Calculating the addition of the number 2 to a variable, for example, can generate 27 instructions in machine code, many of them repetitive.
The new console looks like it has been constructed from items out of a junk shop, including an old typewriter, a telephone, pressure gauges and a Morse code machine.
The machine does not allow modifications to its ROM (because it has an O in the middle), but the team was able to use a technique called return-oriented programming to modify how the machine executes existing code, taking the bits they want and, ultimately, devising a way to re-program its behavior by simply inserting a cartridge into a slot -- presumably after blowing on it for good luck.
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That flaw allowed a series of exploits that not only gains total control of the machine but leaves behind code that jailbreaks it again every time the device reboots all without even crashing the operating system.
Now Microsoft ties the code to one machine and requires that you "activate" it.
The software giant pledged to fix the update but its efforts became more urgent when security firm EEye Digital Security discovered that the crash circumstances could be exploited to run malicious code on that machine.
There are no plans to mass-produce the machine, but instructions and source code are being made available.
Like Adobe's Flash, Silverlight acted as a wrapper that, once installed on a machine, allowed that device to run code written for it.
In lab experiments, the researchers exploited a loophole in the way Origin handles links to games users have downloaded and installed to make it run code that compromised a target machine.
Even while British code breakers were cracking the Enigma machine and altering the course of the war, Americans were developing one of the most secure, efficient forms of encryption, which was also one of the simplest.
Using an instrument similar to the scanning bar-code guns at supermarket checkouts, this machine analyses black plastics with a laser.
There, a DNA-sequencing machine fired lasers at the fragments and read their genetic code, yielding a computer file in the form of As, Cs, Gs and Ts.
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"Once they have control of the machine they have the potential to put any kind of malicious code on there, " said Mr Evans.
Code-named the "Corona, " the new machine is a much-improved version of the Java Station that received a lukewarm reception two years ago.
At the same time, the Egyptian authorities' actions were clearly informed by their understanding that, with their ties to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizbullah, Syria and Iran, Code Pink and its friends are active collaborators with the jihad war machine.
Bletchley Park was the wartime home of the Government Code and Cypher School which broke the codes generated by the German Enigma machine, using the Bombe.
That will leave plenty of room for future arguments about software patents, which by definition involve a machine called a computer but also may consist entirely of ideas set down in computer code.
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That means that the PGM will be able to sequence 1 billion letters of DNA code in two hours, making it much more competitive with a rival machine, the MiSeq, developed by Illumina, which now dominates the sequencing business.
The source code for all of these systems is closely held by the five big voting machine companies.
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He vows to have a machine by 2012 that will decode in two hours all 20, 000 human genes that code for proteins. (This is roughly 3% of all DNA and will still be far behind Illumina, which can do all the DNA twice.) Eventually, he hopes to create a machine the size of an iPad.
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