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From Russia with D45 7K4 33T 2S8
Posted by Cyrus on 18 October 1999, at 3:22 a.m., in response to One non-voodoo emanation, posted by Green Baize Vampire on 15 October 1999, at 5:10 p.m.
"you could work out the denomination of a card from the back with a thermal imaging camera. I think they did something similar in a Bond film once"
I don't recall the exact sequence (as in "film sequence", Vamp!) but I believe they "used" X-ray glasses.
Thermal imaging could be possible if we're talking spectrum analyzers; for the difference between the color of pips and background on the face of the card, I mean. An area which calls for some heavy-disability camo, methinks: "Make way for the gentleman in the wheelchair and (what's this?) ..the heavy-duty goggles. Industrial accident, sir?"
Breaking News: An optical firm in Japan announces (30 years later than what those ads in the comics promised!) a break-through in thermal imaging. Special lens will now be able to 'undress' people from their clothes and intake almost totally nude pictures.
They announced that their product targets all security firms and uses. (Yeah, right: Just like powerful portable telescopes target the astronomer enthusiast...)
"Crossroaders sense stacked decks by the feel of the cards. Cards in play over an hour tend to warm up, hence the term cooler. Does this maybe have some use for casino blackjack?"
I can't see any use for the player. Each card, whatever its rank, tends to stay in a dealer's hand, and thus warm-up, the same amount of time, for all practical purposes. The Ace stays 'exposed' a bit longer due to calls and/or bets for Insurance but is this significant?
"Mental telepathy experiments .., which gace a superficial veneer of respectability to the subject, seem to have been done by scientists ignorant of the effects of sampling without replacement, kinesics and shuffle-tracking."
The Soviet scientists who had done extensive military experiments into these techniques, for message transmission mostly, were not ignoramuses at all! USSR took the affair highly seriously, if only because the West did too. From what I have read, they came to a total dead-end also: no result, with their subjects 'communicating' from deeply-submerged submarines to base, was statistically different from what one would expect in random.
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