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  2. Key finder - Wikipedia

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    Early models of key finder were sound-based, and listened for a clap or whistle (or a sequence of same), then beeped for the user to find them. Determining what was a clap or a whistle proved difficult, resulting in poor performance and false alarms. Because of this low quality and unreliability, these early key finders were soon discarded and ...

  3. craigslist - Wikipedia

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    Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...

  4. Craig Newmark - Wikipedia

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    Newmark launched craigslist.org in 1996, where people could exchange information, mostly without charge. [12] It started as a newsletter about San Francisco events. [ 14 ] He operated it as a hobby while continuing to work as a software engineer until 1999 when he incorporated Craigslist as a private for-profit company. [ 15 ]

  5. NSA encryption systems - Wikipedia

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    Controlling cost: making sure encryption is affordable so units that need it have it. There are many costs beyond the initial purchase price, including the manpower to operate and maintain the systems and to ensure their security and the cost of key distribution. Enabling secure communication with allied forces without compromising secret methods.

  6. Philip Markoff - Wikipedia

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    Philip Markoff was the son of Susan (née Haynes) [10] and Richard Markoff, a dentist in Syracuse, New York.He had an older brother, Jonathan Markoff, and a half-sister (whose father was Susan's second husband, Gary Carroll, a banker). [11]

  7. Fault detection and isolation - Wikipedia

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    Fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR) is a subfield of control engineering which concerns itself with monitoring a system, identifying when a fault has occurred, and pinpointing the type of fault and its location. Two approaches can be distinguished: A direct pattern recognition of sensor readings that indicate a fault and an analysis ...

  8. Seismic base isolation - Wikipedia

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    Seismic base isolation, also known as base isolation, [3] or base isolation system, [4] is one of the most popular means of protecting a structure against earthquake forces. [5] It is a collection of structural elements which should substantially decouple a superstructure from its substructure that is in turn resting on the shaking ground, thus ...

  9. Line isolation transformer - Wikipedia

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    A line isolation transformer for telephone use is a special type of impedance matching transformer that is used to couple telephone land lines to subscriber equipment to prevent dangerous common mode voltages from appearing on the line.