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Why in the world is a unitasking
device running a freaking full-fledged OS in the first place?

ATMs should be running an embedded OS.

The answer of course is that bank IT types are MSCE card
carriers, and when your tool is a hammer, everything looks
like a nail.
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What else can they do?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 03/04/08
Will they run Vista?  TripleII | 03/04/08
Hmmm  MisterMiester | 03/04/08
More to the point  Yagotta B. Kidding | 03/04/08
That's right, YBK  nix_hed | 03/05/08
Crysis, never played it, but...  RichardBronosky | 03/06/08
Silly man!  Sailing_Nut | 04/10/08
No..  Etch44 | 04/11/08
Why in the world is a unitasking  frgough | 03/04/08
Further  TripleII | 03/04/08
Or even this  MisterMiester | 03/04/08
Not really uni-tasking  Sailing_Nut | 04/10/08
Amiga rules  tombalablomba | 03/04/08
Not really...  nix_hed | 03/05/08
Not quite dead yet  John L. Ries | 03/04/08
Wacked Implementation  GeiselS@... | 03/04/08
Exactly what I was thinking too  Loverock Davidson | 03/04/08
Message has been deleted.  itanalyst2@... | 03/05/08
hahaha  galileon | 03/04/08
Windows is an enabler  nix_hed | 03/05/08
When they chose a  hkommedal | 03/06/08
Hack into a Windows PC  MisterMiester | 03/04/08
Windows ATM machines are elegant...  Mike Cox | 03/04/08
No cigars, scones, and cognac?  nix_hed | 03/05/08
Good Story  jns_45K@... | 04/10/08
RE: Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'  Loverock Davidson | 03/04/08
You can't possibly really be as stupid as you pretend  bmerc | 03/05/08
Why would you  hkommedal | 03/06/08
Ridiculous, use PCMs  techrepublic@... | 03/07/08
All this worry  ThePrairiePrankster | 03/04/08
Why the heck are they running windows?  kraterz | 03/04/08
Stop using Windows for the machines  Boot_Agnostic | 03/05/08
This Should Include People Stupid Enough  itanalyst2@... | 03/05/08
I am ahead of the curve.  TripleII | 03/05/08
Paranoid much?  JT82 | 03/05/08
Paranoid? Hardly...  bmerc | 03/05/08
Yep they are reactive...  JT82 | 03/05/08
Credit card is ok.  TripleII | 03/05/08
Ok now i hear your point..  JT82 | 03/06/08
bmerc hit the nail.  TripleII | 03/05/08
RE: Paranoid much  bfilipiak@... | 03/05/08
Hurricane Country:  JT82 | 03/06/08
Decline Cash?  jns_45K@... | 04/10/08
RE: Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'  12AX7 | 03/05/08
RE: Windows cash machines.  bfilipiak@... | 03/05/08
Windows+ATM=bad mojo  nix_hed | 03/05/08
RE: Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'  voogdnz | 03/05/08
RE: Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'  voogdnz | 03/05/08
I've expelled MS from my life, but can still be destroyed  RichardBronosky | 03/06/08
Well, you still live in a Windows using country  Boot_Agnostic | 03/06/08
Crysis, never played it but...  RichardBronosky | 03/06/08
This is scary  John Musbach | 03/09/08
RE: Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'  myrealname | 04/10/08
RE: Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'  myrealname | 04/10/08
Not News  gbentley@... | 04/10/08
Cash Cows  vilppuu@... | 04/11/08

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