial or religious affiliation bias tied to immigration policy. Immigration_policy | |
| Television in the United Kingdom British television broadcasting started in 1936, and now has a collection of free and subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are up to 600 channels for consumers as well as on-demand content. There are six main channel owners who are responsible for most viewing. There are 27,000 hours of domestic content produced a year at a cost of £2.6 billion. Analogue terrestrial transmissions are currently being switched off and this is due to be completed in 2012. Television_in_the_United_Kingdom | |
| Front-side bus personal computers, the Front Side Bus (FSB) is the bus that carries data between the CPU and the northbridge.Depending on the processor used, some computers may also have a back side bus that connects the CPU to the cache. This bus and the cache connected to it are faster than accessing the system memory via the front side bus. Front-side_bus | |
| Ningxia Ningxia (; Postal map spelling:Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (), is a Hui autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located on the northwest Loess highland, the Yellow River flows through a vast area of its land. The capital of the region is Yinchuan. Ningxia | |
| Bernard Lewis Bernard Lewis (born May 31, 1916 in London, England) is a British-American historian, Orientalist, and political commentator. He is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West, and is especially famous in academic circles for his works on the history of the Ottoman Empire. Bernard_Lewis | |
| Tzuhou/Scratchpad User:Tzuhou/Scratchpad | |
| Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. () is an American public corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), that provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine, Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and social media websites and services. Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. Yahoo! | |
| ZIP (file format) The ZIP file format is a data compression and archive format. A ZIP file contains one or more files that have been compressed to reduce file size, or stored as-is. The ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms, but , the Deflate method continues to be dominant.The format was originally created in 1986 by Phil Katz for PKZIP, and evolved from the previous ARC compression format by Thom Henderson. ZIP_(file_format) | |
| Tokyo Stock Exchange TSE, located in Tokyo, Japan, is the second largest stock exchange in the world by aggregate market capitalization of its listed companies, second only to the New York Stock Exchange. As of 31 December 2007, the Tokyo Stock Exchange had 2,414 listed companies with a combined market capitalization of $4.3 trillion. Tokyo_Stock_Exchange | |
| Centrino Centrino is a platform-marketing initiative from Intel. It is not a mobile CPU - rather, the term covers a particular combination of mainboard chipset, mobile CPU and wireless network interface in the design of a laptop. Intel claims systems equipped with these technologies deliver better performance, longer battery life and broad wireless network interoperability. Centrino | |
| Taligent Talk:Taligent | |
| Adam Osborne Adam Osborne (March 6, 1939 March 18, 2003) was an American author, book and software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere. Adam_Osborne | |
| Tim Paterson Tim Paterson (born 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known as the original author of MS-DOS, the most widely used personal computer operating system in the 1980s.Educated at the University of Washington, Paterson worked as a repair technician for a computer store in Seattle, Washington. Tim_Paterson | |
| Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.The MoD states that its principal objectives are to defend the United Kingdom and its interests and to strengthen international peace and stability. Ministry_of_Defence_(United_Kingdom) | |
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