Peggy Paperdoll

Are you sure Deltango? ------------------------------------------------------ [edit] Legality [edit] United States The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled[9] in November 2002 that the Federal Wire Act prohibits electronic transmission of information for sports betting across telecommunications lines but affirmed a lower court ruling[10] that the Wire Act "'in plain language' does not prohibit Internet gambling on a game of chance." But the federal Department of Justice continues, publicly, to take the position that the Wire Act covers all forms of gambling.[11] In April 2004 Google and Yahoo!, the two largest Internet search engines, announced that they were removing online gambling advertising from their sites. The move followed a United States Department of Justice announcement that, in what some say is a contradiction of the Appeals Court ruling, the Wire Act relating to telephone betting applies to all forms of Internet gambling, and that any advertising of such gambling "may" be deemed as aiding and abetting. Critics of the Justice Department's move say that it has no legal basis for pressuring companies to remove advertisements and that the advertisements are protected by the First Amendment.[12] In April 2005, Yahoo! has instigated a restrictive policy about gambling ads.[13] In July 2006, David Carruthers, the CEO of BetonSports, a company publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, was detained in Texas while changing planes on his way from London to Costa Rica.[14] He and ten other individuals had been previously charged in a sealed indictment with violations of US federal laws relating to illegal gambling. While as noted above, a United States Appeals court has stated that the Wire Act does not apply to non-sports betting, the Supreme Court of the United States previously refused to hear an appeal of the conviction of Jay Cohen, where lower courts held that the Wire Act does make it illegal to own a sports betting operation that offers such betting to United States citizens.[15] The BetOnSports indictment alleged violations of at least nine different federal statutes, including 18 USC Sec. 1953 (Operation of an Illegal Gambling Business).[citation needed] Carruthers is currently under house arrest on a one million dollar bail bond.[16] In September 2006, Sportingbet reported that its chairman, Peter Dicks, was detained in New York City on a Louisiana warrant while traveling in the United States on business unrelated to online gaming.[citation needed] Louisiana is one of the few states that has a specific law prohibiting gambling online. At the end of the month, New York dismissed the Louisiana warrant.[17] Also in September 2006, just before adjourning for the midterm elections, both the House of Representatives and Senate passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (as a section of the unrelated SAFE Port Act) to make transactions from banks or similar institutions to online gambling sites illegal. This differed from a previous bill passed only by the House that expanded the scope of the Wire Act. The passed bill only addressed banking issues.[18] The Act was signed into law on October 13, 2006, by President George W. Bush. At the UIGEA bill-signing ceremony, Bush did not mention the Internet gambling measure, which was supported by the National Football League but opposed by banking groups.[19] In response to Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, a number of online gambling operators including PartyGaming, Bwin, Cassava Enterprises, and Sportingbet announced that real-money gambling operations would be suspended for U.S. customers. PartyGaming's stock dropped by 60% following its announcement. Other operators such as PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Bodog, and World Sports Exchange announced their intention to continue serving customers in the U.S. The regulation called for in the UIGEA were issued in November 2008.[20][21] The regulation does not define "unlawful Internet gambling."[22] In April 2007, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) introduced HR 2046, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, which would modify UIGEA by providing a provision for licensing of Internet gambling facilities by the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Several similar bills have been introduced since then in the House and Senate. In June 2009, the U.S. Department of Justice seized over $34 million belonging to over 27,000 accounts in the Southern District of New York Action Against Online Poker Players. This is the first time money was seized from individual players as compared to the gaming company. Jeff Ifrah, the lawyer for one of the account management companies affected, said that the government “has never seized an account that belongs to players who are engaged in what [ifrah] would contend is a lawful act of playing peer-to-peer poker online."[23] On December 3, 2009, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on UIGEA and Rep. Frank’s Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act of 2009 (H.R. 2267) where experts in the fields of online security and consumer safety testified that a regulatory framework for Internet gambling would protect consumers and ensure the integrity of Internet gambling financial transactions. On July 28, 2010, the committee passed H.R. 2267 by a vote of 41-22-1. The bill would legalize and regulate online poker and some other forms of online gambling.[24][25] On November 22, 2010, the New Jersey state Senate became the first such US body to pass a bill (S490) expressly legalizing certain forms of online gambling. The bill was passed with a 29-5 majority. The bill allows bets to be taken by in-State companies on poker games, casino games and slots but excludes sports betting, although it allows for the latter to be proposed, voted on and potentially regulated separately in due course.[26] However, a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll in April 2009 showed only 26% of New Jersey voters approved of online sports-betting.[27] On a national level, two-thirds (67%) of voters polled by PublicMind in March 2010 opposed changing the law to allow online betting. Men were more likely than women (29%-14%) and liberals more likely than conservatives (27%-18%) to approve of changing the law to allow online betting.[28] On April 15, 2011, in U. S. v. Scheinberg et al. (10 Cr. 336), three online poker companies were indicted for violating U.S. laws that prohibit the acceptance of any financial instrument in connection with unlawful Internet gambling,[29][30] that is, Internet gambling that involves a "bet or wager" that is illegal under the laws of the state where the bet is made.[31] The indictment alleges that the companies used fraudulent methods to evade this law, for example, by disguising online gambling payments as purchases of merchandise, and by investing money in a local bank in return for the bank's willingness to process online poker transactions.[29] The companies argue that poker is a game of skill rather than a game of chance, and therefore, online poker is not unlawful Internet gambling. There are other legal problems with the government's case; and, interestingly, the indictments did not mention the Wire Act.[32] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_gambling ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Somehow I don't think many businesses who value their busines would interpet the law as you have.

