Archive for 'News from Second Life'

BCX Withstands Fraud Attack

BCX CEO claims Spinchief Akina, iblack Afarensis, chyk2u Arado, and Petrucci Jonson are thieves – thanks Linden Lab for assistance by Jessica Holyoke Travis Ristow Travis Ristow, CEO of BCX Holdings (traded on the International Stock Exchange) send the letter below to BCX account holders and shareholders today. In the letter, Mr. Ristow alleges that [...]

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Second Life Economy is in a Recession

Residents with a positive monthly L$ cash flow declines for second consecutive quarter by Jessica Holyoke After the banking ban, there are commentators who state that the Second Life Economy is in a recession and then there are the opposing commentators that say that the Second Life Economy is not in a recession.  According to [...]

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New ‘Permissions Exploit’ Uncovered – Drama Ensues on SLX

by Proper Prim, staff writer a possible source of drama For a few days now I have been monitoring a situation on SLX where users have discovered objects being sold that one user described as utilizing ‘a permissions exploit’. What is the nature of this exploit? A script loads an avatar’s profile from the web, [...]

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Downhome Junk Yard Blues

by Kaos Usbourne, virtual world traveler Richardina Petty and Kiff Clutterbuck relax on the docks It was a good day. The fickle SL winds were blowing, yet I found myself drifting among coastal swells. I was bored – so I pulled out the charts (world map) and located a red circle that seemed to promise [...]

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Ex-Superhero on Woodbury, Griefing & JLU drama

Pierce Kronos reveals he “left the JLU in disgust” in exclusive interview by Proper Prim, staff writer A great deal of controversy has been circulating around the Justice League Unlimited of late raising questions about how much is real and how much has been manufactured – is someone is trying to troll and defame the [...]

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Welcome To Crunk Camden

by Pixeleen Mistral, photojournalist In the past, visits to Baku sim were always thought provoking, as the W-Hat goons pursue their artistic vision with a series of themed builds. However, since the W-Hats purchased an island – named What – Baku tends to be rather quiet. Saturday evening I stopped by the What sim to [...]

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IBM Jilts SL – Now Dating ActiveWorlds!?

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Activeworlds, conference calls, and interactive web pages – but no SL It is hard to know exactly what to make of this, but a reliable source pointed us to the Kauffman foundation’s web site where this page http://www.kauffman.org/3D announces a “3-D Internet for Learning Summit” hosted not on Second [...]

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Furry/PN Drama in Ryder Sim — Continued

SHOCK! – Herald reporter’s in-depth investigations leads to retraction – and two new friendsPN statue and pool declared a historical landmark by d3adlyc0d3c, ex-griefer an historical landmark in Ryder sim The other day I created an alt and went inworld to meet with Fartgina Emert and Equino Faulkland to followup on an story I wrote [...]

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Second Inventory – Scam, Backup, or Copybot Revisited?

Can the in-world economy survive local backups of user-created content? by d3adlyc0d3c, ex griefer Use this power for good, never for evil Surfing the internet the other day, I stumbled upon a discussion thread on slexchange.com about a product called Second Inventory – a new intellectual property theft tool – or is it a legitimate [...]

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Security Alert — Metaverse threat level: Orange

Has any unknown person asked you to rez anything in-world? by Security Orb, Metaverse Homeland Security consultant This afternoon I spoke to a victim in Sandbox Cordova who was given a malicious object disguised as a gun. Normally guns are not malicious devices in Second Life, and are used for harmless pursuits such as pushing, [...]

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