http://blog.patrioticnigras.org/index.php/2008/06/19/fort-longcat-moved-to-os-grid-shoopedlife-news/#comments

I am glad to be finding this out because now I know that the OSgrid admins are foul mouthed little griefer types themselves who say that they are collecting data on OSgrid users and forwarding those infos to Linden Lab. How about that shit huh?

Heres the deal… OSgrid is DUNSTALL – NO LONGER NEEDED – DEFUNCT

Why? Because now IBM that monolithic computing giant has Pwned both SL and Opensim by developing and owning the technology to Link All Worlds (LAW).

Who needs OSgrid now? Who needs Central Grid anymore? Who needs Deep Grid or any of the other grids who thought they would be the new GODS of the new Metaverse anymore? Who needs any of them now?

Because now all a person will have to do once they have created their own OpenSim world or grid running on their own home computer, all they will have to do then is sign onto Second Life, create a free account there, rent a small chunk of land enough to put their IBM Inter Metaversal Teleporter (IMT) on, and boom there you go, Your World connected to SL.

You may not need to own or rent land in SL to pull that off either. There will probably be Inter Metaversal Teleporters set up on peoples land in SL that are set so that anyone can put their Personal Grid coordinates in it, where it would become this Gateway to Other Worlds, links to the other worlds that people have put into it like calling cards. Or if you wanted to stay secret, public IMTs that you could tell where you wanted to Inter Metaversally teleport to (your home private grid say) each time you used it and it would never remember you or your destination.

Then imagine all of that without SL even in the picture, just a huge array of decentrallized worlds or grids with IMTs on each world taking people where they want to go.

Some kind of Pre-Cast should occur in the IMT before you teleport to get Infos on the world that you are teleporting to so that you can know about its Trustability Rating or whether or not it supports Intellectual Property rights etc etc. Maybe a small robot that would go through the IMT first that would perform a series of tests on all sorts of things, the ability to rezz items, the sim performance speed, land Object settings, people in Sim, Radar plots sent back, etc etc, built into the IMT. But those things could be optional, or implimented to whatever cool degree, whatever.

The point being: WHO WILL NEED GRIDS ANYMORE??

bring it all on
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When the panel was opened to questions from the crowd, OpenSim’s lack of content protection tools was challenged by Catherine Fitzpatrick, better known in Second Life as the prolific blogger Prokofy Neva. “You mentioned the recipe of calling a lawyer, but most avatars can’t afford lawyers and don’t have access to them,” Fitzpatrick said.

Frisby responded there was no point putting in an intellectual property provision that couldn’t be made to work. “If someone wants to rip off Second Life they can,” he said.

Levine, in response to the same question, said he thought many grids would want to respect intellectual property and may put in optional modules to enforce it. He imagined something like the Second Life Grid would only allow access to its world by OpenSim grids that rigorously respect copyright.

Ultimately, Levine said, OpenSim would need to develop a framework similar to Creative Commons, with boilerplate legal language specifically adapted to virtual worlds. “The user won’t hire a lawyer, they’ll just read the Terms of Service,” Levine told Fitzpatrick.

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heh

The Proks, the Uris (and the “Pixeleens” by extension), et al, just love to try and force people into little boxes. This is classic smear campaigning which always precedes and accompanies their personal agendas. “I don’t like the way you’re doing that, and I don’t like your principles and beliefs, so I am going to pigeon-hole you, invent a group that you belong to (FIC, Technocrats, et al), and then nail you for associating with that group, even though it only exists in my own mind. Mostly because I am simply intimidated by, A) things I don’t understand, and B) people who I am worried might be intelligent, but who *GASP* chose a different path than full-on Humanities.”

Who would I rather have shaping VWs? Arrogant, fascist assholes who think they are better and smarter than everyone else, who bitterly complain nonstop and try to tear people (and Linden Lab) down to further their own agendas? Or, those who understand how the thing works, can see the bigger picture, and who care about more than personal agendas, fear mongering and smear campaigns?

I’ll take curtain number two, Monty.

Why do net fascists hate certain parts of the First Amendment?

He then goes on to describe the engineers as having a philosophy 101 libertarianism…. I’m sorry but thats just poppycock.

