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  2. DVD X Copy - Wikipedia

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    DVD X Copy is a consumer software program that enabled novice computer users to copy any DVD movie to any blank DVD. Most commercial DVD movies include Content Scrambling System (CSS), a copy-protection technology designed to prevent DVD movies from being copied. This controversial DVD copy software program included technology that decrypts the ...

  3. Efference copy - Wikipedia

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    In physiology, an efference copy or efferent copy is an internal copy of an outflowing (), movement-producing signal generated by an organism's motor system. It can be collated with the (reafferent) sensory input that results from the agent's movement, enabling a comparison of actual movement with desired movement, and a shielding of perception from particular self-induced effects on the ...

  4. Bootloader - Wikipedia

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    Bootloader. GNU GRUB, a popular open source bootloader. Windows bootloader. A bootloader, also spelled as boot loader [1] [2] or called bootstrap loader, is a computer program that is responsible for booting a computer. If it also provides an interactive menu with multiple boot choices then it's often called a boot manager.

  5. DVD Copy Control Association - Wikipedia

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    The DVD Copy Control Association ( DVD CCA) is an organization primarily responsible for the copy protection of DVDs. The Content Scramble System (CSS) was devised for this purpose to make copyright infringement difficult, but also presents obstacles to some legitimate uses of the media. The association is also responsible for the controversial ...

  6. Booting - Wikipedia

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    Booting. A flow diagram of a computer booting. In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a button on the computer or by a software command. After it is switched on, a computer's central processing unit (CPU) has no software in its main memory, so some process must load software into memory ...

  7. Copy boy - Wikipedia

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    A copy boy is a typically young and junior worker on a newspaper. The job involves taking typed stories from one section of a newspaper to another. According to Bruce Guthrie, the former editor-in-chief of the Herald Sun who began work there as a copy boy in 1972: typed their stories on slips of ...then a copy boy ran the story into the ...

  8. Machine Identification Code - Wikipedia

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    Yellow dots on white paper, produced by color laser printer (enlarged, dot diameter about 0.1 mm) A Machine Identification Code (MIC), also known as printer steganography, yellow dots, tracking dots or secret dots, is a digital watermark which certain color laser printers and copiers leave on every printed page, allowing identification of the device which was used to print a document and ...

  9. William H. Ginn Jr. - Wikipedia

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    William Henry Ginn Jr. (September 21, 1928 – June 1, 2010) was a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force. [1] Ginn's last post was as Commander of United States Forces Japan and Fifth Air Force with headquarters at Yokota Air Base in Japan. [2] [3] He previously served as an assistant chief of staff for operations, Supreme ...