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DIY Random Number Generator
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."
The "article" was clearly written by a Random English Generator, powered by tritium and chapstick.
I once collected loads of old broken smoke detectors and ripped out the small cell of americium from each of them.
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.
liqbase
Whatever happened to just mashing your fists on the keyboard?
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
"I know the English"--WRONG.
"I know that English"--RIGHT.
Hey, you asked for it!
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
And I have to wonder...that is less than 100.00 what?
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.
Think of the Children; Sleep with your Sister
Less than 100.00! I've waited at least the past 8 for something like this!
Even more simple would be hash some posts here on /.
There are some pretty fricken random posts.