On Jul 22, 2010, at 8:59 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
It's pretty outrageous that anyone would try to patent rolling barcoded
dice to generate random numbers.
I've been generating random strings from dice for years. I find that
gamers' 20-sided dice are great; each roll gives you a hex digit,
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 05:59:50PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
It's pretty outrageous that anyone would try to patent rolling barcoded
dice to generate random numbers.
If you have children at home you could just point a webcam at their
gameroom, or, depending on how obsessive compulsive their
It's pretty outrageous that anyone would try to patent rolling barcoded
dice to generate random numbers.
I've been generating random strings from dice for years. I find that
gamers' 20-sided dice are great; each roll gives you a hex digit, and
anytime you roll a 17 thru 20, you just roll again.
