XDeth Absent & Bearsy Bloobury – Sim Crashing PN Griefers!

Interview with Post 6 Party crasher!! Exclusive!!! by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk "in a world of user generated content where you can remain anonymous, people are bound to find exploits… like a fun sport, you know?" – XDeth Absent It was no surprise that XDeth Absent was pleased that Linden Lab finally got around [...]

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Sea of Drama to Link Soviet Woodbury to W-Hat Goons

More artistic mashups now possible? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk   A new sim – Soviet Woodbury – appeared on the map just south of the W-Hat goon’s WHAT sim Saturday, marking the end of a forced migration for one group of residents displaced by the collapse of Intlibber Brautigan’s BnT land empire. Woodbury [...]

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How Secure Is Second Life – Really?

Reformed über-griefers Plastic Duck and DeadlyCodec disagree on security analysis by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk It was pure coincidence, but shortly after Linden Lab released a compulsory client update to address "a potential security issue" last week I ran into Timeless Prototype and Huns Valen at Philip Linden’s swank new house in P Squared [...]

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Out Of Touch Egghead To Pontificate on Second Life

Herald founder keynotes 2009 Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference The Herald's own Urizenus Sklar – who is widely believed to be self-identical – will present a virtual keynote titled "Virtual Communities, Virtual Cultures, Virtual Governance" for the Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference Monday October 26. Virtually viewable here http://compassconference.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/ludlow/ after the virtual presentation Monday – the virtual [...]

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Players Dodge Horrific Namespace Collisions!!!

Metaplace developers hope to avoid each other's triggers by Suzie Skybeam Wednesday night, a group of developers got together in a Libertarian coffee shop to discuss what to do about the Metaplace's lack of namespaces. In Metaplace, you can attach scripts from different modules to the same object. For example, a chat system and a [...]

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Our World – You Obey – Our Viewer Only

3rd party viewer policy update includes Linden Goonsquads™ brown bag resident registry [note: Caligula Linden - who might not be a Linden at all - provides an updated version of the Lab's 3rd Party viewers blog post -- the Editrix] by Caligula Linden Linden Lab supports an open platform with opportunity for all who comply [...]

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Crackdown on Third Party Viewer Encrypted IMs?

Emerald Viewer's OTR at odds with SL Community Standards and ToS? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The grid is aflutter with wild rumors in the wake of the Lab's announcement of an impending crackdown on third party viewers. One source pointed the Herald to what is claimed to be an e-mail sent to the [...]

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Bob Boothroyd — Post 6 Guy

[Normally I have my Post 6 pictures taken weeks in advance but recently real life has kept me hopping. The other evening I was scrambling for a model and Bob Boothroyd, who had introduced himself a few weeks before and offered to model "if I ever need it," happened to be on. Little did he [...]

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Brown Suede Boots With EULA

A license to wear boots by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk   you can't read the license terms until after the purchase I probably should not have been surprised to see that the L$650 pair of ZHAO brown suede boots I bought yesterday came with an End User License Agreement – but no word on [...]

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BnT Failure Fallout Sends Players to Surreal Estates

Are other land businesses at risk? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk As word spread that IntLibber Brautigan’s BnT virtual land business is effectively bankrupt, displaced residents considered their options. For some, the unwinding of BnT’s affairs has been chaotic -  residents were given 24 hours Friday to retrieve their objects from the sims Linden [...]

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