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- wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -8/+128I think I did something wrong -- I keep getting the same hex value:
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 - jstohler, on 10/11/2007, -5/+62I can't believe they didn't offer it as a web service. Talk about being incredibly smart and dumb at the same time.
- penguinshome, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4842!?
- ncairns, on 10/11/2007, -1/+36Why don't they just roll their 20-sided die?
- wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -4/+31Damn, is this how Digg determines front page stories?
- Dested, on 10/11/2007, -1/+27"7"
Well that was a bit disappointing... - Burritoking924, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18So putting the hamster on the number pad doesn't count?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15What is safer, less random locally, or true random through the wiretaped tubes?
- olddirtycr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15random.org...
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14I love this. My very first difficult programming challenge on an old, trusty Apple II+ was writing a random number generator for creating characters in Dungeons and Dragons.
Then I discovered booze, drugs, chicks and Black Flag. - penguinshome, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12That was infinitely improbable....
- evildeadman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13No, you speak for yourself. Enjoy the failure of your pseudorandom algorithms.
- clkou, on 10/11/2007, -13/+23"True" random number generator? To quote Einstein, "God doesn't play with dice". So, it may seem random to humans, but truly random? Nay ... tis impossible. So, stick that in your peace pipe and smoke it.
- coolwalking, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10"On the contrary, it appears that not only does God play dice, but also that
he sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen." - Stephen Hawking. - tastethevenom, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Gotta love the CAPTCHA! :)
Sample:
http://random.irb.hr/latexrender/pictures/e5bd515bca20d6c230b9afac02730f7b.gif - jarinudom, on 03/31/2008, -0/+8Take a look at the "Coming Soon" section
- rawM3TAL, on 10/11/2007, -6/+13Am I the only one that doesn't understand what the hell is going on?
- compu486, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Build your own!!!!
http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/AlphaRad/Overview.aspx - ricree, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7"To achieve high availability of the service, several network access modes are developed, or shall be developed. These include transparent acquisition of random numbers using C/C++ libraries, web services (access over the SOAP protocol), and Mathematica/MATLAB client add-ons. "
As far as I can tell, a web service does seem to be on their agenda. - Sluz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6What a total rip-off of Random.org!
I've been using http://random.org/ for three years now. It works on the same principal and has a great web interface. - ricree, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7In short:
*True random numbers are really useful in some applications
*Computers aren't capable of generating true random numbers
*Quantum mechanics contains true randomness
*There are ways to use this to generate random data (eg radioactive decay)
*These guys generate true random numbers and allow other programs to access these numbers over the internet - SevasTraSi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5public random {
return 4;
//by fair dice roll guaranteed random
} - Mlappy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5ironically, probably to seed other random number generators
- DarkElf109, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6To quote Niels Bohr,
"Einstein, stop telling God what to do [with his dice]." - thisguy47, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Good, now the iPod Shuffle won't suck as bad.
- prthealien, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5 Anyone that is confused should read Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- Progranism, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4-3
- HairyFotr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Not if your enemy has a powerful mind control laser for hamsters.
Perhaps if it wears a tinfoil hat, and the number pad is enclosed in a thick lead box, and if the whole room is actualy a large faraday cage... - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Because the uneven amount of dots on each side automatically makes said dice impossible to be perfectly random.
Wow, I can't believe I just said that. - ravan46, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4The people that need random numbers for security reasons will get them sent via SSL. Yet did they create the SSL Cert. using a true random number??
- MioTheGreat, on 10/11/2007, -2/+64...8....15.....16....23....42?
Strange. I could have sworn I've seen that before.... - afx1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4wouldn't it be hilarious if you simply googled "42" and the first result that came up said the Answer to life was "42". that would be funny and ironic. and make you look pretty dumb as well.
- rastakid, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I find random number generation too important to be left at chance.
- gigamugged, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Why exactly is true hardware randomness expensive? Amplifying thermal noise from a resistor does the trick... it's really stupid that CPU's don't have a RNDM opcode, chalk it up to unimaginative CPU designers I guess...
- DarkXanthos, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Actually there are an infinite number of patternless strings of numbers... they're called transcendentals... pi, e, sqrt(2) to name just a few. From one digit to the next there is no pattern except the transcendental number which creates it.
@Sornos... what clkou was referring to is chaos theory. The idea that everything has a cause and thus everything is predictable (if you're omniscient). - AJH16, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Seems smart to me, helps prevent the server being hammered by the DIGG effect if people have to take a few minutes to get it working.
- DarkElf109, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Hasn't anyone here ever heard of HotBits?
www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ - geoboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3And your comment has 42 diggs as I type this! Now that's just eerie.
- asskey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Different pigments have different weights.
However the photon emmisions from the protons in the pigments are perhaps truly random enough for them - Mlappy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3True random numbers are important. This is the basis for almost all encryption.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3What if each side was a different color?
- SLIPSTR3AM, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Not to mention, it is infinitely right.
- gmoney1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3you are included, correct?
- Dorkbot101, on 07/15/2009, -2/+4Wrong. Anyone tangentially related to composer science, mathematics, or plethora of other subjects knows how hard true random number generation is. (impossible).
- Battlecry, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Back in the day, they used to use books full of random numbers. Back when I was in high school (oh so long ago) my math teacher would break it out whenever he needed a random number.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1418/index.html - euclid, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Just to prove you are a human, please answer the
following math challenge.
Q: Find the smallest real root of the polynomial:
p(x) = x^2 + 6x + 9
What the hell is that about? I have to do a math problem to download! - maz2331, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Wow. Newly improved noise. What a concept.
- johnnyzero, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3"Nobody tells God what to do."
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2And what is so bad about pseudo-random numbers? You hash enough crap together and you get some pretty damn random numbers.
For random passwords, this site is good...https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm - flannelback, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Nope, 0.
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