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Bradford Mint

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  1. Yes that's exactly my point, so what's the mass of a single faced plane of no thickness?
  2. But SL is a single sided plane of no thickness, so what's the mass of that? (That question aside, for some reason YouTube has recently decided to recommend to me the flat earth debate so I was just having a little fun, my physics education is just fine, can't say the same for the flatards though!)
  3. Yes but as I mentioned before, the question isn't always about gifting ability but how to gift. Some people actually ask for a transfer version because they want to give it. Plus, some in various communities, such as those who role play in certain ways, want an item that they can give to this weeks favourite play slave. Next week that person may be different so they want thing returned. Don't assume that those of us who are stating opposing positions are against you. I for one am very much in agreement in general but there are always those who seek alternate permissions and those who choose not to offer what you seek. Said it already, if the permissions aren't what you want, ask. It may or may not suit the creator to satisfy the request.
  4. The issue was/is more involved though than just wear or unwear a folder containing links but rather that if an RLV call was made to locate a system clothing layer and then remove the content of everything in the folder where that clothing layer was found. (That's one RLV API call.) A link to an object worked, however, a link to a clothing layer had the viewer resolving the absolute location of the original item and then removing items from the folder of the actual item rather than the linked location. I haven't tested it recently but yeah it's quite specific.
  5. Well you have an option. Before purchase, you can always message the creator and ask if they can do an item in the permissions of your preference. If it's not in conflict with the merchants preference and they have time and it's worth it and it's technically possible... They might do it for you. If not, feel free to politely state that you won't buy as it doesn't suit YOUR needs. It still remains the case that neither buyer nor merchant is any more right or wrong than the other.
  6. Two reasons:- Because the creator has that choice and chooses to use it. Because some customers actually request the ability to have an item no copy/transfer because they want to give the gift themselves and not gift it via a vending system or MP gift option. Yes, that happens.
  7. As to the first sentence, it does not. The selection of the copy items remains exactly the same! There is an additional range of items with no copy permission to choose from Second paragraph, creators generally don't feel they must do *anything*. Arguing with then to enforce your opinion will usually result in an equal and opposite response. Almost to the point that Newton's third law applies.
  8. I don't know if it has changed but it used to be the case that RLV enabled viewers would resolve the actual folder location of clothing layer items and this caused problems when trying to perform a scripted folder unwear. Thus more than one copy was needed and is relevant to the discussion, links don't work(?). (Unless it has since changed? Links to objects worked, links to clothing layer items did not, just to be specific. To the best of my knowledge, the problem has not been addressed.)
  9. Not if it's just a list with a check box to edit/delete. If someone thinks they're going to harass me when all I need to do is tick a box and "delete all". Meanwhile the other person had to go one by one through listings to "report incorrect SLURL" on every one. Fear mongering to avoid doing anything positive doesn't seem to be a justifiable reason unless the justification is to avoid doing anything positive with benefit.
  10. An obvious answer would be that someone alerting a merchant would have it appear on the merchants home page and on affected listings in edit mode for that listing. Not exactly difficult.
  11. As predicted but rather than just roll back the thread, the whole thread got nuked. That's very questionable moderation as the original question was valid, responses discussed but for one person who simply could not remain polite in their responses. The quality of moderation has never improved. *sighs*
  12. Hmm, you might want to brush up on that then for your RL job because GDPR Article 4 contradicts your position as do many other interpretations. We had a far more fun thread on this recently which you may have missed. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/ https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/key-definitions/ To us, inworld, we don't have the ability to identify the real natural person from the inworld only data, thus to US, the data would not fall under GDRP. To LL however, an avatar name, an IP address can constitute personal data because it CAN be related to a natural living person. The subtlety being whether the avatar name, UUID, IP address etc. CAN relate to... etc. For what it's worth, I am encountering very few people who have correctly implemented GDPR so far yet, many of whom have changed their website T&C to boilerplate "We comply with GDPR" etc. yet you can sail a battlefleet armada through the gaps. Priceless one currently so far underway, I was booking a parking space at an airport. Their default to receive marketing spam was blank requiring the visitor to positively opt out. That's a GDPR "no no". I phoned them up, purely to be helpful and advise them that they needed to change that. They were positively difficult about it so ended up getting served an SAR. Two days later, even though I had opted out, I was sent a marketing spam email! Their response was that their legal reason to process my data was to further their business activities. You couldn't make this up. So, in addition to them being bloody minded, they got the next salvo of me upgrading the data that I required, to include CCTV images captured by them. They no doubt thought they would be smart and replied back pointing out that they would need date, time, location, my appearance etc. to assist them. No problem! Guess where I was the next day on a trip...same airport It passed the time, logging my journey through the terminal just so that I could provide a full narrative about my passage past all their cameras, now some bored CCTV operator has to trawl through that to respond to my somewhat vexatious request. All the time, starting out by pretty much demanding that I fill in their SAR form, which I pointed out I do not need to fill in, the form even states (correctly) that the completion of it is not required. Fun today, they sent me a form to the car park operator for that bit of the SAR completion. Car park operator had no clue, yet again, claiming to be compliant, demanding their form be completed, demanding that I MUST submit the request in writing. I pointed out that I could submit it to the toilet cleaner if I chose to, or via email or social media too. GDPR is being given lip service by many companies from my experience and those who think they are set up, simply are not. The most successful response was from a previous employer who proudly sent me 14 pages of paper with their privacy policy, how your data is processed etc. They stated that data was only kept for 7 years etc. Then managed to find my HR records from 10 years go, somewhat blowing that policy statement out of the window. When served with a Right to Erasure request with audited proof...can't do that because it's in one backed up database and they can't delete individual records. So, that's waiting for another 6 months before that goes poof. Oh and this is a major company which has to meet stringent compliance requirements beyond just data protection. She did her "friends" a favour by removing her paranoid self from their association.