File an abuse report if you want but, lady, I can assure you that if you mention your 12 year old seeing something (anything) in SL you will find yourself in deep *stuff*. The bare minimum age for anyone in SL is 16 years old and those are restricted to General sims only until the age 18. And here you are trying to be all moral and proper about content.....yet you are allowing your 12 year old to enter an adult grid by letting that 12 year old on a Mature sim. Wonderful mothering.

For disconnects from the servers the root cause is very often a network problem. The problem could be most anywhere along the route to and from your computer's network inferface and the Linden Lab servers. However, by far, the most common occurs at the users' end. If it's somewhere between you and your ISP's servers then your ISP will have to take care of it (a call to them would be in order). If it's somewhere between your ISP and LL's servers, then it's in the Internet proper and you'll just have to wait for whoever owns and operates the many different servers along the route to fix it (Cisco handles most of those servers and they are pretty good about maintenance...the porblem should be fixed rather quickly if it's in the Internet). If it's somewhere in the LL server area you'll have to submit a support ticket (if it's the LL servers many more than just you will experience the same problem). An easy way to get a better idea whether it's LL is to try logging into one of the LL maintained sims (Pooley, Aqua, Lime are three I can think of off the top of my head.....there are several others though). Since the problem is usually on the users' end the first step to correct the problem is simple. Reboot both your router and modem by unplugging them for a few minutes, plugging them back in and restarting your computer to re-establish your Internet connection. That's just the first step and often fixes the problem. Another thing is that if you are using a wireless connection in your home network, ditch that method and hardwire using an Ethernet cable (wireless is not stable enough for a solid connection and is subject to almost uncountable sources of interference which you have little control over). Firewalls and anti-virus/spyware software can cause disconnects too. Those are the things you have to check and correct.

People worry too much about petty stuff. If you want to enable "show look at" the go ahead and do it. If you want to hide the fact that you are looking as something the use a viewer that has the feature (though, for the life of me, I can't image any legitamate reason anyone would want to hide the fact that they are looking at something.....key word "legitamate". If I want to cam in to look at something, I'll do it...without worrying about some idiot getting all paranoid because my crosshairs at on something they think is "sacred". I suppose perverts peeking under skirts might want to hide their crosshairs.......but who cares what those types think anyway?

I wonder how long it will be before we start getting threads about SL killing Android phones? I can hear it now: "LL needs to fix this mess. It burned my my expensive phone!" Oh well, it's going to be fun to watch I guess.

"On the other hand, a lot of people might not like the sort of people who go around calling people "sex fiends" on their land." ---------------------------------------------------- Oh, oh.........I've done something like that (maybe more than once too ). I mean when one gets some obnoxious idot constantly asking for the "sex" even after you've ignored the request a dozen times or so, you might just blurt out something like "get lost you f**king pervert". Well I do anyway........right before I mute the moron. To answer the OP's question........I don't think this person could get more than a very few (like 1 or 2 at the most) land owners to ban someone for saying they were a sex fiend (or pervert). And those who would are not places I would ever want to visit anyway. Don't worrry about it.

