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		<title>By: Hydrocodone.</title>
		<link>http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/usefulness_is_d.html/comment-page-1#comment-35267</link>
		<dc:creator>Hydrocodone.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Hydrocodone.&lt;/strong&gt;

Hydrocodone. Hydrocodone online. Hydrocodone without prescription. How long does hydrocodone stay in your system. I took hydrocodone thru entire pregnancy.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Hydrocodone.</strong></p>
<p>Hydrocodone. Hydrocodone online. Hydrocodone without prescription. How long does hydrocodone stay in your system. I took hydrocodone thru entire pregnancy.</p>
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		<title>By: Counterterrorism Blog</title>
		<link>http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/usefulness_is_d.html/comment-page-1#comment-35268</link>
		<dc:creator>Counterterrorism Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Part II of &quot;MetaTerror: The Potential Use of MMORPGs by Terrorists&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;

On March 1, I posted &quot;MetaTerror: The Potential Use of MMORPGs by Terrorists,&quot; consisting of a guest post by Roderick Jones of Concentric Solutions Int&#039;l, about the potential use of &quot;Second Life&quot; digital 3-D worlds by terrorists. I invited comments...
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Part II of &#8220;MetaTerror: The Potential Use of MMORPGs by Terrorists&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>On March 1, I posted &#8220;MetaTerror: The Potential Use of MMORPGs by Terrorists,&#8221; consisting of a guest post by Roderick Jones of Concentric Solutions Int&#8217;l, about the potential use of &#8220;Second Life&#8221; digital 3-D worlds by terrorists. I invited comments&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Roderick Jones</title>
		<link>http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/usefulness_is_d.html/comment-page-1#comment-35266</link>
		<dc:creator>Roderick Jones</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for all comments. My motivation for writing the Metaterror piece and posting it, was to elicit comment from a wide variety of sources.  This I think I have achieved!

One of the most interesting reposnses I received was from someone who simply identified themsleves as UJ.  They outlined the scenario of an &#039;open source&#039; war on terror.  Where all sides have access to the same tools and individual citizens simply decide to organize and resist terror groups on an ad hoc basis.  This sounded remarkably similar to the anti-fn protests in SL and would certainly reduce the Pentagon&#039;s future budget projections!

Once again thanks for all comments - its been illuminating.


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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for all comments. My motivation for writing the Metaterror piece and posting it, was to elicit comment from a wide variety of sources.  This I think I have achieved!</p>
<p>One of the most interesting reposnses I received was from someone who simply identified themsleves as UJ.  They outlined the scenario of an &#8216;open source&#8217; war on terror.  Where all sides have access to the same tools and individual citizens simply decide to organize and resist terror groups on an ad hoc basis.  This sounded remarkably similar to the anti-fn protests in SL and would certainly reduce the Pentagon&#8217;s future budget projections!</p>
<p>Once again thanks for all comments &#8211; its been illuminating.</p>
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		<title>By: ronin kurosawa</title>
		<link>http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/usefulness_is_d.html/comment-page-1#comment-35265</link>
		<dc:creator>ronin kurosawa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So Prokofy, does the same hold true for activists (and other criminal groups)?  In other words, do they use SL to plan their activism and then carry out activism in the real world?  Imagine what that might be like?

Are you in law enforcement by day? Or do you just socialize with &quot;those who are professionally involved in studying and combating cyber attacks&quot;?


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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So Prokofy, does the same hold true for activists (and other criminal groups)?  In other words, do they use SL to plan their activism and then carry out activism in the real world?  Imagine what that might be like?</p>
<p>Are you in law enforcement by day? Or do you just socialize with &#8220;those who are professionally involved in studying and combating cyber attacks&#8221;?</p>
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		<title>By: Prokofy Neva</title>
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		<dc:creator>Prokofy Neva</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The way to understand the usefulness of SL and other virtual worlds relative to combatting terrorism, or visa versa, their usefulness to terrorists, isn&#039;t in imagining that they will necessarily plan RL terrorist acts in laggy, crashy, messed-up, badly performing SL, which feels like it&#039;s under terrorist attack on a *good* day. Nowadays, you could throw a good couple-12 grid-crashes and self-replicating fish out on the grid and people wouldn&#039;t even notice it because it already feels like it&#039;s under attack most of the time.

No, that&#039;s not the point. The point is to understand through the uses of virtuality&#039;s acceleration, exaggeration, rapid connectinos, etc. how groups are formed; how conformity is enforced in them; what happens to them makes them split; how order is maintained and discipline used, etc. etc. Leninist groups like the Patriotic Nigras are case studies in terrorist groups, and the way in which the media and the general public deal with them or don&#039;t deal with them. It&#039;s very important to study it.

There&#039;s this silly idea that people who grief or commit racist or other kinds of big attacks on the Internet don&#039;t do this in RL. That&#039;s bullshit. Those who are professionally involved in studying and combating cyber attacks can tell you of a steady percentage of people who form connections and then go and do the same thing in RL or use the Internet as a testing ground first, or who just happen to approach both virtuality and reality with the same set of criminal intentions. There&#039;s a definite percentage of people who commit virtual hate attacks who will also cross into physical violence in RL too. So to dismiss the virtual as never affecting the real is naive and stupid; of course it affects it, even if the effect isn&#039;t 100 percent.


