DoctorEigen Flow

Not the errors and crashes but the build emphasis was better. Nowadays, I dislike all the ban lines and the no build areas. Back then the central ethic was to build, not to chat. We should have limited rez times as default, rather than no rez areas. Rez oceans should connect the sim islands. Build, build, build! I also keep pushing Linden for 'sideways' sims, 4096 x 256 on the ground, and 256 tall. They keep telling me it's too much for their intellectual capacity, but I still think they should invest in that sim shape. I fly, a lot, and I want to fly for 4096 meters, rather than for only 256 meters. I've offered to buy 4 of those but... 'no', so far. Let's make a deal with 'Home Depot', for a real shopping sim, then expand from there.

Three wishes that have remained the same since I joined Second Life 600 years ago : 1) Allow us to flip a sim 90 degrees, so that one of the horizontal dimensions is 4,000 meters long. This would allow us to fly that distance as long as we stayed lower than 250 meters in altitude, and have adventures along a sea coast, or a river, or through an entire city. 250 meter limit in X,Y is far too small. 2) Allow us to temp rez on all abandoned land. 3) Allow us to change from ultra tiny size to giants with an LSL command.

It wasn't just that these companies couldn't sell product through Second Life, it was that Linden used to offer discounts for sims to institutions and made deals with companies... so people got excited. When that went away, and the price of a sim was like $1400. a month, well... they left. Plus SL was hit by a huge wave of scandal where it was asserted pedophiles and perverts were hanging out. That negative press was hard to overcome.

What peeves me off the most is, NO ONE ever realizes I'M A GOD! No really, I can walk through an entire crowd of avatars and NO ONE, EVER bows down. So weird.

My estimate is 10. I figure at any one moment in time, an average of 10 people are playing. That's for all the sims, across the grid. OH!? You folks thought all those little green dots are human users? Have any of you popped around and walked up to those little green dots? Yeah... lots of bots, lots of parkers, lots of whatever the hell thingie those are because all they do is use treadmills, dance balls, bicycles, spin on turntables, and drink. That heyday people remember was before SL decided to commit suicide... before they evicted all the companies, special interest groups, universities, clubs, and before they ALLOWED themselves to be painted as a sexually perverted pedophile festival, without a fight. Instead of stabilizing the irritating details, they tried to shove a bunch of innovations on us, untested, unverified, bomb ridden 'improvements'. People got tired of falling into the ground, appearing with their shoes up their butts, freezing, sitting underwater at the edge of sims, losing inventory and frankly considered that Linden was the real griefers. I just visited a vehicle test sandbox, and a Linden builder put the car ramp right across a sim line... yes, right on it, so when you use it, you fly out to oblivion and have to restart... what kind of quality control is that?? But I think when they took away the school discount program and stopped trying to get people to log in... it was over. The fact that it's taking YEARS to die demonstrates the profit margin... the HUGE prices they charge for land tier is SO OUTRAGEOUS!!!... that Linden can afford to keep SL running with only a 1/200th of its peak membership.

Under your 'Advanced Menu' you have the option of turning on and off various rendered aspects of your view such as particles, water, land, trees, clouds, fog, etc. You can also turn on wireframe and see the world as that. A combination of these can be used to pretty well shut down anyone's 'effects'... then you can take other actions from there.

The best way to handle griefing is to invest in weapons from the marketplace. They are obviously legal since they are openly sold and a fee is collected by the Lindens for that sale. So buy them and fire away.

After many years in SL, I truly believe the Lindens want us to to simply grief people back. The best way to do that is to buy weapon systems in the marketplace and use them. Anyone in an area where war breaks out can teleport somewhere else, and those who stay can go all out with everything they have till people calm down and get bored. I truly believe that is what is expected of us. Owners of sims of course have other options... they can ban, but no one else can... so there you go. I have had the last three abuse reports also bounced and the notice of this is sent to my listed email address, apparently the Linden mailbox is failing or full... which is consistent with their inaction. They say they read everyone, but no one in the last 7 years I've been there has ever known anyone else to get banned except by local sim owners and groups. So... there you go.

