They are good rotisserie style too. Put one over an open pit on the beach… Just don’t ge me started on my recipie for meeroo potepie.. Yum…

In reference to the Land Exploit: “the sort of thing one might expect a game company to fix quickly – unless the game company was named Linden Lab” First of all you should have a basic understanding of what actually causes this issue. This exploit occures adjacent to a region border either into another region or into the “void” itself. At region boarders and close enough to the void permissions no longer apply because these areas are transitional or completely empty. This is also not an easy issue to resolve. This issue persists in Second Life, Open Simulator, Aurora Grid and other grids that follow along the same framework. One of the only ways to fix the issue would be to eliminate the void and region boarders which would cause large amounts of stress on the simulators(Region Hosting Servers). Down to the fact is every game or virtual world has its bugs and loop holes, and people will exploit them Infact most residents DO exploit them.
“it has become clear that the Lab is more than happy to ban accounts wildly in hopes of catching the bad guys – so what if a few innocents are harmed by the Lab’s rough justice?” This is one of the most Naive parts of this article. There are very few tools A company like Linden Lab can use without violating the law when issuing a governance ban.
1) Linden Dollar transactions: Both the creators account AND the fake accounts would get transactions for the same Item. If you look in your transaction log you will see that you get who you paid, how much you paid and whenm these logs do not show where, or what you paid for.
2)IP,Mac Address, Volume Serial: These are comonly used to track offenders in games, websites and most deffinatly second Life. Now you need to remember that all three of these can be spoofed, second IP addresses are rarely static, and third they are unreliable because multiple people can share the same IP, MAC and VS.
3)Email, Chat Logs.: linden Lab cannot force you to give them your REAL email address, and as for chat logs well if you are breaking the rules of a game you usually dont want to brag about it.
So what is the sad truth in that? Guess what Innocent people will get banned, there is no stopping that. But If they are TRUELY innocent they will cooperate with the Policies of the company in order to get their account back. Second Life and Linden Lab are not perfect they will never be.
” With no transparency about who has been banned or why, there is little accountability inside the Lab and a corporate culture that cultivates gross incompetence” This part of the article actually made me laugh. Appearently the author Has NO knowledge of United States Laws and regulations regarding the sharing of online account information of any kind. And I do say US law because Linden Lab is a US based company and therefore bound by those laws. There is also the matter of California’s Privacy laws. So let me put this frankly. IT….IS….ILLEGAL…TO….SHARE…BANNED…ACCOUNT NAMES….AND REASONS…FOR…BANNING. I personally run several websites and a VIrtual grid based with OpenSim framework, there are laws and regulations you MUST know to operate that kind of business and you must follow those laws with dealing with accounts. How many of you would like your stupid actions, bans, suspensions, and mistakes broadcast for everyone even your friends and family to see? Not a single person would want that.

“At this point any normal company would have apologized in public for what can only be described as a first class clusterfuck. But Linden Lab is not a normal company.” Linden Lab is not a normal company, and Second Life is not a normal product. Expecting them to apologize for innocent casualties when they are trying to protect the entirety of Second Life is downright ignorant.

“Instead of explaining what went wrong and how the fundamental issues would be addressed, the Lindens resorted to their infamous privacy policy. In practice, the privacy policy exists to cover up for anything that might embarrass the Lab” If you read the privacy policy you will see that its sole purpose is to protect YOU, the customer from having your information shared. Infact the only people who want to know if another resident has been banned are the people who have a sick desire for the satisfaction of seeing their own retribution fullfilled. “Is anyone really surprised that Second Life has wallowed in a sea of unaccountable incompetence for years?” If Linden Lab is so Incompetent why are people still spending thousands of dollars a year or a month in their virtual world? Because they actually see how difficult a job it is to run something like Second Life. They BENEFIT from the work Linden Lab does to run Second Life.

So what is this article doing? It is wrongly placing blame on a company, because it is a company that makes millions of dollars a year. The blame for these issues belongs to the violators of the Terms of service, it belongs SOLELY to the people who exploit bugs and glitches to steal from people who work hard for their money and to enjoy Second Life. Let this post educate you and anyone who wants to read it, because the article I am posting it for is only pointing fingers, not telling the truth.

