A UK activist clade is taking on the insidious digital fruit machine (AKA, "slot machine"). These things are supposed to be random and fair, but by design or by glitch, the pubside gambling systems are anything but.
Fruit machines cheat you on practically every spin of the reels. Almost every spin is entirely predetermined – which symbols are going to drop in, whether you're going to be awarded nudges, which numbers the "random" stop will land on, the lot. Ever had two cherries on the win line, not held them, then watched the third one drop in on the next spin and thought, "Damn, if I'd held them I'd have won"? Well, you wouldn't. If you'd held the two cherries, the machine would have dropped in a different symbol. And now we can prove it.
(via NTK)
