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I’m glad to see people are enjoying its manly modalities.

Muchly.”

No shit o_o I thought that story was hilariously brilliant.

I’m glad to see people are enjoying its manly modalities.

Muchly.

Eyes are banned from Ansheland. All people entering Ansheland must turn off their monitors.

“When you do …. I will post my name.”

That was bad ass.

Do not respond in the future if all you can do is spew the same tired, mindless, slack jawed drivel.

You understand nothing as to the way the internet – of which Second Life is a part – works. You seem to think there is a difference between an AI and a person. Guess what? The only difference is that an AI does the work faster. Yes, some AI programs are bad – a search AI however is not one of them.

There are standards that must be met – eventually you’ll be seeing the use of code lists within objects, lists the AI must be programmed to read. If they do not do this, then you have a case.

You have trounced nothing Prokofy – nothing/ Your argument amounts to a matter that has never been resolved: Human vs. AI – If this information had been collected by a single person (possible but hard to do) or a large number of people … you still would have had the exact same issue with it. Drop the act. It does not matter who or what has collected the information at all.

Oh – and by the by, you seem to continue attempting to justify this as an “invasion of Privacy” … Kindly try that again when you are capable of uploading your entire consciousness to the Internet and to Second Life.

As to your recent response to another commenter: You cannot have sex with anyone in Second Life either – An Avatar is about as real as the text flowing in a messaging program such as YIM, MSN, AIM/AOL … all of them. When you have a better grasp on what is real and what is not, then and only then will you be able to make an argument concerning an opt-in SL search.

Until then you are nothing more than a truly pathetic person, pretending to understand the internet. As if that was not bad enough you have the audacity to call anyone anonymous … Put up (post with a real name, not the tag for your pixels) or shut up.

When you do …. I will post my name.

You’ve got it completely wrong about Anshe Chung, because you’re just on tekkie default hate mode. Anshe Chung already has covenants in Dreamland that *already* forbid the use of any device to spy on people. It’s very clearly stated right on the land now, the covenant is something you not just get in a notecard, but on the actual land menu. Everybody there knows it is enforced, even for visitors. And so it was. Anshe hardly has to go consult with every person who *already* agreed to these terms when they rented.

There’s no need to put CAPCHA crap on every parcel. There’s a need to put a lid on Grid Shepherd. Why should every parcel have to change what it is doing. The Sheep, who are still human beings, need to change what THEY are doing. They need to have an opt-in search, not an opt-out search.

Uh–YUH I did. DER.

Um, I realize it’s a mental stretch for you Artemis, but try to grasp what’s being said here.

Currently, these buttons are pretty nigh useless. that’s because the search on their website they connect up to is uber sucky. They can’t seem to realize that they need to make it just like the ingame search, with the proximity issue solved. I type “Ravenglass Rentals” and I get kasha. They need to fix the Boolean thing. And not sure why they haven’t. Perhaps it’s a dbase load.

But WHEN they do, it will be great. AND then your checking off or not will pay off. You will be in it if you check; if you do NOT want to be “published to the website” then you won’t be. And that’s a heluva big difference than the Sheep Scrape which does not ask, takes, and publishes, and forces you to opt-out.

In fact, I suspect the Lindens aren’t “done” with this or are distracted or something. They just haven’t focused on it. WHEN they do, and if they hook their website up to some grown-up place like Amazon.com’s servers that will work better, then walla, we will have a better, community-driven search.

Maybe the technical disjuncture (that distinguishing factor) arises from the fact that we don’t see SL as just another internet service. We see it as a facsimile of Real Life, where privacy is based on trust and legal restrictions. On the World Wide Web, privacy is entirely technical. A private website has a guest-list, not a ban-list, and anything else is fair game. However, selective permission (as opposed to selective banning) is opposed by the vast majority of the people here.

If you really want to stop a bot from violating perceived (but not actual) privacy, you have to make the privacy formally defined, and therefore enforceable. Perhaps an estate may have a covenant that says “you can’t go in and look at peoples’ stuff without their permission,” or “this is a ‘residential’ sim, so all plot owners must use guest-list style security.” You may have a policy like that of nearly every physical store on the planet: prices cannot be reported outside the store without permission from the management. Policies like these, if they were actually included as Terms of Service for a particular parcel, would be enforceable. Banning a bot from an entire region without consulting each individual parcel owner (or explicitly announcing it in the covenant), as Anshe Chung Studios has done, is an example of the powers that be acting above the law. Basically, if you do indeed control “the law,” as ACS does, you should implement a broader policy that all tenants agree to upon renting. Imposing a policy outside of the lease agreement would be illegal in Real Life and is, at the very least, very annoying in Second Life.

Or perhaps parcel owners could have those “please type the text from the above garbled image” things that so many websites seem to be using before someone would be allowed to enter a given parcel. It would be dreadfully annoying, but it would certainly rid the grid of bots until they implemented optical character recognition.

I don’t know if you ever bothered to read the little question mark pop up next to the publish to web button, but it’s functions are entirely different from what you think (or hope) they are. “Selecting the publish on the web option allows us to publish your name, image, and ‘about’ text on the Second Life Website.”

“No need to buy your expense dumbass product”

Oh sorry, were you trying to buy that and disappointed you couldn’t find it? ‘Fraid to tell you that it is what is known in the scientific field as a “Joke”, or in layman’s terms “not serious”.