Comments on: Extra!!: Philip Calls the FBI. W-Hats Shit Themselves

By: Shei Domino

Shei Domino — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:33:33 +0000

I swear to god this is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read.
The SL community continues to baffle me. It’s even stupider then I remember every single time. My brain caves in on itself every time I visit the SL forums or this goddamn cesspool that calls itself a source of information. Half of what you guys cover is just badmouthing W-hat, calling them a “community of griefers” or saying they’re “shitting their pants” because of some legal threat against nobody in particular. But I guess that’s the most you guys can muster for news, since the SL community is so vapid. What else are you going to cover? “New and Unique Vampire S&M Club built?” “Furries: are they gay, or what?” There’s just nothing there. So you just talk trash about W-Hat and say they’re shitting their pants over some legal threat that can’t possibly be aimed at them, anymore than you could aim a legal threat at any other group in SL. Plastic was in the “people who like plywood cubes” group! Call the FBI.
I’m embarassed to be in the same world as you people, honestly.

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:26:01 +0000

Discussion of this has *finally* been taken up by the eggheads on Terra Nova. Good discussion though. http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2005/12/the_solution_to.html

By: Ben Kerensky

Ben Kerensky — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:52:28 +0000

I disagree with this article. I have not been shitting myself this entire week due to surgical circumstances that require a liquid-only diet.

You SL Herald types are pretty quick to drop our name.

By: TrannyPet Barmy

TrannyPet Barmy — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 13:52:10 +0000

LMAO @ “not common shorthand”

Prok, only about 95% of all programming languages out there use it to denote “not equal to” !!!!!!

here you go http://www.htmlite.com/perl014a.php (these are ‘common’ comparison operators, common to many languages)

but then of course, your word should stand, since you know better than any one of us of course. *all hail The Great Prokofy Neva*

TrannyPet Barmy
The REAL ONE

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:21:38 +0000

Um, Aliasi, it’s not “common” short-hand — at least not anything that is standard for “common”. You won’t find it in the AP style book, the Chicago Manual of Style, or Strunk & Wagnalls, not that any of these literary source books matter to you.

Perhaps it is “common” in “l33t speak” or something (it doesn’t appear to be any common mathematical symbol, but of course I could be wrong — however we were always taught that this was the symbol that looked like a diagonal slash through an equal sign
http://www.w3.org/Math/characters/html/symbol.html (like on this page)

I didn’t even notice the ! — but anyway, I’m glad to hear that you agree that code is NOT equal to law.

By: TrannyPet Barmy

TrannyPet Barmy — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:56:20 +0000

hmmmm unless you’re a low life BASIC coder i think you probably meant :-

“==” != “!=”

unless of course you really did mean to use the ‘assignment’ operator as oppossed to ‘equality’ ? Not quite so clever if you really did mean to use the assignment operator, but there you have it, take it or leave it.

TrannyPet Barmy
The REAL ONE

By: Aliasi Stonebender

Aliasi Stonebender — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:25:01 +0000

Well, not that anybody is reading this at THIS late date, but… Prok

!= is common shorthand for “is not equal to.”

So, Code != Law means “Code is not equal to Law”; in short, I’m *agreeing* with you.

“=” != “!=”, in other words.

By: TrannyPet Barmy

TrannyPet Barmy — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:38:19 +0000

SPOT ON
TrannyPet Barmy
The REAL ONE

By: Fallen Hasp

Fallen Hasp — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:58:46 +0000

Kids test limits. Its what they do. Its the responsibility of LL to set boundries for them and make the space safe for everyone. If they can not make the space safe then they have the right to remove individuals from it. LL has ultimate authority in this space. Therefore, LL is ultimately responsible for what occurs within it (unless the software is accessed illegally without consent). LL alone is responsible for the griefing and server attacks that occur repeditively by authorized users of their software. And, i strongly suspect these kids are being used as pawns in a campaign. Well its going to backfire. We arent that stupid. If this is how you treat your own users, handing them over to the FBI and trying to destroy their real lives, for publicity or whatever backwards goals youre trying to achieve, how can any of your users feel safe in your space ever again? LL has ruined their credibility. Scripters cant manipulate code in game without risking not only their account but now their real life is jeapordized? How do you know other cases wouldnt be turned over to authorities? If they would do something like this to kids they didnt take the time to ban then i guess anyone can be LL’s next scapegoat. They should have banned those kids. Nothing anyone says here is gonna change that truth.
So unless you can show us where they banned them and they came back unauthorized using the software, this entire case is in reality an attack against all gamers online. You should be as outraged as we are.

By: TrannyPet Barmy

TrannyPet Barmy — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:18:02 +0000

Dear Spastic Fuck

By your own admission, you *ARE* a 3rd rate, wannabe, attention seeking nobody, i wonder how much you’ll cry at your lack of attention/reaction when every one in SL moves onto another system that doesn’t allow for 3rd rate wannabe haxx0r exploit scripts such as yours, or, when SL finally code you out (which i have this feeling will not be long )

TrannyPet Barmy
The REAL ONE