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Emne: Re: U.S. Deals Blow to Online-Poker Players

alanback:

11. Juni 2009, 00:47:51

alanback

Emne: U.S. Deals Blow to Online-Poker Players

In an apparent crackdown on Internet gambling, federal authorities
in New York have frozen or seized bank accounts worth $34 million
belonging to 27,000 online poker players, according to representatives
for the players and account holders.

In an operation that began last week, the office of the U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District of New York froze or issued seizure
orders for bank accounts in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Arizona held
at Wells Fargo, Citibank, Goldwater Bank and Alliance Bank of Arizona.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office had no comment.

9. Juni 2009, 22:48:57

Emne: Re: Dan & Kyu

joshi tm: There is a table: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_ranks_and_ratings#Elo_Ratings_as_used_in_Go

9. Juni 2009, 22:19:01

joshi tm

Emne: Re: Dan & Kyu

aaru: How are these calculated? Other than the BKR I think as the higher BKR here has a lower dan rating

Go Ceiter 2260 - 2 dan
Go 13x13 ad0 2414 - 4 dan
Go 9x9 Ceiter 2142 - 1 dan

9. Juni 2009, 14:14:43

aaru

Emne: Dan & Kyu

I see that we have dan & kyu in Go.
Nice.

8. Juni 2009, 19:12:23

alanback

Emne: Re: Congrats Fencer!

Czuch:To my surprise I found that my first login was on 12 February 2003, so I've been here even longer. My how time flies!

8. Juni 2009, 13:49:14

Mort

Emne: Fencer.....

You mentioned that you might be increasing the number of boards a fellowship can have, by the talk I thought you were going to increase the quantity to maybe 6 boards??

Is it happening???

7. Juni 2009, 21:16:53

Emne: Re: vacation days

Pedro Martínez: okay, thats what i was trying to say, I think.... it is not their weekend day for sure.

7. Juni 2009, 21:15:22

Pedro Martínez

Emne: Re: vacation days

Czuch: Either Sunday is one of their weekend days or your game was not the first one to "time out" today.

7. Juni 2009, 21:14:58

Emne: Re: vacation days

Czuch: So... maybe if you used a vacation day today already on another game that was ready to time out, then again on a different game the same day? The second time (and every other that same day) would only reduce your vacation days left on the first game?

7. Juni 2009, 21:14:45

Herlock Sholmes

Emne: to all Massacre Chess players

I would like to invite all of you to join my new, highly competitive fellowship ... it's all about Massacre Chess and nothing more ... please join ...
Massacre Chess Club
Andy.

7. Juni 2009, 21:11:41

Emne: vacation days

auto vacation.... I had a player who was given an extra 24 hours added to their game, but their vacation days left did not go down?

Someone explain this to me, or show me where to read about this please?

7. Juni 2009, 08:37:30

Emne: Re: Congrats Fencer!

Czuch: That's a good start.

7. Juni 2009, 05:53:50

Emne: Congrats Fencer!

You got me for 6 full years so far!!!

6. Juni 2009, 18:28:03

nodnarbo

Emne: Re:

Fencer: That worked, and I see what the problem is...In Plakoto the images which have black and white pieces on the same point aren't supported in the large style pieces

6. Juni 2009, 08:34:17

Emne: Re:

nodnarbo: Switch to small pieces at your Settings / Backgammon game.

6. Juni 2009, 04:21:30

nodnarbo

Emne: Re:

rod03801: Ok so it is just me then

6. Juni 2009, 04:20:10

Emne: Re:

nodnarbo: I see them all fine when I click your link

6. Juni 2009, 04:17:41

nodnarbo

I'm having issues seeing some of the images in this game. Is it just me? I'm not having problems with any other games...

1. Juni 2009, 19:32:14

Yeah... and you can still see them on your friends online column, and there is still a green dot beside their name on your list for waiting games, but not on your online users list or your online opponents list?