About the only thing you can do is chalk it up to experience.......you lost just over $7.00 USD to a shyster. It's a resident to resident agreement that you pay someone to do something for you. You held up your end but the other party did not.....Linden Lab will not get involved (if you think about it you'll easily see why they don't). Most people in SL are honest but some are not and it appears you ran into one of those who are not honest. This is an anonymous world where everyone you meet is a total stranger and you must keep that in mind with any transactions you make or have. You got ripped off and there's nothing you can do except learn from this experience. This is a virtual world on the Internet.......treat it like you treat the strangers you meet using the Internet. It's not at all unlike you paying someone in real life $7.20 to wash your car in the parking lot while you shopped. You paid the person the $7.20 and go shopping to come back and find your car is still dirty and the person is nowhere to be found. It happens......learn from it.

People just don't have a sense of humor anymore. It was so much easier back in '05 through about '07 when everything seemed to not work......but it was so much fun figuring out ways to make it work anyway. :smileylol:

Since I've never connected my desktops wirelessly I'm probably not really qualified to, technically, instruct you on anything more than basic troubleshooting of any hardware device (I have a fair amount of experience in that area having built about 8 computers in my life time......I've had to fix a lot of problems spread out over those 8 computers). I've done some searching on the Internet to see if any wireless adapter for desktops also have an Ethernet port on the card.......I haven't seen any that do so I'm assuming that they do not. But in my searches I did learn that there at two different types of adapters for desktops. A PCI (or PCI express) card that plugs into the appropriate slot on your computer's motherboard and USB that simple plugs into one of your USB ports on your computer. I'll take the easiest method first which is the USB adapter. When you disabled your wireless connection in your Network setup did you also unplug the USB adapter from your computer.........physically remove it from the computer? Then disable the wireless, and restart your computer.....check to make sure the wireless connection is still disabled. That's important to know because if when you connected directly to your modem and the computer was still trying to connect wirelessly, you'd get errors or no change in the problem. The other, a little more complicated method is if you have a PCI (or PCI express) card installed on the motherboard. You will have to go into your BIOS setup utility to disable the wireless card. And then there's this new way that devices are detected for the newer machines (this started about 5 years ago that I'm aware of). When you boot your computer and it goes through all the checks of active devices (posting) the computer will enable the card again even if you disabled it in BIOS (for the changes to take effect the computer restarts so you would think it's disabled when it is not really disabled). I don't know if your computer does that but most computers today do.....a hint that it does automatically enable any installed device is that you don't have an option to disable the device in your BIOS. If that's the case, the only solution is to physically remove the PCI (or PCI express) card from the machine. What I'm trying to do is rule out your wireless network adapter as the problem. If that's not the problem then the problem lays with some corruption of your OS in the network area.

I always heard those Apaches were heartless......not like us Cherokees.

By that I assume you've done all this" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- •Locate the networking icon on your taskbar (or visit the networking tab from your 'Start' menu), and right click on it. Now select the 'Repair' option. This should be able to fix elementary DNS errors. •Go to the 'Start' menu and select the 'Run' option. Now type 'ipconfig/release' and hit 'OK'. This will release your old IP address. Now you need to type 'ipconfig/renew' and hit 'OK' in order to renew your current IP address. •You even have the option of entering your own DNS settings. If you are using a local wireless connection, you will be informed about the preferred DNS and the alternate DNS. You can alter this setting by going to the 'Properties' of your network connection. •You must also check if all the cables and wires are connected properly. If nothing works, then try using a different machine with the same connection. •You should also check the firewall settings on your machine, as it may be possible that the firewall is blocking the particular URL that you wish to visit. •In certain cases, simply restarting the machine and reestablishing the Internet connection will be sufficient enough to get rid of this error message, and to access all the websites you wish to visit." ------------------------------------------------------------ And was it the onboard (or separate) Internet adapter? Also, when you connected directly to your modem did you dig out an old Cat 5e cable you had laying around the house for years? If so, did you inspect that cable for damage? I spent the better part of a week breaking my brain over a connection problem a few years ago only to find out the cable I was using had a tiny little abrasion on the jacket that looked completely harmless.....it was the problem (the abrasion was because it was pulled tight at some time and one or more the the twisted pairs was damaged).

