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CAOS Forums => News and Commentary => Topic started by: Elizabeth Weber on 2006-04-03T14:33:03-05:00 (Monday)

Title: News Flash - TRULY random number generator
Post by: Elizabeth Weber on 2006-04-03T14:33:03-05:00 (Monday)
The age old question of how to generate truly random numbers has been solved by none other than the unparallelled engineering of Microsoft.  It has been discovered that running Microsoft software produces a random distrubution of errors.  These errors can be harnessed to finally achieve the holy grail of a true random number generator.
Title: Re: News Flash - TRULY random number generator
Post by: Devon Berry on 2006-04-03T16:40:11-05:00 (Monday)
 :lol:

I imagine Microsoft is now going to patent the random number. Everyone hide your dice! :-D
Title: Re: News Flash - TRULY random number generator
Post by: Jonathan Birch on 2006-04-03T16:58:19-05:00 (Monday)
I should probably try to make a counterstatement here, but...
Title: Re: News Flash - TRULY random number generator
Post by: Shaun Martin on 2006-04-05T13:41:36-05:00 (Wednesday)
 :lol:
Title: Re: News Flash - TRULY random number generator
Post by: Matthew Thomas on 2006-04-05T14:46:40-05:00 (Wednesday)
As a Mac user I could say something about relying on Windows to randomly produce an error, but I think the above post just says it all. :-)