DIY Random Number Generator 227
Compu486 writes "The guys over at Inventgeek have come up with a project and how artical on building
a random number
generator that is less than 100.00 utilizing radioactive decay. Using some
Linux based open source apps and with a little ingenuity and some parts you probably
have laying around your house you can build your own."
Only terrorists use random numbers! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Typos (Score:5, Funny)
More difficult Rnd() generator (Score:5, Funny)
I placed them into a big ball wrapped in tinfoil (shiney side in), then used my fathers' geiger counter to supply random numbers.
Its been working well, I've been counting the number of years its been running on my fingers, so far I've got to 13.
*note, this is totally false, but there was some stupid kid who did something similar.
Re:I did this in highschool (Score:4, Funny)
Old-school (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Editors? (Score:5, Funny)
"I know that English"--RIGHT.
Hey, you asked for it!
Re:Typos (Score:5, Funny)
Fear not comrade, it's all part of the move to make Slashdot less US centric - this way, rather than just having foreigners confused about how much things cost, everyone gets to be confused about how much things cost.
units (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why not using a live webcam? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Old-school (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Old-school (Score:3, Funny)
Radiation/Science/Geek combo (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Typos (Score:3, Funny)
Wet Hot American Summer (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I did this in highschool (Score:5, Funny)
There are some pretty fricken random posts.
Re:I did this in highschool (Score:2, Funny)
>>
>> There are some pretty fricken random posts
Uh, actually no - you're almost always guarentted the following:
1) First Post in the 2nd message. (The first post usually has nothing to do with the article as the person never read it).
2) The 1, 2, 3, 4) Profit?? posts.
3) Natalie Portman and Grits.
4) (Old School) GoatSe posts.
5) Spwelling und Grammmer Misteaks
6) In my day we did it with a 1 bit computer that had 1 value posts.
Nope - Slashdot is far from random.
Re:Coincidence photons are from positron decay... (Score:3, Funny)
You're also right that this doesn't apply to aplha decay, because momentum is conserved via the slight recoil in the nucleus - that was a brain fart on my part remembering which type of radiation we're dealing with here.
What you are COMPLETELY FUCKING WRONG about, though, is photons having no momentum. If you had ever studied special relativity, you would know that it's possible to have momentum without mass, and the momentum of a photon is defined as P=E/c, or h*v/c.
Perhaps before you sit here calling me a twit, you should spend half a second googling for the word "photon", fuckwad.
Silly... (Score:3, Funny)
I just use a female-mood-detector. That's _my_ source of high-grade randomness.
Re:A simple 1/ megabit/sec generator for cryptogra (Score:4, Funny)
640 megabytes is a little much for my connection to handle right now. Could you compress it and send it to me please?
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