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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The way to understand the usefulness of SL and other virtual worlds relative to combatting terrorism, or visa versa, their usefulness to terrorists, isn&#8217;t in imagining that they will necessarily plan RL terrorist acts in laggy, crashy, messed-up, badly performing SL, which feels like it&#8217;s under terrorist attack on a *good* day. Nowadays, you could throw a good couple-12 grid-crashes and self-replicating fish out on the grid and people wouldn&#8217;t even notice it because it already feels like it&#8217;s under attack most of the time.</p>
<p>No, that&#8217;s not the point. The point is to understand through the uses of virtuality&#8217;s acceleration, exaggeration, rapid connectinos, etc. how groups are formed; how conformity is enforced in them; what happens to them makes them split; how order is maintained and discipline used, etc. etc. Leninist groups like the Patriotic Nigras are case studies in terrorist groups, and the way in which the media and the general public deal with them or don&#8217;t deal with them. It&#8217;s very important to study it.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s this silly idea that people who grief or commit racist or other kinds of big attacks on the Internet don&#8217;t do this in RL. That&#8217;s bullshit. Those who are professionally involved in studying and combating cyber attacks can tell you of a steady percentage of people who form connections and then go and do the same thing in RL or use the Internet as a testing ground first, or who just happen to approach both virtuality and reality with the same set of criminal intentions. There&#8217;s a definite percentage of people who commit virtual hate attacks who will also cross into physical violence in RL too. So to dismiss the virtual as never affecting the real is naive and stupid; of course it affects it, even if the effect isn&#8217;t 100 percent.</p>
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		<title>By: ronin kurosawa</title>
		<link>http://alphavilleherald.com/2007/03/usefulness_is_d.html/comment-page-1#comment-35263</link>
		<dc:creator>ronin kurosawa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have a real problem with this language from MetaTerror.com:

&quot;This project seeks to examine the use of Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) by radical elements in society such as, terrorists and other &lt;strong&gt;real life activist&lt;/strong&gt; or criminal groups&quot;

So activists are now in the same league as terrorists and criminal groups?

I&#039;ve heard rumors that some people are using Second Life for free speech and other subversive activities. Someone better call Fox news immediately.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a real problem with this language from MetaTerror.com:</p>
<p>&#8220;This project seeks to examine the use of Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) by radical elements in society such as, terrorists and other <strong>real life activist</strong> or criminal groups&#8221;</p>
<p>So activists are now in the same league as terrorists and criminal groups?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve heard rumors that some people are using Second Life for free speech and other subversive activities. Someone better call Fox news immediately.</p>
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		<title>By: Viajero Pugilist</title>
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		<dc:creator>Viajero Pugilist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dude, I hear that that Alberto Gonzales and the Department of Justice have nominated Mr. Jones for a federal attorney position. He&#039;s gonna replace some bleeding-heart, lily-livered, terrorist-coddling faggot who just doesn&#039;t get the threat against the Homeland.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dude, I hear that that Alberto Gonzales and the Department of Justice have nominated Mr. Jones for a federal attorney position. He&#8217;s gonna replace some bleeding-heart, lily-livered, terrorist-coddling faggot who just doesn&#8217;t get the threat against the Homeland.</p>
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		<title>By: Natasha</title>
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		<dc:creator>Natasha</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The author of this article in my opinion is a total moron. We have enough problems in SL as it is, without him barking up so more, especially those that are clearly have no valid claims. I mean how desperate do you have to get to write an article after the issue have already been addressed before, and put silly things like that in it .



&quot;Streaming video can be uploaded into Second Life and a scenario can easily be constructed whereby an experienced terrorist bomb-maker could demonstrate how to assemble bombs using his avatar to answer questions as he plays the video. Using the decentralized organization effect, already successfully used by SL companies, the bomb-maker and his pupils can be spread around the globe and using instant language translation tools (available in the world) could be speaking a variety of languages. &quot;




I wish terrorists were that stupid…..

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The author of this article in my opinion is a total moron. We have enough problems in SL as it is, without him barking up so more, especially those that are clearly have no valid claims. I mean how desperate do you have to get to write an article after the issue have already been addressed before, and put silly things like that in it .</p>
<p>&#8220;Streaming video can be uploaded into Second Life and a scenario can easily be constructed whereby an experienced terrorist bomb-maker could demonstrate how to assemble bombs using his avatar to answer questions as he plays the video. Using the decentralized organization effect, already successfully used by SL companies, the bomb-maker and his pupils can be spread around the globe and using instant language translation tools (available in the world) could be speaking a variety of languages. &#8221;</p>
<p>I wish terrorists were that stupid…..</p>
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		<title>By: Urizenus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Urizenus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...drawing in the sand with sticks...
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		<title>By: shockwave yareach</title>
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		<dc:creator>shockwave yareach</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Youtube can be used for the same thing.  So could Yahoo, Google, email, the US postoffice, DVDs and Videotape, paper, photographic film, crayons...
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Youtube can be used for the same thing.  So could Yahoo, Google, email, the US postoffice, DVDs and Videotape, paper, photographic film, crayons&#8230;</p>
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