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9 unusual facts about Peer


.im

The domain is becoming popular with companies who produce instant messaging (IM) software with names registered by Adium, ejabberd, Coccinella, Meebo, Pandion, Pidgin, Peer, Prosody, Trillian, and Yahoo! among others.

Germany Must Be Destroyed

It is extremely hard to find, yet it is passed around on many torrent and P2P sites.

Peer-to-peer banking

These concepts have now been instituted by Energy in Common and Kiva in their green fund.

Peer-to-peer lending

Lending Works is the first peer-to-peer lender that has insurance to protect its lenders against borrower default.

The license and registration can be obtained at a securities regulatory agency such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U.S., the Ontario Securities Commission in Ontario, Canada, the Autorité des marchés financiers in France and Quebec, Canada, or the Financial Services Authority in the U.K.

Short Message Peer-to-Peer

Because of its support for non-GSM SMS protocols, like UMTS, IS-95 (CDMA), CDMA2000, ANSI-136 (TDMA) and iDEN, the SMPP is the most commonly used protocol for short message exchange outside SS7 networks.

Taking Back the Night Life

In early April 2008, the pre-production demo tracks of the entire album were released on multiple P2P clients.

Valups

The company's products have applications based on combining digital TV with broadband and P2P.

Wearable Computing Group

P2P computing and wireless network technologies has made the design of ad hoc networks of mobile devices to support the ad hoc networks of the people who wear them.


Admiral William Halsey Leadership Academy

The principles of Stephen R. Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People serve as the foundation for the Halsey Leadership Academy program; peer leadership, community service, and student government activities are emphasized.

Arthur Annesley

Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris (1744–1816), British peer, succeeded as 8th Viscount Valentia

Bandon, Oregon

It was named by George Bennet, an Irish peer, who settled nearby in 1873 and named the town after Bandon in Ireland, his hometown.

Camille Alphonse

Camille Alphonse Trézel (1780-1860), a French général de division, Minister for War and peer of France during the July Monarchy

Carl Wieman

He has used and promotes Eric Mazur's "peer instruction", a pedagogical system, where teachers repeatedly ask multiple-choice concept questions during class, and students reply on the spot with little wireless "clicker" devices.

Charles Murigande

During his academic life, Murigande has published several papers in international peer-reviewed Scientific Journals.

Charles Noel

Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough (1818–1881), aka Viscount Campden, British peer and Whig politician

Charles Sanderson, Baron Sanderson of Bowden

He was created a life peer in June 1985 as Baron Sanderson of Bowden, of Melrose in the District of Ettrick and Lauderdale and speaks regularly in the House of Lords.

Darin Nesbitt

Dr. Nesbitt has since authored a number of conference papers, reviewed books, peer reviewed academic articles, and published in academic journals such as Polity and Paideusis. His principal research interests revolve around British Idealism, particularly the late nineteenth-century thinkers Thomas Hill Green and David George Ritchie.

Dhaka lahan east champaran

Lyricist Moied Elhaam famous in Bollywood, D S P Khairuddin and One Syed Family resides here the head of this family name is Dr. Syed Sharfuddin who belongs to Syed zahid Ali Family who was a famous Sufi and peer of Islamic religion.

Francis Talbot

Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (1623 – 1667/1668), English peer, second son of the 10th Earl of Shrewsbury

George Compton

George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton (1692–1758), British peer and Member of Parliament

Governor Murray

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–1809), Scottish peer and colonial governor in the American colonies

Gustavus Hamilton

Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 10th Viscount Boyne (1931–1995), Irish peer and Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire

Henry Bentinck

Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland (1919–1997), British intellectual, peer and TV-producer

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845 – 1927), British politician and Irish peer, Governor-General of Canada

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton (28 August 1817 Nottingham – 20 December 1877 Birdsall House, Birdsall) was an English peer.

Hussainiwala

The village is named after the Muslim Peer Baba Hussainiwala ji (Saint Hussaini wala or Saint "who is of Husain"), whose tomb is in the Border Security Force headquarters at Hussainiwala.

International Transactions in Operational Research

International Transactions in Operational Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal which is published six times a year by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies.

JAMA Pediatrics

JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) Pediatrics is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association.

John Gretton, 3rd Baron Gretton

John Henrik Gretton, 3rd Baron Gretton DL (9 February 1941 - 4 April 1989) was an English peer, owner of Stapleford Park in Leicestershire.

John Knatchbull

John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne (1924–2005), British peer, television producer and Academy-award nominated film producer

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730 – 25 February 1809), generally known as Lord Dunmore, was a Scottish peer and colonial governor in the American colonies.