I could refer you to many engineers and scientists, programmers, and developers, who are very immersed in the humanities. I myself have experience in music, painting, among other arts, and was a professonal blogger before coming to SL. Since joining SL I’ve commissioned a number of art works by artists like Charlot Dickins and Filthy Fluno. I am not alone.

Many ‘technocratic’ companies like IBM, etc have funded many humanities activities in SL, including the SL Ballet, among others.

I can also refer you to the writings of nobel physicist Richard Feynman who combatted similar claims by those in the humanities that engineers and scientists don’t ‘do’ art. Feynman became an accomplished painter and musician, while his artist and musician friends not only could not ‘get’ science and engineering, but couldn’t be bothered to show a similar degree of focus and respect for them as he did for their disciplines.

Yet the media loves to talk about how “unusual” it is for a technically oriented person to be involved in the humanities when its not unusual at all, yet they never hold those in the humanities up to the same comparison. How many professional ballerinas or music divas go and get degrees in sciences or engineering? So few that it truly is extraordinary when it does happen, and typically the person was first a scientist or engineer and then went into the arts.

As for politics: the founding fathers not only were trained in the humanities, they were also technically trained: Jefferson was an architect, Franklin was the foremost scientist of his time, Washington a military leader and engineer, etc etc. down the list. What is more, the political philosophy of the founding fathers has far more in common with my Libertarian philosophy than the typical left wing politics of the average newspaper editor.

Moreover, where is this big divide between the visual and literature? Architecture is more an art than science, and in SL, it is primarily art as there are no physical stresses upon a building here other than prim limits and lag issues. Yes, a writer, a good one, needs to be able to evoke within the mind of the reader the visualization of what the writer intends, whereas building a virtual building is stacking, shaping, and texturing prims artistically.

However I’ll put this challenge to you: I’ll bet I can write a better news story than you can build a virtual building.

I found out why your mac laptop has been crashing so much. Good thing you’ve been blaming SL, or else you might have gotten it fixed. Better to whine than actually do something. And make sure to get that double whisky before all the other St. Paulers buy it all.

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/07/inquirer_every_nvidia_graphics_card_with_g84_or_g86_chipset_is_ready_to_die-2.html

I am from St. Paul (born and raised there, and used to manage and/or bartend at some of the hottest spots), and we don’t say that. You and your myopic, professional student, elitist friends != St. Paul.

Me detects the smell of grad student…

Nice to see you doing your usual griefer ass-kissing rounds though, “Pixeleen”.

Razrcut… haven’t you learned yet that the freaks who are most in love with virtual worlds are those who complain as if it was the worst thing since Joanie Loves Chachi?

They think this is the New Frontier, you know… so…

Just because I don’t like something doesn’t mean it’s not interesting – “virtual worlds” (and the hype surrounding them) are definitely, profoundly interesting: in their substance and goings-on, in how those who use them interact, in their usage patterns, in their tolerance of breaking immersion in an attempted immersive environment, etc etc. I may not agree with Urizenus’s foundation but I do think they’re fascinating from a sociological standpoint. I just object to the premise here that my god, in four years everyone’s going to use these virtual worlds and people will be asking each other in real life to go to their E-BAR and E-HOUSE and we’ll have goggles that shoot lasers out of our eyes and ROCKET BOOTS and all that associated techno-masturbatory mumbo jumbo. The entire article, but more so the interviewer’s questions, are predicated on that, and at some point don’t you have to say “well, when you’ve made your entire genre a joke, do you really think anyone’s going to graft a P2P layer onto another client?” I don’t care to comment on the literary part, as the complexities and differences of the “Old New Journalism” and the “New New Journalism” seem to go over my head. I’m reminded of the Rumsfeld quote: “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” But that doesn’t mean the rest can’t be scrutinized, even by such a crazy puppy-killing SL-hating griefer meanie as I.

I have knowledge of SL because I spent 6 months messing around with and in it, and I frequent the Herald because it’s on my RSS feed and I like learning about all the drama that goes on, as well as making fun of horrid crap being passed off as articles (mostly all those poems). To be quite honest, my motivations aren’t really a concern of yours – isn’t questioning it sort of the definition of ad hominem?