http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 4:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/
Or just a bunch of random numbers. That should confuse the heck out of them.]]>Feb 8th 2008 6:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/This can be beneficial for vaccines, circuit design, and probably countless other applications (not to mention the whole Shakespeare by monkeys routine).]]>Feb 8th 2008 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/
What's more, the Mb/s of random crap happening on your computer increases the hungrier the cat gets (to a point).]]>Feb 8th 2008 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 21st 2008 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/ return 4;
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Then it kicks you in the ribs and then goes to get a cup of coffee.]]>Feb 8th 2008 6:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/
Yeah, I went there.

]]>Feb 8th 2008 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 1:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/
If you had a few levels of that, then its preeeety darn random.]]>Feb 8th 2008 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 2:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 3:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 1:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 4:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/its pretty obvious, so the government cant use my toast against me in court unless i give them the key]]>Feb 9th 2008 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/

come up with a computer to predict the stock market, then we're talking.

stories like this make me want to drill a hole in my head.]]>Feb 8th 2008 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/
Can software without additional input truly determine a random number or does it instead always use a system clock or similar to abstract a simulated random figure?]]>Feb 8th 2008 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/
Though I give them some serious credit. A pseudo-RNG of this size and speed is quite an achievement, and most importantly; is more random than even the elliptical curve formulas that are employed today. That is of course if/until someone figures out a pattern with this new noise based RNG.]]>Feb 8th 2008 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/
Its about the only thing in nature that is random. Pretty much everything else I can think of has some fairly macroscopic pattern.

People can't generate random numbers. And certainly not at 2mbps. The machines kicked our collective ass today.]]>Feb 8th 2008 3:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/
Nothing is ever absolutely random in this cosmos.]]>Feb 8th 2008 3:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/
Of course it is more random than a deterministic formula. That is pseudo-random, this is random.

Your argument about it only being pseudo-random is weak, I suppose you would say there's no such thing as free will either?

It doesn't have to be completely random, only random enough that no one could ever predict the next digit, which it is.]]>Feb 8th 2008 5:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept on pouring.

The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. "It is overfull. No more will go in!"

"Like this cup," Nan-in said, "you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?" " ;)]]>Feb 8th 2008 6:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/
The professor HAD an empty cup, but Nan-in filled it up with his own trot, passed that off as the professor's, and then made him take more. That's less zen, more brainwashing.]]>Feb 8th 2008 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 9th 2008 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Feb 8th 2008 2:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/08/toshiba-creates-fasted-random-number-generator/Just sayin' what comes into the top of my head!
Like it's... random! R-r-r-random!]]>Feb 8th 2008 4:11AM