tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post7984101555557613308..comments2024-03-27T21:35:04.988-07:00Comments on EGO OUT: MAY 21, 2016 LENR: WAS MY YESTERDAY'S EDITORIAL A TOTAL FAILURE?Georgina Popescuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04628821029016016988noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post-66532120329657035512016-05-21T22:11:48.091-07:002016-05-21T22:11:48.091-07:00thanks, dear Sam.
We owe much to this unhappy geni...thanks, dear Sam.<br />We owe much to this unhappy genius- I have read a lot about him. RIP!<br /><br />peterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post-57177277342912418732016-05-21T19:28:11.458-07:002016-05-21T19:28:11.458-07:00By late 1941, Turing and his fellow cryptanalysts ...By late 1941, Turing and his fellow cryptanalysts Gordon Welchman, Hugh Alexander, and Stuart Milner-Barry were frustrated. Building on the work of the Poles, they had set up a good working system for decrypting Enigma signals, but they only had a few people and a few bombes, so they did not have time to translate all the signals. In the summer, they had had considerable success, and shipping losses had fallen to under 100,000 tons a month, but they were still on a knife-edge. They badly needed more resources to keep abreast of German adjustments. They had tried to get more people and fund more bombes through the proper channels, but they were getting nowhere. Finally, breaking all the rules, on 28 October they wrote directly to Winston Churchill spelling out their difficulties, with Turing as the first named. They emphasised how small their need was compared with the vast expenditure of men and money by the forces and compared with the level of assistance they could offer to the forces.[65]<br /><br />As Andrew Hodges, biographer of Turing, later wrote, "This letter had an electric effect."[66] Churchill wrote a memo to General Ismay, which read: "ACTION THIS DAY. Make sure they have all they want on extreme priority and report to me that this has been done." On 18 November, the chief of the secret service reported that every possible measure was being taken.[66] The cryptographers at Bletchley Park did not know of the Prime Minister's response, but as Milner-Barry later recalled, "All that we did notice was that almost from that day the rough ways began miraculously to be made smooth."[67] More than two hundred bombes were in operation by the end of the war.[68]sam northhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13268558018307793474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post-13810938579883519072016-05-21T19:07:29.114-07:002016-05-21T19:07:29.114-07:00Peter
This fellow did his part also in WW2.
Alan...Peter<br />This fellow did his part also in WW2.<br /><br /><br />Alan Turing (1912-1954) was a brilliant mathematician and a founder of computer science. He was one of the codebreakers who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II and who played a major role in breaking the cipher systems used on the German Enigma machine thereby generating the Ultra intelligence that proved a key factor in many Allied Victories.<br />Samsam northhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13268558018307793474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-326167780677397310.post-27595105896594133082016-05-21T11:30:21.793-07:002016-05-21T11:30:21.793-07:00Dear Peter,
you editorial yesterday was no failur...Dear Peter,<br /><br />you editorial yesterday was no failure. Even if for example I had not answered, so I have read it and it made me think about several personal issues. I think many of your readers feel like me and the fact that there is now visible reaction does not mean that your words do not have deep impact. In my case they had impact, because they strengthen my point of view not to be angry of myself because of missed chances or misfortune in life, but to learn of it and turn over the worst to the best!<br /><br />Best regards<br />FelixAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08607999212338376390noreply@blogger.com