What if you had a very good patent lawyer...

[Bill Squier]

On Jul 22, 2010, at 8:59 PM, John Gilmore wrote:

> It's pretty outrageous that anyone would try to patent rolling barcoded
> dice to generate random numbers.
> 
> I've been generating random strings from dice for years.  I find that
> gamers' 20-sided dice are great; each roll gives you a hex digit, and
> anytime you roll a 17 thru 20, you just roll again.  One die will do;
> you just roll it as many times as you need hex digits.
> 
> Presumably pointing a camera at ordinary dice could automate the data
> collection -- hey, wait, let me get my patent lawyer!

Too late.

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-wps

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