Remind me to never IM you..........I just got me a brand new Vizio 1080P, 55 inche Smart HDTV a week ago and you can't have it. :smileyvery-happy:

If you don't want to dig into your Vista machine's network settings (which, from your arguments, it appears you don't want to do) then just pack it in for your desktop running SL. It's something in your machine or it's settings, your network interface, your router, or your connection to your router. It has nothing to do with the operating system nor with SL. I know on a Vista machine your connections are established automatically when you connect. Look in the connections for your network and make sure the proper connection is enabled. You said you connected directly directly to your router (I assume you mean you connected using an Ethernet cable) but were you connected using that Ethernet cable or were you still connected using the wireless network card? You probably will have to disable the wireless connection to use the wired connection (or remove the wireless card from you computer) to switch......operating systems are stupid that way (they will default to whatever you have set in your settings). I don't know anything about wireless cards (because I don't use wireless) but if the wireless card also has an RJ-45 connection on it and that's where you connected the cable you have not eliminated the card, itself, as a source of the problem.......use the onboard network connection instead. After, of course, you make sure you have disabled the wireless connection.

You don't need to do that.........Vista X64, Win 7 x64, Linux x64 and any Mac x64 system work fine.

The problem is somewhere in your Vista machine's wireless connection or it's network settings. I has nothing to do with Vista vs Windows 7 ( I run two computers. One with Vista x64 and one with Windows 7 x64). Both my computers connect to SL just fine (both use the SL Viewer 3 viewer and both are hardwired to my router). --------------------------------------------------------------------- "DNS stands for Domain Name Service, and it helps in accessing various websites on the Internet. An error regarding the DNS for any particular website usually implies the lack of an active Internet connection. The purpose of DNS is to simply translate the address that a user types on the web browser from the human language into the computer language. For instance, an address like www.abclimited.com will be translated into an address like '10.58.255.14'. This translation process makes it possible for the computer to read and understand the address that the user has typed, and then visit that particular website via its server. A DNS error will mean that the machine is unable to access the Internet in order to convert the typed address, and thus the computer will be unable to visit and access that website. Sometimes a computer shows such an error only for some particular websites. This can happen due to two reasons. Either the address that has been typed is incorrect, or there is no entry for this website over the Internet. Either of the reasons restrict the user from accessing that particular website. This can greatly restrict a person from using the Internet to its fullest. DNS Error Fix In most cases, when such an error message arises, it just means that the computer is facing connectivity problems. This could be happening for a variety of reasons, especially if you are connecting to the Internet via a wireless connection. Since DNS transforms the website URL into a numerical IP address, without the DNS functioning properly, the Internet connection will be quite useless. There are a few solutions to this problemthough, and none of them are too complicated in nature. Locate the networking icon on your taskbar (or visit the networking tab from your 'Start' menu), and right click on it. Now select the 'Repair' option. This should be able to fix elementary DNS errors. Go to the 'Start' menu and select the 'Run' option. Now type 'ipconfig/release' and hit 'OK'. This will release your old IP address. Now you need to type 'ipconfig/renew' and hit 'OK' in order to renew your current IP address. You even have the option of entering your own DNS settings. If you are using a local wireless connection, you will be informed about the preferred DNS and the alternate DNS. You can alter this setting by going to the 'Properties' of your network connection. You must also check if all the cables and wires are connected properly. If nothing works, then try using a different machine with the same connection. You should also check the firewall settings on your machine, as it may be possible that the firewall is blocking the particular URL that you wish to visit. In certain cases, simply restarting the machine and reestablishing the Internet connection will be sufficient enough to get rid of this error message, and to access all the websites you wish to visit." http://www.buzzle.com/articles/dns-error.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Some other things to check since one computer has the problem and the other does not. Look for things that different between the two machines.......the network interface chipset/card are obviously different. Most desktops do not come with a built-in wireless network interface........it's an add-on card installed after the machine was built. Check that device (including driver/firmware). And a little word of advice......don't discount sound advice about connections to SL from people with a lot of experience like Rolig (she's absolutely correct about an Ethernet cable being many many times more reliable than a wireless connection). You'll just wind up eating crow when you finally fix your problem (even if you never admit that she was right).

Man, I'd rather see the sign!!! :smileyvery-happy: By the time I open someone's profile and read that infamous disclaimer they would probably have left already (or I'd have left without ever seeing it!).

The easiest way to quit SL is to go to your dashboard > Account > Cancel Account. Let LL do the deleting...they can most likely delete everything in your inventory as quick as it takes to call up your account and hit the delete key (poof it's gone in an instant). I'm sorry, I'm not going to be as nice as everyone else. Why did you feel it necessary to spend the time and effort to post an "I'm leaving" thread? A final mini rant? To gain some sympathy? To make others feel bad for you? Maybe as a dig to LL? Instead, why didn't you just inform your friends in SL of your decision and make arrangements to keep in touch in other ways besides SL? I can tell you right now that I don't (and won't) feel bad for you, nor will I miss you. I don't know you and if I did, I probably wouldn't be much of a friend....complainers and grousers are not my cup of tea. All I will say is "Good-bye. Have fun and be careful out there".

