From: lucifer@dhp.com (lucifer Anonymous Remailer)
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 14:00:24 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Random numbers from the '60's...
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Bill Stewart wrote:

> >Who needs a camera and a lava lamp when soundblaster cards with noisy
> >microphone preamps are nearly universal?
> 
> The Lava Lamp is nice and visual, though.
> On the other hand, isn't the noise from blowing on a microphone chaotic,
> due to various turbulence effects?   It's definitely prior art,
> as is hashing the physical-world input data.

  Just give me a microphone and a can of beans, and call me
"Mr. Random" (inventor of the 'corned beef' hash system).

FartMonger