California requires age verification on ALL OSes

[Joe Greene]

Let is not forget this therefore includes servers and server operating
systems , thus making servers a legally false claim of the "operator"'s
age. it must be tried in court as a first and fourth Ammendment violation


On Sun, Mar 15, 2026, 14:19 Bernie Hoefer <LUG-Member at themoreiknow.info>
wrote:

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> I've been both busy and lazy... hence the delay in replying!
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> On 2026-02-28 17:15 UTC-05:00, David Spoelstra wrote:
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> > BTW, this was driven by underage online gambling. There was a recent
> > article (NYT?) where they exposed the problem. Data shows that
> > "Roughly 70% of teens aged 12-17 have gambled online in the past
> > year." and "Over 25% of high school students gamble frequently."
> ===
>
> Let me guess:  some stupid parent gave their teenager a credit card or
> some online payment system (like Apple Pay) and doesn't monitor their
> child's transactions.  Now, because they cannot parent, the whole Internet
> needs to lose their privacy.
>
> I am very ignorant of all of this, but doesn't one have to give one's
> birth date to the credit card or online payment system?  So wouldn't the
> `better` overreach of government be to have the payment processors block
> payments if the item or service being purchased is not appropriate for the
> card owner?
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> > LOL, they obviously need to teach statistics in high school!
> ===
>
> There are many topics they should teach but don't.  Personal finance being
> at the top of the list, IMHO:  how loans and credit works, how to set a
> budget, why you should plan for emergency expenditures, etc...
>
>
> ===
> > On a tangent, many years ago my computer graphics conference,
> > SIGGRAPH, held our conference in Las Vegas.
> ===
> > We're all engineers and scientists and know that gambling is a
> > losing bet, so no one gambled!
> ===
>
> :-)
>
>
> ===
> > The> scary thing to me was all the data they collected on our
> > attendees gambling!
> ===
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> 20 years ago there was a TV show called _Las Vegas_ where some of the main
> characters worked in the security center of a casino.  While I'm sure that
> the show overplayed the security aspect (like doing real-time facial
> recognition taken from the feed of a security camera that is positioned 50
> feet away) a bit, I probably still would be amazed at what a high-stakes
> security center like that can do.
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