The Old Joel on Software Forum: Part 4 (of 5)

Random.org

This is a bit of a long shot, but does anyone happen to know what happened to Random.org?

I need some random bits and they were the best option.

Jorel on Software
Friday, May 7, 2004

how about these:

000101010001010000000111111010101010100010101010101010100010100101100101010001000000000000111111111101000000000011111111111101010101010101101010001010100101010101001010101010100000010101010101010000001010111111000010100011111101011010101001011111110001101010101010100010100001110000111111101001010111101010101010111010111101011110000000010101000011111000011110011110100010101011011010100001010111101010101011011111111111101010101000000
1111

name withheld out of cowardice
Friday, May 7, 2004

That's weird- most of them didn't make it. More available upon request.

name withheld out of cowardice
Friday, May 7, 2004

They are there - the long text just doesn't wrap...

Here are some more:

0100100100010101010111010101010100101001001000
0101001010010101001010010100101011011011010100
1010100101001010100001010111011010111010100101
1101101101101011010101101101010101111110100110
1010010101001011010101001010010010010100100101

DJ
Friday, May 7, 2004

0100100100010101010111010101010100101001001000
0101001010010101001010010100101011011011010100
1010100101001010100001010111011010111010100101
1101101101101011010101101101010101111110100110
101001010100101101010100101001001001010010010

Aha! Just as I suspected that '1' was not random at all...

Code Monkey
Friday, May 7, 2004

You could use http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ - they use radioactive decay to generate their numbers or SGI's lava lamp although I can't remember the address for that right now.

r1ch
Friday, May 7, 2004

You could always try http://www.randomnumbers.info/index.jsp

MyNameIsSecret();
Friday, May 7, 2004