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  1. Da5id Weatherwax
    Hey, if I can get away with posting anti-peeves, anyone can. Glad you're having a good day
  2. Da5id Weatherwax
    but, then again.... WITH coffee there is ALSO darkness and chaos - but the darkness is espresso and the chaos happens a lot faster
  3. Da5id Weatherwax
    Of course they do. This is NASA - a branch of the US government that likes to think of itself as a bastion of forward-looking policies and progress - but is so prudish they sometimes make the Taliban look like libertarians! Can you imagine the hoops NASA engineers had to go through when talking about plumbing connections in space suits, to try and avoid a document that said "Option 1, we clamp a tube around their d*ck"
  4. Da5id Weatherwax
    This is an idea I like. And I haven't even started constructing the pool at my new place yet.
  5. Da5id Weatherwax
    LOL - but seriously, it's a known fact that whether you admit it or not, if your new technology makes it possible to make better internet erotica that technology is almost guaranteed to succeed. It's never admitted, of course. There is a Victorian layer of prudery over "what it is proper for a company to be involved in" but.. they all know it when it's coded.
  6. Da5id Weatherwax
    Probably. I mean, who laid (sorry) the foundation that pretty much all scripted furniture uses these days, that spawned AVSitter and all its ilk? Who made it possible for that to interact with attachments first? Stroker Serpentine, that's who - and we all know what he made
  7. Da5id Weatherwax
    Remember that perfect is the mortal enemy of good enough. Having an invisible "splash prim" at the water entry point triggered to have its particles "go off" a fixed (short) time after the diving board sends "Hey! somebody just jumped" (right after it calls llStartAnimation() for the dive) might just be "good enough"
  8. Da5id Weatherwax
    I am fully trained to work in a bio lab with dangerous pathogens and I'd want to be fully suited up for level 4 before getting into the same county.
  9. Da5id Weatherwax
    You know, Maryanne, that has to be almost the most horrible concept ever posted on this forum. Even in the Adult-rated bits! That's the kind of picture a hentai artist would refuse to draw
  10. Da5id Weatherwax
    An entirely-too-perfect example given the recent spectacular demise of Kiwi Farms as a result of them finding out that not even the Russian DDoS protection service will take them as a client. I'm not advocating DDoSing anyone, of course, but if you can't sign up to cloudflare or an equivalent, any anonymity your servers enjoyed is gelded at best... and doxxing the doxxers - in particular, identifying those providing services to them so that "market forces"* can work their magic - has a lovely karmic feel to it. *the most potent of which being, of course "OMFG if anyone acts on this info and we knew we were part of providing it we are going to get sued not just into bankruptcy but oblivion! Yoink that contract, burn it to ash and bury the ashes at a crossroads, preferably in somebody else's country! Get that 'stuff' off our network, NOW!"
  11. Da5id Weatherwax
    It's almost impossible to prevent cross-linking if a professional with the sort of connections you'd expect from a person in that role is actually trying to do it. For anyone else, these common-sense precautions should be sufficient - the person trying to achieve it would, as you say, need some "additional insight" to begin with and the motivation to do it. And 99% of us simply aren't worthy of a professionals time. There are always the many-tentacled algorithms of the zuckage and others, these are highly effective but generate a lot more noise along with the signal. most evildoers wanting to cross-match online identities tend to focus on compromising the output of those algorithms rather than putting the painstaking effort to focus on a single individual that the above-mentioned professional would. Back in the day it was very much a thing to read A/S/L as A/sS/h*Le. Certainly repeatedly asking was enough to attract the unfriendly attention of my scripts back when I was an IRC chanop and later serverop. At the very least it attracted withering public ridicule.
  12. Da5id Weatherwax
    Wha's liek us? Precious few, and they're a' deid!
  13. Da5id Weatherwax
    The body of this post is entirely camouflage and can be safely ignored. @Silent Mistwalker *stealthswat* It existed only to maneuver me into range.
  14. Da5id Weatherwax
    Since it's you, you get a pass
  15. Da5id Weatherwax
    oh, plenty - No man with any amount of sense gets into a serious fight against women. It never ends well.
  16. Da5id Weatherwax
    As a Scotsman, I applaud you! The "great kilt" is just a way of wrapping and pleating a length of cloth so as to allow it to be a complete suit of clothing with the simple addition of a belt. The kilt most of us wear today(when we choose to wear the kilt at all) does have a lot of relatively recent "rules" and "traditions" loaded on it but isn't that true of every style of clothing that has become known as "national dress"? I will invite you to simply consider this - Think back through human history in every culture. All the most feared warriors have been men in skirts.
  17. Da5id Weatherwax
    That's the way we roll When you love a geek you get that as a part of the package, sorry.
  18. Da5id Weatherwax
    *recruits the ENTIRE FORUM to PUNish the silly lion*
  19. Da5id Weatherwax
    *hisssssssssss*
  20. Da5id Weatherwax
    You tempt me sorely, lassie. But that may be just my natural wish to respond to your gripe - nay, PEEVE - about single guys. And I do hope you haven't actually "plonked" me - FYI that is the sound made on usenet by a troll hittinig the bottom of the killfile (ie- ignore list)
  21. Da5id Weatherwax
    Peeve: when an innocent post reminds me what a sick and twisted individual I truly am. Case in point, When @Seicher Rae talks about "boring views" I immediately think "Ok, if her view is boring and she can't look away, what sensory inputs might she focus on that don't depend on sight? What might she imagine is happening if she can't see it?"
  22. Da5id Weatherwax
    Quit yer peevin' about birthdays. It aint your fault that your parental units chose a "bad day to boink." If you want a day REALLY peeve-worthy, I ruined my Mom's Christmas Dinner by deciding to put in an appearance a month early. Entered the world shortly after midnight on 26-Dec. (ETA - and I do mean REALLY ruined - the first time my folks tried they had twins who were severely premature and stillborn, so when I started to show up early, my poor Mom really freaked out.)
  23. Da5id Weatherwax
    Thinking about this development some more I think a valuable addition would be to have some way to expose the current position of the IK-targets (the REAL position - anims+puppeteer), relative to the avatar center to scripts. I make guitars (replicating my RL instruments for SL, and doing the same for other performers from time to time just because I can) and I'd love to have some way to make 'em "attach here and orient the guitar neck towards this hand, wherever it is" rather than making a playing anim and then laboriously tweaking that and the instruments attachment rotation so that they match up for an individual avatar. Or dusting off my old spinning wheel project and have a way for the yarn to follow the avs hand without them needing a separate invisible attachment there to target particles on. Given the client-side nature of anims I'm not sure how that could work, but the advent of this project makes me at least hope it would be possible down the road.
  24. Da5id Weatherwax
    Bad day + Tub of Ben & Jerry's Rocky Road + Bottle of Whisky = not so bad day
  25. Da5id Weatherwax
    Duluth is a lovely place to live. Although, if you were looking a few months ago I'd have given you a buddy's number about the place he was selling in Two Harbours, just up the road a bit
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