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  1. Pussycat Catnap wrote: Facelight, other people might not find yours as awesome as you think: If you don't want to be that person - make sure you get one you can edit, or make it yourself, and cut it back, tone it down. The above is what others around you who have 'advanced lighting' / windlight on might end up seeing if you're not careful - and it can really annoy folks. That's not a bad one, it only has a 10m or so range. Once we start getting into the 100m+ range and coloured, then we're talking (and yes, I've seen those, sometimes even flashing or changing colours like a disco ball).
  2. Graves has some decent men's wear, though from men who've tried it they tell me there are texture issues with some of the clothing layers. Shouldn't affect newer mesh products.
  3. and the answer is (for posterity in case people ever search for this): yes, Linden Homes support land radios.
  4. very handy, puts them all in one place separate from other mail. As I never get real spam on gmail (the account is used only for sl) it's the perfect solution for me
  5. RudolphFarquhar wrote: nuBko1 wrote: what are you taught that the entire class of banned ahahahah what they already have done in 20 people trained from scratch scary to imagine Don't you just hate it when the Moderators make alts and post on here bragging about what they've done! **********Rudi********** he's just a noob, even his name says so
  6. Cole Naire wrote: Romania? Never been. Is that on Zindra? it's in eastern Europe, and a central point from which a lot of nastiness on the internet originates, from viruses to griefers to scams. In many MMOs, Romanians are shunned by the community because they're extremely intolerant overall of anyone who's not Romanian (they tend to hang out in their own Romanian guilds, griefing and otherwise causing trouble for everyone else). AFAIK LL doesn't proactively ban Romanians though, they might of course be more vigilant when trouble around Romanian based accounts is reported. As to SL becoming less tolerant towards new people, not AFAIK. There have always been those who're intolerant of new people, and I've over the years not seen that percentage change much. What has changed is what those intolerant people consider "noobs". Used to be people a few days old who were still in their starter avatars and unable to move without bumping into everything and everyone. Now it's anyone who's less than X months or even years old, irrespective of knowledge or looks. I'm for example seeing the occasional profile reading "if your last name is Resident I won't talk with you because you're a n00b or an alt". But I'm not seeing more of that now than 2 years ago. Overall, the community welcomes newcomers and tries to get them started and happy. As others have said, most likely one or some of your pupils caused trouble and the entire batch of accounts was suspended under suspicion of being all run by the same person. Moderating several regions myself, I'm not seeing an overall increase in the number of people our staff ban or a shift towards younger avatars. Of course there are occasional peaks. For example during the school vacations we tend to have to ban more people than otherwise, usually underage kids who fake age verification to get around the (rl) restriction against minors in A rated sims. while there's a constant trickle of those, during school holidays there's a lot more of them (kids just have more time to be online at those times). Maybe one of your pupils got caught by that, ended up in an A rated sim and got an AR filed against him. LL doesn't take that lightly at all, one of the few reasons they'll take such harsh action.
  7. CoalFelpz wrote: And as for the naked thing, I have no issue with that lmao. Thanks again both of you Rudi was joking. Calledon is a G rated sim Jezebele Dagger is putting a tutorial series together for hosting on the Adult Hub learning center, where nudity is allowed (though not required). First parts afaik are up, but it's still under construction. NCI also has some information, maybe even classes. Check their main location at Kuula.
  8. Studio09 wrote: For a brief time back in the late '90s I used to read a usenet newsgroup, I think it was misc.survivalism, where quite a few posters would include a sig file that contained lines of trigger words to mess with whatever government agency was capturing all the on-line text. So this kind of surveillance has been going on for quite some time. I guess the issue now is not that they are recording this data but that they are pursuing easier ways to tie it back to real people. Back then the FBI was using the data to crack down on child pornography. That may be why SL is targeted now and why LL will cooperate. Not the best source of "evidence" of such things, a good portion of "survivalists" are clinically paranoid individuals with no proof of their ideas that "the government" is keeping tabs on them at all times. Of course past Snowden they have at least in part been shown correct, but I seriously doubt the majority of them are flagged as more than "harmless nutcase, don't bother reading his emails" in any NSA file
  9. Amethyst Jetaime wrote: jwenting wrote: indeed, and it is well known to happen anywhere such systems are implemented. It's in part (big part?) what killed the old "vote boxes" that sim owners could place (and some still have). Anyone using a vote box still is a fool. They haven't had any effect on traffic for years. The only thing they do is contribute to lag because its just another script running for no reason. Vote boxes stopped working by 2007 shortly after LL stopped paying 'dwell' to venue owners in mid 2006. They are no longer included in the Library either. seems they now go to some external 3rd party service instead, not sure if that one works but you get some URL for "results" if you click one. Most are probably still around for sentimental reasons, just never removed from places that used to have them for years and years and moved a few meters once in a while when the place is redecorated.
  10. worse, IP bans et. al. have a very high false positive rate. You're banning someone in an internet cafe, you're banning that internet cafe in its entirety, and maybe all their other venues as well. Ban someone living in a student dorm, you're banning the entire campus. Ban some kid trolling from his bedroom, you're banning his parent who've no idea what little Joe is up to when he should be asleep. Under LL's official policy, all avatars are separate and to be treated as such. Acting against one as if it were an alt of another is against the TOS and can get your account suspended.
