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That would be illegal.
As would "If you put money in and play this machine, you can win more money back -- but if we don't like how much it gives you, you can't have it".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Except, thanks to her own selfie, there's no indication that she won anything. What is being displayed on the screen is a very unusual cash-out [ticket print] prompt with an erroneous amount, not the announcement of a win.
When a slot produces a jackpot, it doesn't blank both screens, but makes a wild visual display and "locks" the machine from further plays OR a cash-out. The reason for the latter is that most states, and the IRS, require that tax withholding be done immediately on wins over $1200. It's also standard practice to put all jackpot winning machines out-of-service in order to check the logs and to check for tampering.
Again, the machine did no announce she had won $42 million, but that she could print a ticked for $42 million. Those are two entirely separate things.
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Why does it matter if it is a glitch?
The machine declared a winner, hardly matters how. Lame excuse to not pay, and would not work everywhere.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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How do they know it was a glitch?
Because she won.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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The woman took a selfie and it points to a slot machine behaving in a very strange way. Both upper and lower screens are black and there are two lines of text indicating the win and that a ticket is being printed. This is NOT normal behavior. While it's possible that that line of slots has a debug mode that can display this, it's more likely that someone tampered with the machine. She probably couldn't have done the latter without alarms going off. I'll leave it at that.
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Frankly I'm surprised that no-one here has pointed out that the pay-out the malfunctioning machine stated was precisely 2^32 in pennies (with the cents dropped)...
So yeah. Any engineer worth their salt should immediately twig that the machine was malfunctioning, without even taking the posted max pay-out into account...
Come on guys...
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You do realise, don't you, that no matter how hard you push the envelope, it remains stationery?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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True. You can't lick envelopes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This kind of thing must be stamped out.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It is folded in advance
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Has Griff stopped thinking daily? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I do all my thinking weakly.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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OriginalGriff wrote: I do all my thinking weakly.
Come on! You had a good day once and now you try to stretch it on and on...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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What can I say? I'm an optimist!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If you'd waited slightly over three weeks, it would have been the anniversary of Griff posting the same joke. 
I keep pushing the envelope, but it's still stationary.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Well then, Leslie will be absolutely delighted to know it still hasn't moved.
 Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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That is my wife's favorite expression.
Dave.
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Have they caught the latest bunch of script-kiddie spammers (the ones sending emails with girls' names in the From field), or have the kiddies just realised that they won't get rich from it?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Coincidence? My web server is, the last couple of days, getting peppered with http requests with a googlebot user agent string, IP addresses in India and no hostname (i.e. request to bare IP address). None of them are getting anything other than a 403 response, and a slap from fail2ban if they are silly enough to try again.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Ah, so they've managed to google and download a new script.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It is just the transition. The boys will start to chase you in a few days.
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Ah, I see your point -- it's a cause and effect thing:
0: The girls stop chasing me.
1: I start chasing the girls because they're not chasing me.
2: The boys start chasing me because I'm chasing the girls.
I'm always happy when I fully understand a process.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, yes, of course that is how I meant it.
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