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Remembering Alan Turing On His 99th Birthday

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the your-machines-confound-me dept.

Blacklaw writes "Today marks the 99th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, a noted polymath and cryptanalyst who is regarded by many as being the grandfather of modern computing."

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  1. Thank you by Haedrian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thank you mister Turing. Sorry about the whole anti-gay thing.

    Sent from my physical implementation of Turing Machine.

    1. Re:Thank you by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It was therefore right (in the sense of the community he was working in/for) to get rid of him.

      You are either ignorant of what happened to Turing, or a total asshole.

      Turing was not just let go from an intelligence related job, which would be bad enough. He was convicted of "indecency" and made to undergo chemical castration via estrogen injections. There is nothing "right" about what happened to him.

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  2. And shamefully treated too. by Gandalf_the_Beardy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I always wonder what more he would have gone on to if he hadn't been branded a pervert - one of the UK Govt's more shameful episodes.

    As it was, the Turing machine remains an excellent means of terrorising computing undergraduates. I've never seen such confusion when we saw the concept for the first time in class.

  3. Turing, victim of hypocrisis by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While we're in dire need of your skills, we'll look past your "oddities", but as soon as the fag did his part he can as well go to hell.

    How many good people do we have to lose due to hypocrites and stupid laws influenced by religion before we notice that the Gallileos and Turings did more to our progress as humans than all the bible thumpers together?

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  4. Re:Why 99 by agentgonzo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Slashdot is trying to atone for its past history of posting news stories months after they happen by being a whole year early for this particular one. Also, expect three threads on the subject next year.

  5. Re:Polymath? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Stupid question: What is a polymath?

    Proof that idiots will ask stupid questions before using Google.

    If you're here it's not like you don't have net access... Being too helpless to get off your ass and find your own answers is why you are and shall remain a fucking imbecile.

    You're like the morons who wait on hold for 30 minutes for tech support just to ask questions that are in Page 1 of the FAQ, in the Web site, in the README file, in the help file, in the manual, and on the jacket the CD comes in. Yes they are literate. Hand-holding is what they want. They want somebody to come and hand them an answer even if that's hundreds of times less efficient than using their own resources. They are sheeple and they are followers and they are mindless.

    Now, see if you can follow along. What happens when you get a whole nation like this? What authority do they start looking to, to do all their thinking for them? Oh, right, government. Fear this and be scared of that, and oh was that your Constitution we just shredded, oh well, you won't miss it. You think it's just a little intellectual laziness and you think anybody who doesn't like that is just an asshole. God dammit sometimes the asshole has a compelling point. Are you really so stupid and immature that you can't separate the correctness of the point from your feelings about it?

    Seriously quit helping helpless people. It's ultimately the best thing you can do for them.