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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."
Good odds FP?
they're hiring!
Ok, My plan:
1. Get a job writing horse betting code
2. Steal underpants.
3. ???
4. Breed the chimps into my own private army
5. ???
6. Profit!
I know it's not the first, but could someone give my sack a trim? I'm a little nervous to do it myself.
Please feel free to use this thread to give the rest of the world updates on how Junis is doing in Afghanistan.
Everyone wants to know: Is Junis into Sex and the City and The Sopranos nowadays?
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci-Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. Apparently, Mr. King was walking through his kitchen when he tripped over the family cat Buster, which caused him to fall face-first into the spice rack, getting large amounts of paprika in his eyes. Unable to see, Mr. King attempted to stumble his way to the bathroom and instead tumbled down the concrete steps to his basement and was impaled on a machette that was lying on the floor. I'm sure he will be missed by the Slashdot community - even if you didn't enjoy his work, nobody on this planet made a better B.L.T. Truly an American icon.
Just wanted to say that I found the link in your sig to be useful. Thank you. :)
Everyone knows he died of a heart attack last year.
L1(K MY NU7Z L@M3R M0R0N!!!
I heard that the Autotote programmer used to use 'ls'. Maybe it should be called GNU/Autotote.
"A user has given a Offtopic (-1) moderation to your comment, Re:No registration, attached to Computerized Betting System Proves Vulnerable. Your comment is currently scored (0)."
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.
ignore this please.
"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!