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  2. QSL card - Wikipedia

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    QSL card confirming listener reception of AM radio station KXEL in Waterloo, Iowa.. During the early days of radio broadcasting, the ability for a radio set to receive distant signals was a source of pride for many consumers and hobbyists.

  3. PCI hole - Wikipedia

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    More than a gigabyte of 32-bit system memory can be unavailable when four gigabytes of physical memory and multiple 3D cards with large amounts of video memory are installed; on some mainboards, the hole is always at least one gigabyte in size regardless of the installed expansion cards. Physical address extension

  4. Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard - Wikipedia

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    The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an information security standard used to handle credit cards from major card brands. The standard is administered by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, and its use is mandated by the card brands. It was created to better control cardholder data and reduce credit ...

  5. IPv6 - Wikipedia

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    The loopback address is defined as 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 [41] and is abbreviated to ::1 by using both rules. As an IPv6 address may have more than one representation, the IETF has issued a proposed standard for representing them in text. [40]

  6. Address Resolution Protocol - Wikipedia

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    The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a communication protocol used for discovering the link layer address, such as a MAC address, associated with a given internet layer address, typically an IPv4 address. This mapping is a critical function in the Internet protocol suite. ARP was defined in 1982 by RFC 826, [1] which is Internet Standard ...

  7. Internet geolocation - Wikipedia

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    Online retailers and payment processors use geolocation to detect possible credit card fraud by comparing the user's location to the billing address on the account or the shipping address provided. A mismatch – an order placed from the US on an account number from Tokyo, for example – is a strong indicator of potential fraud.

  8. SmarTrip - Wikipedia

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    SmarTrip was the first contactless smart card for transit in the United States [23] when WMATA began selling SmarTrip cards on May 18, 1999. [24] By 2004, 650,000 SmarTrip cards were in circulation. [25]

  9. Address - Wikipedia

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    Illuminated address to see better at night. An address is a collection of information, presented in a mostly fixed format, used to give the location of a building, apartment, or other structure or a plot of land, generally using political boundaries and street names as references, along with other identifiers such as house or apartment numbers and organization name.