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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (838518)2/22/2015 7:43:17 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) of 1575344
 
Just got back from 'The Imitation Game', about Alan Turing's group at Bletchley Park that cracked the German Enigma code machine in WWII. Great flick, well worth seeing, that covers some incredibly important history.

I knew that we could read the German's code, but it really hadn't penetrated that THAT was why we won the war. but the movie points this out. We knew every troop movement the Germans made, where every U-boat was, where the bombers were going to bomb, where they were going and what they were leaving vulnerable.

But we couldn't USE but a tiny fraction of the information, the tiny fraction that could be explained away some way other than having cracked the German's code! Because if they suspected we had cracked Enigma, they'd come up with some other code generating method. We let untold allied troops die to keep this secret. Even The allied high command was kept in the dark.

Turing's homosexuality finally get's outed, and he's sentenced to chemical castration 'hormonal therapy' by the Brits in the early '50's. It impairs his mind, and he kills himself.

He had invented the computer. You have to wonder how much faster it would have developed had he been left alone and allowed to continue his work.
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