On 11/3/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:11:50AM -0700, Thaths wrote:
> > Also, if these one-way functions were like MD5 or SHA-1 algorithms, I
> > should be able to take 2 people who have had similar lives (socially,
> > economically, etc.) for the last couple of years and be able to say
> > that they were born very very close to each other in time. It may be
> > that these one-way functions are not very good at avoiding clashes.
> That's not how crypto hashes work. Do a single bit mutation on input,
> and see for yourself.
I understand that crypto hashes did not work that way. I am
extrapolating from how astrology is supposed to work from that website
suresh pointed us to. A small diff in time of birth is supposed to
have negligible effects on the future. If this were the case, two
people having similar lives (considering the fact that it is likely
impossible to find people having exactly the same life) would likely
have been born within a few seconds of each other.
BTW, since it is that time of the year, I wonder how astrologers
handle daylight savings time. And I was born in the days when there
were no NTP servers or atomic clocks. I am willing to bet a pay packet
that the watches / clocks of midwives, gynecological surgeons,
hospital rooms were all off from each other by at least 5 minutes.
Thaths
PS: I apologize for feeding this tangent of the thread. I wish I had
the time to rant about the right wing loonie institutions like the
Hoover Institute. Some day....
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