Because a movie about a mild-mannered scientist working on some esoteric mathematical problem without any drama basically has no reason for anyone to yell at each other or chew the scenery or whatever. I.e., no drama. Without drama there is no drama.

Yes! You tell 'em. UR NOT THE BOSS OF ME. Also, I like the lowercase thing. Reminds me of ee cummings

What is especially ironic and troubling about this whole situation is that Britain benefitted so greatly from his staggering intellectual contribution (hell we all do to this day) but when it was discovered that he was gay, he became a liability. MI6 and the CIA were no doubt concerned that his being a homosexual might be used by spies to blackmail him. Some think (and I share this suspicion) that he did not commit suicide but rather he was killed before he became a security risk.

Sort of. The Allies probably would have won anyway due to a preponderance of economic strength. However, the impact of the code-breaking was truly profound and it's hard to overstate its importance. The US naval war in the Pacific -- in particular the Battle of Midway -- was an especially stark illustration of the advantage that intel brings. The Allies located the Japanese fleet and got their planes in the air first and essentially crippled the Japanese navy for the duration of the war. Information brings tremendous power in warfare.

THIS.

The OP sounds like a great recipe for a terrible fucking movie. And yes, no ordinary person could have done what Turing did. Just comprehending his papers is a struggle -- even for such intellectual titans as myself.

I hear you about being a completionist. I think that to read any of the so-called classics you have to be one. Crime and Punishment was sooooo boring. I did quite enjoy All Quiet on the Western Front and this is partly what launched my interest in WW1. I also recently enjoyed A Clockwork Orange immensely.

I am obsessed with the First World War. This event is so ripe with horror, irony, and gravitas that it boggles the mind. I find that some of the better works on the subject offer personal recollections and profiles of individual personalities that exceed the entertainment value of almost any fiction I've ever read. I truly believe that fact is stranger than fiction.

Should anyone be interested in daily events and news articles from exactly one hundred years ago, please check out Old Grey Horror.

As for fiction, I've been forcing myself to read H.P. Lovecraft due to his lofty reputation in the fantasy genre and it's most often hard going but there are moments of genius. I've really been disappointed by so-called 'classic' literature. Hemingway is all right but Dostoyevsky and Faulkner are so boring that I am reluctant to suffer through other works from the canon of Western literature.

And spam smells suspiciously like malware which smells a lot like exploit.

In any case, clicking links to a honeypot will only help the hackers find you more quickly.

Well those certainly look like reputable links by famous 'researchers' to me! As an IT guy, I'll definitely have to go click on them so that my workstation gets infected too.

It's not just the small towns that get rebuffed. Bob Blumenfield's famous RFP for a broadband plan for Los Angeles was met with deafening silence.

Oh come now. You can hardly blame folks with autism-spectrum disorders for failing to comprehend the social implications of their actions.

In other news, shares of Alcoa are through the roof as hedge fund managers shift their portfolio to capitalize on the jump in demand for tinfoil hats....

Yes, it's next-level vaporware.