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Various levels of privacy protection laws prohibit disclosure of that information by Linden Labs, and rightly so. What's next, do you want to harvest the creditcard numbers of your visitors as well, maybe their social security numbers, passport numbers?

have you kids even read the announcement? No? Thought so! Steam will be another distribution channel, is not going to replace the current membership system. So Steam members would have to somehow be added as SL accounts (semi)automatically on downloading SL through Steam.

might report them for copyright violation if the name violates intellectual property laws, or for harassment or other TOS violations if the charter or name explicitly calls for that. Other than that, all you can do is report members based on their explicit action, not the group itself or anyone for being a member of it.

As Lindal said, you have to be inside the parcel, which means inside your home or on the front porch, for you to have access to your land settings. The house and porch cover the entire parcel, all the grassland, roads, etc. around them are owned by LL.

Echo Hermit wrote: I was a little bit freaked out when Google Earth got quite so close in to where I was living; but my civil service friend was outraged. But I don't think it is beyond the realms of possibility that we will all be microchipped from birth, so that the Government knows exactly where we are and who we are with at all times, and where we shop/eat/work. Frightening thought ! :matte-motes-shocked: he was outraged but he (or his employer) does the same thing and worse... As to those chips, the main reason they're not yet used is that the powersources don't last a human lifetime. The best can be done in a decent size package is a few decades (think pacemakers). The UK and I think other countries are already running pilot programs where inmates in retirement homes get the things installed in their (single pair of) shoes (and are of course not allowed to go barefoot at any time).

both are potentially true at the same time. The data may be there to know everything, but the cost (in time, human resources, etc.) may be too great to actually extract and catalogue it in any meaningful way. So the government may have in some database a complete facial profile, voice print analysis data, etc. with which they could instantly identify you if only they knew how to use that data and had the computing power to actually do so. You see a lot of that, there is now so much data flooding in to those databases it's becoming ever more impossible to use any of it. The filtering to extract the interesting few tens of a percent is starting to take so long, the speed of incoming fresh data is greate than the speed at which that data is filtered, leading to ever increasing backlogs.

Of course there's the value of that data to consider as well. Whereas the old data was mostly valuable, the new data (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) is pretty much all junk the moment it is entered into some kid's bedroom PC. The problem then is finding the few bits of useful data in that sea of junk far more than storing the junk itself.

"Remember First Land? It was gamed to death by land flippers" which is most likely exactly why the idea was abandoned. It was abused to fleece beginning land owners rather than empower them. Linden Homes don't suffer from that as they can't be resold or rented out. Not perfect, but protects inexperienced users from parasites who abuse the system as a get rich quick scheme by ripping off the unwary. So your idea of selling your old land for L$100 per meter no longer works that you paid L$1 for from the Lindens a few days ago. Oh the pain I feel for you NOT!

I'd consider filing an AR against someone (and afaik any AR has to be targeted on a person) just because they might in the future grief you to be griefing in itself...

many if not most shapes are available in moddable form, so you can adjust them as you like. Did that with my (female) shape, shaving away from of the chest and butt size, and making her shorter, more in line with a real person.

RLV... main reason many people initially move away from V3. They then discover the other goodies 3rd party viewers have that V3 lacks, giving them more reason to stick with something else. But I agree, it's a good thing V3 is kept simple, not laden with features. It provides an easier, more painless, introduction into SL for people who aren't computer savvy supernerds.

Charolotte Caxton wrote: If I get unsolicited adverts, I block the device that is sending them to me. and keep a list of the companies involved so I can be sure to never spend my Lindens there.

I happen to like green. St Patty's day stuff is green... :smileyhappy:

for private land, rent a homestead or parcel and set land access to deny anyone except you. Will of course cost you...

"You don't even need to give them a valid e-mail address and click on a link in an e-mail that they send to that address to get your account activated." actually, you do. But that address doesn't have to remain valid afterwards, there's no recurring validation.

Pussycat Catnap wrote: 1 day probably. But you won't really meet all those folks. They're popping in and out constantly - and likely about a fifth to a third of concurrency is just them. For active people, I'd wager is about 1 year. Most people quit SL between 9 and 15 months... There's always a clump of people a few months around their 1 year rezday. Probably a fourth of people are younger than that. A fourth in that group, and the remaining are that cluster of new today people, and olbies that made it past 15 months. relatively young myself, but of my friends, about 2/3 are between 2 months and a year, the rest evenly split between >1 year and <2 months... Very small sample size I know, and no doubt influenced in part by my own age (I've seen more than a few older avatars who refuse to even speak to anyone who has a "resident" name for example...).

for starters, stop whining, complaining, and bugging people here about how bad things are. Prospective users read that and go elsewhere. And it's largely baseless, unfounded, whining. Things aren't bad. They might not be perfect, but overall it's pretty good. When it's not, the world is run by YOU, all of YOU (and that includes me) together, let's do what we can to make/keep it fun and fulfilling for all of us. So instead of writing about how bad LL are, how boring SL is become, write about what you've done or are planning to do to make it great.

Sevrer wrote: WHich is why I would like the feature to ban and report anyone who says anything inappropriate in a chat. It's not invasion of privacy is a computer does it; if a curse word or inappropriate word is used, Linden Lab will auto be notified. Why not? Sounds like a simple system. ideal griefing tool. Send an alt into a busy sim, and press the "ban" button on every single profile. Rinse and repeat all day long, see how many people you can get banned before someone just like you beats you to it and autobans you. Even if LL reverses all those bans (which would require tons of work on their end to investigate them all) it will take days or weeks, maybe months.

