Instead, the beauty of the network lies in the empowerment of everyone where every node of the network is connected in real-time.

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The Sun Ray appliance effectively becomes the end node of the network, and its function is to display pixels on the screen, capture keyboard and mouse clicks, and send them back to the server.

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The star of the Sonos system is its wireless remote controller, which acts as just another node on the Sonos network.

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The Bitcoin Foundation mission leads to the early specific goals of financially sponsoring the efforts of the core development team, funding core infrastructure such as a test network and a DNS seed node, publishing a set of best practices for bitcoin integration, coordinating responses to business and media inquiries, and organizing an annual bitcoin conference with the first one being held in Silicon Valley.

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One of the WikiLeaks activists owned a server that was being used as a node for the Tor network.

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The most appealing vehicles will be those that serve as yet another node in a driver's existing network of devices.

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