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VIA C3 Random Number Generator Reviewed
An anonymous reader writes "VIA has added a hardware
random number generator to its Nehemiah C3 CPU. I found a recent review
of its security. Interesting how it's done at the instruction level as opposed to
the chipset level used by the i810 RNG (also reviewed there)."
Hell, I couldn't even predict what would come next
Oh wait...
In Canada, we don't fancy things like socks
Was just some guy they trained to sit there and yell numbers at them.
Developer: Hey! Gimme a number!!!
Idiot in corner: uh Seven boss!
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ok, i couldnt find the original strip, but here goes from memory:
.. and maybe that holds for your calculator too :-)
accounting troll: this is our random number generator
troll: 9
troll: 9
troll: 9
dilbert: are you sure that's random?
accounting troll: thats the problem with randomness, you really can't be sure.
mats
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
Man, you know you're hardcore when you get excited about a built in random number generator.
Sample convo after purchase:
[girlfriend] Honey, what is that?
[you] (with great awe) The Vee-Eye-Aye Nehemiah C3 CPU with-
[girlfriend] How much did that cost?
[you] Wait, lemme finish-
[girlfriend] Rent. Where is it.
[you] But it has a-
[girlfriend] You are not going to tell me that you spent our next month's rent on that *censored* piece of plastic.
[you] (correcting happily) Silicone!
You stare off. Slowly, you speak.
[you] But it has a...random..number...generator. For strong...uh...crypto. You know, cryptography? Big numbers? Random?
*the sound of footsteps trail away from you*
[you] Honey?
Despite my best efforts at randomly naming folders and subfolders, and randomly placing permissions on them, and then randomly naimg the files without any type of extension on them, my girlfriend is able to quickly locate and identify my porn - even though she barely knows how to operate a computer in general, let alone Linux. She is a natural at breaking encryption.
Example - If I ask you to "Pick a number between One and Four" about 90% of people will pick Two or Three.
What, are the other 10% not listening to the question?
I remember when Cyrix had it's 100MHz CPUs with huge fans and everybody tweaked them to 133MHz, every long-term calculation on that involving FPU would give random numbers as the result... ;-)
So, where is the novelty?
iThink iHate iMod
You know, when you're able to use quote marks (" for example) in a written medium, you really don't need to spell out quote unquote as well. It really just doesn't make any sense - we can see the quote marks you used, spelling that idiom out doesn't add anything. People sometimes say "quote unquote" because you can't see the quote marks in their speech. Even this practice is ill-advised as it makes one sound like a drooling marketdroid (e.g. "At the end of the day, we need to quote unquote actualize profits by exceeding expenses with net income in order to meet quote-unquote business objective. Take an action quote-unquote item").
This is the most bizarre thing I've seen all day. Please don't do it again. Thank you.
XML causes global warming.
Everyone should use the same random number.
I think 23 is a good one, nice an prime, and close to 21 too!
Actually, the random number generator is the math coprocessor. And they are not even the first to think about this: such techniques were pioneered by Intel in the first Pentiums
yes, but isn't hte front end amp of the tv tuner just a remnant of the big bang?
Photos.
The Beatle random number generator:
number 9
number 9
number 9
The monty python random number generator:
6, no 8...AAAAaaahhhhhhh
the ask a person to guess a number between 1-10 random number generator
7
3
the Slashdot random number generator
3.14, 1701, 2001, 69, 1337
The Microsoft Random number generator
7,7,7,7 yes its random, says so in the eula
the pepsi random number generator:
1
the buffy random number generator:
"you dare insult buffy? you are stupid AND you suck."wait, that was the "angery buffy fan response to a minor critque of the show generator"... my bad.
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