Madoff's Lies Reveal It's Not Easy Being Sleazy Aug 14, 2009
So they used a random number generator program to create the appearance of trading at different intervals. As for the Depository Trust Corp. reports, DiPascali and others essentially counterfeited them, copying the layout, print font and even the paper type of the real thing, according to the SEC.. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
BioVault Locks Up Biometrics Aug 4, 2009
This is because encryption systems use the password or PIN to produce, or seed, a random number that is used as the cipher for encrypting the data. If the passwords do not match exactly then the seed will be incorrect, the random number different and the decryption will fail. (Science Daily)
Bill would require restaurants to post calorie counts of meals Aug 4, 2009
"Somehow we are missing the boat. If we used $1 million in annual sales instead of a random number of restaurants as the cutoff point, a restaurant like this would have to report.". But exempting small businesses is reasonable, said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which gained its "food police" nickname in the 1990s when it declared fettuccine Alfredo "a heart attack on a plate.". (Honolulu Advertiser)
Pat on Head Helps Seniors Remember Meds Jul 31, 2009
In another phase of the experiment, participants were asked to do the letter-recognition task while simultaneously carrying out an additional more complicated and distracting task listening to a series of random numbers and pushing a clicker whenever they heard two odd numbers in a row. The performance of older adults averaging 72 years of age was compared with results from a group of college students put through the same trials. (Newsmax)
On health care Jul 29, 2009
Bob wrote on Jul 28, 2009 3:23 PM:" 90% of all health problems are due to alcohol??? Where did you get that statistic? Making up random numbers to support your own agenda does not help anything. I have seen several studies that support the antioxidant effects of a glass of red wine. Granted, excessive alcohol consumption does cause its own problems, but 90% of all health related problems? Give me a break. ". To JB wrote on Jul 28, 2009 10:13 AM:" JB: The illegals are an easy target...and yes... (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
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Terwilliger explained that the court's jury duty rolls are drawn from random number polls of voter registration, licensing and state-issued ID cards, and acknowledged that it is possible for dead people to receive jury duty summonses, due to the two to three weeks of lead time with which jury duty lists are assembled, as well as the fact that the master lists are compiled once a year in July. "We don't control the information from those sources," said Terwilliger, who nonetheless conceded that,... (Enumclaw Courier Herald, WA)
Read the 'Cost of Freedom' Recap Jul 21, 2009
Recap of Saturday, July 18 - The Cost of Freedom - FOXNews. Recap of Saturday, July 18. (Fox News)
Experts offer tips for safest passwords Jul 13, 2009
Experts said the best PINs are assortments of random numbers. But random numbers are hard to memorize. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
2009 Football Ticket Lottery Results Available July 8 Jul 9, 2009
When the quantity of tickets requested exceeds the supply, a random number driven lottery is conducted. The Notre Dame ticket office currently is finalizing the '09 lottery and preparing refund checks. (Und.com)
Privacy statement for Coalfield.com Jul 5, 2009
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)
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Chandra Johnson (pictured) of Benton Heights called 911 when she received a call from 3-year-old Kobe Jennings about his mother, Denise Glenn. John Madill / H-P staff Jun 21, 2009
By dialing random number, boy saves mom's life after she slips into a coma. By JIM DALGLEISH - H-P City Editor. (St. Joseph Herald-Pallidium, MI)
Use your PDA to Fix Your Server Remotely Jun 20, 2009
It does warn that it may not be entirely secure and shouldn't be used for security-critical applications in part because it doesn't use device-specific random number generation. It's got a neat on-screen keyboard, and it can support SSH key auth. (Datamation)
Businesses need to act fast to protect Facebook vanity URL Jun 16, 2009
The user name would replace the random numbers at the end of a Facebook profile URL.. A stitch in time saves nine, said Ned Himmelrich, an intellectual property lawyer at in Baltimore. (Baltimore Business Journal, MD)
Marc Davis honors driver who paved his way May 23, 2009
CONCORD, N.C. It s not a random number, the 36 that s plastered on the door of the black Toyota Marc Davis intends to race Saturday night at Lowe s Motor Speedway. It was chosen to represent the 36 years since a black driver competed in NASCAR s top ranks in a car he owned himself. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Chavez clarifies earlier report on back May 20, 2009
