With respect, there is no such thing as "Britishness" (or American-ness, or Frenchness, etc.) -- you need only look at how different each of the British persons on this show are. Please think beyond stereotypes -- they're never of use, and they really have no place in a deeply troubled world. Thanks.
@@dw999 With respect. With respect, there are such things as humour, light-heartedness and trust. My comment was just a bit of fun. It was meant as a joke and nothing else. Although you don't know me you assume (which makes an a...well, you know.) I am ill-intentioned or ignorant and neither is very pleasant on a sunny Saturday morning. It is the prerogative of humour to deal with stereotypes and although I have never seen a Frenchman with a beret AND a baguette or heard a Brit say: 'By Jeeves' in real life, I instantly recognise them in comedy. So, just to be clear and with the utmost respect and trust in your well-meant words, just chill and brighten up ; ) Even in these troubled times, a laugh is better than a sulk. Thanks.
1) The CIA didn't exist until after the war. 2) The CIA was and is not involved in SIGINT. 3) There were Americans working at BP alongside the British.
I'm afraid I have to correct them there, though. They're misapplying terminology from the field of cryptography to something that's got nothing to do with cryptography. Vail's code is not a cryptographic cipher. It's a code used to translate the latin alphabet to beeps. It doesn't keep anything secret, nor was it intended to. This is a common mistake that people make, they confuse 'encoding' in the context of information processing with 'encoding' in the context of cryptography, even though these refer to entirely different things. In the context of information processing you're talking about translating information from the outside world into something a machine can process, whereas in cryptography you're talking about an algorithm to keep information secret from any eavesdroppers or unintended recipients.
@@chsxtian that makes sense now you say that. Its like a binary code, that isn't meant to hide information as well right. you can use 'code' in multiple ways of course, but you can't assign multiple purposes to 'cipher', is that what you say? Cipher is solely for cryptography?
The reactions of the panel at the end of the last clip really highlights Fry's genius as a raconteur. They look like they've been captivated by a movie or a magic show.
Exactly-don’t you appreciate when a show trusts its audience enough NOT to be funny for a sometimes extended spell? We’ll stick with you, we’re patient! This was a George Carlin secret, he could go long stretches without a laugh without losing his audience. Love it.
And the whole Apple thing is because Jobs was a fruitarian. More like "I wish I was even remotely less of a saltine cracker of a person to think of such an awesome thing." Macintosh comes from the original creator's favorite type of apple.
I worked in the village of Bletchley and never thought of visiting or extending my time and visiting Bletchley Park. I intend to do so as its important and I enjoy the mixture of numbers.
Keep on laughing then Diana till you wet yourself. We all need a good laugh after the hell that was 2020, and even now as we hurdle under lockdown into 2021. Xx
Wars have been known to go on for 40 or 100 years, we're still in the middle East for example. Yes I know that's a very different kind of affair but these things can drag on for a very long time if anyone of influence finds a way to profit from it.
Exactly. I kinda miss the old ones cos Stephen was brilliant but Sandi's ones are hilarious too. Depends on who you get tho I went to a recording and it wasnt hilarious. Funny but not hilarious I wouldve preferred someone i find really funny like Jimmy Carr or Ross Noble
@@oliviadaly4795 A little disappointing but still I'd kill to go to a live show. You should try and go to an 8 out of 10 cats or 8O10C does Countdown, although I think Jimmy is a bit more scripted on that show than in others.
@@oliviadaly4795 nah - they're funny but wld both take over. The host needs to guide and steer but let the info and guests & responses be the main focus. Besides, Jimmy's fake laugh 'uplift' would drive me spare...
I think sandi ruined it for me. I was drifting away from qi for a couple of series, but beginning of series N was the nail in the coffin. She wasn't a patch on William G. Stewart in 15 to 1 either. I only watched about 1/4 of one episode of the new version tho.
