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- jadenton, on 03/30/2009, -16/+168This machine is the work of Alan Turning. Its successor, also built by Dr. Turning, was the first modern computer. Turning's theoretical work laid the corner stone for modern computers and computer science, which is why his name is attached to the most prestigious price in computers today (The Turning Prize). For his contribution to humanity he was outed as a homosexual and driven to suicide.
Remember Dr. Turning the next time the christanistas start talking about how homosexuality is bad for society. - aegis17, on 03/30/2009, -1/+109I hate to be anal, but it's Turing, not Turning. Only reason I mention this is because the guy at least deserves a correct spelling of his name for all his contributions to Computing Science, not hating on you or anything.
- Dinsdale77, on 03/30/2009, -5/+44It shortened the world war two?
- autitastic, on 03/30/2009, -0/+35The idea was actually developed by Turing to work for more complex enigma codes from the work of Marian Rejewski, a Polish mathematician. Turing's work was outstanding by itself, but Rejewski often is neglected for credit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski - inajeep, on 03/30/2009, -0/+29If your interested in this, pick up Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.
- ucuntu, on 03/30/2009, -2/+28They were FORCED to go to war you idiot. That was just about the only justified war in recent history.
- thefirelane, on 03/30/2009, -5/+29*The* WWII? Seriously, come on.
- FI5HERMAN, on 03/30/2009, -4/+27Imagine how many more young soldiers would have died without it !!!
- SpinningHead, on 03/30/2009, -6/+29Yes, war is murder, but would you prefer a world ruled by the Reich?
- jadenton, on 03/30/2009, -0/+21Actually, the Polish reversed engineered it right before Germany invaded them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Enigma_doubles - cheezintern, on 03/30/2009, -0/+19Before anyone asks, No, it cannot run crysis.
- xartion, on 03/30/2009, -2/+21Turning?
- louishen, on 03/30/2009, -0/+16Yes crossword enthusiasts
That was a way of recruiting, competitions were set in one of the papers (might have been the Times or the Telegraph). Crossword enthusiasts who could solve the puzzles in record time were invited to collect a prize.
The prize, they were approached to help the war effort by becoming code breakers - genius! - hd95, on 03/30/2009, -0/+15According to the History Channel the 3 greatest technological advances of WWII were the A-Bomb
the artillery shell proximity fuse and the code breaking at Bletchley park - dha07030, on 03/30/2009, -3/+17The code breaker was a Nazi?
- HaSatan, on 03/30/2009, -2/+15"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine" WTF!?!
- Yazoo, on 03/30/2009, -4/+17Geeks FTW!
- jba68, on 03/30/2009, -0/+12Also, when the US captured u 505, it was kept hush hush to make sure the Germans didn't start using a different code. It was both the German and Japanese arrogance, believing their codes could not be broken, that attributed to the shortening of the war.
- BigManOnCampus, on 03/30/2009, -2/+14I hope noone around you finds out you're such a pacifist, with the economy going south they might take the opportunity to steal.
- Frostek, on 03/30/2009, -1/+13Because all the British people who live now were the same people that wrongly persecuted Turing... /s
- feignNU, on 03/30/2009, -1/+13This headline is kinda *****, but dugg for Turing. Not only is he one of the major figures in bringing about the information age, his codebreaking work in WWII saved untold numbers of lives. A true hero.
It's a ***** shame what happened to him. - BigManOnCampus, on 03/30/2009, -0/+11The sub surrender happened long after Bletchley park was already operating.
- Wreckage, on 03/30/2009, -3/+14Ironically this machine may have saved Germany from becoming an American nuclear test site.
Had the war dragged on there is a chance (although slim because I doubt they would have dropped the bomb in Europe) that "Little Boy" or "Fat Man" could have paid the Nazis a visit. - Jupiter21, on 03/30/2009, -0/+11He was in his 40s when he died. I can only imagine his contributions to humanity if he had lived at least for the next 30 years. The man was a genius!!!
- BoneheadFarker, on 03/30/2009, -4/+15@ZimbuTheMonkey
No *****, Sherlock. That was the joke... - BoneheadFarker, on 03/30/2009, -6/+16It won't matter to them...
http://www.gbpflag.org/files/38/_photos/Computer%2 ... - TrevorBradley, on 03/30/2009, -5/+14Being ostracised for being gay and the medications he was forced to go on had everything to do with his suicide years later.
- FruitFocker, on 03/30/2009, -5/+14In order to differentiate between your and you're, its best to separate the contraction.
Are you trying to say 'your' or 'you are'?
This message sponsored by you're mom. - oboshoe, on 03/30/2009, -2/+10Perhaps. Perhaps not.
