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  1. Re:What is the penalty for off-line gambling in WA on WA Law: 5 Years in Prison for Gambling Online · · Score: 1
    "What is the penalty for offline gambling in WA?"

    Card rooms are legal in Washington, as are casinos.

    The Governor's the former attorney general, she's been pushing all sorts of laws since the day she took office.

    I'm not sure if beastiality's illegal in the state yet or not, it wasn't about a year ago when a farm was raided. This may have been a higher priority.

  2. Re:Am I just confused? on SeaMonkey 1.0 Released · · Score: 1
    Once Communicator came out, there were a lot of people wanting a standalone browser. Communicator was a huge program for it's time and tech support was busy helping people reconfigure their systems just to run the thing. Remember the Navigator releases at the time? Those were just recompiles of the suite with the rest removed and weren't polished at all. They worked, but didn't integrate well with other apps at least in the first few point releases.

    About the time they announced the source release, there was a still a lot of interest in a seperate browser both from end users and corporations, often so they could use the browser portion with Outlook. Not too much later, the word coming down from AOL was that they weren't in the software development business and didn't want to be. That was just the view from the support side.

  3. Re:Honestly on ATI vs. Nvidia in a Video Shootout · · Score: 3, Informative

    Two reasons to avoid ATI.

    Drivers, or lack thereof. They've always been slow with new ones. I have a card now that they recommended I use two year old ones on since the current ones have issues with what I run. Apparently Radeons don't need optimized drivers on each chipset, they're interchangable...

    Quality. The fans on two cards I had died in a year. A fan is a rather minor thing, but to me it's indicative of the overall quality.

    Performance I won't get into, but even the older GeForce cards seem to render faster. Perhaps it has to do with the driver thing as well.

  4. Re:Ideal for schools. on Functional Paper V8 Engine · · Score: 1
    They've had clear plastic V-8 model engines for years also driven by an electric motor to show the movement.

    I don't think they even cost as much.

  5. Re:I wonder . . . on Sony Pulls Controversial Anti-Piracy Software · · Score: 1

    Holding the shift key doesn't help if the disk's then inaccessible, as they seem to claim. You're REQUIRED to use their player to access the music on Windows. How else would this keep the music from being ripped to use on your iPod (which was nnother purpose they had).

  6. Re:Yeah right on Navy Sued for Sonar-Blasting Whales · · Score: 1


    When it comes to detecting hidden submarines that're potentially carrying tactical warheads, what is routine? You can't wait for a launch to be detected and then try to locate them. It's a continuous thing.

    The Cold War ending only made more countries able to send submarines capable of patrolling the US coasts.

  7. Re:Consistent Ripoffs on Did Microsoft Invent The iPod? · · Score: 1
    Does MS still have it's stock in Apple from the heavily publicized $150 million investment from 1997?

    They may not need to gouge Apple to benefit, just make sure they have the patents to limit other potential competitors.

  8. One-off remnants on Saturn V Preservation Efforts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The last documentary I saw mentioned that the designs for them were destroyed as part of some deal in building the shuttle. In other words, NASA currently has no launch vehicles powerful enough to even send people to the moon, forget all the talk about Mars. Shuttles: Just say no to vehicle recycling.

  9. Re:Another leveling factor on Game Industry Bigger Than Hollywood · · Score: 0
    I've bought multiple copies of a few. The old Gold Box AD&D games I played while in the military, then bought the compilation later.

    Speaking of compilations, I have like four copies of a few games like Shattered Lands that came in bundles.

  10. Re:Bundled Soon? on Microsoft Releases Toolbar Suite · · Score: 0
    Not one popup, then again, I use Firefox.

    Searches for trojans and spyware are clean too.

    Must be a coincidence.

  11. Re:Servers these days: no respect for Slashdot... on PSP Opened up and Exposed · · Score: 1
    Lots of little screws with minimal thread depth driven into plastic.

    If you're not careful, you're still using glue on reassembly.

  12. Re:Quotation from Chairman Tom on High Court Agrees to Hear File-Sharing Dispute · · Score: 1

    "I hope the supreme court rules in favor of the Music companies." Why wouldn't they? I mean, Hatch has spent a lot of time and political capital on his recording industry bills. Apparently he thinks Utah's recording industry is in danger, that or hes owned.