Stateless may refer to:
Society
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Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...
, a political philosophy opposed to the institution of the state
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Stateless communism, which Karl Marx predicted would be the final phase of communism
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Stateless nation, 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 are generally not permanently held ...
, 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 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 ...
, that treats each network frame (or packet) in isolation
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Stateless IP/ICMP Translation algorithm, 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)
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