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yes, it was definitely more balanced.

I missed a newline before the sentence beginning with 'my opinion is'.

Although, in his last example around one time pads, he points out that even in an area where the colour of bits really matters to programmers/cryptographers (whether or randomly generated numbers are in fact random), it is not actually possible for us to do determine wether they are random just by looking at them.

In the second to last paragraph he says the following:

"I think it's time for computer people to take Colour more seriously - if only so that we can better explain to the lawyers why they must give up their dream of enforcing Colour inside Friend Computer, where Colour does not and cannot exist."




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