Honour for Colossus code-cracker
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An amateur cryptographer who beat the World War II machine in a code-cracking challenge is honoured.
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A technique originally designed to analyse DNA sequences is the latest weapon in the war against spam. An algorithm named Chung-Kwei (after a feng-shui talisman that protects the home against evil spirits) can catch nearly 97 per cent of spam.
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On the PHPKitchen site today, Demian Turner looks at a handy utility to ensure that the coding standards in your documents are all passable - PHP_CodeSniffer.    There was a fantastic CS helper package released at PEAR this week, PHP_CodeSniffer. The package, which requires PHP5 and is nicely coded, puts a phpcs script in your path so you can pass files or directories to it to get your CS validated.   The results are detailed and processing is surprisingly fast considering how many tokens are being parsed.    Demian gives an example of what the validation process looks like and why he finds the entire package particularly useful.
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Luke Welling takes a humorous look at something he misses in PHP - register globals being set to on.    I am aware that there are some things so shocking that you are not supposed to say them in polite company [...] so confronting that they are best kept to yourself regardless of how strongly you believe them. I have a similarly shocking sentiment that I feel I have to share.   I really like register_globals in PHP.    He reminicies about the days gone by of being able to assume that register_globals is turned on, the days of simpler, lighter code that's even easier for the newbies to get into. Anyone for a tshirt?
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Cdodewalkers.com has announced their latest PHP Coding Contest...
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Blighty's cultural computing heritage safe at last Bletchley Park, where code breaking machines were developed during the Second World War, is to be home to a national museum of computing backed by the British Computer Society and the Codes and Ciphers Heritage Trust.â¦
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Also: Arthur C. Clarke's three wishes. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Letters: On the need for a code of behavior for the Internet.
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Visionary game make Peter Molyneux has been appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours list.
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It is easier to optimize correct code, than correct optimized code.--Yves Deville
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Dans une newsletter envoyÃ©e Ã  ses abonnÃ©s, Electronic Arts a rÃ©vÃ©lÃ© une information trÃ¨s intÃ©ressante : un nouveau Command &amp; Conquer est en prÃ©paration.
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The code for the first open source "intimate interface" to connect sex toy hardware to Second Life is posted by qDot Bunnyhug. Have at it. In Sex Drive Daily.
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Within days of the release of the security bulletin, there was proof of concept code available on the web. As the exploit was analyzed by various security groups, it was found that it was similar
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In brief Exploit circulating for unpatched vuln
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Thousand Parsec (http://www.thousandparsec.net) is working toward a framework for creating online turn-based space strategy games.    Thousand Parsec has released a new version of libtprl, a C++ ReadLine library. libtprl is used by the C++ server, tpserver-cpp.  There are changes to the actual library this time. New methods added and some small cleanup. Added were methods for getting the current commandset, setting whether readline catches signals, redisplaying the line and force redisplaying the line, and setting the finish of completions (disabling the filename completion). All 0.1.x releases will be interface compatible.   See: https://sourceforge.net/projects/thousandparsec
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Putting gamers in the role of Lee Harvey Oswald has put the game&#39;s makers in the hot seat. The game&#39;s developer is calling it a &quot;docu-game,&quot; but most of the press surrounding the release of the $9.95 downloadable
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Blog: Suspicious of the guy who is just blowing everybody away in Quake 3? Your future PC might be able to tell who is cheating.