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    Island available. IM Count Burks directly in world today.
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    Beautiful tropical beach island available. IM Count Burks directly in world today.
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    Island available. IM Count Burks directly in world today.
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    Island available. IM Count Burks directly in world today.
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    Beautiful island available. IM Count Burks directly in world today.
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    And the next week another person needs to send his bot because he needs to detect the direction of the wind in the region. And the next week another person needs to come and measure the size of female avatars. And the next week another one needs to come and check the partner status of avatars in a region to detect for how long Second Life avatars remain partnered on average. And then the ban list gets full. And while the ban list a getting fuller people become more annoyed and the quality of their experience as a land owner deteriorates. If you do anything it is important to make sure you do not bother others. People have been incredible tolerant towards bots for a very long time. A bit earlier today I see this lady making a post here on the forums, why should this lady be bothered like that on her land? It is her land and she should not be bothered by weird visitors. If you use an approach which negatively impact others and continue with your approach you are being selfish.
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    Bots want data, Linden Lab has the data. If Linden Lab feels like sharing data they can write an API with the type of data they wish to publicly share and doesn't affect resident privacy, parcel privacy, Object privacy. Then content creators or gatherers of statistics can plug into that data through an API.
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    This beautiful island did sell. When you would like to have a beautiful island for your home or business IM Count Burks directly in world today. Also keep an eye on these forums for more land listings by Count Burks Estates in the near future. Count Burks Count Burks Estates - Excellent Land For A Modest Price https://www.countburks.com
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    Well if enough people ask Linden Lab might do it. Also people who are renting land on a private Estate can simply ask their Estate company or Landlord to switch on this function, it is not even needed to Restart the region.
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    It was not active yet except on RC regions.
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    After the server update yesterday I was curious to see if any progress was made regarding the testing of the scripted agents restriction. I just tested this new function now and it appears to have been implemented on the standard Second Life server code. I even made a pretty picture of it. Here you have the full tutorial Scripted Agent Estate Access FAQ - deny_bots setting : Linden Lab (freshdesk.com) For those who want to block scripted agents aka bots entering their region or sim or Homestead here is the easy to follow version. 1. In the Second Life viewer you need to select the Developer Menu. 2. You select the consoles option in the Developer Menu 3. You select Region Debug Console (not the Debug Console but the REGION DEBUG CONSOLE) 4. In the new window which you see above you type this: Set deny_bots TRUE 5. To verify you did it correct you type this: Get Deny_bots this will give you a confirmation that you activated the setting. I do not think a sim restart is needed after activation. *If you do not see the Developer menu in your viewer you press CTRL + ALT + Q This is an informational post to make people aware of this new feature, please don't post meaningless replies of anything off topic. Thanks to @Linden Lab to implement this in a timely manner.
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    Beautiful beach island available. IM Count Burks directly in world today.
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    Island available. IM Count Burks directly in world today.
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    This beautiful island did sell. When you would like to have a beautiful island for your home or business IM Count Burks directly in world today. Also keep an eye on these forums for more land listings by Count Burks Estates in the near future. Count Burks Count Burks Estates - Excellent Land For A Modest Price https://www.countburks.com
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    Island available. IM Count Burks directly in world today.
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    Island available. IM Count Burks directly in world today.
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    You appear to be suffering from an issue where you perceive everything as a personal attack on yourself and need to constantly defend yourself even when you have no reason to do so. I make a reference to the TOS to show you that collecting and harvesting data on Second Life users was never allowed in the first place and you call this spamming. Anger management is a beautiful thing, let me round up the conversation with you like that.
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    That is strange, I had to lock several hundred of these things in the previous two months. (These things did not come from the same origin of course). I am well aware of that, but are you aware about all the other anonymous ones where you do not have any clue on what they are collecting and for what purpose?
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    Count Burks did say there is no reason for your aggression and fear. You are writing a book here on a topic that will have absolutely no impact on you. Hence my questioning of the reason why you are so upset about a policy that has absolutely no impact on you.
