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Submission + - Fireworks show goes titsup (bbc.co.uk) 1

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ronaldm

on Sunday November 06, 2011 @05:37PM

ronaldm writes: "Trigger-happy Scottish pyromaniacs celebrating Guy Fawkes Night last night ended up watching their creation go spectacularly wrong, when all the fireworks were triggered at the same time — resulting in the show being 29 minutes shorter than the 30 minutes it was supposed to last.

"Perhaps they're now regretting having asked the Pakistan cricket team to set off the fireworks?""

Submission + - Musical Network Captures (rmacd.com)

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ronaldm

on Saturday November 05, 2011 @04:00AM

ronaldm writes: "As a composer who uses computers for anything and everything from engraving to live performance projects, it's periodically of some concern that computers do exactly what they're supposed to do — what they're told. Introducing imperfections into music to make it sound more `natural' is nothing new: yet it still troubles me that picking up random data from /dev/random to do this is well, cheating. It's not random. It bugs me. So, short of bringing in and using an atomic source, here's a way to embrace natural randomness — and bring your packet captures to life!"

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