After many years in SL, I truly believe the Lindens want us to to simply grief people back. The best way to do that is to buy weapon systems in the marketplace and use them. Anyone in an area where war breaks out can teleport somewhere else, and those who stay can go all out with everything they have till people calm down and get bored. I truly believe that is what is expected of us. Owners of sims of course have other options... they can ban, but no one else can... so there you go.

Over and over I get a notices in my email telling me that an 'abuse report' I made while in-world, was refused and so not noted. My last one tonight was about someone supposedly two days old, who is using a COPY BOT. I watched in a sandbox as they duplicated other people's objects within seconds and so I reported them to the sandbox owner who banned them, and sent an abuse report in, which got bounced. This is the third reports I've sent in in a couple of weeks that got bounced. I am making the reports through my SL viewer. I think it would be better for everyone involved in SL if the Lindens simply admitted that in almost all cases, they don't care. Then my time in SL would be spent simply leaving a sandbox and going somewhere else, rather than standing there like an idiot and filling out a report form as if somehow my effort will help improve it for everyone else... JUST BE HONEST LINDENS!

On a Macintosh, for those so inclined in their computing tastes... if you browse to your 'User' folder, then into the 'Llibrary,' there is a folder called 'Application Support'. In that folder there is a 'Second Life' folder. Inside that folder are all the records of your interaction with Second Life. That means, your chats, the textures you've seen, the logs, the whole bit. Theoretically, you can take the keys right out of that texture record and build a prim in SL and load those keys into it, and every texture your avatar has 'seen' will appear... etc. These are how griefers and thieves get ahold of things that others have made. Anyways, I regularly go to that folder and either delete it straight out, or save certain chat records and then delete it... my avatar is then made lighter, even though the servers keep copies of MY stuff... buffers getting flushed like that means lower immediate overhead and faster responses. I do this before I log in to fly... my craft move faster, don't get locked up at sim borders as easily, and errors are often cleaned up. When the viewer is instructed to flush the cache etc, it often does not. I am going to assume PC computers do exactly the same thing, but probably into a slightly different hierarchy of folders. Griefers use macro facilities such as 'framework' to organize those data files for such things as copybots, etc.

Move up the ladder of authority. Minions at the bottom might not want to be bothered with taking action, but as you move on up to their supervisors and then their supervisors, at some point, things will click into place and action will be taken.

The Lindens leave us no choice, and just as it has become the defacto standard in the United States, people need to get armed to the teeth and take justice into their own hands. Again, this has not been tested but I am sure it is true... the rights of SL citizens as Americans, is protected over and above the Linden TOS. No company can make rules which abridge our Constitutional Rights, even when they believe they OWN a property, and that property is virtual versus real. For instance, if I was on any American vendor's shopping site on the WWW, and someone hacked my password and bought something with my account, I have recourse... either through the linked banking establishment, and/or through the vendor itself... I can sue and get relief. The same is true with Linden. They've always wanted us to believe that we have no recourse, that we'd have to fly physically to California and file there, that even then they have indemnity statements that isolate and protect them... and so litigation remains largely untested... no matter the claim of abuse, MOST people simply cannot be bothered to carry through, and so 'inconvenience' has protected Linden all these years, not their TOS. The threat to constant users is, if we complain enough, and Linden is forced to set up a virtual court, with virtual police, to ensure the rights of their citizens, and most specifically their American ones... then they will simply close shop and no one will be allowed to use SL or at least no one without a paid account. This possibility hovers above us all and has since the beginning. IF SL had ever become as successful as WOW, then they would be forced to set up accountable standards, but since they never succeeded, they are always teetering on closing shop and we who like SL, are forced to grin and bear whatever injustice we are 'allowed' to have inflicted on us. "Oh please Lindens, don't abandon SL, we'll be good, we need to be seen and not heard, we got it". SO my suggestion is to do what Americans are doing in real life, arm yourself to the teeth, buy or build every griefer tool you can get your virtual hands on, and if someone attacks you... let them all loose! Since the Lindens are unwilling to handle the griefers themselves, then the citizens must take the law into their own hands.... and yes, it WILL get messy, but living as a VICTIM, is irrational and frankly, WRONG. Set up defense groups, and when a griefer hits a sim, sound the alarm and have a system of 'courts', where proof is laid out and adjudicated. THEN, your association... your 'group', can find them guilty, and ban them from as many sims as are owned by association members. If you make your frontier law too harsh, customers and other members might shy away from your collectives, so be fair, be just, be rational... but take action against the bullies, make their virtual life hard. In the olden days, frontier justice was all the justice people had... well, here we are again. I also suggest you contact your REAL Congressional representatives and make the issues known, at first because of unfamiliarity, you might be scoffed, but soon a recognition will occur. Bullies cannot be tolerated, not on Facebook, not on site lists, not in Second Life... real laws protect you in SL, just as they do anywhere online, remember... to law enforcement... a bully, is a bully. IP Proxy services will be forced to shut down, and finally the NSA will be given the mandate to search and correlate all SL users, to determine alt accounts etc... but if bullies cannot be tolerated, and they can't, ...then these are some of the things that must happen.

