On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Rob Nelson <nexisentertainm...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Sigh. > > I've tackled this in my viewer with a plugin, and yet no one seems > interested in the plugin system I'm using; Everyone's hellbent on > binary plugins. > That is so totally not the case, Rob. Virtually nobody other than Lindens are "hellbent on binary plugins", and Lindens are doing so in secret in order not to have to justify themselves to the community. It's clear that they want a *fait accompli*. that we will have no opportunity to influence, and then they will pretend that they are good open source citizens by dumping the sources on us, too late to undo their appallingly bad design choice. Outside of Lindens and their business interests, nobody who is technical and moderately sane and is not a sociopath is likely to support automatically downloading *binaries* that then execute on your computer. It's the height of irresponsibility to create such a mechanism, in full knowledge that no sandboxing is perfect and that therefore residents' computers will be compromised by malicious people. Even their fully-managed server-side systems suffer exploits regularly --- the prospects for security disasters in the far more varied client-side environment are immense. The Lindens doing this are fully technically aware of the dangers, yet they are still doing it. It's totally unconscionable. And I'm sure the botnet operators are rubbing their hands in glee at the prospect. "Rock on Lindens!" Morgaine. ================================== On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Rob Nelson <nexisentertainm...@gmail.com>wrote: > Sigh. > > I've tackled this in my viewer with a plugin, and yet no one seems > interested in the plugin system I'm using; Everyone's hellbent on > binary plugins. Feel free to use the code, I haven't added the GPL2 > headers yet. > > > http://code.google.com/p/luna-viewer/source/browse/trunk/indra/newview/lua/Hooks/Windlight/_init_.lua > > Fred Rookstown > > On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 16:05 +0000, Opensource Obscure wrote: > > Yesterday Jopsy Pendragon submitted this feature request > > to the public JIRA: > > > > llSetAgentEnvironment( key agent, [ param list ] ); > > http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-5520 > > > > I'd like to hear your comments. > > > > I'm not competent enough to say if the request is > > feasible as it's proposed, but the proposed LSL > > implementation would be fine for me. > > > > This complements other old PJIRA issues, like > > > > Estate / Sim Windlight preset / day cycle options > > http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-7677 > > (450 votes) > > > > and many others - see meta-issue > > http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-2736 > > > > Please provide feedback and vote as you feel appropriate. > > > > New, powerful Light/Shadows features are going to > > appear into the official SL viewer; > > the number of users with hardware capable of > > running advanced lighting features grows; > > so SL land owners need control over this, and IMHO > > they will need it even more in the future. > > > > > > bye > > Opensource Obscure > > _______________________________________________ > > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges > > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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