[geeks] Interesting: hardware security token for PayPal

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>Date: 2007/04/04 Wed AM 10:50:38 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Interesting: hardware security token for PayPal

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>When he was in 7th grade, my son Paul did a sicence fair project, all by
>himself, where he wrote a basic program to track the random number
>generator in Microsoft basic. In order to finish it in reasonable time,
>using a 12mHz 80286 PC he tracked three digits of significance. 
>
>He produced a nice set of posters showing his results, how quickly it 
repeated
>itself and so on. Since his project was not mentored (done by an adult),
>it was not flashy and eye catching. Although similar work had recently 
>been awarded a PhD. at MIT, in his elementry school, it did not even
>receive an honerable mention.  

Yeah, but if your son used Powerpoint to develop the slides to explain his 
presentation, the teachers would have been impressed ;^) (That is how it is 
in NJ these days anyway... Seriously, why do we need to have projectors in 
each classromm for grades 7 -> 12?)

Lionel