Word: coding
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Long before Dan Brown’s bestselling The Da Vinci Code hit the shelves, Harvard’s own biblical sleuth was on the case. Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History Karen L. King has been cracking the codes of early Christianity for more than 20 years...
...sense that she asks people to rethink their conceptions of Christianity, King deals with many of the same ideas as Da Vinci Code. But she brushes aside comparisons between herself and the novel’s fictional Harvard symbologist, Robert Langdon. The scholar and self-described feminist says the closest field to Langdon’s nonexistent field of symbology would be semiology, a field unrepresented at Harvard...
...child, which the book postulates, King acknowledges that it is possible. But, as scholars we can’t know, says King, and “it’s really, really unlikely that they were married.” Anyone reading Da Vinci Code would be “ill-advised to take it as history,” King continues, because the book presents a “mixed bag of misinformation and partial truths and in some cases things that are just wrong...
...also, for the first time, choose to vote on the Internet. Any registered voter can fill out an online application, which is checked against registration rolls. A ballot is then mailed, and the voter can either return it by mail or vote online by using a secret access code to log onto a secured website. Since Jan. 1, 85,000 people have applied for ballots, and 7,500 have already cast votes. Michigan Democrats expect that online voting will produce a record turnout, as it did in Arizona when it used online voting in a 2000 primary...
...boundaries we have drawn around ourselves for decades are unwinding. When so many consumer products--cameras, books, music, phones--are simply delivery mechanisms for digital code, 0s and 1s, even the companies that manufacture them get confused. So Sony, maker of digital hardware and digital entertainment, finds itself peddling computers that customers can use to rip off Sony music over the Internet. The hard-and-fast physical boundary between your television and your stereo is gone because they're both your computer...