Due to widespread cable theft in earlier analog systems, in modern digital cable systems the signals are encrypted, and the set-top box must be activated by an activation code sent by the cable company before it will function, which is only sent after the subscriber signs up.

Due to their position and function, feet are exposed to a variety of potential infections and injuries, including athlete's foot, bunions, ingrown toenails, Morton's neuroma, plantar fasciitis, plantar warts and stress fractures.

Due to the highly hands-on, rough nature of such applications, the industrial joystick tends to be more robust than the typical video-game controller, and able to function over a high cycle life.

Due to the frequent connection between form and function, physiology and anatomy are intrinsically linked and are studied in tandem as part of a medical curriculum.

Due to the constraints of the boundary conditions, there are only limited frequencies and forms for the wave function which can propagate in the waveguide.

Due to Áine's connection with midsummer rites, it is possible that Áine and Grian may share a dual-goddess, seasonal function ( such as seen in the Gaelic myths of the Cailleach and Brighid ) with the two sisters representing the " two suns " of the year: Áine representing the light half of the year and the bright summer sun ( an ghrian mhór ), and Grian the dark half of the year and the pale winter sun ( an ghrian bheag ).

Due to the large population and Isan's important function as a voting bloc in elections, more attention to improving the region's infrastructure, business and education has come from the national government although poverty and regionalism are still impediments to Isan's development.

Due to long-lived nature of Rydberg matter this low work function remains low which essentially increases the low-temperature converter ’ s efficiency.

Due the nature of its function, the Loader has a powerful thrust with its fork arms.

Due to the computability of consciousness and the function of consciousness as a matrix for interpretation, Copies hold the unique position of being the only conscious beings which themselves are not being computed by self-consistent mathematical rules ( existing, of course, in virtual realities held together by heuristics merely for the sake of their experience ).

Due to the decrease or loss of feeling or function in the lower extremities, paraplegia can contribute to a number of medical complications including pressure sores ( decubitus ), thrombosis, and pneumonia.

Due to the two-player password function, it's possible to " cheat " by entering the same password for both players or by entering passwords for players who were at entirely different points in the game.

Due to its location, the basilar membrane places the hair cells in a position where they are adjacent to both the endolymph and the perilymph, which is a precondition of hair cell function.

Due to the dependence on shipping and trade to the city, the main function of the college was to train the engineers and skilled workmen who went on to work at the city docks, as well as at the large Royal Navy dockyard situated in Portsmouth.

Due to similarities in design and function, the Wii Balance Board, a peripheral for Nintendo's Wii video game console, has been compared to the Joyboard.

Due to the difference in the function of these structures, ototoxic poisoning affects the patient differently than in the case of cochlear damage.

Due to a lack of central power this protective function was left to local knights.

Due to this chosen hashing function, we may experience a lot of collisions in usage, so for each entry in the table the VPN is provided to check if it is the searched entry or a collision.

Due to splanchnic hypoperfusion and the subsequent mucosal ischaemia there are structural changes and alterations in cellular function.

Due to this ' as applied ' function, Congress apparently has a greater chance of having its federal statutes survive attacks by States who claim the Eleventh Amendment ( i. e., their state-sovereign immunity privilege ) and argue the statute should be invalidated because it is unconstitutional.

Lastly, this ' as applied ' function appears to apply, arguably, only when there is a Due Process claim as opposed to an Equal Protection claim.

Due to the demands of the Catholic patrons, and his own Protestant beliefs, Hassler ’ s compositions represented a skillful blend of both religions ’ music styles that allowed his compositions to function in both contexts.

Due to this difference in function from typical 3D software, the CPU requirements are far more open.

Due to budget cuts instituted by the Mike Harris government, many highways deemed to serve a local or regional function were downloaded to local jurisdiction.

Due to the simplicity of the Gopher protocol, setting up new servers or adding Gopher support to browsers is often done in a tongue in cheek manner, principally on April Fools ' Day.

Due to SSH-2's superiority and popularity over SSH-1, some implementations such as Lsh and Dropbear, only support SSH-2 protocol.

Due to SONET / SDH's essential protocol neutrality and transport-oriented features, SONET / SDH was the obvious choice for transporting the fixed length Asynchronous Transfer Mode ( ATM ) frames also known as cells.

Due to there being no start and stop bits the data transfer rate is quicker although more errors will occur, as the clocks will eventually get out of sync, and the receiving device would have the wrong time that had been agreed in the protocol for sending / receiving data, so some bytes could become corrupted ( by losing bits ).

Due to this two-port structure, FTP is considered an out-of-band protocol, as opposed to an in-band protocol such as HTTP.

