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Re: From Russia with D45 7K4 33T 2S8
Posted by Green Baize Vampire on 29 October 1999, at 2:19 p.m., in response to From Russia with D45 7K4 33T 2S8, posted by Cyrus on 18 October 1999, at 3:22 a.m.
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?"
Allan Pell said a team actually executed this scam...can't remember any details.
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.
Apparently this really does work. I can't even begin to consider the relevance to gambling next to the gargantuan threat to civil liberty. Cameras have invaded every square inch of city space in England. There is no regulation procedure.
"Mental telepathy experiments .., which gave 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.
I was thinking of the American studies: I agree the Soviets were sharp and did it properly. If you read the last chapter of Epstein's Theory of gambling and statistical logic you will see what I'm getting at. In fact buy it anyway, it is by far the best general gambling text.
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