Nevada has NO personal income tax, the money collected as tax from casino profits is a very large portion of the state budget... So they frown on people peeing in their revenue stream. It's considered cheating because a device is being used to track the probability of a favorable hand being dealt to the player, if you do it in your head it is OK.
People have built many devices to keep count and it's always considered a felony to use them in the state of Nevada. In fact, many devices are a felony to even OWN... Here come the iPhone police, oh joy.
BTW, the current thing going on is teams where team players keep a count at a few (or many) tables and the "High Roller" sits in at a hot table at the opportune moment based on signals sent from each tables team member. The casinos are now reworking the software to correlate groups of players to try and discourage this behavior, but it is a lot harder when you have enough people to rotate them in and out of small teams and work various casinos.
NRS 465.088 Penalties for violation of NRS 465.070 to 465.085, inclusive.
1. A person who violates any provision of NRS 465.070 to 465.085, inclusive, is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished:
(a) For the first offense, by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 6 years, or by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by both fine and imprisonment.
(b) For a second or subsequent violation of any of these provisions, by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 6 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $10,000. The court shall not suspend a sentence of imprisonment imposed pursuant to this paragraph, or grant probation to the person convicted.
I live about 90 minutes from Las Vegas and I can tell you the state of Nevada is serious as a heart attack about cheating. There are repeat offenders serving LIFE without parole for creating and distributing cheating devices and schemes.
Counting cards in your head is not illegal, but if you do master the art of counting cards without being detected, you can be refused entry at the whim of the casino, just because you are too good at the game... They can walk up and ask you to leave and never return and you must do so. They can also put you face, vital statistics, and biometrics (for facial recognition) in a database shared with other casinos.
Oh, thank the stars! For a moment, I thought our planet was leaking massively... leaving a smog trail of DNA in our wake. I can just see the result of that...
"I say, Ilblic, whats that oozing out of that planet's atmosphere?"
"It appears to be genetic material sir".
"Dammit, I just had the ship washed yesterday! Quarantine this sector and put warning beacons around it"
"Yes Sir! Right Away Sir! Shall I send a team to decontaminate the planet sir?"
Every time I hear of someone suggest some out of date technology to go back to the way it used to be, it reminds me of the chariots in Rome. Perhaps we'll have to go back to chariots too, but we won't have the money for the horse feed, unfortunately.
I would love to read a story about a submarine hitting a lighthouse! Kind of like those killer whales that beach themselves catching seals... of course getting the sub to thrash around and wiggle it's way back into the sea may need a bit of work...
Way, Way, Way back when I had a buddy that was a programmer at Pick Systems (PickOS). I don't remember a lot of the details about the system except that they built it up to running on IBM iron. It was a multi-user, Unix (Dick Pick liked to call it "Eunuchs") competitor back in the 70's and beyond, so there may be some prior art to be discovered.
More about Pick at: http://www.answers.com/topic/pick-system
Also, Jonathan Sisk wrote extensively about PickOS. He's at http://www.jes.com/
...it could just be that Google can see the increase hits inherent in this plan, and therefore the increased ad revenue.
And if they happen to deliver an ad (for 50 cents off, mayhap) to you for the doughnut shop you are walking past, well that's just frosting (or glaze... or SPRINKLES, ahhhhh) on the cake of life.
Really, if some ominous "they" want to track you then "they" already know your banking info and attendant RFID signatures, vehicle profile and numbers, list of known or possible associates, etc..
If you were THAT big a question mark to "them", "they" would already be at your d
You CAN NOT compare physical resources to information because information, once created, is an infinite resource, whereas physical resources will always be finite.
The ability to replicate something infinity does take value away from it. AutoCAD is expensive because of the time spent building, integrating, and maintaining an awesomely powerful set of tools. By copying it, the value of the tool is reduced for the people that put the work and money into making it what it is. And I don't have a problem with those creators deciding how abundant or scarce their work is through pricing, that is an artist's (or any other creators) right... including programmers and companies that hire them to produce software.
Umm... Windows ME redux anyone? It was crap when they reworked Win98 into a "new" OS. This is the same play, just trying to grab the cash and force the upgrade on the major user base that refuses to touch Vista.