1. Juni 2009, 18:51:45

ok, I change my view

1. Juni 2009, 15:50:20

Emne: Re:

rod03801: Thats right, but you also cant see them on your "opponents online" link, or your "players online" link as well?

Now I wonder.... if you are in a game with them, and you "move and go to the next game with an opponent who is online" would someone who has you blocked still count?

1. Juni 2009, 04:52:02

Emne: Re:

Gouwe gozer: You can visit someone's profile even if they have you blocked

1. Juni 2009, 04:50:36

As far as I know/understand, if you're on someone's blocked user (= enemies) list, you can't visit her/his page at all, can't sent messages, etc.

No idea yet about the question, but I've time enough to find out

31. Maj 2009, 18:41:31

Papa Zoom

Emne: Don't you know what you are doing at that time anyways?

rod03801: I can honestly say that I often don't know what I'm doing at the time I'm doing it.

31. Maj 2009, 18:28:19

Emne: Re: last action

rod03801: That might be it then Rod, thanks!

I guess it is one way to find out who has you on blocked or enemies list....

Why should we even have any access to the profile of someone who has you on block then, I wonder?

Also, this issue of ponds, where people who have not been online cannot change their previous play, and people keeping track of this, makes it an advantage/disadvantage when this blocked user function comes into play, seems like this could be improved upon.... I gotta run now, but will have to give this some more thought

31. Maj 2009, 18:12:27

Emne: Re: last action

Czuch: Yes it is normal not to have this view of yourself. Don't you know what you are doing at that time anyways?

As far as the other question, it may have something to do with either you having them on your blocked user list, or them having you on their blocked user list. Just guessing on that one, but it seems the most logical explanation.

31. Maj 2009, 18:07:36

Emne: last action

I am noticing that on most profile pages i see a "last action" line, says what time and day a person was here and what they are doing or if they have cloak mode....

But some profiles do not have this line available to see?

How does one have this info removed from their profiles anyway?

Also, I dont see this line on my own profile either, but I have done nothing to exclude it? Is it normal to not have this view for ourselves?

24. Maj 2009, 00:49:02

Thanks for the information and confirmation

Haven't create a tournament with this game but in my opinion a good option

23. Maj 2009, 21:16:44

wetware

Emne: Re:

Fencer: I seem to recall playing in some tournaments (not here at BK) where that approach was used, and it was a great option. It works exceptionally well with variants like fischerrandom progressive chess--where you can avoid having an over-analyzed starting position, but at the same time you don't want to give some players far more favorable/inferior positions than other players.

23. Maj 2009, 21:00:30

Emne: Re:

rod03801: Your belief is confirmed.

23. Maj 2009, 20:57:08

Emne: Re:

Gouwe gozer: I believe on the tournaments, it would depend on what the creator chose. There is the option when creating tournaments with games with "random" positions, to have everyone have the same set up or not.

23. Maj 2009, 20:12:58

As far as I can see is the same startposition in all my games in the same tournament.

That means that my black games are equal in the starting position as my opponents when they play black. The same appears in my white games

lol
A quick view in other games, in the same tournament, showed me exactly the same startingposition as well. I'm not sure the position is the same for the whole tournament, but I think yes

In that case it's a fair tournament

The tournament I joined is a small one (5 players), it makes me curious for a bigger tournaments, everybody in the same position?

23. Maj 2009, 10:11:44

pauloaguia

Emne: Re:

Tilpasset af pauloaguia (23. Maj 2009, 10:13:05)

Fencer: On the other hand, I am not sure if I reset the start position if multiple invitations are created at once.
I'd bet on this last one. It has happened to me in several games too... However, I have many different as well and they were created at the same time too...

23. Maj 2009, 09:01:02

Emne: Re:

rabbitoid: Maybe statistically, but it is logically possible.

But you can blame Sun: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Collections.html#shuffle(java.util.List)

On the other hand, I am not sure if I reset the start position if multiple invitations are created at once.

