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  2. California Penal Code - Wikipedia

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    Volumes of the Thomson West annotated version of the California Penal Code; the other popular annotated version is Deering's, which is published by LexisNexis. The Penal Code of California forms the basis for the application of most criminal law, criminal procedure, penal institutions, and the execution of sentences, among other things, in the American state of California.

  3. Three-strikes law - Wikipedia

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    One application of a three-strikes law was the Leonardo Andrade case in California in 2009. In this case, Leandro Andrade attempted to rob $153 in videotapes from two San Bernardino K-Mart stores. He was charged under California's three-strikes law because of his criminal history concerning drugs and other burglaries.

  4. Elon Musk - Wikipedia

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    Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [2] [3] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[4] [5] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.

  5. Embedded system - Wikipedia

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    An embedded system on a plug-in card with processor, memory, power supply, and external interfaces. An embedded system is a specialized computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system.

  6. macOS - Wikipedia

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    As a side result, PDF viewing and creating PDF documents from any application are built-in features. [152] Reflecting its popularity with design users, macOS also has system support for a variety of professional video and image formats and includes an extensive pre-installed font library, featuring many prominent brand-name designs.

  7. India - Wikipedia

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    The education system of India is the world's second-largest. [452] India has over 900 universities, 40,000 colleges [ 453 ] and 1.5 million schools. [ 454 ] In India's higher education system, a significant number of seats are reserved under affirmative action policies for the historically disadvantaged.

  8. National Security Agency - Wikipedia

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    The proposal was strongly opposed and key escrow requirements ultimately went nowhere. [223] However, NSA's Fortezza hardware-based encryption cards, created for the Clipper project, are still used within government, and NSA ultimately declassified and published the design of the Skipjack cipher used on the cards.

  9. Android (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation have been critical of Android and have recommended the usage of alternatives such as Replicant, because drivers and firmware vital for the proper functioning of Android devices are usually proprietary, and because the Google Play Store application can forcibly install or uninstall applications ...