Remembering Alan Turing On His 99th Birthday 146
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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Remembering Alan Turing On His 99th Birthday
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HELP!!!! I'm being held prisoner in /usr/games/lib!
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Hey, in the US we did the same thing with our World War II scientist-hero, only we started calling Oppenheimer a "communist" instead.
Oppenheimer and Turing won that fucking war, and this is what they got for it.
Re:Polymath? (Score:4, Informative)
Someone who is skilled in multiple different disciplines like Leonardo da Vinci, (Painting, sculpture, engineer, physicist, astronomer, anatomist, geologist, architect) or perhaps Jefferson, (author, lawyer, musician, botanist, diplomat)
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English public schools are and always have been full of faggotry.
Not sure whether you chose that word by accident - but "Fagging" (same root) was common in english public schools and it had nothing to do with homosexuality.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fagging [wikimedia.org]