* [ HARDCOVER: US ] Palahniuks porn-biz novel isnt up to Snuff May 25, 2008
She acts as talent wrangler/manager of the filming, complete with clipboard and stopwatch as guys are ushered in by random numbers for their encounters with the porn star lasting one minute, no more, no less, no matter what takes place on the mattress. There is Mr 72, a onetime TV star whose career as Detective Dan Banyan went deep south after discovery of his participation in a gay-porn video. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
"Survivor" All-Stars Ready for Battle May 21, 2008
The $2,500 weekly allowance Jamie Spears receives from Britney's estate for acting as her conservator isn't quite the random number it seems to be, nor is it just an estimate of how much work it takes to manage the popster's at-times-tumultuous affairs. According to court documents obtained by E. (Yahoo News -- Survivor)
Allen is quiet on, off court May 18, 2008
"Take a numberIf you lined up yesterday at the Garden to buy a ticket for today's game, you may have been surprised to learn that being first to the window was not a guarantee of tickets. A random number system was used to sell 600 of the 1,200 tickets available for the game. The setup produced complaints, but the process was used to limit ticket agencies and scalpers from gathering most of the tickets, said Shawn Sullivan, senior vice president of ticket sales, marketing, and service. If the... (Boston Globe)
Your Opinion Bush's legacy will be worst president ever (104) May 18, 2008
Instead of wasting your time and energy carrying on about "what about the random numbers they want to inject", instead how about "what about our men and women who are CHOOSING to give their lives for us? Maybe instaed of being selfish hippies.....try supporting our troops.!! ". Byron W. wrote on Apr 15, 2008 8:15 AM:" Having said the war was something we had to do I must also say I am not sure what we are fighting for. The right to abort innocent children? Pornography as free speech? Normalcy of... (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
O'Brien's blog May 16, 2008
People were trying to help it get there before the new blog was up by just shouting out random numbers like 955. So then when the new blog was up, somebody was just being goofy by saying, OK, let s start overFirst. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
OpenSSL bug found in Debian Linux May 15, 2008
The Debian maintainers apparently created the vulnerability by deleting code that seeded the random number generation used to calculate encryption keys. The result was that the random number generator used in Debian's OpenSSL package was predictable, leading to cryptographic keys that might guessable. (iT News)
Is Mother Nature acting out? May 9, 2008
He pointed out that you can use a computer to generate random numbers and plot them graphically and see patterns and clustering. Clearly though, there is no natural or scientific phenomenon behind those figures. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Talking PhormThe boss of the ad-serving system talks about how it works May 3, 2008
The tracking software sites on hardware installed at your ISP, which allocates a web users PC a random number ... If it finds them, that category is associated with the random number a person was allocated. (BBC News -- Technology)
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He explained that confidentiality, one of the concerns raised, is kept by using a random number generator which picks numbers associated with students at the school, and the the testers don't know who is who they only know numbers. After Longmore talked about the testing procedures, many of the parents in attendance gave their opinions on the matter, and much was said regarding drug testing, school policy and various other unrelated topics. (Yreka Siskiyou Daily News, CA)
There actually are laws north of the Klamath Apr 20, 2008
Since I still didn't know my zone, I pushed a random number. The recording told me to look at my burn permit to find my zone. (Daily Triplicate)
Brace Yourself for a Miserable Retirement Apr 17, 2008
We know we must save something, even if it's a guess and we have our eye set on putting aside $250,000 or whatever random number we've plucked out of the air. But we're not even meeting those goals. (MSNBC -- Business)
Final warning: You have reached the wrong number Apr 14, 2008
Not long after I decided to get a phone in this area code, I started getting calls from random numbers throughout the country, mostly without voice mail messages. My school of thought is that if someone calls from a number I don t have in my cell phone and doesn t leave a message, it s a wrong number. (Petersburg Progress Index, VA)
District prepares for pope's visit Apr 14, 2008
