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  2. List of file signatures - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of file signatures, data used to identify or verify the content of a file. Such signatures are also known as magic numbers or Magic Bytes. Many file formats are not intended to be read as text. If such a file is accidentally viewed as a text file, its contents will be unintelligible. However, some file signatures can be ...

  3. List of XML and HTML character entity references - Wikipedia

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    In HTML and XML, a numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set / Unicode code point, and uses the format: &#xhhhh; or. &#nnnn; where the x must be lowercase in XML documents, hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form, and nnnn is the code point in decimal form. The hhhh (or nnnn) may be any number of ...

  4. John Titor - Wikipedia

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    Titor's purported military insignia. John Titor and TimeTravel_0 are pseudonyms used on internet forums between 2000 and 2001 by an individual claiming to be an American military time traveler from the year 2036. [1][2] His posts discussed various aspects of time travel, and described future calamitous events, including a global nuclear war.

  5. Identity theft - Wikipedia

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    The IRS rejects the return as a duplicate. Identity theft, identity piracy or identity infringement occurs when someone uses another's personal identifying information, like their name, identifying number, or credit card number, without their permission, to commit fraud or other crimes. The term identity theft was coined in 1964. [1]

  6. Intel HEX - Wikipedia

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    Intel hexadecimal object file format, Intel hex format or Intellec Hex is a file format that conveys binary information in ASCII text form, [10] making it possible to store on non-binary media such as paper tape, punch cards, etc., to display on text terminals or be printed on line-oriented printers. [11]

  7. Hexadecimal - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics and computing, the hexadecimal (also base-16 or simply hex) numeral system is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of sixteen. Unlike the decimal system representing numbers using ten symbols, hexadecimal uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols "0"–"9" to represent values 0 to 9 ...

  8. Identity fraud - Wikipedia

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    One case of identity theft was the 2011 hacking of the PlayStation Network, when personal and credit card information of 77 million accounts were stolen. The unauthorized use of a stolen credit card is commonly not considered identity fraud, but may be considered consumer fraud. The use of fake names, ID cards, falsified or forged documents ...

  9. Magic number (programming) - Wikipedia

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    The term magic number or magic constant refers to the anti-pattern of using numbers directly in source code. This has been referred to as breaking one of the oldest rules of programming, dating back to the COBOL, FORTRAN and PL/1 manuals of the 1960s. [1] The use of unnamed magic numbers in code obscures the developers' intent in choosing that ...