This is just days after blocking access to LGBT web sites for most young people in the UK.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Shelly Plus i4DC GPIO
As previously posted , I am quite impressed with Shelly stuff anyway, but the new "Plus" range has allowed some interesting develo...
-
The ASR33, like most teletypes of the era, works at a fixed rate. It does 10 characters per second. It is 110 Baud, using 1 start, 8 data (i...
-
Broadband services are a wonderful innovation of our time, using multiple frequency bands (hence the name) to carry signals over wires (us... -
I am using KiCad for PCB design, and it is pretty impressive, but KiCad version 6 has just been released. There are lots of small changes, b...
Pardon. wtf!!
ReplyDeleteI don't understand what point your comment is trying to make.
DeleteTuring was a genius of early computer science and also contributed greatly to code breaking at Blethley Park in WWII. He was treated very shabbily after the war and it is right that the UK government has pardoned him. Very belatedly, but better late than never.
Hi Owen, we are entirely in agreement.
ReplyDeleteEveryone who was prosecuted and harassed under the same laws Turing was should also be pardonned. It shouldn't be a privilege of the famous.
ReplyDeleteAgreed.
DeleteI have to say, David Allen Green in the New Statesman had the best take I've seen on this.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.newstatesman.com/david-allen-green/2013/07/putting-right-wrong-done-alan-turing
I think as most people have said, an apology or some kind of "overturning" of the verdict rather than a "pardon for the offence" would be preferable. A pardon, in some way, seems to confirm a crime. More to the point, it is one out of around 80,000 men convicted of the same thing. What about the rest? ... And so on.
ReplyDeleteThe reasoning I've heard for not overturning the whole law and pardoning everyone who was convicted is that there are still many thousands of people alive who were convicted and declaring the law unjust would invite large compensation claims from them all.
DeleteThis, of course, is a crappy reason since they probably are due some compensation for their troubles!