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  Gary Gygax has passed away 2008-03-04 13:35 Mearlus

Submitted by Mearlus on Tuesday March 04, @01:35PM
Troll Lord Games has posted that Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and often known as the Father of Roleplaying, has passed away at the age of 69. http://www.freeyabb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4373&mforum=trolllordgames
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  Proposed Law to Tax Video Games[->] 2007-12-24 01:05 Mearlus

Submitted by Mearlus on Monday December 24 2007, @01:05AM
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.
http://www.channel3000.com/news/14916807/detail.html
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Bookmark by edpudol1973 on Wednesday April 25 2007, @01:26AM
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Submitted by on Wednesday April 25 2007, @01:17AM
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?"
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