" Twenty months, it should be noted, was just a random number Chavez tossed out to make his point. The A's transferred him to the 60-day disabled list on Tuesday to make room on the 40-man roster in conjunction with other moves, and Chavez is hopeful that he'll be ready to play again by the time he's eligible for activation. He's rehabbing with a physical therapist in Arizona and could be cleared for baseball activity by this time next week. "I've already been on the [15-day] DL for 25 days, and... (MLB.com -- Oakland Athletics)
Securely wipe your drive May 8, 2009
DBAN gives you different options of wiping when you run it, from passing across the hard drive once and filling it with zeros, right up to passing 35 times across the hard drive, or passing eight times and filling it with data from a random number generator. When it's finished, your hard drive should be completely clean. (iAfrica.com)
Mobile food-safety labs get FDA up to speed May 4, 2009
A random number are X-rayed for contraband. The FDA uses a computer system called OASIS (Operational and Administrative System for Import Support), which randomly assigns trucks to be inspected based on a number of variables. (USA Today)
POLICE ITEMS / Local grandmother falls for senior scam Apr 28, 2009
It is believed that scammers are most likely calling random numbers until they happen to reach a senior citizen. The scammers basic tactic is to pose as a grandchild and let the unsuspecting grandparent fill in the blanks. (Cohasset Mariner, MA)
DiNero's gets Keno; town has right to appeal Apr 18, 2009
A computer driven random number generator will select the winning numbers for each drawing. The random number generator will only select winning numbers after receiving confirmation from the Lottery's computer system that betting for that drawing has been closed ... Attached to this main computer is a random number generator that is constantly shuffling 80 numbers around. (Cohasset Mariner, MA)
Knowing Review Apr 17, 2009
John has a young son named Caleb who receives a mysterious paper covered in random numbers when a ceremony is held at his school to unlock a time capsule buried fifty years prior. The paper was written by the disturbed Lucinda Embry whose assignment for the capsule was to draw a picture of how she though the future would look. (Suite101.com)
POLICE ALERT / Scammers try to dupe grandparents Apr 10, 2009
Law enforcement officials are not certain how perpetrators are obtaining phone numbers for so many senior citizens across the U.S. However, it is believed that scammers are most likely calling random numbers until they happen to reach a senior citizen. The scammers basic tactic is to pose as a grandchild and let the unsuspecting grandparent fill in the blanks. (Cohasset Mariner, MA)
New 'Pick 4' game to begin at NC Education Lottery Apr 10, 2009
Players can either choose a number or have a sales terminal pick a random number. . (Herald Sun)
Braves open with nemesis Phils Apr 7, 2009
Random numbers: Speaking of Anderson, he has 104 at-bats against Jamie Moyer, while the rest of the Braves have a combined total of 131 against the ancient lefty. Next-highest after Anderson. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Parlor pleasure Apr 5, 2009
A sheet contains six grids with random numbers. Brown carefully marks his single sheet while players around him focus intently on multiple bingo cards, including some who purchase electronic versions of the sheets. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
Eating chocolate 'can help improve your maths' Apr 4, 2009
In the study, 30 volunteers were asked to count backwards in groups of three from a random number between 800 and 999 generated by a computer. The findings showed that they could do the calculations more quickly and accurately after they were given a hot cocoa drink containing 500 mg flavanols. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
- Farmers collect money from IID program while suing district (1) Apr 2, 2009
All farmers can send in applications to the IID, and then those applications are assigned random numbers. District staff members then go down the list, offering contracts to farmers that detail, among other things, the rate the IID will be paying for the water. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Go Ask Alice -- Forty reasons to be happy Apr 1, 2009
But this column isn t about math, random numbers, prime numbers, odd or even numbers or numerology either. It s about marking milestones in 2009. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
A tell-tale pattern of brain waves occurs just before we make a mistake Mar 25, 2009
Each student was asked to take part in monotonous test in which a random number from one to nine flashed on a screen every two seconds, and they were asked to tap a button as soon as any number except five appeared. The test was so boring that even when a five showed up, the subjects spontaneously hit the button an average of 40% of the time. (BBC News -- Health)
Brain Wave Patterns Can Predict Blunders Mar 24, 2009
