Archive for 'News from Second Life'

Pony Linden Fed to Zombies

Last “Whinny” For Beloved Fake Animal by Journey Yellowlist, Herald PETA Desk My earlier speculations were not mere hyperbole. Pony Linden, the fun-time animal from simpler times in Second Life’s fake world, has been killed off in the back-to-basics campaign Philip Linden launched when Mitch Kapor gave the boot to M. Linden stepped down as [...]

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Was Vivox Chat p0wned by Emerald Developers?

LindenWorld staff meetings an open book to ban-proof Fractured Crystal, Lonely Bluebird? Did two Emerald developers – Fractured Crystal and Lonely Bluebird – taunt Emerald critic Hazim Gazov after using the Vivox voice chat admin portal disable Gazov’s Second Life voice? Were the rogue developers able to track Lab staff on private Linden-only islands? It [...]

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Emerald In Disgrace!!! Philip Linden Warns Against Malicious Viewer!!!

Philip Linden took pen in hand today to warn Second Life players the controversial Emerald Viewer has been removed from the official list of third party viewers stating "We will not tolerate a viewer that includes malicious code, nor will we tolerate development teams with a history of violating users’ trust or disrupting their lives" [...]

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Emerald Viewer Mutiny – Fractured Crystal Thrown To Sharks

Second Life Emerald Viewer + DDOS Platform Ownership Changes Hands The scandal-plagued Emerald viewer development team has undergone radical change with the resignation of Fractured Crystal Sunday morning. Although Mr. Crystal had previously controlled the web site distributing the Emerald viewer, he was forced out in what appears to have been a mutiny by other [...]

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Emerald Flack Arabella Steadham: “I Don’t Lie”

Protip: killing reporters makes you look bad On my first visit to Emerald Point Friday night, I was killed by an unknown assailant within a minute of sitting down with the Emerald developers. I had dropped by hoping for comments from Emerald gang spokeswoman Arabella Steadham, and was pleased to see also in attendance several [...]

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Emerald Viewer Login Screen Sneak DDOS Attack?

Developers of the Emerald Second Life client appear to have used their viewer to launch a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on the website of Hazim Gazov – a prominent critic of Emerald – after Gazov claimed the Emerald client was leaking potentially user-identifying information when rendering Second Life avatars. The DDOS attack took [...]

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LordGregGreg Exits Emerald Viewer Team

Developer concerned about stealth code in Emerald viewer LordGregGreg announced his departure from the Emerald viewer development team, saying that he is unable to track code added by other developers, and can no longer to provide assurances that Emerald does not contain stealth user-tracking "features". This is the latest in a series of internal Emerald [...]

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Teen Grid To Be Axed – Players Protest, Cheer

Mixed Reactions From the Teen Grid by RC Adamski Philip Linden announced Saturday at the SLCC convention in Boston that sixteen and seventeen year old members of the Teen Grid would be transferred to the Main Grid, and that the younger part of the grid would be turned off in the coming months. In response [...]

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Teen Grid Closing – Philip Linden Red Eyed

Babysitting – a great new game for adult players !!! Philip Linden announced the end of the Teen Grid in his keynote address at the Second Life Community Conference Saturday – a surprise move that left both teen and main grid players deeply concerned at the potential impact on Second Life culture. Philip Linden reminds [...]

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Fake Trial of Century Ends

Bigfoot Convicted — Miss Petunia to Be Sentenced by Herald Reader survey!!! by Journey Yellowlist, Herald Legal Desk Bored office-clones clung to the edges of their coffee-stained chairs, withered doyens of the china-cup crowd shredded lace hankies in anguish, and drunken hillbillies fell off pickle-barrels in the general store in hysterics as Judge I.R. “Hang [...]

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