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acheron
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Sep 17 2009, 2:30am
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on the other hand, you have different fingers
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The "gay codebreaker" phrase stood out to me too, as I mentioned earlier. I can sort of see the writer's point of view though. The article isn't about Turing. And he's just been in the news in the past week or so due to the British government's "official apology" for their treatment of him, which obviously emphasized his sexuality. And that also concentrated on his codebreaking work, which is much more graspable to the average reader than his work in computability and other fields of math/CS. So while I agree it's not fair that he gets summed up as "the gay codebreaker", I don't necessarily place much blame on the writer of this article.
(As for the spy thing, I thought that too, but that's pushing a rock up a hill at this point. In popular imagination, anyone having anything to do with intelligence is a "spy".)
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars, and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man, for precisely the same reasons. -- Douglas Adams
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JRR Tolkien trained as British spy
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News from Bree
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Sep 16 2009, 2:47pm
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This is a fascinating article.
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silneldor
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Sep 16 2009, 4:35pm
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Alan Turing
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acheron
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Sep 16 2009, 5:00pm
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I'm an admirer of Turing too.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Sep 16 2009, 8:41pm
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I really liked my undergraduate computability class
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acheron
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Sep 17 2009, 2:18am
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I'm wonder if the Tolkien Estate was approached...
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Snaga
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Sep 16 2009, 7:12pm
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Some of this has been public knowledge for at least 28 years.
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N.E. Brigand
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Sep 16 2009, 7:31pm
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I cannot read the fiery letters. Sauron must have been using a four-rotor Enigma./
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L. Ron Halfelven
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Sep 16 2009, 7:35pm
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After they parachuted into Berlin by night, Tolkien was appalled when Turing blew their cover by mincing down the Unter der Linden...
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squire
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Sep 16 2009, 9:19pm
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Well said
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entmaiden
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Sep 16 2009, 10:22pm
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It's a pity that some journalists feel like they must do this to sell a story
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Ainu Laire
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Sep 17 2009, 1:05am
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on the other hand, you have different fingers
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acheron
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Sep 17 2009, 2:30am
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Thanks for those details
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squire
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Sep 17 2009, 3:15am
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completely off this subject: I love your subject line!
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a.s.
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Sep 18 2009, 12:28am
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lol
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acheron
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Sep 18 2009, 3:32am
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