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    Even if you are falsely accused by somebody that you are a bot Linden Lab will pretty soon realize you are an actual human. Your teleports during the weekend when you go sale hunting will not be used to identify you as a scripted agent. Roaming bots are using specific patterns. Any MMO game is able to distinct actual players from bot users. So there is no need for your fear. I do not like being disturbed and annoyed by these scripted devices. I do not like my clients to be disturbed on their land. I do not want anything to enter the islands and start scraping data on myself or my customers without them asking me for permission. These "scripted agents" are making a high percentage of residents in world uncomfortable which is why I (and others) asked for tools to block them. Linden Lab is now putting these tools in production and hopefully these tools will be enough to resolve the current issues with scripted agents. Your fear is unwarranted, if you do nothing wrong you will be fine. Do you really think a woman that goes on her shopping trip will get identified as a bot? He was annoying me with his bot farm. Why should I be annoyed on my land because some little script kiddie needs to come and measure the length of my toes? Why should anyone be annoyed on their property because some little script kiddie needs to come and collect data on their parcel or region? Linden Lab is selling a PRIVATE REGION product to its customers. PRIVATE REGION as in having privacy and not being bothered. Also it seems are you clueless about the volume of these roaming bots in world. Nobody knows their intentions. It is naïve to think all of these "scripted agents" are collecting data on the maturity rating of a region, or they are doing it for the love of Second Life and to make Second Life a better place. Again take a deep breath and realize if you do nothing wrong you will be fine. Residents have the right to keep out people who are under 18 from their land. Residents have the right to keep out people without Payment Info On File from their land. And now Residents will have the right to keep out roaming bots from coming to their land. There is no reason for your fear, it will have no effect on you or on any normal Resident in world, on the contrary it will improve the resident experience for many.
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    The identification of roaming bots isn't extremely difficult at the moment. Roaming bots are not using standard viewers, if a report is being filed against a roaming bot Linden Lab can easily see which viewer such a scripted agent is using to teleport around. Based on this fact alone Linden Lab can already get a more clear picture and act as they need. To give you an idea, this one was bothering me with his bot farm around 2 weeks ago. Take a look to see what happened bots [MondKeks] (mond-keks.de) Also I encourage you to calm down in your speaking, all the aggression would make one think you have some personal agenda in all of this. Why are you so concerned? You are not running bots or spying on others are you? So why are you concerned bots are getting locked? You have nothing to gain from all of this correct? Before you get on your horse again I encourage you to read section 6.2 of the Linden Lab TOS. I will put this here for you directly from the TOS. 6.2 You agree that you will not post or transmit Content or code that may be harmful, impede other users' functionality, invade other users' privacy, or surreptitiously or negatively impact any system or network. You agree to respect both the integrity of the Service and the privacy of other users. You will not: (i) Post or transmit viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware, time bombs, cancelbots, or other computer programming routines that may harm the Service or interests or rights of other users, or that may harvest or collect any data or information about other users without their consent; I put it in nice red text to make it easy for you to follow along. Now let it all sink in and you will maybe understand that these data scrapers have been violating the Second Life TOS all along. Terms of Service | Linden Lab Until recently the abuse department overlooked the entire situation until enough complaints piled up to look further into this. And now action is being taken. The entire reason for the measures being taken and a revision of the policy on bots it to make Second Life more user friendly and more respectful towards residents who pay to own land and have property in world.
