Recent Comments:
Whatever happened to the name change option?
Massively
Dec 8th 2007 4:46PM You can get a custom name - which is how I got "Ian Betteridge" for my avatar - at a $100 set up fee and $50 per year. You can't change an existing name - but reading back, yours was the only story which mentioned name changing, rather than custom names for new avatars.
When Bloggers Call
Second Life Insider
Jul 18th 2007 4:06PM No, I wouldn't be annoyed. In fact, I would much rather they call so I had chance to respond rather than run off and print a story which may be half-baked. I wish more bloggers were capable of picking up the phone, frankly.
Stroker Serpentine vs John Doe
Second Life Insider
Jul 4th 2007 3:11AM "Isn't LL under obligation to turn over Cattaneo's RL identity in this case?"
If subpoenaed, and if Stroker's lawyer can show it has exhausted every other reasonable means of discovery and remedy.
"Cattaneo seems to imply that he did not give his true RL information to LL."
He will, however, have a PayPal account to trace him back through (unless he's never moving money off his account). He's not untraceable, unless he's engaging in wire fraud of some kind.
Cory Against DRM
Second Life Insider
Jun 22nd 2007 5:00PM Well, DRM already IS applied to content created in Second Life - that's what the whole copy/mod/transfer system is.
Steve Jobs posts his thoughts on music (and DRM)
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Feb 6th 2007 4:25PM There's only one problem with Jobs' statement: the company could already be selling *some* music without DRM if it wanted to. Some labels and bands are already selling songs as unprotected MP3s, and are happy to do so. Take, for example, Bloc Party, who's recently released album is available from iTMS with DRM, or via Warp Records Bleep.com site as unprotected 320Kbps MP3s - all completely legally, sanctioned by the band and its label.
If Jobs really means this, I look forward to the company removing DRM from those bands and labels that it can in the near future.
Vista Breaks SL?
Second Life Insider
Feb 5th 2007 4:18PM Yes, if your graphics card hasn't had a new driver written for it, it won't run and SL under Vista. Neither ATI or NVidia have done a good job with this. My machine, which runs SL perfectly under both XP and Linux, won't run SL under Vista.
Cisco v. Apple II: AM followup on trademark lawsuit
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Jan 11th 2007 2:06PM "If Infogear/Linksys/Cisco had a three-year lapse in using "iPhone" for a product at any time between 1996 and today, that's abandonment."
This is excellent news. Anyone else fancy starting a company with me to make a product called the Newton MessagePad? :)
Cisco's General Counsel blogs about the iPhone suit
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Jan 11th 2007 10:17AM Boy oh boy this one is really sorting out the ordinary folk from the zealots.
"For the majority of consumers, a product called iSomething is related to be from Apple and that since the first iMac."
This trademark has been registered since 1996,two years before the release of the iMac.
"Cisco's argument runs completely counter to the basic premise of trademark law. They wanted to use their trademark to sow confusion in the marketplace in the hopes that they could piggy-back on the iPhones success."
Umm... except that the iPhone has been a shipping product for years.
The fact is that Apple's messed up. You don't just announce a product using someone else's registered trademark for a product that's shipping and expect them to say "yeah, Apple, sure, you have it!". Idiocy.
Censorship and freedom
Second Life Insider
Jan 8th 2007 8:16AM The problem with Prokofy is that she totally dominates any thread that she comments on through sheer numbers of words. She never posts less than 500 words, churns out many thousands of words per day across any and all sites talking about SL.
What's more, a lot of what she posts is simply rant material, with insults to anyone who questions her. She simply refuses to answer a straight question about anything she posts, while cross-examining anyone who disagrees with her like an amateur lawyer who's watched too many daytime legal mystery shows.
I'd have no problem banning her, because essentially what she does is what she would count as griefing: constantly burying any hope of real conversation under a tonne of words, few of which add anything to the discussion. Essentially, she's poison to any thread she comments in unless everyone simply ignores her - which is hardly the point of comment systems.
Hyperbole! (The New Genocide)
Second Life Insider
Jan 7th 2007 10:09AM According to Prok, anyone who disagrees with her or asks her simple questions in public forums is a griefer.
At the end of the day, Prok buries her points in so much vitriol that she's a joke. That's a shame, because sometimes the points she makes are good ones.
