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A predictable scandal erupted over the last few days as Meeroos began abandoning their owners to wander the grid in search of food. Meeroos are a popular form of virtual pet that require continual petting and feeding with scripted food purchased with L$ spacebux. This may seem something like playing Farmville - an innocent pastime for those raising pretend canadian tire gatineau crops or pets. But for the creators of the Meeroos this is a money spinning business which has attracted interest from scam artists attempting to cash in on the Meeroo craze. a Meeroo asks - why won't you feed me?
Problems began when day-old accounts with names that appear similar to the legitimate Meeroo canadian tire gatineau creators' account began placing canadian tire gatineau faux food vendors over the top of the legitimate food vending canadian tire gatineau machines in-world. Purchases made from the fake-food machines then credited the scammer's accounts - among them Meer00s Resident and Meero0s Resident. The Meeroo creator's account is named "Meeroos Resident".
This sort of scam should not be possible, since Second Life landowners can control who can create objects on their land. But as reported months ago here in the Herald, there is a long standing exploit that allows canadian tire gatineau players to rez un-authorized objects on restricted land - the sort of thing one might expect a game company to fix quickly - unless the game company was named Linden Lab. Yet it is almost certain that the rez-on-no-rez-land exploit is being used in the Meeroos scam. At the Wonderful World Of Meeroos site, Catherine describes scammers hiding in the corner of the sim creating fake vendors on no-rez land.
To compound the problem, Linden Lab then banned the wrong player - Meeroos Resident - the master canadian tire gatineau account for the food vendors. This effectively shut down the only legitimate food supply in-world. No wonder the Meeroos look worried.
While the naive might like to think this is an isolated incident, it has become clear that the Lab is more than happy to ban accounts wildly in hopes of catching the bad guys - so what if a few innocents canadian tire gatineau are harmed by the Lab's rough justice? With no transparency about who has been banned canadian tire gatineau or why, there is little accountability inside the Lab and a corporate culture that cultivates gross incompetence.
Instead of explaining what went wrong and how the fundamental issues would be addressed, the Lindens resorted to their infamous privacy policy. In practice, the privacy policy exists to cover up for anything that might embarrass the Lab. Is anyone really surprised that Second Life has wallowed canadian tire gatineau in a sea of unaccountable incompetence for years? Linden Lab privacy policy: we don't talk about our mistakes
Aug 3rd, 2011
Hey, canadian tire gatineau tip to you “horse breeders” – nobody cares anymore about your rainbow shiny sparlkey unicorn enchanted special horse. The economy collapsed. The only thing that’s keeping Amaretto canadian tire gatineau in business is you tools thinking you’ll sell your horses someday, canadian tire gatineau so you keep having to buy shit for them.
The same food scandal happened with the Sion chickens when people were actually selling fake food. Most people really don’t care whether scripted prims run away from them for no food. The whole paying money to feed scripted prims is a scam to make other people rich. Breedable pets are such big money that Ozimals sued Amaretto just for having a similar product. People think they can make big money by selling their breedables when in truth only the creators are taking canadian tire gatineau in the really big bucks. Breedables cause huge lag on the gird and have can become an eyesore. I don’t know what’s worse breedalbes or ad farms.
