Chasing Coffeehighly caffeinated, sardonic, evil bastard games programmerwhat a wonderful world- October 24, 2004 We live in an amazing world. I can now safely and legally send my ex-wife ebola or black death....http://www.chasingcoffee.com/blog/archives/001612.html bend over and take it up your brainstem- October 21, 2004 A couple days ago some odd black rectangles were installed in our elevators. I assumed that they were some sort of new security camera (several years ago our building management corporation was sued for rather a lot of money for failing to maintain a secure building in Chicago and has since become a bit paranoid). Yesterday, while I was riding up to my floor they came to life and turned out to be little LCD screens... that were displaying the logo of an advertising company... followed by ads. I.http://www.chasingcoffee.com/blog/archives/001608.html Background noise- October 21, 2004 Is spam a random event There's a lot of it, it's full of garbage, no one person controls it. It seems like it could make an interesting random number generator. One of the old tricks for randomizing gameplay is to use the low bits off the analog inputs (or the disk seek times) to seed your random number generator. Seems like you could do the same sort of thing through statistical analysis of spam. It's probably an intrinsically bad idea to allow an external source influence your security, but...http://www.chasingcoffee.com/blog/archives/001606.html Optimisery- October 20, 2004 I suppose the up side of comment spam is that it's one way to find out what pharmaceuticals the terminally insecure are interested in....http://www.chasingcoffee.com/blog/archives/001604.html |