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Month: December 2013
Amazon.com: Underground – A Short Story (A Mid-World Christmas Collection) eBook: James L. Wilber: Kindle Store
Underground – A Short Story (A Mid-World Christmas Collection) – Kindle edition by James L. Wilber. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Underground – A Short Story (A Mid-World Christmas Collection).
In the underground city of Necropolis, Hades is bound by duty, family, and his own alienation. That all changes when he meets Persephone, a true free spirit. Will their love tear apart the world above and below? From the author of My Babylon comes a modern retelling of the Hades & Persephone myth. Underground is a story about the conflict between family and passion. Along with stories from Stephan Michael Loy and Shade OfRoses,Underground is part of a Mid-World Christmas Collection. Find more great books by indie authors at midworldarts.com
This the awesome British Bombe electro-mechanical codebreaking machine which only had one purpose: to determine the rotor settings on the German cipher machine “ENIGMA” during WW2.
The Bombe was a development of an original Polish “cryptologic bomb”: designed in 1938 by Polish Cipher Bureau cryptologist Marian Rejewski. Legendary “father of cybernetics” Alan Turing also was one of the original designers of this machine (together with Gordon Welchman), which succesfully emulated wheel-settings of ENIGMA during WW2.
Each of the rotating drums is a simulation of an individual Enigma rotor. ENIGMA had only four rotors, but without knowing the proper settings, it took twenty minutes for a Bombe to complete a run, going through all 456,976 possible setting combinations. “Different Bombes tried different wheel orders, and one of them would have the final correct settings. When the various U-boat settings were found, the Bombe could be switched over to work on German Army and Air Force three-rotor messages.”
To get a feel on how intense this machine crunched the numbers, here are some facts: the bottom commutator moved at 850 rpm (British machine has been only slightly slower), the machine itself was electromechanical, featuring the Amplifier Chassis, Thyratron Chassis (the machine’s memory), Motor Control Chassis and multitude switch banks, indexing through all potential wheel settings.
Dogma (1999) – It Can Be Hell Getting Into Heaven
– So for their insolence God decreed that neither Loki nor Bartleby would ever be allowed back into Paradise.
– Were they sent to hell?
– Worse. Wisconsin…