I saw Howard Scott Warshaw at a convention a few years ago and he said
that this was a technique he actually used to generate random numbers.
He used a pseudo-random number algorithm and periodicall re-seeded it
based on the time between moves of the joystick. He pointed out that he
was exploiting the only truly random thing in the system, the user.
Dan
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> Real random numbers? What's your source of real randomness?
> I guess you could ask the player to wiggle the joystick or something.
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