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Computerized Betting System Proves Vulnerable
count3r writes "A front page article in today's New York Times reports that an employee of Autotote has been fired for (allegedly) hacking the system responsible for 65% of all horseracing bets in North America. The caper, if it is indeed a caper, resulted in a series of six bets that paid a total of $3,000,000 in last Saturday's Breeders' Cup."
Just wanted to say that I found the link in your sig to be useful. Thank you. :)
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Ah, over-zealous moderation of my parent post here.
Know what bugs me? I turned off the +1 bonus to let that guy know that the programmer's cheat sheet link in his sig was helpful. I have no doubt that it was off-topic, but modding me down over being polite (and turning off the bonus) was shitty.
I wasn't expecting to get modded up for it, but modding me down for it was a waste of moderation points.
I don't care if this +2 followup gets me modded down or not. Frivolously modding me down forced me to to defend myself.
Come on, you know you want to do it!
Good point and all.
Scott.
"The fact that you A) have some kind of email notification of moderation turned on; B) actually watch it; C) give a damn about moderation; D) took the time to come back to the site and whine, is frankly pretty discouraging. If I had any faith left that most human beings didn't unduly burden themselves with concerns over the most pointless worthless ignorant bullshit you have eroded it completely."
So let me get this straight: My post made you lose all your faith that humans don't unduly burden themselves with concerns over the most pointless worthless ignorant bullshit. Is the reason that you feel that people burden themselves with pointless worthless igorant bullshit is because you're making a big stink over pointless worthless ignorant bullshit?
You illustrated your point well, pity you look like an overreactive idiot. I mean I could understand somebody being annoyed that I screwed up the italics tag, but to be annoyed so much over my complaint is really quite hilarious! Heh thanks for the laugh, buddy!