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Can Your ATM Play Beethoven?

Posted by timothy on from the you-have-nothing-to-fear dept.

bpiltz writes "A funk band in Harrisonburg, VA, called Midnight Spaghetti, has posted a story with photos about a newly installed Diebold Opteva 520 ATM at Carnegie Mellon University that crashed, then rebooted. The Windows XP operating system initialized without the actual ATM software. The result was a public desktop computer, with only a touch screen interface, left wide open for the amusement of the students at the most wired university in the U.S. Interestingly, Diebold is one of the leading manufacturers of e-voting machines."

5 of 657 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Election Day... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Nader wins

    America Loses.

  2. Re:Shit help me1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now is the perfect opportunity to pull his pants down and pound the crap out of his sphincter with your manhood. The body should still be warm enough that it won't seem unnatural.

  3. WARNING ON VIDEOS.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thanks alot. I'll lose my job openning things like that in the office.

  4. Re:"Progress"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You only withdrew 60 euros? I never withdraw less than a thousand euros at a time. I am very wealthy and successful.

  5. Don't blame Windows! by callipygian-showsyst · · Score: 1, Troll
    Blame cheap chinese H1-B programmers and outsourced Indians who don't have the experience or motivation to do things right. Instead, they build prototype quality software on Windows (because they have no experience with real-time operating systems and embedded programming) and that's what gets shipped.

    You can also place some blame on the bank exexutives who sign off on such shitty software.

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    Best Buy can have you arrested