{"id":37103,"date":"2004-12-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/12\/08\/it-is-not-illegal-to-use-james-bond-style-tactics-for-winning-at-the-roulette-wheel\/"},"modified":"2004-12-08T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T07:00:00","slug":"it-is-not-illegal-to-use-james-bond-style-tactics-for-winning-at-the-roulette-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20041208-00\/?p=37103","title":{"rendered":"It is not illegal to use James Bond style tactics for winning at the roulette wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundayherald.com\/40874\"> an operation straight out of a James Bond movie, a trio of gamblers used a laser range-finder hidden in a mobile phone to predict the likeliest landing spot of a roulette ball<\/a>, reducing the odds from 37-1 to 6-1.<\/p>\n<p> Scotland Yard concluded that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk_news\/story\/0,3604,1367094,00.html\"> they did nothing illegal<\/a> and were allowed to keep their winnings. <\/p>\n<p> I wonder how long it&#8217;ll be before this device shows up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/\">Engadget<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> (Once I discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/12\/05\/168240\"> I was scooped by Slashdot<\/a>, I figured there was no hurry and held the story for a quiet day.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an operation straight out of a James Bond movie, a trio of gamblers used a laser range-finder hidden in a mobile phone to predict the likeliest landing spot of a roulette ball, reducing the odds from 37-1 to 6-1. Scotland Yard concluded that they did nothing illegal and were allowed to keep their winnings. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-37103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In an operation straight out of a James Bond movie, a trio of gamblers used a laser range-finder hidden in a mobile phone to predict the likeliest landing spot of a roulette ball, reducing the odds from 37-1 to 6-1. Scotland Yard concluded that they did nothing illegal and were allowed to keep their winnings. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}