21.4 Million Pokie Software Error - Lets play it down to 21M and pull out….

Posted on October 8th, 2008 by Drazen Drazic

Computer glitches, software errors….lets blame the technology as usual. Saw this article today on the front page of the Townsville Bulliten. (Net version posted here). On first read in the paper version, it read like the lady noted the win, got the clarification from the husband on the amount being over 21.4M and then decided to play on. I thought, only in Australia; “lets play it down to a cool 21M and pull out then!” Hey, still not convinced it didn’t happen and then the bloody error message pops up! “Come on!!! I still wanted to play the other 400 odd thousand!”.

On a serious note, recent failures of software on; planes leading to injuries and near disasters, manufacturing meltdowns, major road and tunnel closures etc etc - and yet as a society, we continue to not see the dangerous path upon which we travel.

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