A High-tech Wheel of Fortune

tcp writes "The BBC is reporting that the London police have detained three people, for allegedly beating the roulette wheel at a London casino. Using a cell phone, a computer and a laser scanner, they were able to predict where the roulette ball would land, winning more than 1.5 million dollars in the process. This technique was not new, and as I recall was the plot of a movie once. The suspects have not been charged yet. The UK has been behind in bringing their gambling laws to deal with new hi-tech threats unlike the US and Las Vegas."

Comments

Re:Las Vegas

[Zeinfeld]

This story appeared on the BBC on monday.

There were much more interesting stories in the BBC, like the stident who auctioned her virginity on Ebay and went through with the deal. Or the new British craze of 'Toothing' - using bluetooth cell phones to hook up for casual sex. Or if the only sex stories you find interesting involve pr0n, not real sex the news that Boeing has installed Internet access via WiFi in a number of planes seems pretty interesting to me - like its the story most likely to affect me directly in the next few months.

Instead we get a week old story about a not very original casino fraud. Oh and that fascinating story about mozilla Foxbat changing its name to Motzarellea Fuxbat.

Re:Physics can solve anything if it has all the in

[trixillion]

You might want to look up this little concept called Quantum Mechanics. It disagrees with what you just said. But them, perhaps QM is wrong.