According to Shelton, that explanation was enough to satisfy this officer, whose responsibility was to confirm the security of the codes necessary to control weapons that could literally destroy all life on Earth and that hopefully deter an attack on the US with similar weapons, and no one checked again that month.

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This used the life of Alan Turing, a mathematical pioneer who broke the German Enigma codes and fathered the modern computer before running foul of the homosexuality laws in the 1950s, to examine how a man who had difficulty with ordinary human feeling devoted his life to creating a machine that could think and feel.

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Mr Obasanjo must start to refashion not just the institutions of the state but the codes of practice and patterns of behaviour among the people at large that make civilised life possible.

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Mr Achebe has drawn support from the publishers and academics, who say the sex scenes are central to the book and argue the purpose of literature is to mirror life rather than set moral codes.

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For the development of tailor-made life, it is necessary to understand what each gene codes for.

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Just like a building contractor needs to follow blueprints, building codes, and inspector guidelines, security needs to be baked into the software development life cycle so that these issues can be identified when software is being designed, built, and inspected.

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