ZoeTick

debbyom wrote: I need to write about SL2 And I need a Maserati Quattroporte. But nobody is that charitable to selfish motivations around here.

It sounds like it's not that different from a noob's first experience of SL. Although I understand that SL might be considered, like most Google software, as being in permanent beta.

moonlight1135 wrote: I do have feelings you know That's fine. Just don't parade them publicly. And if you do, don't expect others to feel the same way. Or even offer sympathy.

Have you spoken to him about it? There could be a perfectly genuine explanation. And not necessarily that he's a duplicitous sleazebag.

valerie Inshan wrote: Satuday here.... within few housrs. That must have been a long lunch.

Madelaine McMasters wrote: For the benefit of those who wondered why you edited such a sport post. You were a bit late to the proofreading. I love it when that happens.

You're either a tiny bit late for last Friday or extremely early for the next one.

Madelaine McMasters wrote: ZoeTick wrote: And absolutely no sign of intelligent life. Absence of that evidence hasn't stopped us from believing it exists on Earth. I was actually referring to this thread.

Pamela Galli wrote: ZoeTick wrote: See - if it's in General Discussions it's begging. If it's in Commerce it's not. It belongs in the Wanted forum. Wanted is in the Commerce forum, is it not? Even barter is taxable in the real world.

And absolutely no sign of intelligent life.

See - if it's in General Discussions it's begging. If it's in Commerce it's not.

Is this sort of thing allowed? I can't find anything in the ToS about begging, although I have always considered it harassment.

Excuse me, but I'm a novice. Is this the place for the wall? The wailing wall, that is.

Sassy Romano wrote: Drake1 Nightfire wrote: JustChrisMcDonald wrote: The PS4 is the next logical step for Linden Lab being a x86 architecture system it is no different then building software for the pc. If linden labs are willing two invest time and money in low quality mobile apps then they should be willing to invest in a decent PS4 viewer. I know a ps4 Xbox one viewer would not be for every one but nether are the cell phone apps. A good software company should make sure there products are available on the most platforms that is possible . Does anyone have a opinion on this. Yes. My opinion, learn to use spellcheck. You also might want to use SL for a bit before thinking a game system could handle it. How exactly would the system know I had rezzed a new cat on my SIM before you visit? Or what changes were made to a shop? SL isn't a static game. Hell, it isn't a game at all. Everything you see is user created. Name a single "game" that has that. Unfortunately, spell check does not correct the improper use of "then" instead of "than" (something that winds me up no end!) or "there" instead of "their". aargh, i've become an Internet grammar/spell troll After The Deadline has grammar and (non-Microsoft) style error-correcting suggestions as well as spell-checking and it works in the popular non-IE browsers in LL's post editor.

One of the pleasures of SL has always been its unpredictable ephemeral nature. If you want stability (in any sense of the word) or guarantees of environment, performance or emotional responses then SL is NOT the place to look for it. And look for it you have to. It seems as if the sense of nostalgia in this thread is endorsed by those who are happy to be led by the nose by commercially venal "advisers", advertisements that are a happy-hunting ground for semi-literate amateur copywriters, or guerilla marketing campaigns populated by bots. Fine. I'll take serendipity and a tiny friends list of people whose opinions I can trust - even if I don't trust the people themselves.

This article gives the current state of the law. The Judge's rulings regarding IP addresses are deeply flawed, as indicated by the Law Professor's comments, since there was no need under the existing CFAA legislation to consider whether changing IP adresses is relevant; it was simply enough to confirm that the defendant had persisted in accessing websites for which they had been served a "cease and desist" notice. The comments also indicate that the CFAA is obviously in need of rewriting, a bill (Aaron's Law - after the activist who took his own life) being in process (as it has been for about two years!) to make appropriate changes and clarify the underlying intent of the CFAA, the EFF commenting that: "Without this change, the government could've prosecuted everyday Americans for violating low-level terms of service violations... In short, everyone would be a criminal, leaving it up to the government to decide when and where to bring down the hammer." The situation described by the OP is of course very different from that where the owner of a website wishes to restrict access, and I am sure that an IP (that's Intellectual Property, not Internet Protocol!) lawyer would be wringing his hands with joy at the prospect of arguing whether LL could actually pass on their rights to sim owners, renters, or anonymous and unvalidated alts. The big problem is that an IP address does not define an individual - and you can't prosecute without being able to prove identity unequivocally, although as with any service, as long as you are not actively discriminating against some minority that the politicians want to humor, an organisation such as LL can refuse to serve anyone. Whether the courts might take a different view of banning the users of the El-Ber Islamic School in comparison with preventing access by the inhomogenous ranks of students of Columbia University's Law School is an interesting thought. The globality aspect is also of interest; where denial of service relies on USA legislation which is not mirrored in other countries then refusal to respect the ToS is almost impossible to enforce. It's a minefield. I look forward to making my fortune from it. IANALY