Unless there has been some serious hacking into the Linden Lab servers, there is no way anyone can intercept and IM to or from either themself or the person the IM was sent to..........that's very unlikely and you can bet your next 5 years worth of stipends that LL would be all over it and they would notify every user of SL about the breach (as they did a few years ago when a breach of their servers occured). As has been stated already, it's a serious ToS violation to post (or otherwise divulge) anyone's IM without prior consent from all the parties involved in the IM exchange.......AR the individual who gave you the copy of the IM you said they gave you (in my opinion, if you do not do that, then you are just a guilty of the privacy violation of the ToS as the person who originally copied and sent the IM to the first person and the person who recieved the IM and sent it to you is guilty). There are several ways one can obtain an IM from others. None of them are legal except if the person gave it to them (and they had prior persmission to do so). You're dealing with, at the very least, low level criminals or liars. An IM can be easily fabricated.....it only takes a bare minimum word editor to do so (Window's Wordpad would work great). Get away from these people...........after you AR the person who forwarded the IM to you.

But you can still say "Peggy Paperdoll is a loudmouthed, evil, brat who hates everyone" to anyone you choose to chat with in-world. As long as you do not spam it to the entire grid or follow me around spouting the vindictives toward me you are not violating any ToS rule. That's one of the common "LL does nothing about so-n-so who is trying to deflame me in-world".......it's just not a violation so LL does nothing.

The naming and shaming restriction is not a ToS violation.........it never was. It's a violation of the "Community Guidelines" that is the "ToS" for the Forums. --------------------------------------------------------- "Interpersonal Disputes or Personal Negative Commentary: If you have a personal disagreement, do not post about it on the Second Life community pages. Residents who have personal differences have other channels of communication available to them — private messaging in the forums, IM within Second Life, or chatting within Second Life."  http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Discussion_guidelines ---------------------------------------------------------- It's easy to find the Community Guidelines.........just look at the top right corner of this (and any) page in the Forums. 

I don't know.......what is the problem? I just logged on fine (actually it loaded a bit quicker than usual......about 20 seconds or so). I checked the grid status page and nothing's going on there. http://status.secondlifegrid.net/ Perhaps if you tell us a little about your problem someone might be able to help. And, did you know using caps is shouting in a forum? Shouting is sort of rude and discourteous. Well, maybe your caps lock was pushed by accident........maybe.

"(3) If things are STILL messed up, contact your ISP. Maybe they are working on their Internet connections. Mine go down for about 20 minutes once a month or so while they are vacuuming dust out of their servers, or whatever they do." -------------------------------------------------------------- The "about 20 minutes once a month or so...." is more likely contributed to your ISP loading in new IP addresses that are periodically assgned to Internet providers. My provider changes my IP address anywhere from a couple weeks to a couple months. --------------------------------------------------------------- "The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) manages the IP address space allocations globally and delegates five regional Internet registries (RIRs) to allocate IP address blocks to local Internet registries (Internet service providers) and other entities." ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address

A course in computers, along with a course in use of the Internet, plus a healthy dose of common sense would go a long way toward solving a lot of problems for people like this. I'm sometimes amazed that some people even know how to push the power on button on their computers. I'm probably going to get reported for the above, but I'm just telling the truth as I see it.

If you are using Windows, the standard way of taking a screenshot is to push the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard (it's located between the "Insert" and "Pause/Break" button on the standard 101 key keyboard.......mine is directly above the "Home" key on my keyboard. Then you just paste it to some image editor, save to whatever image format you want to save it to and you have a full resolution picture of everything on your monitor at the time you pushed the "Print Screen" button. No hunting around for advanced options in you viewer. It also works for anything you want to save that is on your monitor.

$20.96 taken from your bank account (the real life one I assume) is an odd number. That's not quite the quarterly premium payment and way over the monthly. Fist thing to do (and do it now.....don't waste time answering here in the forums) is to change your password. Next thing to do is to call billing support, file a support ticket telling LL that you suspect your account is has been compromised. If necessary, call your bank and stop all payments to Linden Lab until you figure out who (or how) the $20.96 was taken out of your real life account. And, if you have given any personal information to someone (specifically your SL password) let LL know who that was.