Kisama - Slashdot User

Comment Curiouser and curiouser (Score 0) 605

by Kisama on Thursday December 31, 2009 @01:15PM (#30606964) Attached to: Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights?

I work for a state agency, and surprisingly *everyone* here has local admin. This is a stark contrast from when I was enlisted, as not even Help Desk or Server Room had admin rights anymore as they had consolidated everything upchannel.

Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows 653

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 31, 2009 @08:59AM from the he-only-invented-modern-computer-science dept.

chrb writes "Several British news sources have recently reported on the growing campaign that calls for an apology to Alan Turing for his persecution by the British government. The petition to the Prime Minister was started by John Graham-Cumming, who has also written to the Queen requesting a Knighthood for Turing, but admits that a pardon is 'unlikely,' saying, 'The most important thing to me is that people hear about Alan Turing and realize his incredible impact on the modern world, and how terrible the impact of prejudice was on him.'"

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