Originally Posted by
accountinquestion
Kewl - You said you hired a programmer who showed you how to use a mode built-in already into a shuffler so that the shuffler would cheat players. This shuffler is something available to you off Ebay. He did it in 15 minutes. The whole thing is just absurd. I could come up with some crazy ass story how it was plausible but it would be exactly that - a crazy ass story.
This device is the basis for a 1 billion dollar company. It would implode if it become known that every shuffler in the casinos has a cheat mode just a few button presses away. How would this knowledge never get out if you got a random programmer who cracked the codes in 15 minutes.
This shit to me is the equivalent to "seeing it with my own eyes". I know it is a lie.
So cut the shit.
You know where you fucked up? If you had just never said you had a programmer look at it. You should have just said "I bought a shufler but could never make it do anything". lol. Instead you backed yourself into the corner around establishing that all shufflers do this. Not that El Cortez et al had done something to the shufflers.
There is where the compulsion comes in. The unneeded details lol.
Maybe you should claim the shufler that you bought off ebay was an extra rare one. Yea thats the ticket.
Anyway, just be a decent person ok? Stop the lies.
I wish I knew whether account knew what he was talking about, but I don't. I have no experience with blackjack or shuffle machines. The last time account opined on something I know, he was ludicrously ignorant while acting as if he knew what he was talking about.
I guess if you're an anonymous "AP," one of the benefits is that you get to bullshit as much as you like and nobody can ever pin you down.
Account suggested that folks data mining the results of various handicappers would be better served by data mining the actual results of sporting events. Since that has been publicly going on for 40 years and has been published in newsletters every week and football annuals every year for 30+ years, I didn't think it merited a mention, but account decided to display his cleverness and grasp of the obvious.
So when he opines with similar certitude regarding shuffle machines, I have zero idea if he actually knows whereof he posts or is just as brazenly ignorant as he was regarding programs being applied to the results of every sport for the last 40 years.
Account clearly hadn't picked up and read a newsletter or PlayBook annual over the last 30 years, but he was quite comfortable putting his thoughts onto the forum for all to read. He hadn't taken eight hours in 30 years to examine what he was talking about, but he was happy to share his expertise with a dash of certainty. And these weren't hidden resources he needed to track down; they were among the biggest selling newsletters and annuals in the country. On every major newsstand. But ignorance didn't stop account from sharing his intellectual wealth.
That's what passes for expertise in online forums.
If monet were the only poster, this place would improve a hundred percent.
I think a new forum, Monet's Cave, is in order. The only rule -- you have to have some idea what you're talking about.