"We have the secret to cracking the German enigma code. It's a giant computer, and we call it Colossus." "We'll hide it it a giant obvious mansion in a well known area of rural britain."
not really that obvious to have a mansion in britain though, is it? i mean theyre not common but theyres quite a lot of them. and you wouldnt expect someone to be breaking german codes in a country house
The ornithologist was the real-life James Bond, who Fleming copied the name from for his Agent 007. As you said. Google tells me the two actually met www.realjamesbond.net/2020/01/the-famous-james-bond-ian-fleming-photo.html
German Radio Operators apparently had a bad habit which helped break the Code. Each Radio Operator had a unique 3 Letter Identifier, which they were in the habit of transmitting Twice.
Thank you for mentioning this. He designed and built it and had to use his own money to buy the parts. Turing told him what he needed the machine to do but it was his design. He never gets any credit even though he created the first electronic, programmable computer. Calling him a postman is a bit of a stretch though, he worked at the GPO research centre developing electronic exchanges.
David Holden actually it was a mathematician Bill Tutte (even less well known than Flowers) who came up with the keystream idea that allowed colossus to break Lorenz.
@@davidholden2658 He put over £1000 of his own money that project and all our Government give him was £1000 he didn't even get any credit for what he built.
The first Turing complete electronic computer was not build by Flanders & Turing, it was build by Konrad Zuse in Münich, the Z3, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer)
Apparently it was like an actual almost meme among intelligence operatives My great uncle was OSS and he knew one guy who actually got pulled from the field because they realised any time anyone mentioned that he would laugh and that was reason enough to pull him
Because she's not a comedian? She's very bright, but she's a lexicographer and etymologist. Also, she's Channel 4 brand, and they don't tend to mix and match.
As someone with dual British and German nationality @1.45 tears me between hilarious laughter and utter embarrassment at their complete meat-headed stupidity! 🤦🏽♂️🤣
Ah, well. Remember the Tizard Mission? A bloody great big box full of Most Secret [sic!] codes and ciphers and jet engine plans and radar research and rocket science and new metallurgical ideas and the design for an atomic bomb, and, ooh, all sorts of other juicy things Uncle Sam was only too pleased to acquire for nowt. Sigh. Still, at least when Britain f*cks up, you get hear about it and have a laugh. Unlike some other places, which are (of course) practically perfect in every way. Or else. ;-)
I didn't really understand the last part the british were spending a lot of money on Colossus to decipher germany's lorenz, and they found that it was costing a lot of money, so churchill said give them what they want? Referring to giving the colossus to the americans i assume? there seems to be something missing in the context?
It’s saying that a lot of people in the government thought the whole project was a waste of money but Churchill was convinced it was worth it, so he said to give them whatever they want so that they could complete the project.
The 1970's comedy(?) "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" had intro music (which I think was written by Ronnie Hazelhurst) whose notes spelled out the title in Morse Code.
@@dw999 They did for the first few series, then they got complaints (mainly from radio operators) that it was spoiling the plot. After that they started including the name of the killer and a few other character names as decoys.
3:31 -- No. Gait = "a person's manner of walking." Therefore, it can't be detected when one is still. The way that one holds oneself can be equally distinctive, but that's not a gait.
ROFLOL.... ( Jeg ryger på røven af grin ) Nøgleperson ? Couldn't be more Danish...... -And nobody outside Scandinavia has a doggone chance of knowing what it means :-D
I usually watch these compilations for the smattering of new clips within them, but theres only one here, the rest are just ones already posted but with interesting bits cut off.
Feel so bad for A.Turing, for what he was put through. Just think, he could have lived a normal life and created things we wouldn't have even imagined. Perhaps the basis for other machines that would have also changed the world forever :(
What the didn't mention was that it was a postman that did a lot of the hardware work of Turings computer and that the English gave other members of the empire liberated enigma machines after the war without telling them that they had cracked the code...
