Casino's : Just give them the money and walk away

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MontaVista buys two Linux firms
Posted by Stephen Shankland

MontaVista Software has acquired a business partner and another company, both of which, like MontaVista itself, focus on Linux for embedded computing devices such as slot machines and mobile phones.



Linux is an operating system. You run programs on it.

"Such as slot machines ..."

A slot machine based on program code instead of a spinning wheel or somesuch ... is totally untrustworthy. They can be programmed to do anything, cheat steal the works. And don't think they won't. Our own Casino D'Hull here in (or near) ottawa just got busted for slot machines that rapidly flash a jackpot symbol at the player , trying to subliminally influence them. Not to mention that you have no way of checking what the odds of winning are, the signs up top saying "1 in a thousand" for this machine don't mean diddly. Oh it's out of date , is the excuse , or you were just unlucky , or some such.

A computer slot machine is a bandit, pure and simple. It's just too easy , too tempting , to cheat "just a little bit" , and businesses are notorious for just such things. You see it all the time. Not only in the news, but I bet you yourself has had at one time a friend who openned up a restaurant and decided to keep two sets of books to avoid paying the tax man anything.

My mother , infact , once worked at a company and suddenly had to quit the job because she could see they were "cooking the books" and she didn't want to take the fall for it (she was the book keeper) so just up and quit and never went back rather than take the chance.

And it's these same cost cutting book cooking yahoo's who run these small business's who graduate to running the larger ones. You really can't trust a business any farther than you can throw it.

You might as well just walk in , hand them all your money, and walk away. Saves a lot on the aggrivation and costs just as much.