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Where's my electric flying green car? Oh, we just have to make it a "rule" and it will automagically appear?

ignoramus, meet your mirror

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If the damn bulb (and thus, the technology behind it) was so damn good, I'd buy it. Given the outrageous price, lack of dimming (entire house is Lutron equipped with Maestro and Grafik dimmers), and off-colors across manufacturers,etc., I'll gladly keep using my secret stash of 100w, 120w, BR30s and 40s. I'm good for at least 10 years.

Massive oversimplification of the work done by Rejewski, Zygalski, and Rozycki as well as the reason the work was shifted to Bletchley. A little something called 'the invasion of Poland,' perhaps?

Also, the material provided by German Hans-Thilo Schmidt was critical to the initial break.

QFT

See also:

"Battle of Wits (The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II)" by Stephen Budiansky 2000
"Seizing the Enigma (The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes 1939-1943)" by David Kahn 1991
"Code Breakers (The Inside Story of Bletchley Park)" by F.H. Hinsley & Alan Stripp 1993
"Code Ciphers & Other Cryptic & Clandestine Communication" by Fred B. Wrixon 1998

You can help preserve Bletchley Park by visiting http://www.bletchleypark.org/ and donating your time/money.

All of us old farts did your mom in the basement computer lab behind the VAX 11/750 on top of the HP1000. Or was it the Honeywell Bull? Whatever, she was a freak.

I doubt we'll see the editors report this rebuttal from one of the co-authors and a leading member of his "team"...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2055191/Scientists-said-climate-change-sceptics-proved-wrong-accused-hiding-truth-colleague.html

QUOTE: "Odd coming from someone who stole the GUI and the mouse from Xerox."

Too true. Jobs/Apple became exactly what they supposedly fought against. 1984 commercial? Yeah, look at what their locked ipod/iphone/ipad has become. Whining about Android? nothing here to see....

Green energy == flying cars

I want both of them. Not expecting either. Would prefer the government quit burning through cash and let the market decide. The "logic" of the remainder of your post is not Mensa material....

Yeah, right about the time I cancelled my sub. Haven't missed it a bit.

Delicious gem - you get a +1 friend for that one, geek!

QUOTE: " a little over a quarter goes towards defense and military spending (I'm not sure I'm getting my money's worth on that one),"

Yeah, freedom is WAY overrated. /asshat OP

Play the Dr. Who pinball and you'll be set.

http://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=738

IBM sure did have RFID pegged right...... <smirk>

Atlas Shrugged, indeed.

QUOTE: "This win was more a rebuke to the conservatives than anything else."

So, in other words, the premise of the '09 award is a sham? The committee has lowered itself to making trivial political statements?

Nevermind, they already trashed their credibility with Arafat and Gore. Give him an Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy, or Razzi for all I care. Do it to spread your political view and you're an imbecile.