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The online slot machine: bandits of the digital generation
  Well
its time for a new world order as the times they are a-changin',
and we must roll with the Joneses as someone probably said
once. What's all the futuristic nomenclature about? The progression
of our casino slot machine into our online slot machine, that's
what! So we've moved into the information age, where actually
touching things is passé. No worries though, the Internet
has us covered once again with the advent of the online slot
machine.
Getting into the guts of an online slot machine
is a slightly different journey. We're not talking to machinists
and carpenters anymore, we've moved on to programmers and
graphic designers. Online machines are pieces of software.
Like all pieces of software they take some input from the
user, and produce some altered output according to an algorithm
(the main piece of code that defines the nature or behavior
of the software). An online slot machine takes the spin as
input, a simple mouse click, and runs the instance through
its algorithm and produces an output. The code basically attempts
to randomize the return values of each individual reel. Unlike
a mechanical slot machine, all three wheels are not always
seen to spin about one axis. There are many different approaches
a programmer can take to produce a slot machine, but to provide
a machine that produces consistent odds and wins/losses without
losing its true randomness is quite a professional task. Mathematics
and game programming go hand in hand, sometimes stretching
the limits of both disciplines, such as in modern 3D gaming.
Online slot machines are basic in comparison, but offer the
same idea, a digital representation of what we might otherwise
experience in the real world. An interesting point comes up
when discussing the online slots that wouldn't normally make
its way into a casino slots conversation. That's the issue
of security. In casino slots the player cannot influence the
spinning of the reels and their returned value unless they
were to physically get inside the machine, or smash it real
good. Online however, a cracker may wish to try an get in
between the client (your home computer) and the server (the
computer the online casino houses, where the bet is placed)
and alter either the signal going out to the server, or the
one coming back from it.
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