Due to its dedicated nature, the back-side bus can be optimized for communication with cache, thus eliminating protocol overheads and additional signals that are required on a general-purpose bus.

* Awkward extensibility: Due to the lack of a generic extension mechanism, every new feature has to be added in the protocol specification, which makes it less flexible than H. 323, SIP or MGCP.

Due to its simplicity, there were a number of very basic errors that could cause a transfer to fail, or worse, result in an incorrect file which went unnoticed by the protocol.

Due to this design, new protocol daemons can be easily added.

Due to limitations of the protocol, OTR does not support multi-user group chat as of 2009 or encrypted file transfers, but these may be implemented in the future.

Due to the trusting nature of the IP protocol, the source IP address of a packet is not authenticated.

Due to some of the practices of the MVD, such as the non-disclosure of the graves of the executed, this is a violation of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe protocol to make information about capital punishment open to the public.

Due to the referee seeing the incident during the match, as according to A-League protocol, the Match Review Panel had no authority to intervene any further.

Due to the typically close implementation coupling of the network and transport protocols in a given protocol stack, and the typical practice of implementing layers 5-7 outside of the kernel, only the link and transport layer STREAMS service interfaces were later standardized by X / Open.

Due to a false etymology, a popular belief is that they were most likely Finns – the obsolete name of Nenets people, Samoyed, has a similar meaning in Russian: " self-eater ".

Due to the rich mining history dating from medieval times ( the Black Forest was one of the most important mining regions of Europe circa 1100 ) there are many mines re-opened to the public.

Due to the economic crisis that affected most former Eastern bloc countries, a steady reform in the military could not be carried out ; much of the equipment fell into disrepair and some of it was smuggled and sold to the international black market.

Due to its proximity to the Sahara, most of the Cape Verde islands are dry, but on islands with high mountains and farther away from the coast, by orography, the humidity is much higher, giving a rainforest habitat, very degraded by the strong human presence.

Due to their status as an overseas territory of the UK, the Cayman Islands have no representation either on the United Nations, or in most other international organizations.

Due to the Machiavellian and competitive nature within both industries, a vast amount of aspiring entertainers and athletes in the world, even some of the most talented may never be recognized and won't ever receive the opportunity to carve a name for themselves.

Due to their efficiency, these drugs are the most widely used cytostatics.

Due process requires in most cases that notice describing the class action be sent, published, or broadcast to class members.

Due to the way the Christadelphian body is organised there is no central authority to establish and maintain a standardised set of beliefs and it depends what statement of faith is adhered to and how liberal the ecclesia is, but there are core doctrines most Christadelphians would accept.

Due to the significance of this, it is the most visited site in the Holy Sepulchre.

Due to the ubiquity of Ethernet, the ever-decreasing cost of the hardware needed to support it, and the reduced panel space needed by twisted pair Ethernet, most manufacturers now build Ethernet interfaces directly into PC motherboards, eliminating the need for installation of a separate network card.

Due to the severity of its ecological effects, and the scale on which it is occurring, erosion constitutes one of the most significant global environmental problems we face today.

Due to the difficulty of operating in Sicily, most of the First Punic War was fought at sea, including the most decisive battles.

Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, it has been ranked by Forbes as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and the city is noted for its history, culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments.

Due to the exodus of most Portuguese settlers after independence, less than 1 % of Guinea-Bissauans are pure Portuguese.

Due to the diploidy of humans ( and most animals ), there are two alleles for any given gene.

Due to its marked differences in its structure and phonology, some early philologists, most notably Warren Cowgill even argued that it should be classified as a sister language to Indo-European languages ( Indo-Hittite ), rather than a daughter language.

Due to the sparse energy and raw material resources, Hungary is forced to import most of these materials to satisfy the demands of the industry.

Due to his literary style and the thoroughness of his research — which seemingly included studying Roman imperial archives and heavily relying on Thucydides — and his apparent rigor — for he tended not to support any character or subject, taking an impartial point of view — he was by far the most read and admired historian during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the early Modern Era.

Due to the devotional popularity of Guanyin in East Asia, she is known by many names, most of which are simply the localised pronunciations of " Guanyin " or " Guanshiyin ":

Due to song selection and quality of recordings, CD + G is the most popular format for English and Spanish.

Due to their specialized training, English longbowmen were sought as mercenaries in other European countries, most notably in the Italian city-states and in Spain.

Due to the relative high cost of the equipment required, however, it has not become commonplace in most traditional practices today but rather limited to specialty-type practices.

Due to magnesium ion's high solubility in water, it is the third most abundant element dissolved in seawater.