Cory Linden: People will write bots whether or not we open source. The questions become what they use them for and how we want to get in that arms race …

Cory Linden: THe goal will be to give folks ways to identify and deal with bots if they become a problem

Isn’t a problem for Linden Lab?

basic free account, any other accounts = 9.95 set up fee. So in other words, shouldn’t the person controlling the hundreds of *alts* out there be charged that amount per alt per your own website?

They are creating profiles, joining open enrollment groups…they should be required to follow the rules the same as the rest of us..

Get in the arms race baffles me, do you mean control the creation of massive amount of alts, or way to use them to your own advantage, such as camp pay outs? Whats next Money Trees?

PhysX is more or less a competitor to Havok, and as such Havok has been making bold claims that “there’s no need for a dedicated physics processor” and “there’s plenty spare power in nVideo/ATI GPU’s for handling physics”.

This is great for the home user, who may not need to buy another device for their gaming, but it also alas means that LL is effectively going to be unable to offer physics engine acceleration, because it is almost universal for datacenter-grade servers to not support high-end 3D graphics cards.

You can go out and buy a hot new quad-CPU $12,000 server from Dell…. and not find a single PCI-E x16 slot anywhere in that server. The best you’ll find is maybe an x8 slot that can at least fit an x16 card, though it’ll only run at x8 speeds.

And what with LL running a sim per core in these quad-core servers, that would require four PCI-E x16 slots, for four different nVidia/ATI GPUs as physics processors, one supporting each sim. I don’t think four PCI-E x16 is possible, for even the highest-end insane-gamer systems.

So while PhysX is easily server compatible, plugging four cards into the totally standard PCI bus that every server on the planet offers, it simply will not work here unless LL drops the Havok engine.

SL is so deeply married to Havok they might have to practically start this whole project from scratch if they were to attempt to rip out their Havok core and switch to the PhysX-capable engine.

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The Al Qaeda ref was alluding to Rebecca’s saying that opening the source was basically giving it to Al Qaeda. It wasn’t a rip on you. No worries

the *sarcasm* tags were omitted.

And yes, the tags were omitted.

Anyway I’m finished here. You just can’t fight FUD slingers with common sense. Goes straight over their head.

LOL! As I’m pretty sure you’ve read my other comments, I’ll take that as a light joke. The guys at LL are pretty top notch from what I’m seeing, so “super secret keylogging password stealing $L transferring content stealing functions” are out of the question. Open source people aren’t Al Qaeda, as some people may think.

Regardless of all your attempts to state your case, you cannot and will not and never will, be able to contradict the reality. The most successful computing business on the planet and the most successful MMO on the planet would never allow their code to be Open. The only exceptions as I have said would be the Blizzard Bittorrent
downloader, or certain specific used by Microsoft. Unless it was a perfect world with no Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda like mentality.

You don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg, you don’t give away the cow and since this is not a perfect world, with all good people, you don’t leave a bar of gold on a street corner, the codes to launch a nuclear missle laying about, or give away the front door key or safe key PROTECTING other people’s money. Nor would you allow the counterfeiting of the US or other National Currency, a Rembrandt, or a Motion Picture, a Musician’s creation or Pirated Software—-unless you have a fundamental disregard and disdain for people, their rights and their money.

And for SL, you don’t flagrantly destroy the faith the business people had in it by releasing the source code, giving up on the most important security tasks and then create a army iof irreverent hackers who ridicule your investors creations and demean the whole project by saying “we can’t do it” “security is impossible,” “We can’t afford to hire people so we need free labor”

That is not the way for Sl to become what is could be.

That is no way to run a Fort Knox. This is not Brain Surgery and I am done with this thread.