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

2010-08-23 Thread David M Chess
This post could be a classroom lesson in "how to alienate people and not be taken seriously". Daniel Smith : >>> 1. Will there be procedures in place to prevent someone else to use my >>> true avatar name as their display name? >> >>No. > > Wrong answer. Actually it's the right answer! The qu

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

2010-08-23 Thread David M Chess
Could we move all this stuff to a new "emeraldgate" list, or something? That I could then carefully not subscribe to? _ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies be

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

2010-08-19 Thread David M Chess
Daniel Smith : > Thanks for playing. Just sign up last week? That's rude, unnecessary, and arrogant. I joined in 2006, and I think Baloo is quite likely correct. There's no call to insult someone just because they dare to disagree with you. Let's try to keep it civil. DC/DL ___

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

2010-08-19 Thread David M Chess
Daniel Smith : >The focus here is identity within SL. We work hard to craft our AVs >and our reputations. If you want to use your analogy, you would be >the only david_ch...@somesluser.com. Now, do you want someone >impersonating that? Because that's the sort of thing I am getting at >with the

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

2010-08-19 Thread David M Chess
Daniel Smith : >I still have not heard a definitive answer as to what gets logged in >IM and Chat. >Forget the "display" for a moment. What do you want to have logged as >"Michael Schlenker" >that you did not write? Not to be a wet blanket, but anyone can sign their email "David Chess" right no

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Viewer Development Announcement

2010-08-19 Thread David M Chess
Marine Kelley : > That would be awesome. I know there are reasons behind the removal of the pie menu and its replacement by a well known list menu, but PLEASE I am so > much more productive and less frustrated with the old pie menu ! Muscle memory and size of the clickable areas and all that.

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Viewer Development Announcement

2010-08-18 Thread David M Chess
Jesse wrote: > I am so relieved that Linden Lab does actually listen to feedback from the residents that have supported it for so long. This should guarantee that the proposed user name/display name never goes into affect then. I don't think that what you're implying there is true at all. I kn

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

2010-08-18 Thread David M Chess
Lance wrote: > What keeps me from, lets say, creating a throwaway alt, setting its Display > Name to "Stiletto Moody", and hanging out at that famous shoe shop telling > people that the place will close down and that all rights to the designs have > been sold to (whatever the place is that w

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

2010-08-17 Thread David M Chess
Darn you Lindens, always clouding the issue with facts!! ___ 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

Re: [opensource-dev] Can you legally agree to incomprehensible conditions?

2010-04-02 Thread David M Chess
Dale Mahalko : ... > Can individuals actually talk directly to Linden's TOS lawyers without > paying a fee of some sort? I don't think anyone meant to suggest that people should try to talk directly to LL's lawyers; as you say, that's unlikely to be feasible. The idea, I believe, is that if (say

Re: [opensource-dev] A note on preserving "NO WARRANTY" for SL TPV developers

2010-04-02 Thread David M Chess
Jonathan Irvin : > Keep in mind, it's not LL that's saying it, it is their lawyers. Like I said, LL is protecting their assets. The best way for them to do that is by hiring good lawyers who can cover all the bases. This is wrong enough that I can't resist responding. :) The TPVP isn't sig

Re: [opensource-dev] A note on preserving "NO WARRANTY" for SL TPV developers

2010-03-30 Thread David M Chess
Carlo Wood : > This is VERY good David. > > Someone should get the lawyers AND the management of LL to read this. Well, thanks very! :) (And as I notice that I've been posting these things from my work email, I should also mention that all of these statements are purely my own opinions as an

Re: [opensource-dev] A note on preserving "NO WARRANTY" for SL TPV developers

2010-03-30 Thread David M Chess
I want to weigh in very briefly here, because I was voiciferously arguing with Morgaine in AWG the other night, but having considered the TPV policy as a whole (and not just believed what it says about itself), I think there is more of a problem here than I originally thought. In theory, the GP

Re: [opensource-dev] Open Development project: extending avatar wearables

2010-03-25 Thread David M Chess
> I'm greatly in favor to create bits for wearables and objects > that stay user changable even for no-mods. General agreement. Needs some thought to make sure that it's not too easy to change them accidentally and lose the creator-intended settings forever (maybe save the original settings an