October 16, 2011 |
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For all intensive purposes, the English language is changing a lot these days. Chock it up to the Worldwide Web and the fact that more and more people are writing these days rather than merely reading. When they write, they write what they’ve heard. But sometimes they’ve heard wrong, and so they write wrong, too. [...]
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November 24, 2009 |
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The wedge end of malware code can be made to resemble plain English text. That’s what Slashdot is reporting as the result of research presented at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security by security researchers Joshua Mason, Sam Small, Fabian Monrose, and Greg MacManus. What they say in their paper is that normally [...]
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