[dundee] Sorry Mr Turing - Sign the Petition - Finux spamming the list again

[Iain Barnett]

On 18 Aug 2009, at 12:51, Arron Finnon wrote:

> Howdie Peeps,
>
> For a change this isn't SFD stuff, but a wee bit of spam.
>
> A petition has been set up to get the PM to apologies for the
> conviction of Alan Turing http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/turing/
>
> Taken from the Petition;
>
> Alan Turing was the greatest computer scientist ever born in Britain.
> He laid the foundations of computing, helped break the Nazi Enigma
> code and told us how to tell whether a machine could think.
>
> He was also gay. He was prosecuted for being gay, chemically castrated
> as a 'cure', and took his own life, aged 41.
>
> The British Government should apologize to Alan Turing for his
> treatment and recognize that his work created much of the world we
> live in and saved us from Nazi Germany. And an apology would recognize
> the tragic consequences of prejudice that ended this man's life and
> career.
>
> Please pass it on, Twitter it, oh spam some other list for it.
>
> Finux
>
> ________________________________

Brown's given an apology. Thanks for letting me know about this Finux.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8249792.stm

Iain