"I used a random number generator," Giovanoni said. "I'm an astrophysicist. Staff and leaders (at Newman Center) automatically got tickets.". (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
Microsoft Refreshes Visual C++, Ends VB 6 Support Apr 12, 2008
"Our implementation of TR1 contains a number of important features such as smart pointers, regular expression parsing, containers and sophisticated random number generators," he added. Also this week, however, Microsoft as planned cut off extended support for the Visual Basic 6 IDE but will not completely leave users high and dry, according to another blog. (CIO Information Network)
Microsoft makes C++, Visual Basic 6.0 moves Apr 10, 2008
Microsoft's implementation of TR1 contains such features as regular expression parsing and sophisticated random number generators. Also included in the feature pack are a component for the Office 2007 Ribbon Bar, Visual Studio docking, auto hide windows, and Windows Vista theme support. (InfoWorld)
Small key fobs have a big job Apr 8, 2008
The transmitter in your fob sends a different random number every time you push the button ... But if your fob sends a different random number every time you push the button, how does your car know it is the correct number ... The fob and the car are both using the same random number generator. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Day of reckoning looms for electronic bingo Mar 27, 2008
But the game played in 1976 used paper cards with random numbers scattered under each of the letters that spell bingo. Questions about the legality of electronic versions of the game soon followed. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Firm tracks every Web move in Britain Mar 21, 2008
Phorm says its technology protects users' privacy by creating a random number that is associated with a person's Web surfing patterns, rather than using a person's name or other information. Phorm puts a cookie, a small file containing text, on a person's computer to tie his or her Web surfing to the random number and then saves only that number in advertising categories like types of cars or clothing. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Words Key To New Security Tool Mar 21, 2008
SAN DIEGO -- A new set of locks is hitting the market and the secret to their security isn't keys or random numbers, but words. The locks were on display at the recent Travel Show in San Diego. (NBCSandiego.com, CA)
New room draw system faces first true test Mar 21, 2008
The new 4/2 system will instead assign juniors and seniors a random number and an equal opportunity to all campus housing, regardless of commons affiliation. Some upperclassmen, like Aaron Krivitzky '09. (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)
Can disposable digits prevent credit card fraud? Mar 20, 2008
This hash which would resemble a long random number would be stored by the merchant instead of the usual credit card details. Neither the merchant nor any malicious eavesdropper or hacker would be able to read it, but the credit card company could read it, since it knows the customer's code number. (MSNBC -- Crime)
3.14 and the rest Mar 15, 2008
My old maths teacher used to hold the world record for reciting pi, and once spent a lesson reciting the first thousand for "Children in Need" whilst we all checked a huge list of random numbers to spot if he made any errors. Well, it was better than a real maths lesson. (BBC News -- UK)
Question timeOnline ad firm Phorm answer your queries about its technology Mar 8, 2008
A: Most people have a separate login if they are sharing a computer and they will therefore have a separate random number ... The data capture system only stores one item of information on your computer -- a random number ... The random number is the only thing that distinguishes your browser from the millions of others on the internet. (BBC News -- Technology)
Funky Functions: Useful gems in Excel's Analysis Pack Mar 7, 2008
RAND() is a standard function and calculates a random number between 0 and 1. If you want a larger random number then you have to mess around multiplying the result of RAND() ... However, RANDBETWEEN() lets you set an upper and lower limit, with the random number being calculated between those limits. (Accounting Web, UK)
Pair scoop premium bond millions Mar 1, 2008
There have now been 206 millionaires picked by the Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment - known as Ernie. The bonds, established over 50 years ago, have created a total of 10 millionaires across the UK.. (BBC News -- UK)
http://www.419eater.com/... more Mar 1, 2008
Make your password 32 digits with various random numbers and in at least 3 different languages. Change the password every 10 hours to something equally comnplex. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
