Innula Zenovka

Sy Beck wrote: On websites where people are required to give factual and accurate information as part of the ToS so as to protect other users then what is the problem? I'm sure you would want some serious redress if you had been duped by somebody saying they were somebody else or portraying themselves as something they were not and you had lost money or public credibility because of it. It's tantamount to fraud, which is a criminal offence. How is fraud defined where you are? Here in the UK, we have the Fraud Act 2006, which, among other things, creates the offence of "fraud by false representation" (section 2 of the Act), which says someone commits an offence if he made a false representation dishonestly knowing that the representation was or might be untrue or misleading with intent to make a gain for himself or another, to cause loss to another or to expose another to risk of loss. That seems to me perfectly adequate, and catches all forms of misrepresentation, be they committed electronically or by paper means. What more do you say is needed?

Thanks. I don't understand that, I have to say. Here in the UK, we certainly had to change some of our laws on fraud and on malicious communications to accommodate changes in technology, but the basic idea is that a crime's a crime and committing it using the internet as a medium doesn't make it anything special. So I'd have thought that knowingly providing false or misleading information in order to obtain goods or -- in this case -- services to which you wouldn't otherwise be entitled (access to Facebook) would be caught anyway by existing criminal and civil laws against fraud. The link you cite discusses the case of a woman "who used a fake MySpace account to verbally attack a 13-year old girl who then committed suicide" and whose conviction under the Computer Fraud and Misuse Act was later overturned on appeal. That says to me, though, that what's needed are stronger laws against stalking, harassment and malicious communications. Surely what makes the matter serious is that the woman apparently drove the poor girl to suicide, not that she used MySpace to do it?

As others have said, all your friend has to do is relog with the normal viewer, or even simply turn off RLV in the viewer she's using (exactly how she does this depends on which viewer she's using; if it's Phoenix she unchecks Enable Restrained Love [RLVa] Features, on the Phoenix tab; I can't offhand remember where it is in Firestorm), and relogs, at which point it will stop working. She has to relog, though. Then she can remove the collar, which otherwise would still be able to control her avatar without RLV but not to anything like the same extent, and destroy it. All TPVs, as far as I know, apart from Singularity, that have RLV have it turned off by default; that is, you have to locate it in preferences and turn it on and relog to make it work (I think even the Restrained Love Viewer makes you turn it on and relog, but I'm not certain). How on earth did your friends (I see you refer to them in the plural) all of them get talked into accepting collars from this person and then turning RLV on and relogging, which they almost certainly must have done in order to activate it, without any of them asking what RLV was and why they needed to go to the trouble of activating it? ETA Most RLV collars do have a facility to free yourself anyway. The popular Open Collar, for example, lets the wearer simply say <prefix>+runaway (so, I for example, would say izrunaway in open chat, since my initials are iz), which removes any owners from the collar, so whoever is controlling it can't, any more, and also removes all RLV restrictions. There are some collars, I think, that don't let you do this, but the only ones I can think of cost a couple of thousand L$ and aren't the sort of thing most people would be handing out. It would be possible to change the scripts in an Open Collar to remove the ability to escape, of course, if you knew what you were doing, but it would be tricky. I don't understand what you mean by "forced or closed collar RLV hud " -- I'd be interested to know the name of the item your friends were tricked into wearing.

Can you be more specific about what you mean by "giving this sick indvidual control of their avitar"? From your description, it sounds as one thing they're doing is drawing a particle chain with your friend or you as the target. When a particle chain has a avatar as the target, as opposed to an attachment the avatar is wearing, it will, unfortunately, aim for groin. There's ways you can stop seeing it yourself, but others will still see it and the only way to stop it happening is to abuse report the person for harassment and tp somewhere else. However, that's not really "taking control" of the avatar, so I am wondering what else he's doing. What's happening to your friend, exactly? There's several regulars in this forum (including me) who make BDSM toys for consensual RP, so between us we can probably figure out what techniques this person is using to grief your friend and suggest ways of stopping it. But we certainly need more information about exactly what form this "control" takes before we can make suggestions that are more than just guesses.

