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Hedy Lamarr (2018)

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Re: Hedy Lamarr (2018)

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Post by djoletina »

hackyhacky wrote: post #76
djoletina wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where did I do that? I asked how is she -American in my OP.

> I feel like the hyphen changes her identity which she might not have agreed with. Emphasis mine. Sure sounds like you're speaking on behalf of Hedy.

This is a forum and I’ve brought this up as a topic for conversation, I’m expressing my opinion. It’s a normal use of a forum.

And also, it sounds nothing like I’m doing that. “I feel” and “might not” are definitely signs that I’m not claiming anything just discussing the topic.

Re: Hedy Lamarr (2018)

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Post by kippinitreal »

c0pium wrote: post #54
pomian wrote: post #17

Hedy's Folly, by Richard Rhodes. It's a very good book about Hedy Lamar's life and her fame, and work on that patent. It's interesting that the book is not mentioned. The author is the same one that wrote the Making of the Atomic Bomb, which I believe the movie Oppenheimer, was based on. All of his books are very interesting, revealing many of the intricacies, that took place in recent history, making the world we li…

Oppenheimer was based on “American Prometheus”, thus all the Prometheus references.

True - but Richard Rhodes (author of Hedys Folley) was an advisor to Nolan for the film and I imagine his books on atomic history were very helpful.

Re: Hedy Lamarr (2018)

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Post by developer93 »

nonrandomstring wrote: post #2

Frequency hopping is no small idea to crack because you either need a shared codebook (PRNG) or a means of re-keying to an ephemeral window of future sequences. Didn't read Lamarr's patent but she seems a natural hacker girl taking music boxes apart aged 5.

Just a hacker huh? Is a female hacker different than a male one?

Re: Hedy Lamarr (2018)

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Post by dang »

anonym29 wrote: post #18
HL33tibCe7 wrote: post #3

Like many stories of this kind, the idea that this person "pioneered the basis" of these technologies seems massively overblown. What she and Antheil patented was a system that used frequency hopping to help guide torpedoes, using a piano roll to switch between the frequencies. They did not "invent" frequency hopping, which had been discussed in the literature for 30 years already.

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You can't take HN threads into gender war, or any ideological flamewar, like this. The way you crossed into personal attack is particularly ugly. We ban accounts that post like this, so please don't post like this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Hedy Lamarr (2018)

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Post by satori99 »

kadoban wrote: post #38
blipvert wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And, in her gratitude, sued Mel Brooks for $10m!

Did she really? That's pretty hilarious tbh...

She did indeed. Brooks didn't even fight it. He just paid because he admired her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEQ3OxYL2Co

Re: Hedy Lamarr (2018)

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Post by DoreenMichele »

satori99 wrote: post #85
kadoban wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did she really? That's pretty hilarious tbh...

She did indeed. Brooks didn't even fight it. He just paid because he admired her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEQ3OxYL2Co

She actually sued us for using Hedley Lamarr. Too close to Hedy. And they said, ‘This is ridiculous, we’ll go to court, we’ll fight it.’ And I said, ‘No! She’s beautiful. See if you can get a meeting.’”

Brooks continued, “I read something about, you know, department store, embarrassment. ‘Give her within reason, pay her. Give her whatever she needs.’ ’You know, because, she’s given us so much wonderful cinematic pleasure for forty years. I think it’s incumbent on us to salute her is some, anyway we can. And send her my love and tell her where I live.’”

Re: Hedy Lamarr (2018)

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Post by peoplefromibiza »

peoplefromibiza wrote: post #19

She surely was a brilliant mind, but calling her "the mother of Wi-Fi" is IMO a bit disingenuous, it is like calling Becquerel "the father of the nuclear reactor" because he accidentally discovered spontaneous radioactivity.

Also, @dang, it's fascinating that a streak of downvotes on a recent comment percolated on these two comments with the same exact magnitude and at the same time, on a thread that has no more traction.

how interesting...

especially this one, I see no reason why it went from +2 to 0 at the same time that the parent went from +7 to +5 since it doesn't say anything controversial or offensive

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37636480

It would be great if people could se who downvoted them

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