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What happens when an ATM crashes and reboots into a regular copy of Windows XP on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University? The world's first Diebold Brand Media Player. Using the touch screen and the character mapper in Windows, the ATM was reprogrammed to play various looping songs (including Talking Heads) while occasionally belching out 'What, am I made of money?' via text-to-speech. Almost as disturbing as college students willingly not engaging in thievery is the fact that Diebold happens to be the country's larget producer of eVoting machines. "And that, son, is how David Byrne became president!"
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