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• • MySpace strikes (again)

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    LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A Missouri mom was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in the death of a teen who killed herself over a failed Internet romance that turned out to be a hoax.

    

    Megan Meier, 13, hanged herself in her bedroom after being targeted in a MySpace hoax.

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    A federal indictment accuses Lori Drew, 49, of O'Fallon, Missouri, of using the social networking Web site MySpace.com to pose as a 16-year-old boy and feign romantic interest in the girl.

    The girl, Megan Meier, committed suicide after her online love interest spurned her, according to prosecutors, telling her the world would be a better place without her.

    Drew faces up to 20 years in prison on charges of conspiracy and accessing protected computers to obtain information to inflict emotional distress.

    The indictment, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, accuses Drew and others of registering on MySpace as "Josh Evans" and using the account to lure Meier into an an online romance.

    Authorities have previously said that Drew set up the account to find out what Meier, who lived in her neighborhood, was saying about her daughter.

    Prosecutors allege that Drew and the others violated MySpace's terms of service by using false information to create the account so they could "harass, abuse or harm" Meier, according to the indictment.

    The two corresponded for about four weeks before "Josh" broke off the relationship, authorities said. Within an hour, Meier hanged herself in her room and died the next day.

    The indictment does not allege that Drew sent the final message telling Meier the world would be a better place without her. Instead, it blames her unnamed co-conspirators, who authorities have previously said include a teenage girl.

    After Drew learned of the teen's suicide, the indictment alleges, she directed one of the teens involved to "keep her mouth shut" and deleted the account.

    Meier's mother, Tina Meier, told CNN in November that her daughter had self-esteem issues and had struggled with depression since childhood.

    She said when her daughter began receiving messages from "Josh" telling her she was pretty, she was thrilled.

    When "Josh" broke off the relationship, Tina Meier said, her daughter was devastated.

    "She was looking for me to help calm herself down like I always did and be there for her. And I was upset because I didn't like the language she was using, and I was angry she didn't sign off when I told her to," Tina Meier told CNN.

    "She said to me, 'You're supposed to be my mom, you're supposed to be on my side,' and then took off running upstairs," Tina Meier said.

    Tina Meier found her daughter hanging by a belt shortly afterward.

    "It's as if my daughter killed herself with a gun," Meier's father, Ron, told CNN. "And it's as if they loaded the gun for her."

    Drew is scheduled for arraignment in June.

    "This adult woman allegedly used the Internet to target a young teenage girl, with horrendous ramifications," U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien said in a written statement.

    "Any adult who uses the Internet or a social gathering Web site to bully or harass another person, particularly a young teenage girl, needs to realize that their actions can have serious consequences," O'Brien said.

    In December, Missouri prosecutors declined to file charges against Drew, saying there was no law under which she could be charged.

    "There is no way that anybody could know that talking to someone or saying that you're mean to your friends on the Internet would create a substantial risk," St. Charles County Prosecutor Jack Banas said. "Under the law, we just couldn't show that."

  • Posted: 5/15/08 9:19 PM
    General Discussion
• • Anyone want to predict how long I will be away?

  • Someone likes the attention

    I'll give you a month...

    They'll come back....they always come back

  • Posted: 5/15/08 8:59 PM
    General Discussion
• • Darkfall allowing # and symbols in name means 1 thing...

  • I don't agree with all of the other stuff, but there should be numbers.  Without numbers, how can I make the name mike470?

  • Posted: 5/15/08 7:34 PM
    Darkfall
• • New and Old Info

  • Originally posted by Kairarr
    

    There will be arena events to compete for fun and profit (AR 10, SR 10) Source: http://www.darkfallonline.com/features/challenge.html

     

    Cool, they even have an arena for the e-sport.

    okay i am stopping i dont wanna get banned.

    You will not get banned for this.  As long as you are stating facts, they have no right to ban you.  You are not breaking any rules.

  • Posted: 5/15/08 6:58 PM
    Darkfall
• • One major reason why DF will fail

  • Originally posted by weg886
    

     

    Originally posted by mike470
    

     

    Originally posted by weg886
    

     

    Originally posted by Thunderous
    

     

    Originally posted by Catizone
    

    Graphics have absolutely nothing to do with server lag. They are client side and handled by your video card and PC.

     

    That's not true at all.

    No hes right server lag is caused by multiple accounts in a server.

     

    Server lag comes from alot of people in the game = bandwidth = server lag

     

    Graphics is on are in and has nothing to do with the server!

     

    But if a game did not have good graohics, then they would be able to do this more without lag.  If a game had great graohics, there would clearly be more lag. 

    Some people don't always play with a top notch computer.

    The graphics in a game is renderd by your video card that means if you dont have a top end card you will lag if there is to much going on.

     

    Because there is memory  stored on your card for faster game play like say you take a screenshot of the area in front of you that is memeory.  and depending on the rez. of the screen shot it verys in size / 1688k

     

    Say you have 512 card that is mega bits   one mega bit is 1000 kilo bits and guest what you just looked in one, place and used  1688 k  

    So when you see alot of lights and flashing stuff that takes up alot at one time in 1 sec.

    Guest what in that one sec you will have a lag spike caused by you not haveing a video card to run the servers video!

    True, but i the graohics were not as high as they were the lag may not have been caused.  If you really think about it, it is a mix of both..

     

  • Posted: 5/15/08 6:43 PM
    Darkfall