Jonathan Marks

Jonathan Marks, Baron Marks of Henley-on-Thames (born 1952), British barrister and Liberal Democrat peer

Jörundur Svavarsson

According to Web of Science Prof. Svavarsson has published 49 papers in peer-reviewed journals, with 13 or them being cited more than 11 times.

Joseph Stone

Joseph Stone, Baron Stone (1903–1986), Officer in the British Army, doctor, and royal peer

Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology

Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the fields of Geriatrics and Psychiatry.

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

The Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the International School for Advanced Studies and IOP Publishing.

Journal of Vacation Marketing

The Journal of Vacation Marketing is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers four times a year in the field of Marketing.

JTAC

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers covering all aspects of thermal analysis, calorimetry, and experimental thermodynamics.

Leonard Leslie Brooke

They had two children, their elder son was killed in World War 1, the younger was Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor, who became British Home Secretary and later a peer.

Marabunta

It is a peer-to-peer platform for information exchange among nodes in an anonymous way based on several communication algorithms called "Order and Chaos" which can be found in massive social organizations such as ant colonies.

Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems

Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research concerned with mathematically rigorous system theoretic aspects of control and signal processing.

Maurice Vaïsse

Vaïsse has, furthermore, sat on numerous peer committees, notably for Relations Internationales, Politique étrangère, Défense nationale, Cold War History Review, and the Retour aux textes collection of la Documentation française.

Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées

Gradually she grows to love her husband in her own way, and with her encouragement he makes a career for himself in local politics, which culminates in his becoming a peer of France and a grand officer of the Legion of Honour.

Metallica v. Napster, Inc.

Napster was a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service, founded by Shawn Fanning, that emphasized sharing digitally encoded music as MP3 audio files.

Nanosubmarine

The first recorded success of a nanosubmarine was performed by a team of students led by Dr. Dan Peer from Tel Aviv University in Israel.

NeoModus Direct Connect

NeoModus Direct Connect was a file-sharing client for Windows and Mac users that provided file-sharing capabilities for any type of file within a hub-centric, peer-to-peer network and contained adware.

Orange Rhyming Dictionary

The final track from Orange Rhyming Dictionary, "Sweet Avenue" is often mistakenly attributed to the singer Damien Rice due to regular misattribution on peer-to-peer file sharing networks.

Peter Riederer

Riederer has received 14 international awards and was sitting in the editorial and advisory boards of various peer-reviewed scientific journals including Journal of Neural Transmission, Amino Acid, New Trends in Clinical Neuropharmacology, Biogenic Amines, Functional Neurology, International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, Neurology Psychiatry and Brain Research, Neuropsychobiologie, Parkionsonism & Related Disorders.

Prince Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale

Although he was a British peer and a prince of Great Britain and Ireland, he continued to consider himself an exiled monarch of a German realm and refused to disclaim his succession rights to Hanover, making his home in Gmunden, Upper Austria.

Red Goodbye

In summer 2009, several months after rock band Creed announced that their reunion album would be titled Full Circle, hundreds of torrents appeared on peer-to-peer file sharing sites labeled as a leaked copy of Full Circle but actually containing Red Goodbye's One Time Mountain, with modified file names and ID3 Tags.

Richard Bingham

Richard Bingham, 2nd Earl of Lucan (1764–1839), British MP for St Albans, Irish representative peer

Richard Handcock

Richard Handcock, 4th Baron Castlemaine (1826–1892), his son, Irish representative peer, Lord Lieutenant of Westmeath

Sarah Deutsch

Deutsch gained media attention for representing Verizon in the copyright case RIAA v. Verizon, in which the Recording Industry Association of America obtained a subpoena demanding Verizon to disclose the identity of several subscribers who were allegedly engaged in illegal P2P file-sharing.

Scottish devolution referendum, 1997

Board members included Donald Findlay, a QC, Rector of the University of St Andrews and vice-chairman of Rangers F.C., and senior Conservative peer Lord Fraser.

Spencer II of Northampton

Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton (1601 – 1643), English peer, soldier and politician

TerraNet

TerraNet AB, a Swedish technology company designing peer-to-peer wireless technology

The Go-getter

Part of the Blandings Castle canon, it features the absent-minded peer Lord Emsworth, and was included in the collection Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935), although the story takes place sometime between the events of Leave it to Psmith (1923) and Summer Lightning (1929).

Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford

Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (19 February 1775 – 10 March 1804) was a British peer, naval officer and wastrel, best known for bedevilling George Vancouver during and after the latter's great voyage of exploration.


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