Security News > 2020 > November > Friday Squid Blogging: Diplomoceras Maximum
With luck we mostly avoid them but these days I appear to more than stub my toe on them, guess I need better glasses or something.
Speaking of point of measurment sensors on a more down to earth note you mention the infamous Intel paper What it describes has been described by others as the "Roulette Wheel" or "Waggon Wheel" TRNG as it is in reality a "Stroboscopic sensor" and just like the film gate in old movies where the waggon wheels appear slow, stationary or turning backwards on the screen.
As far as I know back a decade and a half or more before the Intel paper in the very early 1980's , I was the first to use a VCO as an analogue to digital converter in a TRNG but these ideas have a habit of "Comming of age" thus occur to many people around the same time, and the use of a VCO as a A2D converter was not exactly new then it goes back into the relms of early telephone research.
Speaking of accidents, I'm sorry to hear about your leg such things happen or are "Sent to try us" depending on your view point, the sad fact is as my doctor used to point out before she retired is, what appears to bounce off of us when we are young tends to bite more with time.
As my eyesight has got worse over the years the need to take them off to do something and then put them on again to do something else has gone up as I need to switch from close to more distant vision the point at which I have to switch is about two hand widths from my nose which makes working at a desk darn akward as books and things I'm working on are in close, but all computer screens are distant Anyway I usually remember where I put my glasses down but occasionaly something will cause a sudden change and I will forget where So, imagine if you will a large aimiable bear with a perplexed look on a face that has been likened to a Klingon, that is thus as hirsute as Carl Marx wandering around myopicaly trying to find it's glasses.
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