>>However, gaming officials investigating the incident reckon it was probably just an unfortunate computer glitch.
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>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_8596000/8596827.stm
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>This story has been all over the news yesterday and today - even interviews with her. I say they "pay up" because otherwise it will become an easy way out for casinos to not have to pay winners while still collecting their $ when they gamble.

Exactly. Casino operators would LOVE for this "investigation" to hold up as it now stands.

I attended a local user group presentation a while back, put on by a company that creates VLTs. The software development process is incredibly rigorous and sophisticated, the algorithms developed by PhDs in mathematics/statistics. Before being approved for sale/use, all software source code is divulged to the gaming authorities, who perform their own code reviews and testing.

It's probably not an exaggeration to say the development process for gaming software is equivalent to that used for a moon shot. To me that makes the "computer glitch" "explanation" hard to swallow.