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Re:Russians Engineer a Slot Machine Cheat that Casinos Can't... by nbohra on Monday February 06, 2017 @10:47AM (#13580481)
It only works for OLDER machines and the casinos and/or machine makers are not sufficiently financially motivated to upgrade the the logic
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Re:Russians Engineer a Slot Machine Cheat that Casinos Can't... by acqq on Monday February 06, 2017 @11:04AM (#13580686)
They obviously lose so little that it's not worth the cost of upgrading the software.
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Re:Russians Engineer a Slot Machine Cheat that Casinos Can't... by jdcarter on Monday February 06, 2017 @11:55AM (#13581358)
Not just software; from the article it sounded like this was pretty old hardware, with a CPU only capable of running a basic PRNG. Doing a hardware upgrade on the zillions of old machines out there (I have no idea of the scale) must not be worth losing a couple thousand dollars here and there to sophisticated scammers.
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