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  2. Internet minute - Wikipedia

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    In internet slang, an internet minute is a derived unit for the number of online interactions that take place across the web in an average minute. An estimated average is usually calculated over the period of a particular year. [1] It is used as a snapshot of the internet to give insights for purposes such as informing marketing strategies. [2]

  3. Transmission Control Protocol - Wikipedia

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    A simple hijack can result in one packet being erroneously accepted at one end. When the receiving host acknowledges the false segment, synchronization is lost. [ 74 ] Hijacking may be combined with ARP spoofing or other routing attacks that allow an attacker to take permanent control of the TCP connection.

  4. Kernel (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    An oversimplification of how a kernel connects application software to the hardware of a computer. A kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating system that always has complete control over everything in the system.

  5. Busy signal - Wikipedia

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    A few networks in France continue to use a 440 Hz/0.5 s sequence in place of the ETSI recommended 425 Hz/0.5 s sequence, but this is gradually being replaced. The ETSI recommendation is also the default (i.e. non-localized) busy tone generated by mobile phones that follow the GSM & 3GPP family of standards .

  6. Peripheral Component Interconnect - Wikipedia

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    Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) [3] is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard. The PCI bus supports the functions found on a processor bus but in a standardized format that is independent of any given processor's native bus.

  7. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/October 2005 ...

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    It is old-fashioned (which doesn't stop almost every physics student from doing the calculation at some point), but the principle still applies. When treating the proton and electron as a two-body problem , you can reduce it to a one-body problem with a reduced mass orbiting about the center of mass.

  8. Biology and sexual orientation - Wikipedia

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    The relationship between biology and sexual orientation is a subject of on-going research. While scientists do not know the exact cause of sexual orientation, they theorize that it is caused by a complex interplay of genetic, hormonal, and environmental influences.

  9. Elevator - Wikipedia

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    One problem is that the system is subject to gaming. Sometimes, one person enters the destination for a large group of people going to the same floor. The dispatching algorithm is usually unable to completely cater for the variation, and latecomers may find the elevator they are assigned to is already full. Also, occasionally, one person may ...