$1 million lottery prize a heady win Feb 29, 2008
When filling out his slip for Wednesday night's drawing, Basden played random numbers. "Just what came to me on the top of my head," he said. (News & Observer)
Probability Sampling Techniques Feb 27, 2008
An easier way to draw the sample for the pizza survey is to utilize a random number table to choose students. Administrators could use the last two digits of the students social security number to identify the table column and the first two digits to identify the row. (Suite101.com)
Torre Pleased With First Look at Kemp Feb 26, 2008
You can get that call, a random number and that could be it. I don't know who calls you, I've never been traded. (Los Angeles, TheInsiders.com)
Stop criminalising the victims Feb 25, 2008
9% of transactions involving sex are violence free, see I can pluck a random number from the air as well as anyone, difference is its likely to be true. Offensive. (The Observer)
Bringing something extra to card games Feb 22, 2008
Each turn, you roll a random number; if you land on an empty square you can park a monster on it. If you land on an opponent's square, you have to either pay rent or fight with the occupying creature. (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
Attack on computer memory reveals vulnerability of widely-used security systems Feb 22, 2008
Disk encryption technologies rely on the use of secret keys -- essentially large random numbers -- to encode and protect information. Computers need these keys to access files stored on their own hard disks or other storage systems. (EurekAlert!)
More Tax Breaks Sought From FISD In New Petition Feb 21, 2008
The 60,000 figure was a random number, Sultemeier said in an interview yesterday, somewhere between 100,000 and where we were. The reduction is justified, he said, on the basis on inflation since the existing exemptions were determined in 1972. (Fredericksburg Standard Radio Post, TX)
Lottery system to determine distribution of debate tickets Feb 16, 2008
The tickets will be distributed using a fair method - like a random number generator, Steinberg said. Steinberg said the goal is to maximize student participation and get as many tickets in the hands of UT students. (The Daily Texan, TX)
Failed Simulation on Creation Feb 15, 2008
But there is no reason to doubt that this so-called "supernatural" effect is completely random, you can simulate it using a random number generator. So I completely re-wrote my simulator, I used an random number generator with a user-supplied probability distribution to simula 00004000 te this randomness, and computed the required probability distributions by solving the Schrodinger equations with my own partial differential equation solver ... I decided the model was still missing a force or... (Human Events Online)
Under the radar Feb 14, 2008
I always preferred it, though - far more strategic and less subject to the whims of a random number generator. I'm hanging out for PataPon, too. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Toshiba tips random-number generator IC Feb 8, 2008
The device generates random numbers at a data rate of 2 ... The new RNG technology adopts a compact analog-to-digital converter (ADC), which amplifies analog noise signals and converts them to digital random numbers. (EETimes)
Expat Democrats cast their votes in overseas primary Feb 7, 2008
"Each participant who is on our database is given a random number with which they can access this third-party site and then they have to sign in with the particular information that they would know, so I feel it's quite secure.". Because of unreliable mail service in certain countries, many Democrats were excited about using the Internet to be sure their vote would be counted, said Christine Schon Marques, the international chair of Democrats Abroad. (International Herald Tribune)
Laramie police ticket 13-year-old girls for throwing french fries Feb 6, 2008
Lacidar wrote on Feb 5, 2008 1:23 PM:" I believe some of you are missing the point of the whole thing. The point is that these kids were told NOT to do it. Working in public education, you see this kind of thing all the time. Kids thumbing their nose at authority, and then whining when they have to suffer the consequences. Of course it's obvious where they learn that behavior. Did anyone ever stop to think that all these girls had to do was what they were asked to do? The administration had to... (Casper Star-Tribune)
SUPER BOWL Mannings near top of brother acts, but can't match sisters Feb 5, 2008
SUPER BOWL / Mannings near top of brother acts, but can't match sisters. " and the category "Sports Siblings" appears on the big board. The answer to "Most Accomplished Brother Act in Sports History" very well could be: "Who are Eli and Peyton Manning. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Big ideas from the smallest world Feb 1, 2008
