This is excellent!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/arti...175810,00.html

Seems an ingenious approach (if true).

Would be a shame to penalise such inventiveness.

If they want to take someone to court, perhaps they should look no further than the cost of a cucumber sandwich with tea at that same establishment.

Their prices are truly criminal!

Utter bull in my opinion.
a) The "phone" would have to have a RISC Microprocessor in it to calculate the velocity etc. Don't exist.
b) A link to another PC would have to be at least at broadband rates...
c) Completing the whole process by 2 spins of the wheel is needed to give time for the punter to place a bet. That's 2 seconds or so.
Possible with a dedicated device that "looks like" a mobile phone though,linked via 433 Mhz short range transceiver to a laptop nearby, maybe....
Such a device would be more use for BlackJack....

What I found interesting was the comment that they had previously 'won' 100k, and nothing untoward was thought of it. But perhaps they got greedy and went for the £1.2m which did arouse suspicions.

So it seems to be just the same as spreadbetters - go above a certain level and you bring attention to yourself. So the rule must be to find out what is acceptable, and just keep chipping away beneath that level. And surely they would have wanted to spread themselves around a bit - 80k here and there at various casinos throughout London would easily have mounted up reasonably quickly and all without too much attention.

Divide and conquer!

Or maybe they are time travellers like Andrew Carlssin last year at about this time?

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html

"Weekly World News will continue to follow this story as it unfolds. Keep watching for further developments"

Were there any developments? That's funny. I remeber that article from the first time around. Favourite line:

All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his "time craft."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...627115,00.html

im sorry guys but Andrew is a myth.

Some mobile phones now come with 150+Mhz RISC
Micropressors, should be more than capable of doing the
calculations i think.

The Sony P800 been available for almost a year now,
comes with 159Mhz ARM9. And a camera on the back!

Is there a casino near the Saturday meeting venue?

as requested....