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    A new Homestead island is available for rent. Today you can become the Owner of your very own private island with 5000 prims and full terraforming abilities. This island comes included with the option to have custom terrain textures and the ability to choose your own rating for your island (PG-Moderate-Adult).  This Homestead island will give you Estate Manager rights and places you in full control over your own sim which does have a completely secluded location within the Dreamworld islands in Second Life. What you see in these images are actual screenshots taken on the property of several Residents who live on the Dreamworld islands at Count Burks Estates. These are not special scenes or enhanced visuals but actual environments people live in at Dreamworld where Count Burks assists if needed to accomplish these landscapes and environments. Should you be wondering and asking yourself the question "Do people build that?", the answer is Yes. People are able to build this and so can you. Count Burks can assist you to accomplish surroundings and environments like you are seeing in these images for your home or business. When you are looking at land for rent in Second Life do visit this beautiful Homestead island today. Count Burks does strive to bring Residents of Second Life the best possible experience to maintain their home or business in world for many years. Discover today what it is like to build your own paradise house, store or business and find out what it is like to have a quality location to live. Island Specifics - 5000 Prims - Estate Manager Rights - Custom Terrain Textures - Full Terraforming - Rating PG - Moderate - Mature - Adult - Service 7 days per week/ 365 days/year - Land Expert Providing Personal Assistance - Restart Sim When You Wish - No restrictions in terms of zoning or builds - Possible to lock island for your Privacy - No neighbors - Receive support in your native language NL/FR/EN/DE etc.... - Custom Windlight Settings Possible For Both Sky And Ocean Next to full Homestead islands such as this Count Burks Estates does offer a wide range of land types to its Residents, ranging from a tropical beach island; garden land; desert environments; forest land you will be able to find an ideal location matching your budget and expectations. Contact me in world today to learn more how you can have an attractive location to live in Second Life IM Count Burks in world today and we will look to find you a home you can enjoy! CLICK HERE TO TELEPORT TO THE ISLAND Do you need another size than a full Homestead Island? Bigger and smaller island sizes are available. You can browse the Marketplace store of Count Burks Estates to find the land size you need for your home or business. CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE STORE Count Burks Count Burks Estates - Excellent Land For A Modest Price https://www.countburks.com * Images in posting are actual screenshots of the island and do reflect the islands in a realistic manner.
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    The example I did provide is basic, yet there would certainly be a market for it. You can also take it much further when you start to think outside of the box if you get into setting up a spy service using a bot net. While you can use a script to retrieve online status you cannot track people on the grid. While you might know the habits of these people you will not be aware of people their location if people decide to hide. Example which frequently occurs: Avatar A and Avatar B are in a relationship and are living together on their land. After 3 weeks avatar A is fed up with the relationship for some reason and takes up her house, leaves the land, blocks Avatar B as she doesn't want to have anything to do with him anymore. Avatar B is perplexed, tries to IM Avatar A without a response. For Avatar B who wants to know more and wants to know the whereabouts of his girlfriend it not suddenly becomes interesting to make use of such a tracking service. Deploying a bot net or a single roaming bot can be used as a tracking system. The bot effectively provides more accurate information than any script can do. Now you have a valid reason why anonymous roaming bots should be frowned upon. You can have endless discussions about this. As Istelathis writes " it probably makes it a lot easier though." With scripted agents you can do data harvesting, data mining, tracking, spying and tracing. You can push it really far when you start connecting avatar profile data with other profile data of people online.
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    While doing research on this topic several weeks ago I did find a bot service provider offering bots you can control to send in world and spy on chat conversations through IM messages. You can rent a bot send it to specific location, let it listen to chat conversations which the bot will then transfer to you through IM messages. And this is still a somewhat harmless service. Who knows what all these hundreds of roaming bots are exactly recording and what services are being offered through non public channels? Thoys Bot What are they able to do? You can let them follow you for instance. You can talk through them. Listen through them (through instant messages). They are able to sit and resit when they get kicked off something. And a lot more. How do I command them? You command them through instant messages and local chat. For the command note look under here. Only the master can command the bot and the master is set in the bot tool. So as you can see there are indeed bot services around that make money from offering spying tools. The thing with roaming bots is that nobody, not even Linden Lab knows what they are being used for.
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    Yes and that is why Redzone was making hand over fist before Linden Lab closed it down. Purely on suspicion and curiosity of residents to know which alts did belong to who. Redzone was a top selling product before it was closed down.
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