We call this "pseudorandom." If you think of the random number generator in a computer, it does a pretty good job of emulating coin tosses, but if you run it twice using the same starting number, every single output will be identical. It is deterministic, but it will still have the appearance of being determined by coin-flipping, of being truly random. (Why Files)
NASA's airline study fails to satisfy critics Jan 31, 2008
After outraged complaints from media and others, NASA backtracked and re-posted the information on its site in Excel spreadsheet documents, which seemed like good news for independent analysts, but it was still the same incomprehensible piles of seemingly random numbers. Also, all identifying information was still withheld, leaving the average lay person scratching their head in confusion. (The Citizen - online, TX)
Missing data stacks up Jan 23, 2008
Only those with at least 10 characters, made up of random numbers and letters of both cases, pose a problem for computers programmed to make millions of systematic guesses. Few people use such complex passwords, because they are impossible to remember. (Manchester Evening News)
Privacy statement for Coalfield.com Jan 19, 2008
This random number lets us keep track of "how many" times customers are doing specific things - like visiting our site each month - without really knowing who those customers are. We also use cookies to keep track of your shopping cart and to make sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly. (Coalfield Progress, VA)
Number negligence borders on insane Jan 17, 2008
While most states use random numbers to identify Medicaid patients, with no connection to Social Security numbers, Wisconsin remains the exception. EDS, the contractor that made the label error, is in the process of changing that. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
How to invest without a demat a/c? Jan 15, 2008
However, the investor puts no beneficiary account number on the form, or simply puts a random number. At the time of allotment, when the registrar spots a mismatch (or blank beneficiary account number column), the registrar is mandated to communicate the error (or omission) to the investor. (India Times)
Texas schools give company kids' Social Security numbers Jan 13, 2008
In recent years, government agencies have moved away from using Social Security numbers to identify people and now use random numbers instead. Pearson Educational Measurement officials, who develop or administer standardized tests in Texas and 22 other states, say they use ID numbers to link students to their test data. (KHOU.com, TX)
Slots fill niche, hurt table games Jan 10, 2008
Today's computerized slot machines generate thousands of random numbers every second, even when nobody is playing them. The number selected represented in cherries or other symbols depends on the nanosecond a gambler pushes the button. (USA Today)
Cryptic Messages Boost Data Security Dec 24, 2007
The world s first commercial quantum random number generator and quantum cryptography system was developed by the Swiss company id Quantique a spin-off company of the University of Geneva so the choice of Geneva to test the system in action was only appropriate. The firm was founded in 2001 by four researchers from the University of Geneva: Nicolas Gisin, Gr;goire Ribordy, Olivier Guinnard and Hugo Zbinden. (Science Daily)
Dec. 16 Letters to the Editor Dec 23, 2007
Your example of doctors writing letters to the editor are random numbers compared to all the doctors in this area. There is always a few that gripe for some reason on anything. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
$1M lottery winner TBA Dec 21, 2007
All the numbers will be selected by using the Lottery's random number generator. Winning numbers will be announced Dec. 31 in downtown Boise. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Four file for JC School Board on first day Dec 20, 2007
But, because people filing on the first day also draw a random number to determine the order their name will be listed on the ballot, voters will see Turner first, then Coleman, Nickelson and, finally, Schreimann. From now until filing ends Jan. 22, all other candidates will be listed in the order they file for the election. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Dodgers Glad Kemp Made the Right Decision Dec 17, 2007
