Posts by haughtonomous

Microsoft compliance police to NHS: We want your money

Re: Government

An organisation should constantly change and adapt with the times. That should never be hampered by software licensing. The NHS is right to evolve. They should tell MS to take a hike - for what the NHS does with software they have no need of MS licences.

Turing's rapid Nazi Enigma code-breaking secret revealed

Turing is an egg

or rather, he is in danger of being over-egged. There were many others who made major contributions to cracking Enigma, not to mention modern computing. Tommy Flowers, for example. We seldom hear of those unsung heroes.

Re: Unbreakable

The weakest link in any process is usually the people involved.

re: Unbreakable

This piece of work is powerful despite the use of a primitive typewriter and pen, and lack of use of Powerpoint, MathCad, Word etc. These days it would most likely be given scant attention and disregarded as an 'unprofessional' piece of work.

How we have lost our way with all these modern 'productivity' tools, which are for the most part exactly the opposite. Turing would have utterly rejected them, I'm sure!