With the victory in Europe, the expected allocation of resources changed.
Without that victory, the immediate pressing need for more nukes, resources may have been reallocated to make sure that they had a few for Europe.
Maybe they would have skipped the trinity test and used that weapon over Hiroshima as a live test instead.
Maybe the bombing of Hiroshima would have been followed by the bombing of Berlin, followed by the bombing of Nagasaki, followed by a joint surrendar of all Axis countries.
Predicting the future is hard, even when its in the past :) - Grazzit, on 03/30/2009, -0/+8Thanks I always appreciate learning a little bit and was totally unaware of the polish enigma machine.
- AzureRise, on 03/30/2009, -1/+9Just want to mention that what happened to him was that he was exposed as a homosexual and harassed for the rest of his life until he killed himself. What a way to treat a War Hero who shortened WWII saving countless lives.
- l33tmike, on 03/30/2009, -0/+8This machine is damned impressive for its time - true parrallel processing! I was up at Bletchley Park GCHQ when this was still being build (as part of the Southampton University Cipher Challenge). Being into electronics, that other thing I find amazing is how they comissioned the machine - all the wiring uses red cables!
- dha07030, on 03/30/2009, -0/+8"technological advances of WWII" It's sad that people cant read. Also the phase dose not imply good or bad just the advancement. Why is that so hard to comprehend?
- Kestrel, on 03/30/2009, -1/+9@jba68 - Still, carlingford's comment is valid; you're attempting to credit the US with an accomplishment that was actually British. U-110 was captured more than 3 years before U-505.
Also, if you re-read his comment, he did not call the u-boat HMS Bulldog; he's simply missing a comma. Even if he had, why be so insecure in your argument that you'll stoop to being petty? - dseang, on 03/31/2009, -0/+7Knowing how Enigma works != knowing how to crack messages encrypted with it
- inactive, on 03/31/2009, -0/+7What about the old ones?!
- inactive, on 03/31/2009, -0/+7BAD TITLE: the code breakers weren't nazis! they were breaking nazi codes.
The Nazis had their own codebreakers but they weren't nearly as effective as the allies. - Fogell, on 03/30/2009, -7/+14Being gay has nothing to do with it.
- serif69, on 03/30/2009, -0/+7Headline by Bill Cosby
- jba68, on 03/30/2009, -2/+8not necessarily, if the war were going on longer it is possible that the dirty Kraut Bastards would have developed their own nuclear weapons.
Also, Setting of such a weapon in the heart of Europe would have been pondered more than dropping one on Japan. - zeropoint51, on 03/30/2009, -0/+6It would have been pondered like the bombing of Dresden was pondered.
- inferno10, on 03/30/2009, -1/+7"Teams of highly skilled mathematicians, cryptologists, inventive thinkers and crossword enthusiasts would receive hundreds of Nazi codes and ‘guess’ the approximate real message or plain text."
Crossword enthusiasts? - PeanutCheeseBar, on 03/30/2009, -5/+11Dugg, but let's not forget about the contributions by fine soldiers such as William "B.J." Blazkowicz.
- a3r0, on 03/30/2009, -0/+5Crosswords also played a role in nearly leaking some of the information about DDay
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1460892/D-D ... - Wareznuke, on 03/30/2009, -0/+5The nukes were used in Japan to avoid the inevitable land invasion which would have cost millions of American lives. The Americans knew that the Japanese were very stubborn and would defend their mainland to the last straw and were also known to kill POW's.
I doubt that the Americans would drop a nuke in Berlin for many reasons.
- The radioactive poisoning to adjacent allies.
- Complete destruction of a historically rich European city which a lot of American culture and heritage was based on.
- Death to a larger number of civilians in an already crumbling infrastructure. Considering Hiroshima & Nagasaki was bombed due to its' strong military bases.
- American POW's and MIA's in the region.
Because of Pearl Harbor the US fought againt Japan with a strong will and wanted to bring the war to an end quickly. - LeviTheSmith, on 03/30/2009, -1/+6Why do they call it Ovaltine?
The mug is round..
The jar is round..
They should call it Roundtine! - inactive, on 03/31/2009, -2/+7Pun intended?
- rac1234, on 03/31/2009, -0/+5A few software lines and a laptop doesn't show people what it looked like or how it worked inside. Nor does it adequately demonstrate Turing's brilliance.
Also, I have a Commodore 64 and a C64 emulator. I like the real one. Got a problem with that? - JakeyG14, on 03/30/2009, -4/+9Troll.
- Kidddrunkadelic, on 03/30/2009, -0/+5U-571 sucked.
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