程阳：吉泰克新泽西州彩票系统瘫痪多天

—— 为什么美国媒体不弱智炒作

【程阳曰】纵观整个事件过程，其实媒体并没有质问“为什么技术会事儿”。是呀，谁的手机没卡壳过，谁的电脑没有死机过，网络不畅连广场舞大妈都知道，连奥迪奔驰宝马也是需要4S店维修维护的，连世界IT巨头微软苹果三星都是需要修理的，连银行的系统都不能避免技术故障，连宇宙飞船都会技术失败爆炸。在这个技术引领一切的时代，没有多少百姓会弱智到质问“为什么技术会事儿”。也不要低估媒体的智商，在大多数本次采访程阳的媒体那里，他们已经明白了“技术出事儿”是必然的事情，无非是迟早与大小之别，所以把技术出事儿归为“不可抗力”也有可以理解之处，尽管法律上“不可抗力”有严格的界定。

——程阳：彩票开奖延迟，少拿技术说事儿！ 

GTECH says Northstar NJ signs New Jersey lottery deal

MILAN, June 21 MILAN, June 21

Italy's GTECH said on Friday Northstar New Jersey Lottery Group had signed a 15-year services agreement with the New Jersey Lottery.

Services are expected to begin in October, the gaming company said in a statement.

Northstar NJ is a joint venture. GTECH and OSI each own about 41 percent of it with Scientific Games owning about 18 percent.

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N.J. lottery drawing games offline across the state over the weekend

Aug 4, 2015, 7:47 am

Half of all lottery retailers across New Jersey were not been able to issue any tickets from Friday night through Monday as a result of a "technical issue," a state Treasury spokesman confirmed Monday.

The problem was touched off by a scheduled system upgrade Friday, according to an email from Treasury spokesman Chris Santarelli.

The glitch interfered with retailer shops' ability to print out ticket for "draw games," such as the Pick 3, Pick 4 and the Jersey Cash 5, and Cash4Life. "Instant games were not affected," Santarelli said.

Retail terminals were "expected to be up and running early [Monday] afternoon," he said.

Kalpesh Patel, manager of the Welsh Farms Food Stores in Newark, said his system was down all weekend and service was restored about 1:30 p.m. Monday.

"They are all frustrated," he said of his customers, some who returned every half hour to check if the systems were back up. Patel was frustrated, too. He said he wasn't able to get any information from GTECH, part of Northstar New Jersey Lottery Group that runs most of the lottery functions.

The downtime won't help the store's bottom line and the timing only makes it worse, Patel said. "The beginning of the month is when everybody has money and they want to play. That's a problem."

There are 7,200 lottery retailers statewide, Santarelli said.

In 2013, the lottery was New Jersey's fourth-largest source of revenue, generating $2.7 billion in ticket sales a year. The state received $950 million in revenue from the lottery in 2012, financing scholarships and programs for the disabled and military veterans.

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3 comments

【mypiemaster】Glitch, glitch, glitch. Nobody can blame this one on Patel.

【sully16】Yikes, I would be angry also.

【Raven62】Don't you just luv it: Gtech makes System Changes Friday Afternoon then goes Home for the Weekend without making sure all Functions are working OK! Change Management is an old IT problem which Gtech has not yet Mastered!