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POPSNavajo Code Talkers break silence for Veterans Day Go to the source page at the top of the clip to read their amazing story. More information can also be found at: Navajo Code Talkers official site: http://www.navajocodetalkers.org United War Veterans Council of NYC: http://www.unitedwarveterans.org
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POPSThe Code Even the CIA Can't Crack and the elusiveness of truth, its message written entirely in code. Almost 20 years after its dedication, the text has yet to be fully deciphered. A bleary-eyed global community of self-styled cryptanalysts—along with some of the agency's own staffers—has seen three of its four sections solved, revealing evocative prose that only makes the puzzle more confusing. Still uncracked are the 97 characters of the fourth part (known as K4 in Kryptos-speak). And the longer the deadlock continues, the crazier people get.
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POPSAlgorithmic Inelegance Life is a collection of kludges taped together by chance and filtered by selection for functionality; it all works magnificently well, but if you look under the hood you are simultaneously appalled by the sheer inelegance of the molecular gemisch and impressed with the accumulation of complexity.
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POPSScientists Find a Second Code Hidden in DNA How cool is this? A secondary DNA meta-code has been discovered superimposed on top of the same "genetic code" whose transcription it influences! (Douglas Hofstadter would have had a field day with this!) Highly efficient from an information science point of view. There are so many wonders to be discovered within our very selves!
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POPSProgrammers say the craziest things in their code With the new Google Code Search tool suddenly exposing millions of lines of previously obscure code to the public, I decided to try to find the most embarrassing comments possible that are now out in the open for all to see. Even knowing what types of comments developers leave in their code, I was still a bit mortified to find out just what shameful secrets Google has exposed overnight. (And you should see the R-rated examples.) One blogger compared Google Code Search to reading the great "bathroom wall" of programming. Feel dirty? embryo-0.9.0/src/bin/embryo_main.c 3: /* This is ugly code! don't look at it please! i am embarrassed! i need to */ /* cleanit up! */
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POPSRobots Evolve And Learn How to Lie "The fourth colony sometimes evolved “cheater” robots instead, which would light up to tell the others that the poison was food, while they themselves rolled over to the food source and chowed down without emitting so much as a blink. Some robots, though, were veritable heroes. They signaled danger and died to save other robots. “Sometimes,” Floreano says, “you see that in nature—an animal that emits a cry when it sees a predator; it gets eaten, and the others get away—but I never expected to see this in robots.”
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POPSHappening now: Police are beating women opposing Sudan dress code outside trial of Lubna This is awful. Protesters are being beaten and gassed. "I am not afraid of flogging. ... It's not about flogging. It's not about my innocence. It's about changing the law," Hussein said, speaking to The Associated Press after the hearing Tuesday. She said she would take the issue all the way to Sudan's constitutional court if necessary, but that if the court rules against her and orders the flogging, she was ready "to receive (even) 40,000 lashes." Hussein wore the same clothes Tuesday she wore when arrested, including the dark-colored pants that authorities found offensive. Although she was required to wear the same outfit to court so the judge and others could see the clothing, Hussein said she's been wearing it every day to highlight her case.
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POPSomg!!!! — Navy Cracks Kids' High-Tech Online Code Actual slide from an actual US Navy presentation on why recruitment rates are at record lows amongst the youngest generation and how deciphering their mysterious alien language could help. im in ur navy, draftin ur kidz!
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POPSHow to hold a peaceful protest: Codepink style A picture is worth a thousand words........it's captioned and explanatory. these people are approaching a government official (Timothy F. Geithner) in a threatening manner, and we certainly don't know anything about Code pink, do we?
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POPSLiving Dust This is pretty cool. I think it could also explain more about how we got here on earth.
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POPSAljazeera Code of Ethics Residing in and covering such a controversial, war-torn place as the Middle East (and with a worldwide audience rivaling the BBC), the Aljazeera news department bends over backwards to adhere to the strictest possible objectivity in their coverage. Out of all the journalism sites I visited, Aljazeera had the clearest, most concise, and practical code of ethics in place for its contributors.
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POPSMy Place on Clipmarks: Düsseldorf (Germany) I thought it would be nice if everybody here at Clipmarks would show us a little bit from their homeplace... I ll begin with my city Düsseldorf, which is one of germanies nicest places to be. I really enjoy living here, I love the kindness of the people and the city is nice too. If you go to germany, don't miss Düsseldorf.
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POPSWhat if, the alien, is no more than a human? These same thermodynamic arguments should also hold on Earth-like planets elsewhere in the cosmos. And if that's the case, then ET may not be so alien after all, as Higgs and Pudritz imply with the extraordinary conclusion to their paper: "The combined actions of thermodynamics and subsequent natural selection suggest that the genetic code we observe on the Earth today may have significant features in common with life throughout the cosmos." Now that's a thought....
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POPSScientists unlock Iceman's dress code Oetzi the ice man is about to become a star in the fashion industry. The technique they used to find out what his clothes were made of, can also be used in the fashion industry, or police to detect or trace fake animal materials, and to identify coats made from cat and dog hair, that are planned to be prohibited in Europe next year.
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