The story of cryptography as told in The Code Book is packed with quirkily brilliant characters.
If you finish Singh's code book and want to tax your brain even more, go back to David Kahn's 1, 200-page The Codebreakers, a classic that came out in 1967 and was recently updated.
In The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Quantum Cryptography, due out soon from Doubleday, British author Simon Singh traces the evolution of the centuries-old battle between code writers and code breakers.
The Da Vinci Code, the second book in the series, is the UK's biggest seller since records began, with more than five million copies sold.
The code also got the Kraays into the Guinness Book of World Records for "World's Largest QR Code, " which was really what drove this whole project.
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"My comment is the following because all of those conclusions were taken out based on criminal code and all of us know that this criminal code is not a holy book, " Esseghaier said at the hearing Wednesday.
Microsoft Press has issued a book called Writing Secure Code, now required reading in the company's crash security courses for programmers.
She is the founder of IndiaThink and the author of The Little BRIC Book: Cracking the Code of Projects in Brazil, Russia, India and China.
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Last year, Bruno Grandi, the president of the International Gymnastics Federation, known as FIG, said in an open letter there was a problem with the Code of Points, the rule book that describes how many points gymnasts get for certain moves but he stopped short of saying it was causing injuries.
She decided to visit the historic Rosslyn chapel in Midlothian, that featured in the bestselling Dan Brown book "The Da Vinci Code" and the film of the novel, which starred Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou.
Pastor RON MCCRARY (Christ Church Anglican, Kansas City): How many--how many of you have actually read the book, itself, The Da Vinci Code?
The new alliance, that works like a code-sharing airline alliance, means travelers can book tickets on a multilingual website to 100 cities, rising to 400 by 2020.
All those who submit applications or nominations will receive a code that entitles them to receive a free download of my book, Your Mark On The World.
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In his book, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson he cracked the code for the user interface to allow the connected TV to sync with different devices and access the iCloud.
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Source code can also be distributed in text-based form like a PDF or scanable book which is what MIT did for Phil Zimmermann and later what 70 international volunteers did for the PGPi Scanning Project in 1997.
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But as critical and as angry as many religious leaders are about The Da Vinci Code, their main response has not been to try to stop Christians from reading the book or seeing the movie, but to meet it head on.
The 17th-century residence played a role in both the book and film version of Dan Brown 's best selling novel, The Da Vinci Code, as the home of English historian Sir Leigh Teabing.
Ancient civilizations, and cracking the code of long-lost languages is usually the reserve of Hollywood, or a good old-fashioned book.
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In addition, they depend on an array of specialty devices, such as audio book-readers, color readers, navigation tools, raised Braille labels, special bar-code scanners, and large-buttoned, voice-enabled MP3 players which are prohibitively expensive.
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Which means this "corrected" version of her book--a steady seller off the backlist--had only been brought up to Ambrose code: footnotes, but no quotation marks around the borrowed passages.
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