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Marking 50 Years Since Alan Turing's Death
erroneous writes "Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Alan Turing: mathematician, code breaker, and computer pioneer. He was today commemorated in his home city of Manchester, UK." Here are stories at the BBC and at The Register.
The city of Manchester would ask that you avoid eating the apples.
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Saying that someone was a homosexual makes them an asshole? Does saying someone was straight mean the same thing? What's wrong with being gay? What if you say that someone was a man or a woman, is that being an asshole, too?
Contrary to popular belief, mal_vu didn't really pass a Turing test -- she would have had to fool real people as well as FBI agents.
As can be seen by the comment at the top of page now (9:48 EDT), Turing commited suicide by eating a cyanide-laced apple. Re-read the comment and decide again if you think it's offtopic (don't forget offtopic/overrated lower karma while funny doesn't raise it)
Anyone who wants to join Orkut [orkut.com], but hasn't gotten an invite, please post your (spam-mangled) email address, and you'll get an invite. They do take awhile though (I've sent two out so far, and only one has appeared, so give it time). So go ahead, post away.
Just make it obvious how to demangle your email address. They also want your first and last names, you can give me real ones, or I'll just fill them in with something fake (you can change it later).
Why is the software icon displayed for a science post? nit? pick!
Certainly that's part of it for some people, but I've had gay male friends who grew up acting in an effeminate way starting in childhood, and began to wonder if they were gay because of that, and only later discovered a strong sexual preference for the same sex.
The moral being that there's many kinds of people in the world, and a single explanation rarely accounts for all differences. Including biology -- and also that there seem to be multiple biological reasons for these things.
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I meant it as "yes, it is a coincidence", which is true. But I guess you could see it the other way - "yes, there is a connection". Funny that I get modded to +5 for an ambiguous one-word comment . :-)
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