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From: Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs...
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:00:13 GMT
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On a sunny day (Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:21:52 +0100) it happened
liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) wrote in
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>Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 08:13:15 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote:
>> 
>> > On 15/09/2024 03:49, john larkin wrote:
>> > 
>> >> The best thing about MK is that it's close to Oxford.
>> > 
>> > I really must disagree. The best thing about MK is Bletchley Park. It's
>> > more than possible that none of us would be here if it wasn't for the
>> > activities at Station X in the early 40s.
>> > 
>> > It's perhaps interesting to surmise that if what went on at Bletchley
>> > Park hadn't been kept secret until the mid 70s, perhaps the new town
>> > envisioned in the 60s would have been called "Bletchley" in honour and
>> > recognition of what it had done to hasten the end of World War II.
>> 
>> They've made a museum out of it and it's *very* well worth a visit.
>
>The first time I vsited BP musem I was absolutely fascinated by the
>equipment and the expertise of the volunteers who were restoring it.  A
>few years later I visited again - where was everything?  The place had
>become an overpriced, ovehyped, funfair with photographs of the
>equipment but hardly any equipment and few, if any, knowledgeable
>guides. 
>
>Then I discovered the National Museum of Computing at the far end of the
>car park.  That was where all the equipment and volunteers had gone when
>they were kicked out by the coporate types who took over BP.  I arrived
>just as they were about to close, but no matter; they switched the
>equipment back on and gave me a personal mini-tour in the time
>available.
>
>I have been back since and viewed it at leisure, with time to chat to
>the volunteers.  Forget about visiting Bletchley Park, it's rubbish,  go
>to the National Museum of Computing instead and have a fantastic and
>informative experience with people who know what they are talking about.

As to code breaking and 'quantum', I posted this to sci.crypt few days ago:
>>> As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library
>>> Two algorithms added so far, two more planned in the coming months.
>>>   https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/microsoft-adds-quantum-resistant-algorithms-to-its-core-crypto-library/
>>> quote:
>>>   The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core cryptographic code library for handing cryptographic functions in
>>>   Windows and Linux.