Do you mean the lag meter is showing red and giving you that possible diagnosis? This might be some help (it was made for an older version of the viewer, but it's still the same). Basically, all that's doing is suggesting a possible reason your viewer isn't performing as well as it might. Nothing to worry about.

I think the chap with the touchable neck, shoulders and so on, probably got them from Xcite! They do a wide range of such items and scripts you can drop into other things (like your hair).

The only way to make a hud of any sort without collapsing in tears of rage and frustration at some point -- I learned this the hard way -- is to make sure the hud's default rotation is ZERO_ROTATION. In practical terms, that means making sure that the side facing your viewer is side 4 of a standard cube (that is, the one the red arrow goes into when first you rez the prim, or at any time when you have your ruler set to local rather than world mode). So, if I was making a MLPV hud -- and this is good practice anyway, when you're making MLPV furniture (my business partner and I would go insane if we didn't) -- you need to make sure that the prim containing the MLPV scripts is rotated at ZERO_ROTATION when you start. That is, check that the numbers in the rotation spinners in the second tab of the edit box are all at 0.0. Then -- at least I find it helps -- colour face 2 of the prim (the one the red arrow comes out of) red and face 4 blue, and that way you know where the front and back of the prim are. Then you can set up your poses and props on the basis that things that you set up to rez forwards of the red side or behind the blue side (or right and left) will always then rez in front of you or behind you when you're wearing it as a hud. You're still going to have to find a way of dealing with the fact that, when you're wearing it as a hud, the MLPV scripts will take their vertical orientation from your centre, so something you set to rez 1 metre in front of the prim will, when you're wearing it as a hud, always rez 1 metre in front of the way you're facing, just below waist level (no matter how tall you are).

/me is shocked... shocked, i tell you.. that the content filter doesn't bleep out a term like S*nt*r*m .. do they have no idea what it means?

Builders Brewery offer some very good scripting classes. I would also strongly recommend checking out the College of Scripting, which has a wealth of examples and walk-throughs (someone described it as "Like the Ivory Tower of Prims, only for scripts), and a very active help group. Scripts and Script Academy are good, too; there's usually someone around who can help out with any particular problem.

Thanks, Void. I'm assuming G still applies, too, but more out of caution than anything else. And, in practice, whatever the rules are, I can't see LL getting too vexed about anything on a feed unless it's particularly outrageous, but it would be nice to know for sure.

We can now post pictures direct from SL to our profile feeds on my.secondlife.com, if we're so minded and if we're using the latest beta viewer (?) or Marine's latest RLV. What's the rules on maturity ratings and this, I wonder? I know profiles are supposed to be G rated (and, in consequence, I've never really understood why some have M or A on them) but does this apply to feeds? For example, in the immortal guidance we receive about Maturity Ratings, "General regions are areas where you should feel free to say and do things that you would be comfortable saying and doing in front of your grandmother or a grade school class," so does this mean I shouldn't post a picture of my friend getting acquainted with a tentacle monster, or that it's ok if her clothes have not yet become seriously disarranged in the struggle (we can tell any grade schooler who happens to see the picture that she's fighting with an evil space octopus and good will inevitably prevail, like in the cartoons, though I'm not sure that would have washed with my late grandmother), or what? And do the privacy settings I've chosen make any difference? I try to stick within the rules, silly though I often think they are, but I really don't know what they are in this case.

This is what I get. I don't know if AdBlock Plus for Chrome is responsible, or if it's one of my other settings:

I've just tried testing it, too, and can't get it to work. It highlights OK but just won't compile, at least not on the main server channel. Unless I'm doing something wrong. default{ state_entry() { llSetClickAction(CLICK_ACTION_ZOOM); } }

Do you use third party viewer that includes RLV, by any chance? I ask because, if you do, there's an RLV restriction that would have that effect and, if I know what viewer you're using, I can tell you how to check if it's somehow been turned on.

