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Posted: 23rd Feb 2006 14:30
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hmm, I wonder how often this sort of thing happens and what affect it has on MS sales (not a lot I would have thought tbh), the ATM`s at my bank often have NT errors showing on one machine or another, bad IT dept or bad OS?.



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CattleRustler
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2006 15:00
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did the pc operator send or not send the report? did he start looking at pr0n after that, for all to see in Times Square?

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Van B
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I'm surprised things like that aren't more common.

I often see the crashed ATM's, but really, if they're gonna use a PC for this stuff then at least use a secure and stable OS, these things have to be able to run for months without a problem.

More a case of ''surely it'll be cheaper to use old PC's in the ATM's, and I heard NT is really good, let's just mangle a system together from parts bought from ebay - when people wonder why it costs millions to develop we'll just tell them it kept chewing up 20's''


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John Y
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2006 15:19
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Well, at least it's not a blue screen or the windows loading screen. The operator can just restart the application.

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Lukas W
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haha same here only it is a bus station

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2006 15:38 Edited at: 23rd Feb 2006 15:42
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lol, thats pretty wierd, never seen something like that, closest to it is when they get some error message in the church computer that generates what to send to the screens. (Lukas, think you could check the PoPR forums please )

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If an atm gets a blue screen of death, and spits out 100 dollar bills, are you breaking the law if you pick some up?

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Pincho Paxton
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I can just imagine a huge cursor moving accross the screen to click SEND.

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soapyfish
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Remember seeing a report a few months ago about an atm that gave out double the amount entered. People were drawing out all the money in their account and getting it doubled instantly. Don't know what happened afterwards but the bank pointed out that they knew who had used the machine and asked for the money back.

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Wiggett
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lol they'd click DONT SEND as they are using a pirated version of xp

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Hahah,

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