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To: TangoLimaSierra; HiTech RedNeck
Finally someone gets it. Touch screens have to be calibrated.

Imagine the outcry if an ATM touch screen wasn't properly calibrated, and you ended up drawing money out of someone else's account.

185 posted on 10/25/2016 7:22:37 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

Couldn’t be someone else’s account in this scenario. It’d be withdrawing 50 when you wanted to click 20.

There’s an urban legend about a short lived bug in some bank’s ATM’s where when you manually entered the sum you want you could put in anything you want and it gave you the closest bill it had, but deducted what you entered.

So if you entered 0.01 then it deducted that and gave you whatever the smallest bill it had was.

As a computer programmer I find that story very plausible.


186 posted on 10/25/2016 7:50:14 PM PDT by Krosan
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To: thecodont
Imagine the outcry if an ATM touch screen wasn't properly calibrated, and you ended up drawing money out of someone else's account.

Imagine the outcry if you had an ATM that could withdraw money from someone else's account.

Any ATM that had the ability to withdraw money from somebody else's account when miscalibrated would also do so when correctly calibrated. It's just that, when correctly calibrated, the user would be less likely to do it by mistake.

187 posted on 10/25/2016 7:51:55 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: thecodont

It would be something like withdrawing the wrong sum of money


188 posted on 10/25/2016 8:11:26 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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