05.29.2007 ABC SECOND LIFE VANDALIZED, POLICE STEP IN
These two unrelated stories are scarily similar in their stupidity. First up is last week's online bombing of ABC's Second Life island -- the ugly picture to the right is the island before the bombing. Yes, it's that ugly in Second Life. ABC Island is the third most visited commercial area in the MMO game, with six million members globally, and it was found obliterated as a "bombed, crater mess." All that was left was a single digital transmission tower and graffiti logos for online Second Life company rivals Nike and Puma. A case of commercial business terrorism? Or just another pissed off player resorting to online nukes? Here's where the other, unrelated Second Life story comes into play. The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) plans to get involved with a Second Life police force, but for different reasons than you'd think:
The VPD has been prepping to become the first real police force to join the more than 6.7 million inhabitants who live, work, play and learn inside their computers -- an initiative aimed at finding real-life people with computer know-how to join the force.
On Thursday, the department will go public with a recruitment seminar inside Second Life -- the most popular online metaverse or alternative universe on the web -- aimed at attracting the next generation of police candidates from around the globe.
Taking police stereotypes to new levels, the donut devourers will now sit on their asses indoors all day, associating with people who engage in online rape, online prostitution, online human sacrifices, and my personal favorite, online summoners of dildo storms. These are the people that the police are willing to hire to solve online crimes -- the people who are usually responsible for them. Not the well organized World of Warcraft guild members. Instead they'd rather start their online exploration in a world full of weirdos and sexual deviants. I can't wait to see headlines in six months when they hire a hacker who infiltrates their own database to pull off a real world crime, and then frames the police officers as the prime suspects.
I am a 12+ year veteran 3D Web Developer and have been working in SL *(second life) for over two years now. No .... no one can just come in a nuke a city. You have to have building rights, not only to create your own objects, but to modify, (read mess with) other's objects. If the face the the ABC sim was truly changed, i.e., building "blown up" or deleted and craters left behind in their wake, it HAD to be ...
1. An inside job
OR
2. A publicity plug for ABC
OR
3. A pretty neat way to ditch a crappy build, start over and get some free publicity in the works too.
NOW .... about the heavens raining down dildos on the community. THAT is aboslutely possible IF ABC left the option to create objects open on thier sim. Pretty stupid if they did and they should sue the designers that made their sim. Not only for not informing them of all the protective measures that should be taken when running a corporate sim, but for a really uuuuuuuggghly build! OMG that thing smells! LOL!!
Ok,ok, I may be a bit prejudice, but if ABC is in need a a professional, fast design team that not only makes sim's look good, but out performs most 2D web pages, then they should contact UnReal Designs. End of story ... unless ya'll need to be schooled on other info about Second Life and how it works and .... err doesn't sometimes work? 0.o *smirks
PS .... and yeah ... it is prety funny to see it raining dildos
"If you can make anything in the game, can I create an object to make the whole world disappear?"
In a way yes. Using the old invisible prim scripts you can make a parcel (or a sim depending on the size and were you are with in the prim or prims position.) disappear from sight. now with the old update of what you see you don't load you can actually kill a persons pc by constantly unloading and reloading an invised area.
Ok ABC like most businesses sim's they don't safe guard them. they allow residents to rez objects run scripts and use push objects. So yes ABC possibly has a lower IQ than Bush.
Also you can't legally nuke what ever you want... well you can in the NRA sim's otherwise they'd be a bunch of hypocrite's.....