Re: Better Randomness ? !

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, sci.physics, alt.computer.security, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.privacy.anon-server
Subject	Re: Better Randomness ? !
Date	2015-10-29 13:10 -0700
Message-ID	<D257CB34.61F89%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
References	(5 earlier) <n0or5i$btl$1@dont-email.me> <Jeff-Relf.Me@Oct.27{10.41P.Seattle.2015}> <n0qmbc$8pt$1@pcls7.std.com> <edf94e286ab256dce6ced654ddf07a22@dizum.com> <291020151914153294%timstreater@greenbee.net>

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On 10/29/15, 12:14 PM, in article
291020151914153294%timstreater@greenbee.net, "Tim Streater"
<timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:

> In article <edf94e286ab256dce6ced654ddf07a22@dizum.com>, Nomen Nescio
> <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:
> 
>> In article <n0qmbc$8pt$1@pcls7.std.com>
>> moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) wrote:
> 
>>> On the other hand, something based on truly random events, such as
>>> radioactive decay, is, well, truly random, if implemented properly.
>> 
>> There is nothing random about radioactive decay.
> 
> In terms of when an individual atom might decay there is. That is
> completely random.

Well, at least as far as we know. :)

> All you know is that the probability that it will
> decay in the next time-period of length equal to its half-life is just
> 0.5.



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Better Randomness ? ! Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2015-10-27 22:41 -0700
  Re: Better Randomness ? ! Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2015-10-27 22:46 -0700
  Re: Better Randomness ? ! Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-28 06:50 +0000
    Re: The pseudo_random array is fully known, 100.0000% predictable. Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-28 17:34 +0000
    Re: The pseudo_random array is fully known, 100.0000% predictable. benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 05:48 -0400
      Re: The pseudo_random array is fully known, 100.0000% predictable. Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-30 18:53 +0000
        Re: The pseudo_random array is fully known, 100.0000% predictable. noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 14:08 -0700
          Re: The pseudo_random array is fully known, 100.0000% predictable. Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-30 22:36 +0000
            Re: The pseudo_random array is fully known, 100.0000% predictable. "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 15:14 -0800
  Re: Better Randomness ? ! moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2015-10-28 14:33 +0000
    Re: Better Randomness ? ! chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-28 09:36 -0500
      Re: Better Randomness ? ! benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 05:56 -0400
    Re: Better Randomness ? ! "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-10-28 10:46 -0400
    QueryPerformanceCounter() -- Better Randomness. Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2015-10-28 08:28 -0700
      Re: QueryPerformanceCounter() -- Better Randomness. "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-10-28 11:48 -0400
        RDRAND has numerous problems. Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2015-10-28 09:35 -0700
      Re: QueryPerformanceCounter() -- Better Randomness. moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2015-10-28 16:17 +0000
        QueryPerformanceCounter() -- Better Randomness. Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2015-10-28 09:50 -0700
        Re: QueryPerformanceCounter() -- Better Randomness. Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-28 17:44 +0000
          Re: QueryPerformanceCounter() -- Better Randomness. moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2015-10-28 18:01 +0000
            Re: QueryPerformanceCounter() -- Better Randomness. Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-28 18:39 +0000
    Re: Better Randomness ? ! Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2015-10-29 19:38 +0100
      Re: Better Randomness ? ! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-10-29 19:14 +0000
        Re: Better Randomness ? ! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-29 13:10 -0700
      Re: Better Randomness ? ! Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-29 21:36 +0000
        Re: Better Randomness ? ! noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 17:24 -0700
          Re: Better Randomness ? ! benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 21:55 -0400
            Re: Better Randomness ? ! Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-30 02:12 +0000
            Re: Better Randomness ? ! Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-30 02:18 +0000
  Re: Better Randomness ? ! benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 05:45 -0400

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