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, 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, 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), 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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