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The Sloot Digital Coding System is an alleged data sharing technique that its inventor claimed could store a complete digital movie file in 8 kilobytes of data — which, if true, would dramatically disprove Shannon's source coding theorem, a widely accepted principle of information theory that predicts how much data compression of a digital file is mathematically possible.
In computer programming, a code smell is any characteristic in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a deeper problem. [1] [2] Determining what is and is not a code smell is subjective, and varies by language, developer, and development methodology. The term was popularized by Kent Beck on WardsWiki in the late 1990s. [3]
The partially decomposed body of Ricky McCormick was discovered in a field in St. Charles County, Missouri on June 30, 1999. Sheriffs found two garbled hand-written notes – apparently written in secret code – in the victim's pockets, and these were handed over to the FBI for further investigation.
During this search, the song earned the nickname "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet". [ note 1 ] The song was recorded from a West German Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) radio broadcast sometime during the mid-1980s, likely in or around 1984. [ 1 ]
The stated purpose of the puzzles each year was to recruit "highly intelligent individuals", although the ultimate purpose remains unknown. [2] Theories have included claims that Cicada 3301 is a secret society with the goal of improving cryptography, privacy, and anonymity or that it is a cult or religion.
The source code for Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Enemy Territory was released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) on August 12, 2010. [340] [341] Revenge of the Titans: 2010 2011 Tower Defense, RTS: BSD-3-Clause: Puppy Games Java based game. Source code was released by Puppy Games with the success of the second Humble Indie Bundle. [342]
A mysterious radio blast from space detected in 2022 originated in the magnetic field of an ultra-dense neutron star 200 million light years away. Known as fast radio bursts, or FRB, such brief ...
William Crowther in 2012 Teleprinter computer terminal. Colossal Cave Adventure was originally created by William Crowther in 1975 and 1976. Crowther and his ex-wife Patricia were both programmers and cavers and had extensively explored Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the longest cave system in the world, in the early 1970s as part of the Cave Research Foundation.