A segment from: OUTWITTING THE HUN My Escape from a German Prison Camp BY LIEUT. PAT O'BRIEN Royal Flying Corps [Pg 192] [While holed up in a house in Belgium] "From the keyhole I could see, for instance, a shop window on the other side of the street, several houses down the block. All day long German soldiers would be passing in front of the house, and I noticed that practically every one of them would stop in front of this store window and look in. Occasionally a soldier on duty bent would hurry past, but I think nine out of ten of them were sufficiently interested to spend at least a minute, and some of them three or four minutes, gazing at whatever was being exhibited in that window, although I noticed that it failed to attract the Belgians. "I have a considerable streak of curiosity in me and I couldn't help wondering what it could be in that window which almost without exception seemed to interest German soldiers, but failed to hold the Belgians, and after conjuring my brains for a while on the problem I came to the conclusion that the shop must have been a book-shop and the window contained German magazines, which, naturally enough, would be of the greatest interest to the Germans, but of none to the Belgians. "At any rate, I resolved that as soon as night came I would go out and investigate the window. When I got the answer I laughed so loud that I was afraid for the moment I must have attracted the attention of the neighbors, but I couldn't help it. The window was filled with huge quantities of sausage. The store was a butcher-shop, and one of the principal things they sold, apparently, was sausage."
And in computing, a "code word" can refer to a binary string that represents a single letter or even less. For instance, a typical implementation of Hamming(7,4) code represents half a character with each code word. It is true that traditionally in cryptography, the terms "code" and "cipher" are used in mutually exclusive ways as described, but this has never been the case outside cryptography. Morse code is neither a cryptographic code nor a cipher. It's a binary encoding.
I was going to say the same thing, Tommy designed and Built, Colossus using his own money, and built Colossus II in time for the D-Day landing, with Eisenhower receiving a note, summarizing a Colossus decrypt. This confirmed that Adolf Hitler wanted no additional troops moved to Normandy, as he was still convinced that the preparations for the Normandy landings were a feint. Handing back the decrypt, Eisenhower announced to his staff, "We go tomorrow".Earlier, a report from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel on the western defenses was decoded by Colossus and revealed that one of the sites chosen as the drop site for a US parachute division was the base for a German tank division and the site was changed, again saving lives. Tommy Flowers deserves more recognition, and I really thought Stephen Fry, for all his "Tecno-Geek" interest would have brought Tommy's name up.
But if we hadn't deciphered the enigma, we'd probably be looking at a totally different world. Would Germany still be run as fascist country. Or would Japanese cars be driven to this day. But the air war would be going on the rate it is? Would we be more secular as countries. On giving the Americans colossus, the Labour government gave Russia 2 of the most upto date jet engines which the Russians then xreated there jet engines from . So woohoo the labour government another cock up
lol, UK was developing nuclear anything, ever :D Soviets needed UK nuclear secrets :D Don't mind the US, and captured Germans, but the UK nuclear program...It's like Yugoslavia sold space program to NASA....Hilarious.
Technological progress isn't straightforward, and no country can hold a claim to inventing a particular device. As mentioned, the Poles cracked the first iteration of enigma, with a mechanical device that could be placed on a desk. When the third and fourth rotors were equipped to enigma, the Polish solution no longer worked. It was, however, a vital step forwards to cracking the problem. The nuclear program started in the UK, under codename Tube Alloys, but because it was so expensive, and because the potential for a German bomber to hit the facility was so high, it was moved to the US, who then completed the program. The entire idea of sending U-235 into a bigger bit of U-235 and causing a runaway reaction was developed in the UK before the war. The Tizard mission is probably one of the most generous things the UK has ever done. US research had progressed well beyond anything the British could do, due to the UK being bombed. I'm personally a little miffed that the US rebuked the UK on that. It was potential to create a strong technological union between the two countries. In that regard, the US rocketry program is German in the same way that the Manhattan project is British.