Is Publishing Chatlogs Legal?
One small piece of Nipplegate was Iridium Linden's response on Burning Man blog. After the attempt of censorship and all the things she said, her comment was:
I'd also like to remind you that pasting chat without consent is a violation of the Community Standards.
Well, let's examine that a bit. Read more…
Iridium Linden’s Apology NOW!
Now this is really too much! If you don't know of the censorship of Burning Man second life event you can read it at SLinsider (and the follow-up). In short, Lindens didn't like the fact that statue of woman have nipples so they censored the event. If they are fine with the fact that humans in RL have nipples is still unknown. But, it doesn't stop on mere censorship. It has to be spiced with insults. Read more…
Identity Verification Has Come
Ok, here it is. Official blog post by Robin Linden is nice, polite and sounds reasonable. More than we expected. In short:
- You can verify your name, age, sex and/or location.
- You are not obliged to.
- It is done via third party called Aristotle Integrity.
- Land owners are strongly encouraged to flag their parcels as restricted if they contain non-PG content.
- It's been expected that community will take care about land-owners who "forgot" to flag their restricted content.
What remains unclear is… Read more…
Memories Of An Avatar
Lot of things and talks lately lead to this. My human, my typist, driver, OP… whatever you call that living form in the meatspace is screaming. By that illusion of immersionism we, my human and me, feel separated. That hurts both of us. Read more…
Why This Babe Goes Clubbing?
Time to time, I ask myself that dangerous question: "What are all these people doing in second life? Myself included."
Problems Of The OpenSim
Last week we talked a bit about OpenSim Project and about some of the good things that are expected to come with it. But not everything is easy in the quest of having the free grid. Beside technical issues there are some that cannot be done in code. In distributed system like this one is, question is who's gonna keep our treasure chests safe, and how we are going to carry them in our journeys.
When You Least Expect It
It is not like I am going to use the voice. There are bunch of reasons. But I am ok with voice existing in the world. We can live together once Lindens make the grid working and voice not making additional pressure on the database. But, I want that wall of the privacy, that line between avatar and human to remain untouched. And it is not only about my voice. It is voice of other residents too. Some of them at least. But, sometimes, you cannot escape it. Sometimes it comes when you least expect it. Read more…
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