As participants sit at a computer for an hour, a random number from 1 to 9 flashes onto the screen every two seconds. The object is to tap a button as soon as any number except 5 appears. (Science Daily)
Stars Attend 'Knowing' Screening Mar 10, 2009
But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. (New York Post -- News)
Tigers' single-game tix on sale Saturday Mar 5, 2009
The start of the line will be determined by a random number drawn by a fan on Saturday between 8:15 and 8:30 a.m. That number will correspond to a wristband. Everyone else will line up in numerical order up to 500. (MLB.com -- Detroit Tigers)
Why Dreams Mean Less Than We Think Feb 26, 2009
In , Tversky and Kahneman discuss an experiment in which subjects were asked to estimate the percentage of African countries represented in the U.N. Before they guessed, a researcher spun a wheel of fortune in front of them that landed on a random number between 0 and 100 ... Countless experiments over the ensuing decades have confirmed that most of us make this so-called anchoring mistake that is, making a decision based largely on an unrelated piece of information, like a random number that... (Time.com)
What Do Dreams Mean? Less Than We Think Feb 25, 2009
In , Tversky and Kahneman discuss an experiment in which subjects were asked to estimate the percentage of African countries represented in the U.N. Before they guessed, a researcher spun a wheel of fortune in front of them, a wheel that landed on a random number between 0 and 100 ... Countless experiments over the ensuing decades have confirmed that most of us make this so-called "anchoring" mistake in which we make decisions based largely on an unrelated piece of information, such as a random... (TIME)
How To Delete a File ... For Good Feb 25, 2009
33-M; Gutmann; and Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) Stream, a popular method for dealing with modern hard drives ... Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG) Stream. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Aid shouldn’t buy junk food Feb 24, 2009
More than happy to look at real numbers- not someone punching a calculator with a bunch of zeros, I can generate random numbers just as fast as anyone else. I would suggest (I don't have the figure but I don't make them up and pretend they are real) that the food stamp program is in the lower (single digit) portion of the typical taxpayer bill. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Nicolas Cage- KNOWING-Watch the Trailer Here Feb 21, 2009
But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of young CALEB KOESTLER. But it is Caleb's father, professor JOHN KOESTLER (Nicolas Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Privacy Policy Feb 14, 2009
To help make our sites more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we use a standard feature of browser software, called a "cookie," to assign each visitor a unique, random number, a sort of user ID, if you will, that resides on your computer. The cookie doesn't actually identify the visitor, just the computer that a visitor uses to access our site. (KIRO TV, WA)
Primetime Fallout Feb 11, 2009
And what I don't understand, and what I'm hearing -- you know, I -- look, I've gone through most of the bill, but it's insane to think that anyone can really digest it in a short period of time -- is that so many of the programs, they may be great ideas, but they go so far out into time that I don't think we have the time, which is why I find it attractive to cut the payroll taxes, and some other companion (INAUDIBLE) something else (INAUDIBLE) but -- and for people who make less than $150,000... (Fox News)
Singapore-US scientists first to develop revolutionary microchip that uses 30 times less energy Feb 10, 2009
According to Professor Yeo, PCMOS is also ideally suited for encryption, a process that relies on generating random numbers. Thus the microchip can be quickly incorporated in electronic devices such as in computer gaming, lotteries and cryptography (internet security) where random calculations are valuable. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Transcript: Obama press conference Feb 10, 2009
That wasn't just some random number that I plucked out of a hat. That was Republican and Democratic, conservative and liberal economists that I spoke to who indicated that given the magnitude of the crisis and the fact that it's happening worldwide, it's important for us to have a bill of sufficient size and scope that we can save or create 4 million jobs. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Obeid says he doesn't want credit Feb 9, 2009
She had also rung random numbers, texted a schoolmate 38 times and clogged a phone line for the hearing impaired. And nothing would stop her, short of full-time supervision. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Lucas: Chills Feb 8, 2009
If you didn't get chills when Smith walked to midcourt, then you must think 8 in 17 is just a set of random numbers, four corners is just part of a square, and "Knock it in, Michael," is just another phrase. Hold on a minute. (Tarheelblue.com)
