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Looking At Turing

Jim Jones has written in with the first of a series that explores the history of Mr. Alan Turing, and his connection with digital computing.

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  1. prist roast!?!?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YES!!!! 0wned nigg45!

  2. 1p? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Post, first.

  3. first pr0st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    w00t, im the pimp of the world!

  4. fp mutha!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    need i say anything else? anything at all? really? honestly? wow...

  5. The best search I've ever done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.google.com/search?q=google.com

  6. Re:All Computers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Turing was a faggot, and if you use computers for too long, you will end up catching the gay!

  7. I want a story cache by Kong+the+Medium · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Warning: Too many connections in /home/sites/site53/users/systool/stbwebsite/inc/da tabase.inc on line 17 Secret code error number 83: localhost, bfadmin.

    or shorter /.'ed

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  8. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, this is funnier. You do three things:

    1) accept the parent's challenge to post something funnier
    2) personally attack him/her
    3) manage to wrap the whole thing up with a reference to both the poster's inability to say anything funny and the Turing machine, thus coming slightly back on topic.

    Individually, each component would be much less effective. But you manage to pull it off. Bravo!

  9. what a way to sneak in the fundies by eclectric · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was wondering if anyone else noticed that comment thrown from left field. I thought the fundy christian god said that computers were bad (no offense intented towards christians that aren't fundies).

  10. Re:can we please evolve by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And according to the bible, the world was supposed to end about, what, a thousand times already? Gimme a fucking break. The bible is nothing more than a collection of parables to teach ignorant people how to live well. If you don't fuck another man in the ass, chances are pretty high that you won't get aids, and if you choose to fuck and suck men, you should use condoms. There are a lot of good lessons but nimrods like you that take it at face value are about 5 centuries behind the rest of us. Jackass. Go sit in a corner until you learn to think for yourself.

  11. The oldest and best Turing machine! by Afrosheen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.exclamationsextoystore.com/images/head coach erction pump.jpg

  12. Does he created the Turing language? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BTW Turing (the language) sucks.

    1. Re:Does he created the Turing language? by seann · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      as a compitant programmer (not speller) who has to learn turing in his gr 11 class, using that language to create applications is like sticking your penis in a toaster oven.

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  13. Alan Turing, Eleanor Roosevelt and Abraham Lincon by SimHacker · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Turing wasn't the only historically signifigant homosexual in history.

    Eleanor Roosevelt certainly had a compassionate attitude about homosexuality: she was the first known bisexual First Lady.

    I wonder if Hillary Clinton ever flirted with Eleanor Roosevelt's ghost in the Lincoln bedroom. That would be appropriate, because Lincoln was the first known gay president. Ever wonder where the Log Cabin Republicans got their name? Walt Whitman (who had a serious crush on Lincoln) wrote a poetic tribute to Lincoln, "O Captain! My Captain!", in his book "Leaves of Grass" which Bill Clinton gave as a gift Monica Lewinsky. Steamy romantic stuff!)

    From An 'Outing' of Historical Proportions by Cliff Arnesen:

    On March 9, 1933, Eleanor wrote from the White House to Lorena: "My Pictures are nearly all up & I have you in my sitting room where I can look at you most of my waking hours! I can't kiss you [in person] so I kiss your picture good night and good morning,"

    And, on December 5, 1933, Lorena wrote to Eleanor: " Most clearly I remember your eyes, with a kind of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that soft spot just northeast of the corner of your mouth against my lips."

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  14. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    abortion is funny compared to you

  15. Re:can we please evolve by K0R$+h4x0r+ru1z · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think what he's saying with the quote is evolve beyond people like Pat Robertson, and past the same intolerance that killed Turing.
  16. Re:Alan Turing, Eleanor Roosevelt and Abraham Linc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't forget the President Roosevelt, Elanor's husband, was a gimp in a wheelchair.
    Obviously she would have to look elsewhere for her romantic interest.

  17. Re:Good History by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where is the 'freewheeling speculation' in being a Linux coder?
    Linux is basically a tired reimplementation of a Time sharing system from the 70's.
    There is hardly anything new in Linux at all. One of it's real shortcomings is the lack of anything new, and in fact the lack of any design oversight at all.
    Stone soup might be nourishing, but if everyone throws in vegetables at random it's not going to have a particulary good flavor.

  18. Re:I'm just curious by treke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Exactly the same thing as a single turing machine.

  19. Oh my god... by PsiPsiStar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... They killed Turing!
    Those Bastards!

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  20. Re:Alan Turing by class_A · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    CTID? Would I be foolish to think that was City 'Til I Die?

    I know this is off-topic but my parents have just split up and the username of the parent poster made me smile - please give me a little slack here!

  21. Re:What a teaser! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought that was how you passed the "someone in my office is homosexual" test?

  22. Re:King's College - Turing's College by SpryGuy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's accurate to refer to him as a great scientist who was also homosexual.

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  23. Re:Alan Turing, Eleanor Roosevelt and Abraham Linc by blue+trane · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    before he became a gimp, fdr had affairs

  24. exec kwhored by scorcherer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just walked past King's College, Therefore I should be modded up for being incredibly relevant to this article.

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  25. Re:King's College - Turing's College by blue+trane · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a lot of the ancient greeks were pederasts, Socrates for example

  26. thank you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    from your post and your tagline it is very apparent that I got the brain cells you refused.

  27. Re:Alan Turing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I named my linux box "Cindy Crawford".
    When people ask how my day was, I say, "Not too bad, Cindy Crawford went down on me!"

  28. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    CmdrTaco's claim of getting laid is funny compared to... hell, that's funny compared to anything!

  29. Re:His suicide by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    if only jon katz would emulate him....

  30. Re: Offtopic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no it's not, just attach the 2 ends and form a circle :)

  31. No story by Animats · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wait for the next installment. "Turing, the Early Years" just isn't that interesting.

  32. Re:Looking at Turing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    at first glance I read that as "that HUGE TURD sitting on his penis". oh man oh man.he can balance poo on his peepee

  33. Re: Offtopic by Kalani · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Unfortunately that won't work because the storage cells would be finite. That's the whole purpose of the tape to begin with.

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  34. Re:Alan Turing by ctid · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yep! A nice 1-0 over Wolverhampton Wanderers last night :-)

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  35. Re:Bigot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are quite clearly a closed minded bigoted bastard. Go munch some doughnuts.

  36. Re:Turing Unfortunate End by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    UK government, you imbecile. Whoever modded you up was drunk.