  13. Nah, as far as SL is concerned, it's just paranoia. It's overly dramatic to equate the function of an LSL script or group membership option to RL behaviour.
  14. Thoughts? Grow thicker skin and quit whining. Edit: Damnit, I see that Klytyna beat me to it.
  15. The really significant point here is that GDPR aims to cover ACTUAL data protection of personal data, not cases of simple paranoia. In RL, it may be wise to never leave the house because what if someone sees you? Worse what if someone takes a picture and you happen to be in it? I expect we'll see another YouTube video of a "victim" claiming that the photographer needs their permission to include them in a photograph because they've imagined that photographing people without permission is illegal.
  16. Well ok but I just don't get it. I go to a news site to get news, I go to Amazon to shop, here for SL and other gaming sites for those games etc. I don't need to see RL news here, I don't go to Amazon to read about SL and I don't go to a gaming site for politics. Segregation just doesn't seem like a difficult challenge to me, especially when a company that owns it, does so to further their own product. SL inworld can form whatever community as appropriate but the forum is run by LL and they have one goal. *shrugs*
  17. Conversely, why should it be encouraged by a company for whom their sole interest is the promotion of their platform? If every single game platform had a forum for every other game on their forum, can you begin to imagine the dilution of postings? Is there something particularly challenging about going to the specific platform providers forums to discuss that content?
  18. "Can't be arsed'itis" and a recognised understanding of expected mediocrity. The expectation of a known product can exceed the desire to search for quality for some. I once had a boss who tried to stay in a Marriott everywhere he went. For him it meant that everything was the same, he could understand it! He couldn't understand why a taxi driver in Dubai wouldn't accept his US Dollars and we had to explain to him that no, the US Dollar is NOT the world's standard currency and it's really not accepted everywhere. The power of delivering the same standard of medicroity is indeed a strong one, want another example? Starbucks...to open in Milan.
  19. Since the OP referenced the UK, would these be the smaller US gallons or larger UK gallons?
  20. Exactly so an easy solution would be for LL to offer a Marketplace API that allowed merchants to authenticate their own systems and then poke whatever data into the MP store data. In addition to allowing the integration of external editing systems, this would easily allow a vendor prim or demo item which is inworld to query its own location via LSL and then in that script, simply make an HTTP POST to a Marketplace API such as SetMySlurl(location). For inworld objects, the object owner is already known and if i'm not mistaken, sent with the HTTP metadata (might be wrong here, I forget). Either way, it's really no different to doing ANS where a merchant already gets an API key. Too simple, too useful, i'll get my coat.
  21. Although I appreciate the sentiment above, that's not entirely true! As long as there's no DNS poisioning or other similar redirection to an alternate fake site with a malicious payload in the viewer. Suggest getting a validated public certificate for the site because right now, it doesn't have one so there's no validation that it's not a rogue site via https.
  22. I was on a flight once, traveling back from the Middle East and completely un-coincidentally happened to read a letter from a Western male, sent in to the agony aunt page in a magazine, He was completely stressed about the attention that his female partner attracted as she liked to go out in provocative clothing, mini skirts, revealing tops and so on. What was completely evident was that his idea about modesty and his feelings were completely in line with the modesty practiced by those that you mention and yet in another breath he'd probably be ridiculing those practising extreme modesty in the Muslim world yet for the same reasons. The chosen methods are more extreme but the basic principles are actually the same. Just for reference, I completely believe in free choice but unless you've visited anywhere in the Middle East and had deeper exposure than the typical press representation of the region and it's beliefs, it's easy to take away an impression that isn't necessarily based on facts.
  23. Please lets not use the USA as a benchmark for all things fine and dandy. The rest of the world can cope with seeing female nipples without causing utter panic, rioting and looting or nude beaches for families in that place called real life. As others have said, it might be a weird concept for you to accept but the rest of the world is NOT the USA can cope. How about this gem for you, minimum age for alcohol consumption in the UK is 5 and guess what else? We can cross the road anywhere without it being an offence too, woohoo! Oh but wait, darn, I can't go and buy a gun and shoot someone. Drat! You win, USA is the benchmark afterall.
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