Students at dozens of colleges, such as Syracuse, American University and Marist College, can check online whether a vacant machine is waiting downstairs and how much time remains on each machine's cycle.
For without a concerted global response to the problem of dirty money, the world's money-laundering machine will be off on yet another devastating cycle.
Many Splunk clients have discovered that machine data is not just about the break and fix cycle but can also reveal important information about customers and partners.
The immensely complicated astronomical clock built by Richard of Wallingford, abbot of St Albans, was so complex it took eight years to run through its full cycle of calculations and was the most intricate machine ever built up to that point.
Imagine how much the Metropolitan Opera could have saved on its gigantic Ring Cycle if it had forgone the Robert Lepage "machine" and done it all with video.