Breedables, no question, because they’re so heavily scripted that even walking in a sim with a horse farm (or Meeroo farm – canadian tire gatineau or, as I experienced today, a sim with both) is a complete chore. Ad farms are ugly, yes, but hardly scripted and practically only existed on the mainland, which has
Business Advertisements Currency Traders and Gold Farmers Legal Issues Virtual Business, Finance and Economics Virtual Products, Services and Reviews Hacktivism Privacy and Surveillance Psyops and Propaganda Media Art Back Stories Building a Better VR Comix Film Game Development canadian tire gatineau in SL Games Journalism canadian tire gatineau and the Virtual Press Gaming in General Gossip and Drama Herald Literary Suppository Interviews Miscellaneous New Media Off the Grid Phunnies Second Life Artists Sights and Sims Stats Web/Tech Weblogs News Announcements Clubs, Casinos, canadian tire gatineau and Events Fashion canadian tire gatineau and Fashionista Drama Featured Mafias, Gangs and Virtual Governments News from Facebook News from Lively News from Metaplace News from Other MMOs News from Second Life News from The Sims Online News You Can Abuse Scammers, Griefers and Goons Sex, Cybersex and Beyond Stratics The Borg. News about EA War and militias Opinion Letters to the Editor Op/Ed Philosophical Issues Uncategorized
A predictable scandal erupted over the last few days as Meeroos began abandoning their owners to wander the grid in search of food. Meeroos are a popular form of virtual pet that require continual petting and feeding with scripted food purchased with L$ spacebux. This may seem something like playing Farmville - an innocent pastime for those raising pretend canadian tire gatineau crops or pets. But for the creators of the Meeroos this is a money spinning business which has attracted interest from scam artists attempting to cash in on the Meeroo craze. a Meeroo asks - why won't you feed me?
Problems began when day-old accounts with names that appear similar to the legitimate Meeroo canadian tire gatineau creators' account began placing canadian tire gatineau faux food vendors over the top of the legitimate food vending canadian tire gatineau machines in-world. Purchases made from the fake-food machines then credited the scammer's accounts - among them Meer00s Resident and Meero0s Resident. The Meeroo creator's account is named "Meeroos Resident".
This sort of scam should not be possible, since Second Life landowners can control who can create objects on their land. But as reported months ago here in the Herald, there is a long standing exploit that allows canadian tire gatineau players to rez un-authorized objects on restricted land - the sort of thing one might expect a game company to fix quickly - unless the game company was named Linden Lab. Yet it is almost certain that the rez-on-no-rez-land exploit is being used in the Meeroos scam. At the Wonderful World Of Meeroos site, Catherine describes scammers hiding in the corner of the sim creating fake vendors on no-rez land.
To compound the problem, Linden Lab then banned the wrong player - Meeroos Resident - the master canadian tire gatineau account for the food vendors. This effectively shut down the only legitimate food supply in-world. No wonder the Meeroos look worried.
While the naive might like to think this is an isolated incident, it has become clear that the Lab is more than happy to ban accounts wildly in hopes of catching the bad guys - so what if a few innocents canadian tire gatineau are harmed by the Lab's rough justice? With no transparency about who has been banned canadian tire gatineau or why, there is little accountability inside the Lab and a corporate culture that cultivates gross incompetence.
Instead of explaining what went wrong and how the fundamental issues would be addressed, the Lindens resorted to their infamous privacy policy. In practice, the privacy policy exists to cover up for anything that might embarrass the Lab. Is anyone really surprised that Second Life has wallowed canadian tire gatineau in a sea of unaccountable incompetence for years? Linden Lab privacy policy: we don't talk about our mistakes
Aug 3rd, 2011
Hey, canadian tire gatineau tip to you “horse breeders” – nobody cares anymore about your rainbow shiny sparlkey unicorn enchanted special horse. The economy collapsed. The only thing that’s keeping Amaretto canadian tire gatineau in business is you tools thinking you’ll sell your horses someday, canadian tire gatineau so you keep having to buy shit for them.
The same food scandal happened with the Sion chickens when people were actually selling fake food. Most people really don’t care whether scripted prims run away from them for no food. The whole paying money to feed scripted prims is a scam to make other people rich. Breedable pets are such big money that Ozimals sued Amaretto just for having a similar product. People think they can make big money by selling their breedables when in truth only the creators are taking canadian tire gatineau in the really big bucks. Breedables cause huge lag on the gird and have can become an eyesore. I don’t know what’s worse breedalbes or ad farms.
Breedables, no question, because they’re so heavily scripted that even walking in a sim with a horse farm (or Meeroo farm – canadian tire gatineau or, as I experienced today, a sim with both) is a complete chore. Ad farms are ugly, yes, but hardly scripted and practically only existed on the mainland, which has
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