A bulging disc can occur in the neck (cervical region), lower back (lumbar region) or, less commonly, in the mid-back (thoracic spine). Bulging discs usually remain asymptomatic unless they compress a spinal nerve rootlet or the spinal cord itself.
protected mode. Protected mode is a mode of program operation in a computer with an Intel-based microprocessor in which the program is restricted to addressing a specific contiguous area of 640 kilobytes. Intel's original PC microprocessor, the 8088, provided a one megabyte (1 Mbyte) random access memory (RAM).
EXAMPLE: Internet Explorer Protected Mode in Internet Explorer 8. NOTE: Only in Internet Explorer 8 you will see what security zone you are in at the bottom right in the status bar in, and whether protected mode is turned on or off for that security zone. This is not displayed in IE9, IE10, and IE11.