On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 07:46:53PM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote:
> Just a thought:
> How does russian rulette for Debian Developers work?
>
> Everone contributes a key revocation certificate and chooses a number
> from one to ten. Then everybody executes a random generator - if it's a
> match, then his revocation certificate is submitted to the keyservers.
>
> Greetings,
> Erich Schubert
>
> P.S. Yes, i know that there are more complex rules for russian roulette,
> where each one either can pull the trigger, or spin the barrel and pull
> then - but i was too lazy to write analogons to these ;)
According to the definition of the game that I found that matches the
one I remember[1], what you'd need is a script that takes a revocation
certificate as an argument, and then makes the decision to send it or
not, weighted 5:1 in favor of not sending it.
Pretty horrible idea but I'd laugh if I saw the (really rather
trivial) script... until someone actually tried it and lost.
Regards,
Mako
[1]: From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Russian roulette \Rus"sian roulette\
(a) An act of bravado played by loading one bullet into one
chamber of a revolver in which the cylinder has five or
six positions, spinning the cylinder (thus moving the
bullet randomly to one of the six positions of the
cylinder), pointing the gun to one's head, and pulling
the trigger. If the bullet is in firing position, the
"player" is usually killed. Such a "game" may be played
on a dare, or, in some places, as part of a gamble.
--
Benj. Mako Hill
mako@debian.org
http://people.debian.org/~mako/
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