[15 Years - 15 Plans - Let's Review]

7 hours ago, Oz Linden said:

That was broken by Facebook, I'm afraid, and it's not clear how we can fix it.

My main suggestion for the Lab to fix FB in it's products is, "grep for all FB integration and purge it completely".

[username change coming soon: can keep last name of "Resident"?]

53 minutes ago, Fionalein said:

Whow.... holy name fee, batman!

Mmm, I was thinking US$20.

The higher fee might suggest that there is a slice of manual work involved rather then being automated. It's getting towards what we pay to move/rename regions.

[Please let us see bots.]

4 hours ago, Blush Bravin said:

Honestly, I now prefer region because I think it's a better description of the area rather than calling it a sim.

Me too. Sims are:

Which of course is trademarked, so the Lab likely were "asked gently" to "plz stop using our IP as a term in your documentation kthnzbai".

[Chroma Keying - A Photomanipulation Game]

Some of the little plastic balls in the ball pit got hidden by the darned cardinals!

[username change coming soon: can keep last name of "Resident"?]

On 3/8/2019 at 4:23 PM, Madison531 said:

Wny a list of last names?  Why not just let us choose any last name we want?

Because, the story goes, some 16 years ago Phil Linden made the descision to store last names in the user table of the database as a number, with that number used as a lookup key into a seperated surname table.

So you are not really stored as Madison531.Resident, you are stored as Madison531.1023 or similar. There is another table, so the story goes, that converts 1023 into the word Resident.

True or not, I am not sure. But it matches the restriction we now see.

[We are unable to decode the file storing your credentials. Need help?!]

5 hours ago, Nalates Urriah said:

You have misunderstood the idea of security that Firestorm is using. The transient part is not Firestorm, it is Windows and Mac. The OS are designed to protect data and block some uncommon attack paths. One of those being people changing the OS to get a new password in. The encryption on Windows is tightly tied to the user and Windows and affects what FS does.

If the viewer, which is open source, were the only encryption protection and they kept all the plain text passwords in an encrypted file then it would be simple to use the code built into the viewer to crack the passwords.

So, for money-involved-password level security the responsibility for remembering passwords falls to you. 

Would you trust your front door key to a lump of putty?

The fault is the viewers for chosing a poor encryption key to store the list of account names.

[need help with knowing why i can't buy any Rainworx Labs Avatars in Marketplace]

On 3/11/2019 at 2:15 AM, Pamela Galli said:

This is such a miracle, I can’t believe it. Finally, we are not forced to do business with people.  We can make that choice just like the buyers can! 🗽

It is a good thing, although the message is vague, so there will be a lot of angst in the coming years on the forums

"Why can't I buy xyz from a merchant i abused!!!!!!11!!!!!!eleven!!!!!!!!!"

[Group Tag Animator Removal - Thoughts?]

16 hours ago, CoffeeDujour said:

We were not anticipating people changing the group role so as to create constantly scrolling messages and literally hammering the region with group role commands as fast as their script would allow in perpetuity.

I recall quite clearly, a video of one unnamed TPV dev with a heart bumper showing off the feature before it hit. When she was bumped the hearts would animate in the same fashion.

I think that this exact video sparked the animated titlers.

This TPV dev's was of course well written, unoffensive, and not so lag inducing as it was limited to only firing when she was bumped, but it was the spark, I think.

I don't think it was unexpected, I wrote one myself from the idea in that video. Then I saw the lag when i ran it and binned it.

[Secondlife Real Estate]

2 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:

o Buying land is not an investment; it is a sunk cost

o If your rentals are not more than 85% full you are losing money

o Do the math, do the math, do the math - tier you pay versus what you make back in sales or rentals

o Change things constantly until you get it right, i.e. it sells

 

All of this and...

The Lab can (and have) change the rules without warning. These rule changes have the possibility to hurt or wipe out your "investment".

[Too many static avatar bot's in SL]

It's like Déjà vu all over again!

OP... any one of a hundred other threads on this, some even on the same page!

[SSP?]

On 3/8/2019 at 5:19 PM, Ethan Paslong said:

"soon"   .. as all other things that were announced

A bit after Last Names?

[Wouldn't this offend you either?]

On 2/25/2019 at 11:55 PM, Arduenn Schwartzman said:

I'm seriously offended by the fact that someone was offended by this sausage not being set to adult and had it flagged and unlisted.

I mean, it looks like a bratwurst, and the word bratwurst itself is also quite unambiguous in the English language, right?

