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I agree but...it would only take one modified viewer and then made available for griefer download. Just like the copybot viewer downloads, few people had to compile their own. It would no doubt keep some riff raff out but it's probably just as challenging as persuading some of the special snowflakes to grow a thicker skin! I suggest that all the viewer actually needs is a blindingly obvious addition to the avatar context menu that says "IGNORE PERSON", which would then mute, derender and ban from any owned land and return any objects. It seems that in most cases, finding these functions is just too difficult for many.

Well quite the opposite really. The users, regardless of any subscription are the product. The big companies who you named all rely on advertising revenue and without all the users who pay nothing, there'd be no product to market to advertisers.

Yes Innula except that we should also remember that the viewer is open source and thus any device fingerprinting would be rather pointless as the mal actor would just have to have it return modified elements, thus in effect, presenting a different device fingerprint for the same device.

I'll look for it in the novels section for that is where it would belong.

Yes, however there's nothing to prevent a client from reading the MAC address and forwarding it or using it as part of a seed in a hashing algorithm for the purposes of authentication for example. In otherwords, while the MAC address is only used as a layer 2 entity for the purposes of data traffic, there's no reason why the SL client wouldn't/couldn't send it to LL servers as a method of device fingerprinting. However, given that the client is open source, it would be completely pointless bothering to do so since any mal actors would have full access to any such workarounds, even if it weren't trivial to change local MAC address anyway! The above is not for the anna's benefit but a general one to point out that the MAC address *can* be used to filter, given other controls and expectations are met and unchangeable. Having said that, systems intending to do this sort of thing won't just do MAC address but collect a much wider set of device attributes and use that as a device fingerprint.

Wait...you believe that Edward Snowden's revelations are a hoax?

Madelaine McMasters wrote: Pamela Galli wrote: Mac is better with cheese! and for Linux users, with Wine

IvanBenjammin wrote: Uhh... I replied to the thread, which addresses it to you. No, Pamela wasn't the right one to reply to, Blaze was the one you should have posted that to who was also the one I posted my question to but to which Pamela chose to respond *sighs* Anyway, Pamela, to maytbe help with your answer. This weekend I picked up CRYENGINE and their completet development pack of buildings, trees, sounds, vehicles, people, mocap etc. (don't know why they insist on captialising it but I will follow their convention). When you download, they give a nice little pie chart of statistics. Given that they're ptiching CRYENGINE as a development platform for creators who want to make games and such like, it's probably quite analogous to the whole Sansar experiences thing into which Linden Lab chooses to throw itself. The ~15,000 purchases will be a far larger sample of "creator types" who use Mac or PC in a game dev environment than the couple of dozen forum posters here. 

No need to search is there? Blaze said it's obvious. I'm asking why but if someone wants to make such a claim, be prepared to substantiate. Maybe back in the mid 1990's there were platform and software differences that favoured Mac. I don't see why there's any difference these days beyond personal choice and I fully support that. When it's inferred that I've not made the obvious favoured choice to use a particular solution, educate me...

And yet when presented with something of a sexual nature that you don't wish to be involved in, you call those who do, "sick and psychologically damaged". The very definition of the the TOS reference that you just quoted. Step away from the keyboard, you just lost your argument!

Well apparently it's obvious so having to search for an answer seems unnecessary?

I think it's terrible. The whole notion of women degrading advertising. What's wrong with advertising, it has its place, not everyone is an advert hater. Besides, from my experience, it's not just women that degrade advertising, men degrade it too. I hear and see plenty of comments from men about negativity and such towards adverts. Hint to OP: I think you meant to say "adverts degrading women", changes the whole context you see?

In what was does a Mac lead in content creation and for what obvious reasons?

You know that you can just stretch the SL viewer window across multiple monitors already? Don't use full screen, can't do it then but you can have the viewer windowed and maximised.

Make your mind up! Is it crashing or not? What you've said is that it crashed a lot and then it behaved normally. I hate to be picky but I suspect the word you actually wanted was "than" not "then"? "Than" relates to comparisons, "then" relates to time. It's not just a typo, using the wrong one does completely change the context of the sentence.

Err no. Fps is not dependent on network bandwidth at all. Totally incorrect. Try this, note your fps, disconnect the network interface, note fps. SL is not a steamed video experience, the GPU will render what it has to render. Disconcerting the network interface will merely mean that there's nothing new to render. A busy sim with lots of content just takes longer to download and if anything just rubberbanding of movement due to latency. Fps in a busy region is impacted only by content, not bandwidth.

Christin73 wrote: Also check your scripts you could be wearing alot of scripts and that too will slow you down. This is false. Scripts run server side, unless the sim itself is being heavily impacted by scripts, then they will not impact the sim. Only IF the sim is being impacted will scripts have any factor and this will manifest itself in rubberbanding type lag and not local render capability and it will affect everyone not just the person with huge numbers of scripts. Even so, rubber banding type lag (where the sim time dilation is being affected away from 1.0), this is very much an old issue that was addressed several years ago by largely de-prioritising scripts from sim tasks.

That sounds like it will be a fascinating and superbly balanced representation of online communities. Lets face it, there's no reason why anyone would be interested in females that play male avatars, or gays that play straight or heterosexual people who play gays, or adults that play children or humans that play vampires. Lets not even get into why a human would want to play a dragon or even a cardboard box! I think it's about time I wrote an article about "researchers" (aka final year undergrad students) writing cliched, tired articles about subjects with huge bias but I doubt anyone would have the slightest interest in this subject either. *shrugs*