Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison

Re:Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison by carbocation on Thursday January 03, 2013 @09:26AM (#5002441)

For clarification, I agree with your implication that the authorities could make these absurd choices, not that I think your comment was absurd.

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Re:Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison by n3rdy on Thursday January 03, 2013 @10:05AM (#5002615)

I understand and agree with the point you were making. Last comment was for funsies.

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Re:Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison by carbocation on Thursday January 03, 2013 @10:14AM (#5002658)

If we're going for funsies, I wonder if /dev/urandom could be considered gambling software, given the right circumstances? Only kind of kidding.

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Re:Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison by jlgreco on Thursday January 03, 2013 @01:51PM (#5003877)

I can see it now: a bunch of grizzly old men huddled together in the back room of a local bar, a single bare light-bulb burning above them. Every few seconds they yell in anguish or delight and throw down more cash, words incomprehensible to any outsider. In the middle sits a pasty nerd, slowly typing out `echo $RANDOM` into a computer over and over again.

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Re:Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison by jrogers65 on Thursday January 03, 2013 @02:52PM (#5004241)

Now let's not go too far with this hypothetical computer-aided gambling scenario. Everyone knows that Bash keeps a history of commands and that our pasty friend simply needs to press the up arrow followed by return after the first roll of the digital die.

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Re:Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison by jlgreco on Thursday January 03, 2013 @03:15PM (#5004383)

Very true, but never underestimate the importance of theatrics. ;)

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Re:Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison by carbocation on Thursday January 03, 2013 @03:09PM (#5004344)

Up followed by return is too much work. Let's lighten the load:

    while true; do echo $RANDOM; read -p "Press [ENTER] to continue gambling."; done;

Actually, our pasty friend doesn't really need a job:

    while true; do echo $RANDOM; sleep 10; done;

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Re:Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison by n3rdy on Friday January 04, 2013 @02:42AM (#5006683)

Attention! carbocation did not type this code. His account was hacked and a programmer working for the internet mafia released this code using his stolen account to make him the unwitting fall guy.

carbolocation was with me all afternoon, we were at church working in the soup kitchen, feeding the poor. We did so anonymously because we believe people who take credit for charity work are ego-maniacal monsters.

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Re:Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison by zem on Thursday January 03, 2013 @08:16PM (#5005740)

    watch -n 10 'echo $RANDOM'

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Re:Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison by Hello71 on Thursday January 03, 2013 @05:18PM (#5005059)

  while echo $RANDOM; do sleep 10; done

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