What bugs me about the whole thing is that they passed a law to force adoption of the new standard... what ever happened to letting the market decide what gets adopted and what fails?
So, something released under an Apache license can be modified and then released under GPL? Not being sarcastic, I'd really like to know if the act of modifying negates the first license (Apache), or if that is even required to meet the terms of GPL... that just sounds like a nightmare coming soon to a courtroom near by... What license prevails? Or is the code somehow split-licensed?
I agree. I have disabled IE on many machines with a simple registry key that stops the executable from running (see http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1097389&cid=26525267) and it has not effected the rest of windows... iexplore.exe seems to be just a wrapper.
As to the bundling, I think they should not be forced to both exclude their product AND include (installed) some other browser... that's just silly... ship it with no browser and FTP links to get the major ones, Windows Explorer will do FTP.
That would be a great business tool! Your company makes something that competes with my company, so I pay the phone scammers to promote your product and your company gets sanctioned or punished... Dollar for dollar I'll bet that's a lot more effective than marketing my own product or having a better product, just thin out the competition.
Or, you won't want the new-fangled matter transporter used on you because you don't want your atoms flung across space like all those young punks are doing... And that's OK, when that time comes, just step into that booth beside the Soylent Green vending machine.
Yahoo by far gets more spam, and frankly, I don't think their filtering is nearly as good as GMail's.
So you auto-forward your Yahoo messages to Gmail and then set Gmail to allow you to reply from Yahoo as needed. I've done this with a bunch of ISP and hosted accounts (but not Yahoo) and it works very well.
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Nevada has NO personal income tax, the money collected as tax from casino profits is a very large portion of the state budget... So they frown on people peeing in their revenue stream. It's considered cheating because a device is being used to track the probability of a favorable hand being dealt to the player, if you do it in your head it is OK.
People have built many devices to keep count and it's always considered a felony to use them in the state of Nevada. In fact, many devices are a felony to even OWN... Here come the iPhone police, oh joy.
BTW, the current thing going on is teams where team players keep a count at a few (or many) tables and the "High Roller" sits in at a hot table at the opportune moment based on signals sent from each tables team member. The casinos are now reworking the software to correlate groups of players to try and discourage this behavior, but it is a lot harder when you have enough people to rotate them in and out of small teams and work various casinos.
NRS 465.088 Penalties for violation of NRS 465.070 to 465.085, inclusive.
1. A person who violates any provision of NRS 465.070 to 465.085, inclusive, is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished:
(a) For the first offense, by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 6 years, or by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by both fine and imprisonment.
(b) For a second or subsequent violation of any of these provisions, by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 6 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $10,000. The court shall not suspend a sentence of imprisonment imposed pursuant to this paragraph, or grant probation to the person convicted.
REF: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-465.html
I live about 90 minutes from Las Vegas and I can tell you the state of Nevada is serious as a heart attack about cheating. There are repeat offenders serving LIFE without parole for creating and distributing cheating devices and schemes.
Counting cards in your head is not illegal, but if you do master the art of counting cards without being detected, you can be refused entry at the whim of the casino, just because you are too good at the game... They can walk up and ask you to leave and never return and you must do so. They can also put you face, vital statistics, and biometrics (for facial recognition) in a database shared with other casinos.
Enjoy your stay
Oh, thank the stars! For a moment, I thought our planet was leaking massively... leaving a smog trail of DNA in our wake. I can just see the result of that...
"I say, Ilblic, whats that oozing out of that planet's atmosphere?"
"It appears to be genetic material sir".
"Dammit, I just had the ship washed yesterday! Quarantine this sector and put warning beacons around it"
"Yes Sir! Right Away Sir! Shall I send a team to decontaminate the planet sir?"
Also, what are the odds the particle doesn't exist AND they find it?
They vary according to the total amount of public funds that can be expended on it...
I'll stick to the old methods, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy...
Every time I hear of someone suggest some out of date technology to go back to the way it used to be, it reminds me of the chariots in Rome. Perhaps we'll have to go back to chariots too, but we won't have the money for the horse feed, unfortunately.
That's in the future, but the chariots will hover, and be pulled by large (also hovering) jet engines... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Jyq0cWntY&feature=related
I would love to read a story about a submarine hitting a lighthouse! Kind of like those killer whales that beach themselves catching seals... of course getting the sub to thrash around and wiggle it's way back into the sea may need a bit of work...
