Re: How to develop a random number generation device

Late at night, by candle light, MooseFET <kensmith@xxxxxxxxx> penned
this immortal opus:

On Sep 14, 10:16 pm, TheKraken
<ReachUpandSuckYouDowntotheDep...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:51:23 -0700, John Larkin

<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, Windows is not a modern OS, and x86 is not a modern processor.
Given decent hardware tools, an OS should abort a process that tries
to execute data.

You're an idiot.

No, he is right. The Harvard architecture may be an exception because
"trying execute data" may be meaningless in that sort of processor.




There was a joke, in the DOS days, that a certain jpeg file contained
a virus. It was a joke because it was obviously impossible. A few
years later, Windows managed to make it happen.

You're an idiot.

Again what he said is true. The "DOS days" includes the early
versions of Windows. One version of the joke had a JPEG file that
really did have (what was claimed to be) a virus in it thanks to
someones electron microscope.


Here's a good example:
http://www.armageddononline.org/image/virus2.JPG

- YD.

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