Amethyst Jetaime wrote: Gee I better tell all the people on my long friends list that SL is abandoned, because we sure didn't get the memo and neither did the million people that use SL who spent enough money in here that the economy is larger than some small countries. LOL I will grant you that there is a glut of land and shops are having a hard go of it,but that is due to the RL economy being in the toilet and people not having a lot of discretionary funds to spend. or the other 60k people that were online all at the same time yesterday, during slow hours... As you say, the main reason you don't see many at times is that there's just so much real estate it's very easy to wander around for hours and not see a soul. Apart from forcefully closing sims that haven't seen "enough" traffic in the last week (for example) I see no way out of that, and that would destroy the community as it'd destroy most if not all sims that aren't the big popular clubs which for the majority of people (despite the high traffic) aren't of interest.

Jesus bc you a G account then dont think you can a Linden Home bc they all M rated. but can buy a 512m on a G mainland for <= 512L and the tier paid out your annual Premium fee other G under 18s sometimes at Violet or Waterhead WAs. is noisy there tho most days and some older people as well. so yeah premium accounts are automatically age verified, plus under-18s can enter M zones (don't think there are any more special "PG accounts" since the kiddie grid was closed).

so, some people think the ONLY reason to be in SL is to do virtual shopping or selling the goods those virtual shoppers buy? The sims I like best all run without any malls, have at most a very few affiliate vendor displays, are labours of love from their creators. The overly commercialised megamalls are a good sign the sim isn't going to be very enjoyable, or at the very least a laggy as hell environment. Was in one earlier, full sim (not a homestead) but couldn't hardly move around even at the landing point with 20 people in region and that's not much different from my previous visits there.

OP thinks SL is a game and people are cheating by not playing his game, comes here to whine and blackmouth people.

Czari Zenovka wrote: Seven Overdrive wrote: I tend to leave rather than enduring that long walk to the teleporter to see the rest of the sim. I came to see the sim and not the mall. Totally agree. I do realize that sim owners often need other avenues to help pay tier but personally, when I want to go dancing and the lm dumps me in the middle of a maze of clothing vendors that I have to navigate to get to where I wanted to go in the first place, I generally don't return to that venue. yup. Can be extremely annoying. And not just because of the walk (often you can set a landmark elsewhere for future use) but because those massive malls are a major source of lag. Each and every vendor is heavily scripted...

Qie Niangao wrote: cinda Hoodoo wrote: You know it has always been my feelings that anyone that is on the payroll of Linden Labs, should be required to maintain a regular avi, that either has a business or a home as a regular joe blow resident. To play in the game, to create, or try to, to observe thru a residents eyes what the problems are. Hands on in SL with the Lindens has become non existent. So they wonder why the Phoenix/Firestorm viewer is WAYYYY more popular than theirs, well for one they keep open channels of communication with volunteers mind you, in 2 group chats that run around the clock. What is even more amazing is they listen to the residents, help them past hurdles, find bugs fast, and have to fight Linden Labs tooth and nail for any changes they want to make, because lord knows no one can be better than the LL viewer in SL. Now any company with an ounce of common sense, could figure this out, unless you're so stove up in your ivory tower, you will just let them eat cake and be happy. I'm trying to imagine what it would be like on "group chats that run around the clock" with Lindens, rather than with TPV volunteers. Even in the Firestorm group chats, there's occasional hostility. If chat support were instead provided by people who actually got paid for their efforts, the level of slighted entitlement would be much worse. Frankly, my impression is that goodwill is indeed running thin -- because SL users have become bitchy on a hair trigger. I'm not sure if this is an acquired response to lack of support when problems are stated civilly, or if it's the result of some selection process by which anybody with a passably pleasant personality is systematically driven from Second Life. (Also, I'm not sure we can tell whether or not all Lindens are already required to have and use a regular, non-Linden account. For all we know, they may already walk amongst us--and as with the general population, some share of them may be lost to vampirism, Gor, or obsessive breedable husbandry.) been there, done that (though not for LL), and you're spot on. The customer base, with their ever increasing hostility and ever reducing willingness to pay for goods, services, and support, only have themselves to blame for companies withdrawing from direct contact with customers/users except through paid for support contracts.

Amethyst Jetaime wrote: Yes, i think goodwill is running thin towards the lindens from business owners, and is it any surprise? The Lindens have all but stopped communicating with the business community. They seem in fact to be working against it, unless you are one of their favored few. that's because that same community gives them flak whatever they do because they see it as a threat to themselves. Consumers scream for higher definition default skins, shapes, etc. LL provides, skin/shape creators get pissed off. And that's just one scenario, it's the same always. So LL can't do right to some people, and get so much negativity from those people they've effectively decided to not communicate at all except through announcements. You only (as a group, not individual) have yourself to blame. And it's not just LL, it's the same across the industry. MS closed down most of their channels for feedback from customers for that same reason, as did others. 99%+ of the flood of messages were complaints about nothing, attempts at drama, or worse, to the point anything even remotely valuable gets lost. So instead of having people try to sort it all for the occasional gem, the channel gets shut down and those people employed otherwise (or let go).