Nonetheless, I complied with the bratwurst police's demand and set it to adult, because I need my much-needed 1-L$ transactions.

/END_OF_RANT

I am a long time proud owner of this bratwurst!

Honestly, the outragerati are getting incredibly prudish as the years tick by. But the thing is the Lindens give in too easily to this sort of stupid crap and enable the prudes. That is bad for all of us.

I also won't be surprised if these white knights force supermarkets to stop stocking chickens... because of the word for the male of that species.

 

 

[Requesting Information about a Tyrant Admin of a Sim]

3 minutes ago, Angela Levenque said:

So. In a Sim, any Admin can do whatever they want and nobody can do anything against that? Not bad. Okey. Thanks.

Yes. They can ban you for not standing on your front paws and whistling the CCCP national anthem.

 

[Requesting Information about a Tyrant Admin of a Sim]

35 minutes ago, Angela Levenque said:

Hello guys!

I want to ask around what is the perfect way to charge an admin about a lawless ban?

Lawless, pfft.

Look, Pamela is completely correct. Region owners pay money to the Lab to create their spaces. In return for that large cash outlay they can decide who is allowed access to their space, and under what terms. They can kick you because they hate the way your tail curls or becuase you don't add -sama onto their names while standing on your front paws and whistling the old CCCP anthem as they demand.

If you really want to create even more drama you can talk to the region owner, but sheesh, I hate that when people do this to me and all they want to do is tstir up trouble and ruin my day's fun.

Taking Pamela's correct words further - if you were invited into your neighbors house and started dancing on their coffee table, you really should expect to be kicked out.

[Got a message to give permission to take L's from my account]

2 hours ago, Bobby Rydell said:

Bought (an) affiliate vendor 

I opened package got notice to allow this person to take L's from my account

I reported it to SL.

As it's an affiliate vendor, I think you should send a message to the Lab and unreport it so that person doesn't get into trouble from your mistake.

You should also remove your name and shame, that's against forum rules and can see your account sanctioned.

 

[Skin Fair and BoM]

10 hours ago, Blush Bravin said:

LOL .. that's a year away. Considering Vir's recent post, today, in the other thread, it looks like BoM is now on the fast track. 

So soon instead of soon(tm)?

I hope so, but like Last Names and grid wide experiences... I think Oz set the delivery dates.

[We are unable to decode the file storing your credentials. Need help?!]

5 hours ago, Wulfie Reanimator said:

That said, this could be caused by either:

• File permission error
• or corrupted file

It's caused as the password store is using a volatile key based on details of the network adapter to encrypt it. Every single time that the a major windows 10 upgrade is done, the key chosen by the Lab back in the old XP days is likely to change and the record of all avatars/alts is wiped clean. Most people with only one avatar likely don't remember it each windows upgrade, they just re-enter and keep going.

It's annoying, and over the last few years I have forgotten the names of a few very rarely used avatars from this.

That key is no longer appropriate to use. It's an ancient viewer architecture choice that really needs to be reconsidered.

 

5 hours ago, Wulfie Reanimator said:

This isn't really how encryption works.

Seems you missed my idea, I guess I didn't explain clearly, let me try again please!

Between windows updates (For 6 months of the year) things work just as now. But you also have one secondary master store that is kept secured by a master hand typed password. If the Windows update kills the standard store, that master store can be decrypted and loads into the old style store as we know it now.

So, when MS update Windows each 6 months and the hardware key is lost like it is now, instead of the "lost credential" message you are asked for a master password, that second store is decoded and populates the hardware store as it is now with all lost avatars and passwords.

As it stands now.. if that hardware key is lost (every 6 months) all your alts go missing without any backup but paper and pen.

Additional advantage: You can move the master store to a new PC, type in the password and all your alts and passwords are loaded.

[We are unable to decode the file storing your credentials. Need help?!]

23 hours ago, Lindal Kidd said:

This is not the fault of the viewer

Sorry Lindal, it *is* the fault of the viewer. The viewer is written to encrypt the credentials with a transient configuration.

People being people, the viewer really should store all it's credentials locked away under a master password. If the transient-keyed decryption fails, rather then saying "well dayum, you're SOL" ask what the master password is, and unlock all avatars and alts again.

While this transient credentials thing might have been ok back in the days of Windows XP, it's really showing up it's limitations with later operating systems, like Windows 10 - which now goes through a regular 6-12 month major update cycle.

This problem won't go away, the key chosen to encrypt the credentials is no longer stable.

