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12-19-2013, 11:56 AM
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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Just saw the McKellan episode of Extras. Brilliant stuff.
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12-24-2013, 10:18 AM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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I have been fascinated by "code breakers" ever since movies
and books came out with their super heroic action stories. This morning, Sundae's post about Alan Turing set me off on internet surfing to find out how he and 400 Wrens (and a lot of other people) were actually able to break the German Enigma codes ... with pencil and paper and a few ingeniously designed mechanical bombes. This Wiki article about BOMBE is close enough to layman's language to be "decipherable". Here is a teaser: Quote:
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12-30-2013, 03:31 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
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Location: South Central...KY that is
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12-30-2013, 09:08 PM
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The future is unwritten
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