Parpaluck wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 5:24:52 PM UTC-5, nigel wrote:
>
>> Evil Nigel (the nobody who invented NOR ratings
>>
>> In today's 'greed is good' society, any sane person would keep a
>> secret of lottery software which made profitable predictions. As
>> has been said many times before on RGL, if an author's lottery
>> software is so good at predicting, why don't they use it themselves
>> rather than trying to persuade others to buy it? (Note the
>> conflation of 'normal' and 'sane')
>>
>
> First off, you don't show your lottery software not because it is a
> winner and you want to keep it "secret". It is so because you are the
> only one who believes your software exists. Nobody else can see it
> because it is GHOST software!
Exactly! And when it's running, it's "the ghost in the machine" :)
>
> As a matter of fact, RGL was FULL of lottery software in its early
> days. The founder himself created a lottery software site and filled
> it with hundreds of links to lotto software sites! There is one
> conspicuous absence: Ion Saliu's lottery software. Furthermore, there
> was a time in rec.gembling.lottery when some fought hard even against
> mentioning the Ion Saliu name!
>
> 1) Indeed, I do apply the idea of keeping good things secret -- but
> only to some extent. I didn't always "try to persuade others to buy
> my software" -- I released many, many programs for FREE! Some titles,
> plus systems, plus documents are still available for free:
>
>
http://saliu.com/freeware/
>
> There is a good reason or two for offering software to the public
> (free or paid-for). The interaction with users of my lottery software
> certainly helped me improve my software and discover new ideas, new
> algorithms. (I have always rewarded those who contributed worthy
> ideas for improving my software.) Yes, I have received valuable input
> from users of my software. But I still make the legitimate claim that
> I am the founder of lottery software science.
Lottery software science? I think that combination of words is so
self-contradictory that nobody else would even think of making that claim.
>
> Furthermore, I still have lottery programs I am the only one working
> with them. But, usually, I do release them to the public when
> warranted by my policies.
>
> 2) I kept my gambling secrets for longer periods of time. Then, I
> have released most of my gambling strategies to the public. I did so
> mostly out of pride and to respond to casino attacks. My act
> absolutely rattled casino executives and gambling authors:
>
>
http://saliu.com/bbs/messages/588.html
Casino bosses love gamblers who write down roulette past draws. In fact
many casinos deliberately make this information available to gamblers,
because casinos love gamblers who use systems.
The only rattling I can discern from your post is about encouraging
underage gambling. Of course you could always prove otherwise by posting
here the e-mails they sent.
> Yes, I have received valuable input from users of my gambling
> strategies, systems, software. The attacks also aided me by
> stimulating to find new ideas. But I still make the legitimate claim
> that I am the founder of gambling system science.
>
>
>> There's another problemette - if you don't patent the algorithms
>> and others have access to the software, they can use reverse
>> engineering to work out the algorithms. But if you patent the
>> algorithms, surely the US government would swoop to suppress the
>> patent(s) because not only do lotteries save a fortune in taxation
>> but there are also military and scientific implications.
>>
>
>
> 1) My lottery, gambling, and scientific software applications have
> been around for many years. Nobody has been able to decipher one
> single algorithm specific to my programs.
How do you know that?
> At one point, there was a
> disgusting number of attempts to fool me into revealing some
> algorithms, especially in my lotto software. Some lottery software
> developers even threatened me with legal action! Huh? The false
> legal basis was they were legitimate users who needed to understand
> the algorithms in order to use my software! A few of them were my
> googoos (i.e. hostile members of RGL).
IIRC correctly from posts here, they were complaining because they
couldn't get your software to work.
> Reverse engineering is overestimated. The EXE files of my software
> are hardly decipherable. Only a few very skilled programmers might be
> able to comprehend the source code of my software. It is in the BASIC
> language and barely documented. Yet, would someone be so stupid and
> make public the source code of his software?! NOT!
You can buy reverse engineering software, and BASIC is one of the softer
targets compared to languages which support multiple levels of nested
pointers, for example.
> 2) My lottery software has been long included in the library of the
> U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As they stated in an email
> to yours truly:
>
> "As part of the search for prior art to determine the novelty of new
> patent applications, USPTO is using non-patent literature more than
> in the past. This is especially true in the software arts, where so
> much ground-breaking work has been done by programmers who make their
> products available as shareware or freeware (such as yourself). "
>
> Patenting is very expensive if hiring a lawyer or two. I have
> pondered applying for patents online. It is still expensive and
> time-consuming. I'll win big money with my lottery software in the
> near future. (Some of them lottery programs are still my secret!)
> Soon thereafter, I'll start the patenting campaign as forcefully as
> I'm known for.
Good luck with that.
> The U.S. government doesn't really care if winning lottery software
> or gambling systems are offered to the public. Uncle Sam gets his
> share of the lion no matter who wins.
Algorithms to predict lottery draws could be reverse-applied in
cryptography, and the US government is notorious about suppressing
developments in that field until they have something superior in their
possession.
> This government and military
> thingy was just one of the "tricks" some tried to intimidate me with.
> The notorious Psychosama himself resorted to that trick in this RGL
> newsgroup. Pathetic idiots even "notified" me that the state
> lotteries would pay thugs to burn my house down!!!
> BRRRRRRRRAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
>
>
> Ion Saliu, Founder of
SALIU.COM (real website, with real lottery
> software, systems, strategies -- NOT ghosts)
>
http://saliu.com/Ion_Saliu.html
>
> "A good man is an axiomatic man; an axiomatic man is a happy man. Be
> axiomatic!"
>
Evil Nigel
(the nobody who invented NOR ratings)