Madelaine McMasters

If that's not enough... https://www.amazon.com/There-Are-Moms-Worse-Than/dp/1523515643

Come visit me sometime when I'm wearing my "Spontaneous Moral Decay" avatar. It's four little invisible boxes, each with a particle emitter. I think the ARC is around 1000, but it'll try to hurl the blades off your computer fans if you get close to me.

Missing inventory is generally not the result of hacking, but rather of some glitch in the system. Read these for recovery ideas… https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Inventory_loss https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/fs_missing_inventory Since it appears you’ve lost everything (you likely actually lost nothing), inventory cache clearing is probably the solution you’ll want. Both links contain instructions for doing that. Goodl luck!

I just enabled MFA on the website for one of my alt accounts. Apple's password system directly supports it, no authentication app is needed. I've no idea whether this will work as cleanly in the viewer, nor whether MFA credentials will automatically sync across all my Apple devices. I suspect they won't because all my SL stuff is on a user account on my Mac that doesn't sync via iCloud. Ooooh, I just logged into that alt's web dashboard from my phone, manually entering her username and password. I'm certain my phone has no knowledge of the MFA token, so I'm a little baffled. How'd I get in?

Oooh, LL's MFA solution is just in time to become obsolete... https://fidoalliance.org/apple-google-and-microsoft-commit-to-expanded-support-for-fido-standard-to-accelerate-availability-of-passwordless-sign-ins/ ETA: I think LL's MFA approach might already be FIDO compatible, so this next step could be easy for them to implement.

I'm not terribly worried about being hacked, but I do think a lot of the security technology is just theater. Since websites have gravitated towards using e-mail addresses as usernames, I suspect it's become easier to find people. I do online business with three banks and even more credit card companies. My username (my e-mail address) is exactly the same at all of them. Oops.

I have a strategy for generating answers that's based on the questions. For example, I often use most pertinent words of the question as the answer, but I've been foiled by sites that don't allow any words in the question to appear in the answer. The designers of these systems are well aware they're highly flawed. That they my subvert attempts to make the system manageable is proof of that. Still, they persist. This is an indication to me that their comfort as "security experts" is more important than keeping customers safe. Many of the challenge question systems store the answers in plain text, so that human operators can intervene when necessary. This, of course, makes customers vulnerable to both those human operators and hacking. ETA: It wouldn't be terribly difficult to discern my strategy from seeing my answers from one hacked website. If my system is easy enough for me to understand, it's easy enough for anyone to understand.

I do lie, but those lies are also a vulnerability unless I use different lies for every website. That would require me to maintain a lie list somewhere that's 3-5 times longer than my password list, and there are no automated tools to do that.

Security questions are, and have always been, privacy invading security threats masquerading as protections.

April '08 (2nd day in SL. Hadn't yet learned how to un/dress.) Today (5141th day, same hair, still can't dress properly.)

Prithee, Sarah, dear William is nought but a corse. His glistering prose doth suffer the slings and arrows of the marvellous and puissant passage of time. I beseech thee, gentle woman, perchance to forswear such protestations... because progress. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=glitter%2Cglister&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=27&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cglitter%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bglitter%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BGlitter%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cglister%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bglister%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BGlister%3B%2Cc0 https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/05/07/words-shakespeare-used-that-are-no-longer-common/

Me?! Do I look like I'd do that sort of thing?

Better than being im-molated, I guess (looks nervously in @Madelaine McMastersdirection). Hey!!! Immolation is the sincerest form of flattery.

I think it's pretty neat that, 15 years later, LL still see's SL as a place where we can piggy back ride on each other.

...gets right to work.

Most of us have probably seen a newbie stumble in here and get mauled. I sometimes jump in to ameliorate. I've experienced the reverse of the situation you described. Within a year of my arrival here, some old timers were convinced I was serving Kool-Aid to the forum and pulling strings within LL to have my way. As the only person here in a position to know that's not true, I could only wonder how the perception came to be. Being nefarious, I did approximately nothing to discourage it. I've got dog owning neighbors who pay for home security services and always lock their doors when leaving for short errands. I'll only lock the doors if I'm going to be away all day or longer. I hate carrying keys. Same world, different perceptions.

I'm equally reluctant to entertain the ideas of cabals, clans, or other orchestrated movements. I see the forum as a collection of individuals who might, now and then, appear to move in coordination, but instead hold beliefs and expectations that are in alignment in some area. Correlation is usually just that. Correlation can be powerful, but addressing it as conspiracy seems like a mistake.

Therein lies the rub --- who gets to decide what is "too far"? I suppose we don't know until they make their decision felt.

I bet they are, indeed! Hey! I might be one!

Prejudice means preconceived judgment or opinion, so yes you did. The data supports your prejudice, but what if more men are convicted of rape and receive much harsher punishments because of that prejudice? I've noticed a lot of prejudiced statements made against men in the forum, which is why I noted that post by MalibuBratz. Here's some one that is more straightforward: dude, I just try to be honest. thats is trrue men is the main problem in sl. most girefer > man catfishing > man MalibuBratz offered an opinion based on past experience, from which you intimated pre-judice. I offered an opinion backed up by a significant body of historical evidence and you outright call me prejudiced. Note that I said "most rapes are committed by men" while the US government report cited in the underlying link says that nearly 99% of perpetrators of rape and sexual assault are male. My use of "most" was intentional, and encapsulates my understanding that there is historical bias in the creation of such statistics. Here's an example trying to unwind that... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sexual-victimization-by-women-is-more-common-than-previously-known/ Still, that does not cast doubt on my claim that most rapes are committed by men, but does hint at why I said most and not 99%. My personal experience with, and opinion of, men in SL and RL has been overwhelmingly positive, and I've been saying that here for years... https://community.secondlife.com/search/?&q=fellas&quick=1&author=madelaine mcmasters&search_and_or=or&sortby=relevancy You state that you've "noticed a lot of prejudiced statements made against men in the forum", and quote Kalegthepsionicist as an example. Kalegthepsionicist is not MalibuBratz, and neither of them are me. Curiously, @Kalegthepsionicistthanked you for citing him as an example of prejudiced thinking, so I won't deny it exists in this thread. Once again, prejudice is a "preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience". MalibuBratz recounted his own experience, and I expressed an opinion based on reason, informed by evidence. You are more than welcome to refute my claim. I look forward to seeing evidence that most rapes are not committed by men.

No one? There are people in this forum with whom I sometimes butt heads, but who also post things I "like". My opinions of those people rise and fall, and rise again, on the merits of their posts. If I block them at the ebb of those opinions, that's probably where my opinion will stay. Can you think of anyone you thought of blocking at some point, but are now glad you didn't? If there's even one, is that an acceptable argument for not blocking? ETA: Blocking also eliminates my opportunity to "like" posts from people I often disagree with, possibly feeding a perception that I've made up my mind about them.

I grew up in a family that loved rapid, seemingly pr*ckly banter. Once, after watching (hearing, really, his cussing was glorious) Dad really screw something up during construction of one of his many prototype gizmos, I said "Do clients really pay you to do dumb stuff like that?" His immediate and enthusiastic response was "Oh yes!' Only your mother gets it for free." And there's that time Mom went to McDonalds...

Using Krill to buy Lindens

So you're prejudiced? One might wonder if the "dudes" MalibuBratz referred to were only those in his rear view mirror. Still, given the context, any potential extrapolation seems limited. I can be a woman and have the opinion that most rapes are committed by men. You seem to understand what prejudice means, what leads you to believe MalibuBratz expressed it? Did I?

That rolled off your fingertips so naturally you’re scaring me.