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  2. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [5] [6] [7] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [8] the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3 ...

  3. Yahoo Search - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! Search is a search engine owned and operated by Yahoo!, using Microsoft Bing to power results.. Originally, "Yahoo! Search" referred to a Yahoo!-provided interface that sent queries to a searchable index of pages supplemented with its directory of websites.

  4. Harmonized System - Wikipedia

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    Japan Tariff Association – webpage refers to Japan Harmonised System Code Search; Mexico import-export codes (Harmonized Tariff Schedule) by SIICEX and CAAAREM; UK Tariffs; Official Tariff Book of South Africa (South African Revenue Service) United States of America; U.S. import codes (Harmonized Tariff Schedule) by U.S. International Trade ...

  5. Hays Code - Wikipedia

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    Thou Shalt Not, a 1940 photo by Whitey Schafer deliberately subverting some of the Code's strictures. In the 1920s, Hollywood was rocked by a number of notorious scandals, such as the murder of William Desmond Taylor and the alleged rape of Virginia Rappe by popular movie star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, which brought widespread condemnation from religious, civic and political organizations.

  6. CLLI code - Wikipedia

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    CLLI code (sometimes referred to as CLLI name or Common Language Location Identifier Code, and often pronounced as silly) is a Common Language Information Services identifier used within the North American telecommunications industry to specify the location and function of telecommunications equipment or of a relevant location such as an international border or a supporting equipment location ...

  7. Genetic code - Wikipedia

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    The code emerges at a transition when the mapping of codons to amino acids becomes nonrandom. The code's emergence is governed by the topology defined by the probable errors and is related to the map coloring problem. [109] Game theory: Models based on signaling games combine elements of game theory, natural selection and information channels ...

  8. Free software - Wikipedia

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    Free software advocates strongly believe that this methodology is biased by counting more vulnerabilities for the free software systems, since their source code is accessible and their community is more forthcoming about what problems exist as a part of full disclosure, [39] [40] and proprietary software systems can have undisclosed societal ...

  9. Free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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    "Free and open-source software" (FOSS) is an umbrella term for software that is simultaneously considered both free software and open-source software. [5] The precise definition of the terms "free software" and "open-source software" applies them to any software distributed under terms that allow users to use, modify, and redistribute said software in any manner they see fit, without requiring ...