Tom Hayden

Gamepolitics is down, are the actual emails hosted anywhere else that anyone knows of?

Is that $1B price tag not significant? Why is that little nugget buried at the bottom? I feel like a Billion dollar writedown deserves to be higher up in the column.

Didn't HP already make this and show it off at their 40th anniversary thing a while back?

I heard one of the new nail - the -trick moves is Jumping the Shark

First of all a decent hdtv set can be had for a couple hundred bucks these days (in the US at least, I do know that things tend to be unreasonably expensive across the pond). On top of that, wtf is Jem Alexander doing writing for PS3 fanboy and getting surprised by something that is easily discoverable with about 3 seconds worth of research on the interwebs, not to mention well known and obvious to anyone with even a modicum of experience in buying/trying to play out of region content?

Who's looking forward to the spring dashboard update?

@ Laughing Target

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 makes it illegal to accept bets using the internet if the bet violates state law either where the bet was originated or where the bet was received. Online games are exempted, but only those where there is no "pay to play" element, or where free plays are the only prize. Gambling within second life doesn't fall under either of those exemptions.

The upshot of this is that any second life player who is taking bets from Americans is violating American federal law. Also, Linden Labs probably falls under the statutory definition of a "financial Institution" because it maintains player accounts and changes USD for LD. Therefore, under the law it would be prohibited from processing any gambling payments. That means that it is not allowed to send linden dollars from one player account to another if the purpose of that is gambling.

I think Cardinal Zin is a Bonny Doon wine

@ You Assholes who think you're so smart and know everything (4, 16, 26):

From Webster's:

Main Entry: clip
Function: noun
1 : any of various devices that grip, clasp, or hook
2 : a device to hold cartridges for charging the magazines of some rifles; also : a magazine from which ammunition is fed into the chamber of a firearm

No AM radio? What?