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  2. Devil's advocate - Wikipedia

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    The advocatus diaboli (Latin for Devil's advocate) is a former official position within the Catholic Church, the Promoter of the Faith: one who "argued against the canonization of a candidate to uncover any character flaws or misrepresentation of the evidence favoring canonization".

  3. In Defense of the Devil’s Advocate - AOL

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    The non-academic equivalent of a discussant is a “devil’s advocate,” who highlights the blind spots in a proposal. Sometimes, an entire group is tasked with this job, known as a “red team.”

  4. Unofficial patch - Wikipedia

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    A common motivation for the creation of unofficial patches is missing technical support by the original software developer or provider. Reasons may include: the software product reached its defined end-of-life [1] and/or was superseded by a successor product (planned obsolescence) [2]

  5. Eric S. Raymond - Wikipedia

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    Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. [1]

  6. Patch (computing) - Wikipedia

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    With widely available Internet access, downloading patches from the developer's web site or through automated software updates became often available to the end-users. Starting with Apple's Mac OS 9 and Microsoft's Windows ME, PC operating systems gained the ability to get automatic software updates via the Internet.

  7. Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal - Wikipedia

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    He noted that the EULA does not mention the software, and he charged that the software is illegitimate and that digital rights management had "gone too far". [9] Anti-virus firm F-Secure concurred: "Although the software isn't directly malicious, the used rootkit hiding techniques are exactly the same used by malicious software to hide. The DRM ...

  8. Morris West - Wikipedia

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    Morris Langlo West AO (26 April 1916 – 9 October 1999) was an Australian novelist and playwright, best known for his novels The Devil's Advocate (1959), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963) and The Clowns of God (1981). His books were published in 27 languages and sold more than 60 million copies worldwide.

  9. Deals with the Devil in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Right: The devil reappears a year later and forces Haizmann to sign another pact with his own blood. Middle: The Virgin Mary makes the devil to return the second pact during an exorcism. The idea of making a deal with the devil has appeared many times in works of popular culture. These pacts with the Devil can be found in many genres, including ...