I can see where you could contrive some obscenely misconstrued evidence “proving” that I am a fascist – however, I would like to see how you could possibly call me poorly educated or envious. (This would be your role here, I presume.)

This is apparently evidence of your great education…

Can we ban that Amaretto cunt as well? (And keep her banned.)

It’s a free country, I can do what I want. Are you being affected by my opinions? I firmly believe that anyone that wastes a nickel on these silly breedables needs their head examined. That’s my opinion, and perhaps nobody cares about it, and maybe you’ll prove me wrong – I’m eager to find out.

You are right you can do what you want, but what you want is to stop other people doing what they want, so you should expect some pretty fierce opposition. This is what I am getting at when I talk about intolerance. Personally I don’t understand dancing in SL or Child avatars or any number of things, but I don’t attempt to deny the right of others to enjoy such things.

I intensely enjoy stringing cats up above a bonfire, gutting them, burning their insides, and sewing together their coats for clothing, it seems so odd that so many people here have this vicious desire to deny that enjoyment.

Ad absurdum arguments? That’s deep.

Bandwagon effect does not a worthwhile investment make. The horse bubble popped recently – why do you think they just released dogs, and then demanded that Linden Lab waste their time with a blog post for advertising? Go shopping and see how many people are buying horses secondhand. Then go see how many people are trying (and failing) to sell them.

This is a game, its isn’t supposed to be a worthwhile investment, all the systems eventually see a decline it’s an inevitable result as more and more competition moves into the marketplace and a finite number of breeders want to try out new things. While this is playing itself out many breeders make themselves a nice bit of pocket money and this is money which most could not have made otherwise since they lack the creative skills, This is the best thing about breedables, I think, they have drawn more people into the economy.

I sell a lot of things and make a living off of them. I make a hell of a lot of money doing scripting work for one of the three top automobile manufacturers in the game. What about you?

Nice of you to ask, I have over 500 products listed, including 3 that reached number one on the old Xstreet and more than a dozen top 20s, my top sellers have sold thousands of copies, I am willing to bet you could pick any ONE of my top ten items and it would outsell your entire inventory of textured box prims twice over. When I launched my badly sculpted Kittys I sold over 1000 starter packs in the first 6 hours, at their peak there were over 10000 pets on the grid. Virtual traffic lights, vehicle scripts, 50k – lol, lol and lol!.

What large development projects? Amaretto isn’t a “large development project”. A large development project would be coding Mozilla Firefox or designing a skyscraper. A couple of people with mediocre experience with LSL (especially SL user interaction – although the 80/20 idiots that designed Viewer 2 are not very good role models) is by no means a “large development project”.

This is almost too stupid to bother commenting on, of course if you compare creating a breedable pet to something totally irrelevant like building the Large Hadron Collider it isn’t large, however if you make a sensible and relevant comparison to other developments for the public market in SL its about as big as it gets, the idea that any Tom, Dick or Harry can come along and knock out a breedable pet is ludicrous. A basic system is going to require a database backend, a website, protracted marketing campaign, support ticket system, support personnel, custom animations, scripted prim animation, scripted movement, food and health systems, extensive testing, I could go on and on suffice to say by any sensible comparison its a very large development project.

As any LSL developer knows, coidng in LSL is much like coding an integrated system. There is very little memory, CPU resources are limited, and “large development projects” need to be strictly managed and designed to run on such resources without severely impacting other scripts and general system performance. Most breedables are not designed with these guidelines in mind.

Complete nonsense, the success of any system is totally dependent
on the pets ability to run smoothly with minimum impact, the idea that a developer wouldn’t even consider this is obviously ridiculous. Like everything in SL its a trade off between what you actually want it to do and what is actually possible in SL.

Now you are talking out of your ass. Have you even visited mainland lately? I did a lot of test runs for CGR and came up with a very large list of region performance indicators. Averaged them together over the course of a few months, and guess what? Regions with breedable farms in them had typically 0.3 less time dilation than those without.

You need to remember that a huge trade exists for breedables, there are numerous markets, auctions and stores all with lots of pets on display, many of these places are very popular and have numerous visitors, if a few pets rendered the average avatar unable to walk as you claim they simply couldn’t exist.

Ad hominem arguments? That’s deep

Yeah sorry I forgot to mention the very worthwhile, and definitely not weird hobby of RPing a Firefighter