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2009-09-11 Britain

PM issues posthumous apology to Bletchley Park codebreaker

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Posted by Free Radical 2009-09-11 08:56|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The story of the Bletchley Park codebreakers and the breaking of the German High Command code is a fascinating part of WWII history despite the slant of the story.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-09-11 09:47|| 2009-09-11 09:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Turing also made seminal contributions to formal computer science theory. A real loss.

Posted by lotp 2009-09-11 19:01|| 2009-09-11 19:01|| Front Page Top

#3 JOE! 2008 was THIS close to PASSING.

Posted by .5MT 2009-09-11 19:50|| 2009-09-11 19:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Not THE "Turing"?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-09-11 20:54|| 2009-09-11 20:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes, 'THE' Turing.

I have little patience with in-your-face gay activists and more broadly with flaunt-every-sexual-activity-you-can-in-the-streets no matter who does it. But the humiliation and destruction of Alan Turing was unnecessary, unspeakably cruel and simply stupid.

The man was a patriot whose work helped defeat the Nazis, he made key foundational breakthroughs in computing theory and was just started to do so in some related fields as well. There is every reason to believe he would have continued to contribute to Britain and the world had the paranoia of the time not led the British government to discard and mistreat him badly.

Posted by lotp 2009-09-11 23:03|| 2009-09-11 23:03|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm a little put out by your "seminal contributions" sly entendrea, lotp. I'll get over it

/ heh

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-09-11 23:40|| 2009-09-11 23:40|| Front Page Top

#7 but not my typos...sh*t

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-09-11 23:41|| 2009-09-11 23:41|| Front Page Top

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