Way, Way, Way back when I had a buddy that was a programmer at Pick Systems (PickOS). I don't remember a lot of the details about the system except that they built it up to running on IBM iron. It was a multi-user, Unix (Dick Pick liked to call it "Eunuchs") competitor back in the 70's and beyond, so there may be some prior art to be discovered.
More about Pick at:
http://www.answers.com/topic/pick-system
Also, Jonathan Sisk wrote extensively about PickOS. He's at http://www.jes.com/
I thought witches floated?
They do, as a layer of scum on the water, once they have finished melting. Interestingly, the scum is also able to support very small rocks.
Politics is like a septic tank, the really big pieces float right to the top...
Making a Blue Screen of Death a much more meaningful phrase...
If they are still running *NIX of any flavor when the sun dies then they should be forced to stay put... Lazy Bastards!
And I'm STILL waiting for my flying car, dammit!!
Microsoft already has Linux labs, wherein they probably torture Linux installations to extract strategic information.
Fortunately most chipsets do not take well to waterboarding and the system is soon out of it's misery.
...it could just be that Google can see the increase hits inherent in this plan, and therefore the increased ad revenue.
And if they happen to deliver an ad (for 50 cents off, mayhap) to you for the doughnut shop you are walking past, well that's just frosting (or glaze... or SPRINKLES, ahhhhh) on the cake of life.
Really, if some ominous "they" want to track you then "they" already know your banking info and attendant RFID signatures, vehicle profile and numbers, list of known or possible associates, etc..
If you were THAT big a question mark to "them", "they" would already be at your d
Soon they will duplicate themselves and all kinds of deja vu is going to happen.
All over again...
When will people learn to browse at +1 and miss most of that crap anyway?
You CAN NOT compare physical resources to information because information, once created, is an infinite resource, whereas physical resources will always be finite.
The ability to replicate something infinity does take value away from it. AutoCAD is expensive because of the time spent building, integrating, and maintaining an awesomely powerful set of tools. By copying it, the value of the tool is reduced for the people that put the work and money into making it what it is. And I don't have a problem with those creators deciding how abundant or scarce their work is through pricing, that is an artist's (or any other creators) right... including programmers and companies that hire them to produce software.
Umm... Windows ME redux anyone? It was crap when they reworked Win98 into a "new" OS. This is the same play, just trying to grab the cash and force the upgrade on the major user base that refuses to touch Vista.
What bugs me about the whole thing is that they passed a law to force adoption of the new standard... what ever happened to letting the market decide what gets adopted and what fails?
So, something released under an Apache license can be modified and then released under GPL? Not being sarcastic, I'd really like to know if the act of modifying negates the first license (Apache), or if that is even required to meet the terms of GPL... that just sounds like a nightmare coming soon to a courtroom near by... What license prevails? Or is the code somehow split-licensed?
It's gotten so bad, it's not even any fun to mock them anymore - machine-gunning fish in a barrel is a challenge by comparison.
It's also expensive, you can burn through a lot of ammo in a heartbeat... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O39t7jmZgW4
I agree. I have disabled IE on many machines with a simple registry key that stops the executable from running (see http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1097389&cid=26525267) and it has not effected the rest of windows... iexplore.exe seems to be just a wrapper.
As to the bundling, I think they should not be forced to both exclude their product AND include (installed) some other browser... that's just silly... ship it with no browser and FTP links to get the major ones, Windows Explorer will do FTP.
That would be a great business tool! Your company makes something that competes with my company, so I pay the phone scammers to promote your product and your company gets sanctioned or punished...
Dollar for dollar I'll bet that's a lot more effective than marketing my own product or having a better product, just thin out the competition.
Or, you won't want the new-fangled matter transporter used on you because you don't want your atoms flung across space like all those young punks are doing... And that's OK, when that time comes, just step into that booth beside the Soylent Green vending machine.
Yahoo by far gets more spam, and frankly, I don't think their filtering is nearly as good as GMail's.
So you auto-forward your Yahoo messages to Gmail and then set Gmail to allow you to reply from Yahoo as needed. I've done this with a bunch of ISP and hosted accounts (but not Yahoo) and it works very well.