{"id":45699,"date":"2014-10-08T10:02:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T16:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/the-gambling-bug.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:39:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:39:42","slug":"the-gambling-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/the-gambling-bug.html","title":{"rendered":"The Gambling Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, talk about a life-destroying addiction. The numbers the protagonists here were dropping in casinos are staggering.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I&#39;m glad they beat the charges. Considering finding a bug in the software you can exploit from the interface provided to be fraud and theft is ludicrous. God knows I don&#39;t get to penalize my end-users when they find a bug in my group&#39;s software (I wish I did).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Stories like this make me so glad I don&#39;t have a penchant for gambling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/10\/cheating-video-poker\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/DVKsn9v0cBw8SQ1HEbxA_dBGR3YX6mbYQVhRUMxyQhbH6BRk5I90fuBgdZexeg-FgvvE1XQ_Mug-ShaIfXNPIr-c7NatqGnMfnSiswbc=w506-h303' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/10\/cheating-video-poker\/'>Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich&mdash;Then Vegas Made Them Pay | WIRED<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nMichael Friberg John Kane was on a hell of a winning streak. On July 3, 2009, he walked alone into the high-limit room at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas and sat down at a video poker machine called the Game King. Six minutes later the purple light on the top of the machine flashed,&hellip;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/dsWjsSPRPe5'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, talk about a life-destroying addiction. The numbers the protagonists here were dropping in casinos are staggering. That said, I&#39;m glad they beat the charges. Considering finding a bug in the software you can exploit from the interface provided to be fraud and theft is ludicrous. God knows I don&#39;t get to penalize my end-users &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/the-gambling-bug.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Gambling Bug&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":385,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/25\/swamped.html","url_meta":{"origin":45699,"position":0},"title":"Swamped","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 25-Apr-03 6:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"My cold bug from a week-plus ago is still hanging on, making itself known in all sorts of annoying ways. 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