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breadmonkey

http://www.realdealpoker.com/

An online poker site that will use actual mechanical shuffling machines instead of an RNG! I've edited my signature accordingly.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28/internet-poker/will-anyone-try-realdeal-poker-why-hate-687733/index4.html

I literally cannot stop laughing! Must be an elaborate pisstake?

strewelpeter

Thats hilarious.
Its either a pisstake or delusional morons who will fail horribly.

JimmyCrackCorn!

Reminds me of this from years back


Some have suggested using digital cameras, such as webcams, to photograph chaotic macroscopic phenomena. A group at Silicon Graphics imaged Lava lamps to generate random numbers (U.S. Patent 5,732,138). One problem was determining whether the chaotic shapes generated were actually random – the team decided that they are in properly operating Lava lamps. Other chaotic scenes could be employed, such as the motion of streamers in a fan air stream or, probably, bubbles in a fish tank (fish optional). The digitized image will generally contain additional noise, perhaps not very random, resulting from the video to digital conversion process. A higher quality device might use two sources and eliminate signals that are common to both — depending on the sources and their physical locations, this reduces or eliminates interference from outside electric and magnetic fields. This is often recommended for gambling devices, to reduce cheating by requiring attackers to exploit bias in several "random bit" streams.

Degag

strewelpeter

JimmyCrackCorn! wrote: »

Reminds me of this from years back


Some have suggested using digital cameras, such as webcams, to photograph chaotic macroscopic phenomena. A group at Silicon Graphics imaged Lava lamps to generate random numbers (U.S. Patent 5,732,138). One problem was determining whether the chaotic shapes generated were actually random – the team decided that they are in properly operating Lava lamps. Other chaotic scenes could be employed, such as the motion of streamers in a fan air stream or, probably, bubbles in a fish tank (fish optional). The digitized image will generally contain additional noise, perhaps not very random, resulting from the video to digital conversion process. A higher quality device might use two sources and eliminate signals that are common to both — depending on the sources and their physical locations, this reduces or eliminates interference from outside electric and magnetic fields. This is often recommended for gambling devices, to reduce cheating by requiring attackers to exploit bias in several "random bit" streams.

This is very cool IMO