gdp's Comments

Digital DNA : Be Still my Bleeding Heart ...

Fri, 11 Apr 2014 19:23:11 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. Corrected. :-)

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Avatar Reality’s Blue Planet Heads for Greener Pastures… or are they?

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:47:48 +0000

The situation is unfortunate, but oh well. I have been expecting something like this for some time. Hence I had already begun shopping around other platforms. And yes, I will admit, I have no desire whatsoever to go back to LSL scripting. I hace teh lua bug! lol

Virtuality Hacks Blog : TPVP Brown Bag Series: Meeting 1

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:13:32 +0000

LOL. Yeah, that was me!

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Resident Roundtable with M Linden

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:59:06 +0000

Not you, Blue! The software. It's murphy's law you know. Things always break at the worst possible moments!

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Behind the Skiddies Emerald Curtain

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:52:00 +0000

The people working on the Imprudence viewer do not have a track record for writing and distributing malicious viewers. You know, the kind that had keyloggers, etc? Furthermore, imprudence devs respect creator rights by only allowing export of objects created by the person running the viewer. A concept that seems to be quite beyond the emerald folk's grasp. And finally, having spoken extensively with one of the skiddies (who happens to own the emerald site, btw) and listening to him bragging about how he could not only crash sims, but actually hijack them? Told me pretty much all I needed to know. Or otherwise put. SOS under a different moniker. *shrugs*

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Behind the Skiddies Emerald Curtain

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:42:00 +0000

Of course I'm not going to create "BOGUS data" silly. Nor would I post my results bc I already knew that is the exact type of stupidity that someone would pull out of their nether regions. And besides, as I stated on the forum, there are a ton of port sniffers avail (even free ones), so ppl can see for themselves.

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Behind the Skiddies Emerald Curtain

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:40:45 +0000

Parx wrote in part: "You can back this sexual harasser claim up with a name or some basic facts beyond your word on the street?" You bet. But I won't be doing so on this little blog in the inet backwaters. The people who need to know, do.

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Winds of Change

Wed, 3 Feb 2010 05:32:16 +0000

I agree. We keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, and the other shoe keeps dropping and dropping and dropping. They clearly have several feet. The thing that Blue keeps hinting at disturbs me. Not just that he's being cryptic but that he keeps repeating it, as if he's trying to warn us of something, without letting the cat out of the bag.

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Behind the Skiddies Emerald Curtain

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:54:03 +0000

The traffic originating from the client to their server. Everything originating from their server to the client is coming in as either compressed format (for graphics) or plaintext.

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Behind the Skiddies Emerald Curtain

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:37:19 +0000

The Imprudence developers are definitely a class act. They'll go far!

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Behind the Skiddies Emerald Curtain

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:53:00 +0000

Seems like they do not plan to take a firm stance.

For example, from the November 9th brown bag meeting their attorney, Marty Linden, explicitly made this statement with regard to exporting things you did not create (emphasis added, mine).

Marty: That would be in the establishment of the guidelines. What we have said in the past is that you can't export things you aren't the creator of or use functionality in one of these viewers or elsewhere to do an end run around the permissions system. You can bet that will be in the guidelines.

Yet, in Saturday's concierge chat, Skills Hak stated:

Skills Hak: angela, they said our export is ok as it is but they would be happier if we added another permission check for creator bit (which is easy to bypass sadly, that's why we didn't add it in he first place)

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Behind the Skiddies Emerald Curtain

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:40:00 +0000

Fractured Crystal
Previously: Jcool410, perma-banned
Malicious Viewer: Vlife (closed source predecessor to emerald, sold for USD$250)

Lonely Bluebird
Previously: phox, perma-banned
Malicious Viewer: phox sl

Luminous Luminos
Previously: Cryogenic, perma-banned
Malicious Viewer: cryolife

Btw, word on the street has it that one of SL's most prolific sexual harassers plans to join the emerald team. No big surprise there. Esp, considering his appalling track record. He should fit right in.

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Behind the Skiddies Emerald Curtain

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:41:00 +0000

Of course I've read their source code. Please.

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Virtual Jurors in Second Life

Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:13:35 +0000

I whole heartedly agree. The primary issue, once the learning curve, etc are conquered, will be ensuring the results are scientifically valid and reliable. The frye standard is stringent, so I do not see this particular crime scene recreation meeting that. At best, it is a proof of concept. At worst, a lot of time wasted! Either way, there are numerous issues that include but are not limited to platform limits (i.e., issues with regard to texturing, scaling, etc).

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Augmenting Reality

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:38:31 +0000

I am far from a technology abolitionist, however I do advocate mindfulness when exploring these new technologies. Even if it involves considering potential worst case scenarios. Such scenarios may be wrong. Or not. Such scenarios may be over-blown. Or not. However, being blinded by the wow-factor is a journey that more than a few fools seem to be happy to take.

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Under the Big Tent

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:18:00 +0000

There is not a thing in his profile about Imprudence. He does however have this in his picks: Emerald - Emerald Client / Viewer by Vuturus and he is the founder of Vulturus group. Btw, I guess my fact checking wasn't too off, since, from your confirmation above, I was correct about the content protection system.

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Under the Big Tent

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:01:45 +0000

After reviewing the tape, it appears to be Valiant Westland speaking as opposed to you (I've corrected it above). That said, are you saying he is not an emerald dev? Forgive me that it's hard to tell from your developer page, just who's who. Since not all on the list reflect their SL names. As for the Imprudence team? Jacek Antonelli stated early on he did not have voice. And disaffected emerald dev, Thomas Shikami was having mic problems.

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Under the Big Tent

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:33:31 +0000

We discussed encryption, which I think is fine, by the way. Though, they did not address whether or not there will be anything in the 3rd party viewer guidelines. I, personally, suspect they'll forgo the encryption bit and let it stand as "okay". I guess it all deps upon how much they rely on IMs to deal with ARs.

Virtuality Hacks Blog : Under the Big Tent

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:59:23 +0000