'Privacy' is mentioned nowhere in the U.S. Constitution... not once. So claiming 'privacy' is just a shield for not having to be accountable. Imagine going to the police with a complaint, and they take a report then you are out of the loop... no way, that is not how law enforcement operates anywhere in the U.S., and since Linden is an American company... THAT matters.

What are the best and the surest ways of stopping damage occurring on a damage enabled Sim. I used to think it was sitting on the ground, or on a non-phys prim, but apparently, you can still die. I tried sitting off sim, in the void, but somehow you can still die there too. So what are the surefire ways of protecting yourself, from damage on damage enabled sims?

What are the best and the surest ways of stopping damage occurring on a damage enabled Sim. I used to think it was sitting on the ground, or on a non-phys prim, but apparently, you can still die. I tried sitting off sim, in the void, but somehow you can still die there too. So what are the surefire ways of protecting yourself, from damage on damage enabled sims?

I would suggest: time = 22.0 / llGetRegionFPS();

I have requested a FEATURE addition to our accounts, here on the MAIN SL site. After logging in here (authenticating ourselves, as we do to comment), we would have a 'BUTTON', that allows us to log ourselves out of SL if we get 'stuck'. Then we do not have to wait for a sim owner, or customer service, and often times lose days without being able to log back in. Go to: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-6602 ...to vote, to have this feature implemented soon!

Hear Hear! Well said! ...'future little Lindens' indeed! hehe

> "that should be common sense if you think how it does really work. And nobody thinks of self as an average one. Think it over." I don't proclaim the 'mainstream' as the metric by which decisions should be made... ever!, so it's not me who is the 'average one'.

> "These are the priorities you people defend? No wonder so many people alledge SL is some fringe thing, no one in the mainstream would defend defending what is alledged here." You're proud to be a member of this 'mainstream', ...the mediocrity? Ok. hehe Whatever.

OMG! Can you imagine how absolutely cool that would be to have 800 million re-log ins per month??! WHOA! We'd be kicking WOW butt bigtime!! No, that's 800,000 per month... hehe

Blast. HoHumm... some humans, whatcha' gonna do with them? Oh well...

Oh. and just for enhanced function here, this is a site that's fairly rich in SL economics: http://dwellonit.taterunino.net/2010/09/10/second-lifes-second-quarter-economy-metrics-revealed-and-analysed/

> "Err, Amazon S3 is a glorified file hosting system. Used mostly I believe for hosting viewer downloads" One of the 176,000 links found with 'Amazon S3 and Second Life 2010': http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/07/Amazon_takes_recruiting_virtual_with_Second_Life_job_fair_50245647.html