  11. yes, and anyone trying to get laws about child porn (or indeed anything related to child abuse) or racial discrimination more sensible commits political suicide. His/her opponents in the next election cycle will blast the voters with messages about how candidate XXX is "not tough on child abuse" and "wants to give sexual predators a free ride", ending with "vote for me, it's FOR THE CHILDREN". As a result 7 year old kids end up on the "sex offenders' registry" for going behind a tree to pee when they can't hold it any longer, or for kissing each other in the school yard.
  12. It's not so much a restriction on bots per se as limits on LSL intended to stop scripted objects from overloading the servers by sending messages too quickly (mostly greeters sending messages to arrivals in a sim). The effect this has on spam bots is secondary but very welcome (though I seriously doubt any bot would spam a single group with that many messages that rapidly, I've certainly never seen it).
  13. SL saved my life, literally. I was borderline suicidal, friends in SL helped me get over that. Doesn't get much more positive than that.
  14. JustBecauseICanBeFriendly wrote: However if you want to see what information agencies have about you; you can request an release of information under the U.S.C. 552a Ideally, this could be solved by allowing users to select which information they don't want to legally disclose to companies upon registeration. An web standard if you will. However it would be extremely difficult to regulate a billion sites and enforce that law upon them when many aren't located in the US or other countries. Also keep in mind that almost all countries in the world have some sort of monitoring program in place; you just don't hear about them because they haven't been yet exposed. Hope this helps. Well, the agencies can then decline to release that information, claiming unspecified "national security implications". And it gets worse when things get international. If a German user subscribing to a Swedish ISP with its switches in Denmark connects to a Canada hosted website owned by a US based company through a router in the UK owned by a French network operator, what country's law applies to the data and why? (and yes, such things happen).
  15. yes, when looking for a piece of seaside last year I found a 200x20m parcel set for the fantastic price of L$999 per meter.
  16. indeed, and it is well known to happen anywhere such systems are implemented. It's in part (big part?) what killed the old "vote boxes" that sim owners could place (and some still have).
  17. Might be the estate manager reduced the count. Don't know about club users being high lag, guess it depends on the club (and most of them have high lag malls, greeters, particle emitters, and other items like disco balls and lights of their own that add far more lag than all but the worst avatars). Of course if the club is popular enough, it could still fill up even a higher visitor limit, though it they were that popular I'd expect them to have a full region of their own.
  18. Christin73 wrote: someone tried pulling an extortion scam the other day on a friend of mine. They claimed threatend to get my friend banned if they didnt give them L$. So there is something like that going around. just have to not trust people. people still fall for that one? Oldest trick in the book, used to get that all the time on IRC back in the '90s.
  19. the only thing in my "rl profile" is a statement that I'm not sharing rl information except with very close friends. And that's not people I met last night, thank you very much.
  20. of course even if the club were to try to limit their visitor numbers, that doesn't mean they can do so, or that doing so will mean you can always enter your parcel ( but wow, a club that every night gets so many visitors that a full region is shown as full is extremely successful, that's 100 visitors regularly for extended periods, most clubs would be happy with 20% of that). Even if they only see 80, the region might still show as full because of ghost avatars (for several minutes, can be up to 10 or more in laggy situations, an avatar that's left a region may still be seen as being in the region by the system). Of course there are tools to limit the total number of avatars that can enter a region below the official limit of 100, but those are region wide, not per parcel, so your landlord can do little to enforce anything. It's a shortcoming in the region and parcel tooling, but there you have it.
  21. just an attention whore... Anyone wanting to do serious harm with real information like that would do so without telling you about having the information...
  22. Xcept Atlas wrote: Ok.. so you don't believe RT because, "They're Russians!" , well, it's time to wake up. Because it's also CNN that is reporting it, the guardian and ever other quasi reputable news source out there. The links follow.. Xcept Atlas RT is not to be trusted as the sole or primary source of news, unless it's a press release by the Kremlin. In this case though they seem to have got their facts basically right, no doubt because reality really is stranger than fiction in this case...
  23. Self replicators are no problem either, as you can turn off object entry. Sadly this also blocks legitimate uses of people sending things into your region, like people trying to fly, drive, or sail their vehicles through it peacefully. But for the duration of you fighting a griefer it can do wonders. Once you identify the griefer object, AR it with a screenshot and LL are usually quick to respond (depending on time of day, and how many griefer attacks are underway at that moment and need their action of course, but I've had them respond in minutes more than once to delete such things from parcels bordering my own). Sadly some of their people seem less dedicated than others and may close tickets without investigating them (especially the night and weekend crews, whom I suspect have been outsourced to some foreign country), but that's no different from any other company out there.
  24. Czari Zenovka wrote: Which reminds me that I met someone recently who said that IW is "catching up" with SL. Ummmmm...ok. it is, it's dead Checked it out. Inworldz has as many total accounts as are logged in on SL on a slow moment. And they don't AFAIK filter bots out of their account numbers.
  25. Pussycat Catnap wrote: You're too late. SL has been dead for years. This website is really just a figment of your imagination. SL never existed. It died in pre-beta. After all, people said so on the internet... It's not just the website that's a figment of your imagination. You yourself are a figment of your imagination, just like the rest of us, we're all figments of our own imagination.
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