Re: [opensource-dev] Malicious payloads in third-party viewers: is the policy worth anything?

2010-08-21 Thread Baloo Uriza
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:04:16 +0100, Thomas Grimshaw wrote: > Loading 1mb of content per user is hardly a denial of service attack. > Crosslinking occurs everywhere on the web, this is simply nothing but > paranoid bull. icmp echo requests can be a denial of service attack, and we're talking very

Re: [opensource-dev] Display names, again.

2010-08-21 Thread Baloo Uriza
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:20:38 -0700, Daniel Smith wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) < > o...@lindenlab.com> wrote: > >> Actually, I think that the answers to your questions are clear from >> the published material, Lance, but here... >> >> > 1. Will there be pr

Re: [opensource-dev] display names = the end of 1.x viewers?

2010-08-21 Thread Baloo Uriza
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:08:07 -0400, mysticaldemina-ZcVvBWsY3orQT0dZR+AlfA wrote: > And your login account isn't public so you have better security. Your login account will still be visible in the profile, and during transactions. ___ Policies and (un)

Re: [opensource-dev] Off-topic chatter (Was: Display names, again.)

2010-08-21 Thread Baloo Uriza
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:16:04 -0500, Jacek Antonelli wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Lance Corrimal > wrote: >> Is it just me or did the lindens stop replying to this topic? > > They probably stopped replying because nearly all of the chatter about > Display Names has been off-topic and

Re: [opensource-dev] Display names, again.

2010-08-21 Thread Baloo Uriza
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:15:12 +0200, Marine Kelley wrote: > The damage done to the reputation of a well known resident can be > immeasurable. It would be irresponsible of LL to let someone impersonate > someone else without giving any way to let the other people around to > see CLEARLY the differen

Re: [opensource-dev] Display names, again.

2010-08-20 Thread Baloo Uriza
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:22:30 +0200, Lance Corrimal wrote: > On Friday 20 August 2010 08:44:47 Tateru Nino wrote: >> Forwarding your questions through the PR channels, Lance. Although, >> from the documentation provided by the Lab so far, the answer to >> question one is 'no'. > > > http://en.w

Re: [opensource-dev] display names = the end of 1.x viewers?

2010-08-20 Thread Baloo Uriza
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:33:25 +1000, Tateru Nino wrote: > Marvel (back before they had Disney's legion of undead lawyers) sued > NCsoft over City of Heroes, because the character creator allowed users > to create avatars that had similar likenesses to or similar names to > Marvel trademarks. NCsoft

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Inventory Transfer

2010-08-19 Thread Baloo Uriza
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:56:29 -0700, Ricky wrote: > Very good question, and was the reason for my note bout accidental > inventory transfers. > > The solution I alluded to was to pop up an "are you sure" style dialog > box. However, I hate those with a passion. So I'm fishing for more > optimal

Re: [opensource-dev] display names = the end of 1.x viewers?

2010-08-19 Thread Baloo Uriza
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:42:37 -0700, Bryon Ruxton wrote: > On 8/19/10 7:20 PM, "Argent Stonecutter" > wrote: > >> On 2010-08-19, at 14:09, Michael Schlenker wrote: >>> Its a special case of the general case, i didn't check but I'm pretty >>> sure 'Agent Smith' is taken by someone. If it is and yo

Re: [opensource-dev] display names = the end of 1.x viewers?

2010-08-19 Thread Baloo Uriza
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:53:18 -0700, Daniel Smith wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Baloo Uriza > wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:15:14 -0700, Daniel Smith wrote: >> >> > I'll ask the Lindens a direct question: >> > >> > What wi

Re: [opensource-dev] display names = the end of 1.x viewers?

2010-08-19 Thread Baloo Uriza
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:15:14 -0700, Daniel Smith wrote: > I'll ask the Lindens a direct question: > > What will you do to prevent others from using my username as their > displayname? I'm going to hazard to guess the answer is "nothing." If anything, this brings SL into better parity with the

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Inventory Transfer

2010-08-19 Thread Baloo Uriza
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:25:05 -0700, Ricky wrote: > Well, she was recently instructed by my dad (an advanced user like > myself) to send him a notecard she was editing. She asked how. My dad > instructed her to "drag it to the IM window." This she knew how to > find. She then complained that it

Re: [opensource-dev] vehicles got some problem ?

2010-08-19 Thread Baloo Uriza
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:39:36 +0900, Rustam Rakhimov wrote: > Hi VW developers [developers are future] > > > I want to ask you question about vehicles > > As I know vehicles got some problem in OpenSim isn't it ? > > so is there any news about Vehicles in Opensim. I want it to run some > car sc

Re: [opensource-dev] display names = the end of 1.x viewers?

2010-08-19 Thread Baloo Uriza
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:04:19 -0700, Kelly Linden wrote: > 'Resident' is just the final last name, and is treated specially on new > viewers to be hidden from view when displayed. So new users won't have the choice of picking a last name anymore? Isn't that going to severely limit the number of