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Tuesday, March 15, 2005
 
Category: Science
There's something a bit cheap about casino operators complaining about people being able to win. In this case the claims seem seriously far-fetched:
Four years ago detectives arrested Hungarian tourist Laszlo Sendor Kovacs after he won large bets at Sydney's Star City casino roulette wheel.
Casino security became suspicious of the 59-year-old gambler tapping his right foot under table 9.
Police questioned Mr Kovacs and found a Maxwell Smart-style microcomputer hidden in the sole of his scuffed shoe.
With a toe tap, a computer in the shoe sent a voice-synthesised message to an earpiece telling him the wheel's speed. This allegedly helped calculate the number.
Police found $74,184 in cash and chips on Mr Kovacs, including $10,000 in his underpants.
Ten gorillas in your underpants? I hope they were high denomination chips.
My take on the device is that if they can use something like this to determine what number is going to come up I could almost believe that academic goons could model climate to some extent.
This article is surely more evidence of the Hun making an early start on their April Fool's Day Special Edition.

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