Stateless may refer to:
Society
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Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and Political movement, movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or Social hierarchy, hierarchy, primarily targeting the state (polity), state and capitalism. A ...
, a political philosophy opposed to the institution of the state
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Stateless communism
Anarchist communism is a far-left political ideology and anarchist school of thought that advocates communism. It calls for the abolition of private real property but retention of personal property and collectively-owned items, goods, and se ...
, which Karl Marx predicted would be the final phase of communism
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Stateless nation
A stateless nation is an ethnicity, ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own sovereign state.''Dictionary Of Public Administration'', U.C. Mandal, Sarup & Sons 2007, 505 p. Use of the term implies that such ethnic groups have the rig ...
, a group of people without a nation-state
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Stateless society
A stateless society is a society that is not governed by a state. In stateless societies, there is little concentration of authority. Most positions of authority that do exist are very limited in power, and they are generally not perman ...
, a society that is not governed by a state
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Statelessness
In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law". Some stateless people are also refugees. However, not all refugees are stateless, and many people who are s ...
, the legal and social concept applicable to persons who are not citizens or subjects of any state
Computing
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State (computer science)
In information technology and computer science, a system is described as stateful if it is designed to remember preceding events or user interactions; the remembered information is called the state of the system.
The set of states a system can oc ...
, relating to the configuration of information
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Stateless protocol
A stateless protocol is a communication protocol in which the receiver must not retain session state from previous requests. The sender transfers relevant session state to the receiver in such a way that every request can be understood in isolatio ...
, a communications protocol that treats each request as an independent transaction that is unrelated to any previous request
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Stateless firewall
In computing, a stateful firewall is a network-based firewall that individually tracks sessions of network connections traversing it. Stateful packet inspection, also referred to as dynamic packet filtering, is a security feature often used in n ...
, that treats each network frame (or packet) in isolation
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Stateless IP/ICMP Translation algorithm
An IPv6 transition mechanism is a technology that facilitates the transitioning of the Internet from the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) infrastructure in use since 1983 to the successor addressing and routing system of Internet Protocol Vers ...
, an IPv6 translation mechanism
Music
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''Stateless'' (Lene Lovich album), 1978
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Stateless (band)
Stateless are an English Electronic music, electronic band, founded in 2002 and based in Leeds and London. The group comprises Chris James (vocals, keyboards, guitars), kidkanevil (turntables, sampling, programming), Justin Percival (bass guita ...
, an English electronica band
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''Stateless'' (Stateless album), 2007
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''Stateless'' (Unwed Sailor album), 2002
* "Stateless", a song by U2 from ''
The Million Dollar Hotel: Music from the Motion Picture''
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''Stateless'' (Dirty Beaches album), 2014
Film and television
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''Stateless'' (TV series), a 2019 Australian drama series
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''Stateless'' (film), a 2020 Canadian documentary films
See also
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State (disambiguation)
State most commonly refers to:
* State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
**Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
**Nation state, a ...
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