About being involved in trade rumors: "The trade stuff is a little crazier this year. You hear a lot of teams going after me. There's no other place I'd rather be than LA. I don't want to leave there. I'd be disappointed if I got traded. It's hard to have that hanging over your head because you think about it all the time. You can get that call, a random number and that could be it. I don't know who calls you, I've never been traded. But I'm always looking at my phone when it rings and sometimes... (Los Angeles, TheInsiders.com)
YouSendIt: Send Huge Files Anywhere, Anytime Dec 16, 2007
In our trial, however, the assigned dropbox name had a string of six random numbers appended. But not to worry: We were able to remove those numbers and submit the dropbox name we preferred. (Datamation)
Cardinal Numbers: Small Steps for the Card Dec 9, 2007
Stanford Cardinal Football, Basketball, and Recruiting. "Small Steps" for Harbaugh ard. (TheBootleg.com)
Playing to modern children's tastes Dec 8, 2007
In 1999, Mattel debuted Uno Attack, an updated version of the classic card game that includes a battery-operated card shooter that spits out random numbers of cards during play. The new versions of old games reflect modern trends: the time-crunched family, a reliance on electronics and modern kids' preference for games with video, sound and electronics. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Calif. .Gov Site Hit with Malware Dec 1, 2007
JPEG that Eckleberry included in his , inserting random numbers into the URLs. He was then redirected to a domain registered in Russia, with a hosting provider located in the Netherlands. (eWeek)
AG issues warning about office supply scam Nov 29, 2007
Some scammers are known to dial random numbers throughout a business until they find an unsuspecting employee who will "accept" the unordered merchandise. According to some reports, employees have also been persuaded to fill out sweepstakes forms without realizing that the fine print committed their company to buy unwanted, overpriced supplies. (Fort Bend Southwest Sun, TX)
Solving the RFID Dilemma Nov 27, 2007
The UMass researchers, Wayne Burleson, Kevin Fu and Dan Holcomb, have found a way to use the chips' embedded memory to generate random numbers for encryption and authentication ... The research, "Initial SRAM State as a Fingerprint and Source of True Random Numbers for RFID Tags," (www ... The premise is that RFID chips are dormant until the transmission receiver activates them and the memory cells fluctuate between binary states before settling on a value ("01" or "10"), which, the researchers... (Search Security, MA)
Passwords, PINs, Bank Accounts And Fraud! Nov 23, 2007
Ideally, your PIN should be an entirely random number which has nothing to connect itself to you. However, millions of people find it terribly hard to remember number sequences, so they change their PIN to something memorable. (Sky News)
Math Error Could Compromise Cryptographic Systems Nov 20, 2007
But with questions surrounding the origins of a recently discovered flaw in a random number generation algorithm backed by the National Security Agency and National Institute of Standards and Technology coming from respected cryptographers like , not to mention the escalating sophistication of cyberattacks in general, such worries sound less loopy. Shamir likens this "bug attack" to a fault attack method described in 1996, which might involve, for example, using a sudden power spike to exploit... (InformationWeek)
What's new from your Student Body President and Vice President Nov 20, 2007
The initiative to change ID numbers from Social Security numbers to random numbers is underway. A project leader has been chosen, and current predictions are that around 18 months from now the new system should be implemented. (The New Hampshire, NH)
Hefty security fix for Apple Mac OS X, Safari Nov 15, 2007
0a5 uses a weak random number generator during the creation of DNS query IDs when answering resolver questions or sending NOTIFY messages to slave name servers ... This update addresses the issue by improving the random number generator ... 0a5 uses a weak random number generator during the creation of DNS query IDs when answering resolver questions or sending NOTIFY messages to slave name servers. (Search Security, MA)
Cardinal Numbers: "Bend, But Don't Break" Nov 15, 2007
Stanford Cardinal Football, Basketball, and Recruiting. Abdullah to the house. (TheBootleg.com)
Security Loophole Found In Windows Operating System Nov 13, 2007
The researchers found the security loophole in the random number generator of Windows ... For example: in correspondence with a bank or any other website that requires typing in a password, or a credit card number, the random number generator creates a random encryption key, which is used to encrypt the communication so that only the relevant website can read the correspondence ... The research team found a way to decipher how the random number generator works and thereby compute previous and... (Science Daily)