23. Maj 2009, 07:49:14

Mostly random number generators are fair and pass every statistics test. The problem is that the generator has to be initialized somehow. After all, this is done by a computer. However complex the calculation, if you start with the same data you end with the same results, in this case the same "random" sequence. So what is mostly done is to initialise the generator by reading the system clock. Which works fine, provided you do it only once, maybe at system boot, and not game by game. I'm only guessing as to what might have happened, I have no idea how things are implemented here.

The fact is that two games are identical, which statistically is totally impossible.

23. Maj 2009, 00:47:34

wetware

Emne: Re: Something odd

rabbitoid: If they're identical, I might feel less hesitant to claim occasional dice rolling weirdness here, too. But I really hate to move toward that conclusion, as I feel sure that the vast majority of "dice cheating" claims that are made against backgammon sites and (especially) backgammon software are completely groundless. I do not wish to join the lunatic fringe.

23. Maj 2009, 00:33:13

Emne: Re: Something odd

ChessVariant: maybe they got created in the same split second and got the same seed for the random generator. I agree, it shouldn't happen.

23. Maj 2009, 00:29:31

Herlock Sholmes

Emne: Re: Something odd

rabbitoid: I didn't compare them one by one ... but are they identical ? It "shouldn't" happen, lol ...

23. Maj 2009, 00:23:09

Emne: Something odd

I should have played the euro millions lottery, The odds would have been far better...

I created a bunch of 4 chess massacres, look at the starting positions of these two:
Massacre Chess (rabbitoid vs. mangue)
Massacre Chess (rabbitoid vs. Luciano672)

21. Maj 2009, 18:27:20

tyyy

Can someone help poor trepil?? he seems to be caught in a vortex, or frozen in hyperspace

20. Maj 2009, 17:19:35

"GERRY"

Emne: Re: Fencer

gogul: There could be some truth in that one because the Canadian north is expanding with people:))

20. Maj 2009, 17:05:02

"GERRY"

Emne: Re: Fencer

Czuch: LMAO & you know what though did don't you:))))

20. Maj 2009, 15:45:46

gogul

Emne: Re: Fencer

Tilpasset af gogul (20. Maj 2009, 15:46:38)

Czuch: stone wheels, my friend. Most was made out of stones. Exept Paypal which worked with shells. Paypal is a very old company rising out of the "Pay Paleontological Corp.". Looks like you'll get booted from the board.

20. Maj 2009, 15:12:35

gogul

Emne: Re: Fencer

Czuch: No, Gerry is correct. The saying is there since the stone age.

20. Maj 2009, 12:24:58

gogul

Emne: Re: Fencer

"GERRY":

I love this old saying: As Alaska glaciers melt, it's land that's rising.

20. Maj 2009, 09:16:08

Emne: Re: I don't know if there's any promise here or not but.....

rabbitoid: No, that's another issue. BrainKing is programmed to be triggered by PayPal (a secure HTTP request) just when the payment is received, so the whole process is fully automatic. However, this is still a PayPal-to-PayPal transaction, so I don't actually have the money yet.
What I am talking about is the PayPal-to-bank transfer (so the PayPal funds are converted to real money) which usually takes 5-7 business days to complete.

20. Maj 2009, 09:12:00

Emne: Re: I don't know if there's any promise here or not but.....

Fencer: Just for info: how long did an average paypal transaction take for BK? I ask, because the last time I renewed with paypal (during the easter egg) it was less than a minute between the final click on paypal and the confirmation on BK. I take it that it usually takes a bit longer?

20. Maj 2009, 08:24:44

Emne: Re: I don't know if there's any promise here or not but.....

Artful Dodger: Thanks.

I think that AlertPay is the best alternative at the moment because we already use it and it had been successfully tested by BrainKing users many times in the past.
Furthermore, they transfer funds to my bank account much faster than PayPal. It usually arrives in the next business day.

20. Maj 2009, 07:11:15

Foxy Lady