What is technically considered gambling online when it comes to this law? Here is why trying to put boundaries on the internet is entertaining:
What if I created an account in Tennessee, with my Tennessee login, but log in in Kentucky. Is that against the law? Are we talking the physical location of the connected machine?
Lets take this a step further. If I use this same account, and I'm in Tennessee, connected wirelessly to a router based in Kentucky, is this against the law? What if the situation was reversed? Is it the physical location of the connection to the internet?
How about another approach. If I am physically in Kentucky, remoting into a machine in Tennessee that is running the casino software, is that therefore technically legal? What if the situation reversed? Are we talking my personal physical location at the time the connection to the gambling website was made?
Head..hit..floor...::passout::
The parent is 99.001% correct.
Actually, if "the test is 99% accurate" is a true statement, then the test is wrong 10,000 times out of 1,000,000, not 9,999 times. If you're thinking that the 1 person it correctly identifies as diseased affects the statistics, you are mistaken - this would be a case of 10,001 total people identified as diseased.
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What is technically considered gambling online when it comes to this law? Here is why trying to put boundaries on the internet is entertaining: What if I created an account in Tennessee, with my Tennessee login, but log in in Kentucky. Is that against the law? Are we talking the physical location of the connected machine? Lets take this a step further. If I use this same account, and I'm in Tennessee, connected wirelessly to a router based in Kentucky, is this against the law? What if the situation was reversed? Is it the physical location of the connection to the internet? How about another approach. If I am physically in Kentucky, remoting into a machine in Tennessee that is running the casino software, is that therefore technically legal? What if the situation reversed? Are we talking my personal physical location at the time the connection to the gambling website was made? Head..hit..floor... ::passout::
The parent is 99.001% correct. Actually, if "the test is 99% accurate" is a true statement, then the test is wrong 10,000 times out of 1,000,000, not 9,999 times. If you're thinking that the 1 person it correctly identifies as diseased affects the statistics, you are mistaken - this would be a case of 10,001 total people identified as diseased.
Irony: A site where users frequently use wikipedia to prove various truths discusses the "truthiness" of various websites.