Since you know that the query will return either 0 or 1 as a string, you can do it with llSetLinkTexture very easily: list textures=["uuid of offline texture","uuid of online texture"]; and then, dataserver(key requested, string data) { if (requested == query){ llSetLinkTexture(2,llList2Key(textures,((integer)data)),ALL_SIDES); } }

Without knowing a bit more about your computer and operating system, it's difficult to know what to suggest, but there is a known bug that causes crashes with recent driver updates for higher-end Nvidia graphics cards and newer viewers (essentially, Nvidia has deprecated some old OpenGL function calls that more recently viewers use), See https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SH-2409 and https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SH-2240 There's what looks to be like a fix in the works, but, in the meantime and if that's the problem, the only work-round I've found that works consistently is, contrary to Knowl's advice, to uninstall your Nvidia driver and reinstall an older one, no more recent than http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-260.99-whql-driver.html That's what I had to do, and now I can run anything. You might need to do a complete manual uninstallation of the driver; Nvidia's installer does't remove everything, and sometimes it leaves in place things that don't like newer SL viewers. If that proves to be an issue, take a look at this thread in SLU for details of what I needed to do, but try simply doing what Nvidia says is a clean installation first.

Hi, and welcome to Scripting Tips. I'm afraid this is in the wrong place -- Scripting Tips is where we try to help each other to write our scripts, not for asking people to write them for you. If you post in the Wanted forum, you'll have a much better chance of getting a reply http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Wanted/bd-p/Wanted

Mickey Vandeverre wrote: s - it's similar to an old phrase that has to do with a tree falling in the forest or something.....you know that phrase? I don't have it off top of head right now. Maybe that's wrong example. It's just the visual I get "If a tree falls in the forest but not on top of your head, that's probably just as well" ?

I once had problems with PayPal and paying Linden Research, which PayPal blamed on Linden Research and Linden Research blamed on PayPal. Eventually, and it took a long phone call with PayPal to resolve this, it turned out there's a setting buried away somewhere in PayPal that limited the total amount ever that Linden Research could take from my account without my authorisation. From memory, it was My Money=>My PreApproved Payments that I had to adjust, to say they could take out up to a certain amount each month. Alternatively, at least in the UK, most banks issue Visa or Mastercard Debit cards, so I can enter my Visa Debit card details online, and it functions just as would a Visa credit card but the money comes directly (and immediately) from my bank account. I'm sure I've bought L$ in the past using that. Maybe that would be an avenue to explore.

Yeah, but this forum is for people who want to learn how to write scripts, Ela, not for people who want to know where to buy them.

If you simply want to accept teleport invitations automatically -- that is, your friend sends you a TP request, and you don't see any notification or get a chance to accept or decline; you find yourself whooshing across the grid to join him or her -- all you need is key uuid = "your friend's uuid here";default{ attach(key attached) { if(attached){ llOwnerSay("@accepttp:"+uuid+"=add"); } else{ llOwnerSay("@clear"); } }}

What do the script errors say? It sounds to me as if it's particular items that are causing the problem, and it might a good idea to identify those rather than start removing scirpts wholesale.

Which viewer is it? There are several viewers that have RLV, and the answer to your question depends on which one you are using.

This is how I would approach the problem. Define a list, prims_to_change, and a user function, find_prims(), up at the top of the script, something like this: list prims_to_change;find_prims(){ prims_to_change=[];//clear the list integer max = llGetNumberOfPrims()+1; while(max--){//loop through the linkset string s = llToLower(llStringTrim(llList2String(llGetLinkPrimitiveParams(max,[PRIM_DESC]),0),STRING_TRIM)); //find the description of each prim, clean it up and convert to lc if("sock"==s){//if it's described as a sock prims_to_change+=[max]; //add the link number to the list } }} Call find_prims() in state_entry, in the changed event if you change links, and whenever else seems appropriate. Then, at run time, after deciding on a value for the colour vector you want, run through the list of link numbers and change them like this: max = llGetListLength(prims_to_change); while(max--){ llSetLinkColor(llList2Integer(prims_to_change,max),colour,ALL_SIDES); }

HI, AudriannaMarie, and welcome to SL and the forums. I remember feeling just like you -- I was in despair when I started until someone showed me how to open boxes and get at the nice clothes. It's all explained here, though: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Opening-boxes/ta-p/700185 If you search for "sandbox," that should bring up a list of sandboxes -- regions where anyone may rez objects temporarily -- and you can tp to one of those to unpack your purchases.