Sure, it's not an issue to people with one avatar, they can shrug, retype their password and be on their way - this isn't the case for everyone.

[Mens 'urban' fashion...]

11 hours ago, Skell Dagger said:

most of them are about 60% 'urban' clothing and/or sportswear, 30% decor, 7% accessories/hair, and 3% other stuff.

Hmm, not sure on your numbers Skell.

50% bad static poses
20% recycled tattoos
1% hair (modulus most likely)
10% "boner wear" (riot, noche, cubura and the like and only for 1 body)
10% tracksuits
5% genderless jeans (why they are always genderless beats me)
4% skyboxes/photo backgrounds/furniture.

[Deanonymization because of copyright, whats next?]

Sugarbaby tantrums! Almost as much drama as furries.

[Does the "consequences statement" of a full perm item, affect your buying decision?]

9 minutes ago, Tari Landar said:

You don't need someone, for example, to sit there and verbally tell you every single time you get into your car that certain acts committed while driving, are illegal and come with potential consequences. You don't need a note in your vehicle spelling it out either...you are simply expected to know.

Can't help it Tari  Western Australia has a real weird car related law most people in the state don't know.

It’s illegal to have more than 50kg ( 110lb ) of potatoes in your vehicle in Western Australia

Thanks to a weird 1946 law Western Australia’s powerful spud regular, the Potato Marketing Corporation, still has the power to stop and search any vehicle suspected of carrying more than 50kg of potatoes.

[Please let us see bots.]

11 hours ago, Whirly Fizzle said:

Edit to add: Found a copy of the old client tag list, for old times sake  

Thanks Whirly

I guess the original suggestion could carry some of the problems of this old list. At the viewer level they are trivial to alter or misreport so it needs to be done at the server level, and that requires people be honest with their use of the scripted agent flag.

I run around with it on so I don't mess up people's traffic with my own dwell... so bah, I would be marked as a bot.

[Does the "consequences statement" of a full perm item, affect your buying decision?]

Your terms, as I see them are:

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You are allowed to: 
1. Use for your personal usage within Second life. 
2. Use as a container to sell your products within second life. (Permission must be set as "no transfer" or "no copy") 
3. Use as a container to give your product DEMO s. (Permission must be set as "no transfer" or "no copy") 
4. Use as a container to give your gifts. (Permission must be set as "no transfer" or "no copy")

Terms: 
1. You are NOT allowed to use this anywhere else rather than Second Life with exception of the Second Life Marketplace.. 
2. You are NOT allowed to sell this as it is or by just changing its textures. You MUST include your own product and this can only be used as a container / package box for selling. 
3. You are NOT allowed to include this for your sales with both copy and transfer permissions. 
4. You are NOT allowed to include the Shadow Map or UV map of this box, as a separate texture for your sales item.

This is my original creation and I have its copyright. Violating the above terms will be resulted DMCA / reporting to Linden Lab, as well as legal consequences.

 

The last statement doesn't bother me as much as the messy double list of what I can and can't do.

Have you thought of simplifying the first section a little?

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This is my own copyrighted and original creation made with love, skill, and care, I really hope you enjoy this art and find it a perfect compliment complement to your own. I do ask that you please respect my hard work by following the user license given with your purchase:

This item is meant for your own personal use, or to use as a box with your own products, demos, and gifts inside.

This item can only be distributed given to others as packaging for your own creations and must never be sold on it's own, even if you retexture it. It may not be given to others distributed full-perm. To save mistakes please set the permissions to either NoCopy/Transfer or Copy/NoTransfer as soon as possible. 

This item is only for use inside SecondLife and it's Marketplace and must not be exported to other grids and applications. The included textures and AO maps are for your use only and must never be redistributed.

I don't think the threats are needed. People buying full-perm will know artists use DMCA/ARs

[What is Linden Labs policy towards incest]

11 hours ago, Lindal Kidd said:

What's really creepy is that someone either Searched the Answers forum for advice on "incest," (why!?) or else has so much time on their hands that they managed to browse back six years.

This is funnier:

On 5/20/2009 at 11:23 AM, Lexie Linden said:

How do I know what is acceptable and what is not? I don't want to get in trouble or get abuse reported.

 

[Please let us see bots.]

7 hours ago, CoffeeDujour said:

Bots .. lets have them shown on the map in a different color, keep the green dot for real people, this is a social platform, let us at least see where the real people are.

Extra bytes on the map/minimap=lag.

But, you are a dev, no? Wasn't there was a time when the TPVs could show the ClientID. Is that still available?