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Posted by timothy on from the pudding-is-like-yogurt dept.

jfleck writes "According to the American Institute of Physics' Physics News Update, Kent State physicist James Gleeson has developed a technique for generating numbers approaching true randomness. His trick is to shine light through a liquid crystal, taking advantage of its turbulence and avoiding the inevitable risk of predictability in deterministic random number number algorithms."

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  1. in moderation by flux4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Could this technology be used to moderate slashdot posts, in a manner even more astonishingly random than before?

    I mean, it's obviously in use in story-submission already. May as well be efficient.