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31Memory protection — is a way to control memory access rights on a computer, and is a part of most modern operating systems. The main purpose of memory protection is to prevent a process from accessing memory that has not been allocated to it. This prevents a bug… …
32Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — Full title The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Acronym PPACA Colloquial name(s) Affordable Care Act, Healthcare Insurance Reform, Obamacare, Healthcare Reform Enacted by the …
33DCS Copy Protection — Ltd is a UK company that licenses proprietary content protection technology. It is a direct competitor to Rovi (formerly Macrovision) in the field of analogue copy protection.[1] DCS Copy Protection Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Echostar… …
34Belay device — Belay devices are mechanical pieces of climbing equipment used to control a rope during belaying. They are designed to improve belay safety for the climber by allowing the belayer to manage their duties with minimal physical effort. With the… …
35General protection fault — This article is about the x86 exception. For the webcomic, see General Protection Fault (webcomic). A general protection fault (GPF) in the Intel x86 and AMD x86 64 architectures, and other unrelated architectures, is a fault (a type of… …
36Analog Protection System — The Analog Protection System (APS), also known as Copyguard, is a DVD copy prevention system originally developed by Macrovision. Video tapes copied from DVDs encoded with APS become garbled and unwatchable. The process works by adding pulses to… …
37Mammals and Birds Excluder Device — For the electronic device, see Mbed microcontroller. A Mammals and Birds Excluder Device or MBED (also named Cachalotera) is a fishing gear device that avoids the depredation of the fish caught in the line for Marine Mammals, and avoids the… …
38Long range acoustic device — The long range acoustic device (LRAD) is a crowd control and hailing device developed by American Technology Corporation.According to the manufacturer s specifications, the equipment weighs 45 pounds (20 kg) and can emit sound in a 30° beam (only …
39Continuous data protection — (CDP), also called continuous backup or real time backup, refers to backup of computer data by automatically saving a copy of every change made to that data, essentially capturing every version of the data that the user saves. It allows the user… …
40Chronology protection conjecture — The chronology protection conjecture is a conjecture by the physicist Professor Stephen Hawking that the laws of physics are such as to prevent time travel on all but sub microscopic scales. Mathematically, the permissibility of time travel is… …
