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D&D is banned in Wi prison for being gang rela-> 0

Submitted by Mearlus on Monday January 25 2010, @03:18PM

Mearlus writes "An Appeals court ruled that the ban was reasonable as D&D involves recruiting other players, thus gang related. While we may not care that this inmate can't play the game the courts ruling seems silly."
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DivX 7 Adds Support For Blu-ray Rips (H.264/MKV) 294

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 13 2009, @09:47AM
from the matroska-navratilova dept.

mrspin writes "DivX looks set to continue to be the video format of choice for 'grey' content, with the company announcing that version 7 adds support for H.264 video and, more significantly, the Matroska (MKV) container. Anybody familiar with Blu-ray rips found on BitTorrent sites or other filesharing networks will instantly recognize the MKV file format in combination with the H.264 codec as a popular way to deliver High Definition video on a PC. And now that DivX is throwing its weight behind the Matroska container, MKV support should increasingly find its way on a range of non-PC devices, such as Blu-ray players, HD digital televisions and set-top boxes."

Proposed Law to Tax Video Games-> 0

Submitted by Mearlus on Monday December 24 2007, @12:05AM

Mearlus writes "A Wisconsin lawmaker is proposing a law to add an additional tax on video games and equipment in order to help cover the costs of moving 17 year old criminals back into the juvenile system."
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1999 Cadillac Eldorado ETC Photo galery->

by edpudol1973 on Wednesday April 25 2007, @12:26AM

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Another city wide wireless project failing

Submitted by on Wednesday April 25 2007, @12:17AM

An anonymous reader writes "The Madison Wisconsin's city wide wireless project built with Cisco is having setbacks because the signals are having various 'challenges'. Those include trees, hills, concrete and apparently entire brands of consumer wireless client devices. "... a PC user will get better service than a Mac user at the same location because the wireless cards in Macintosh computers are less powerful," according to Todd Anderson, Mad City Broadband technical project manager. With 90 percent of the entire subscriber base on a single provider (who has announced they are terminating their contract with Mad City Broadband) will the project be able to survive long-term?"