{"id":4290,"date":"2008-03-07T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2017-11-22T19:42:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T01:42:16","slug":"faulty-random-number-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/faulty-random-number-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Faulty Random Number Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hidden in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/illinoisnews\/story\/DA07E6B3E71A942F862574050043B36B?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a>, which has a positive result of finding a fugitive murder, we have this disingenuous nugget:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Sunday, a police officer in Eureka, Mo., was randomly running license plates in a Days Inn Motel parking lot when the officer came across Newman&#8217;s vehicle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mmm-hmm.  Somehow, I think the fact that this officer was in the parking lot of a motel running the plates diminishes the &#8220;randomness&#8221; of it, and I would question his sample size&#8211;I suspect it was less random than thorough in the selection of plates to run.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, it sounds a little totalitarian, does it not?  Stay in Eureka, and the police will know who you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hidden in this story, which has a positive result of finding a fugitive murder, we have this disingenuous nugget: On Sunday, a police officer in Eureka, Mo., was randomly running license plates in a Days Inn Motel parking lot when the officer came across Newman&#8217;s vehicle. Mmm-hmm. Somehow, I think the fact that this officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-overreach","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17629,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/17629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}