I've been given to understand that while Nexcom used to have weekly phonebills and chad made a fortune off them, he ditched them for some reason and now you don't have phone bills, as well you shouldn't for just using an in-game function that is free from the Lindens lol.
I'm also to understand that the advantage of the Nexcom system is that it is kind of hands-free, that is while you are building or something you can just type in your regular chat history right on your own lot, without pulling up an IM window of that person you're trying to reach, and just chatting there on your own lot, without using shout, they can hear you, on their lot in another sim. That seems like a convenience, but, is pulling up an IM window *really* that difficult? Still, chatting in your own lot's chat window without having to constantly switch to all those IMs could be a real convenience if you didn't mess it up.
I'm thinking the real allure is that it just gives a lot of people a chance to do what they do in RL, replicating RL: they can strut around with a cool designed tekkie thingie that has nice colours and fashions and have something on their profiles that looks like they are inner and connected LOL. What's not to like? It's the perfect gear for the sandbox set.
I'll tell you what really worries me about this set-up, now that you're explaining it. It looks to me like it is not unlike the telecom businesses of, oh, say, Lukashenka's Belarus. That is, because YOU encrypted it YOU can get into the conversations of thousands of people at any time! WOOT! You can do something that I think the Lindens themselves don't even bother to do. That gives you immense power over other players in the game. Frankly, I think that suxxors, big time kewl dewd. Why? Because you were the former FBI chief of the Alphaville Government in TSO? And whatever the sometimes-benign features of the AVG, well, any time somebody sets up a big intelligence network anywhere, well, we should all be a little careful, no?
It sounds like a sandbox sandstorm idea that has a lot of traction, but if you are helped in this endeavour by those who would turn all that encrypted access to private convos into power-plays for evil ends, well...who will protect us? No doubt those power-mongers just think they're the intelligent ones, surroudned by idiots, capable only of doing good...but silly me, I don't buy it...I just don't know...I hate it when big businesses in SL use their monopolists positions with technology like this, talking to THEIR servers OUTSIDE the game, gathering intelligence and business information they've harvested off players without their consent, to put to uses, when they haven't paid for such business information.
MySQL is YOUR SQUIRREL, dude gathering MY NUTS. You've got a server holding thousands of encrypted conversations of SL players? Huh? Geez, I'm not going to be getting a Nexcom phone any time soon. And it's not because I have anything to hide in my convos in game because my business is an open book.
Is yours?
I'm also to understand that the advantage of the Nexcom system is that it is kind of hands-free, that is while you are building or something you can just type in your regular chat history right on your own lot, without pulling up an IM window of that person you're trying to reach, and just chatting there on your own lot, without using shout, they can hear you, on their lot in another sim. That seems like a convenience, but, is pulling up an IM window *really* that difficult? Still, chatting in your own lot's chat window without having to constantly switch to all those IMs could be a real convenience if you didn't mess it up.
I'm thinking the real allure is that it just gives a lot of people a chance to do what they do in RL, replicating RL: they can strut around with a cool designed tekkie thingie that has nice colours and fashions and have something on their profiles that looks like they are inner and connected LOL. What's not to like? It's the perfect gear for the sandbox set.
I'll tell you what really worries me about this set-up, now that you're explaining it. It looks to me like it is not unlike the telecom businesses of, oh, say, Lukashenka's Belarus. That is, because YOU encrypted it YOU can get into the conversations of thousands of people at any time! WOOT! You can do something that I think the Lindens themselves don't even bother to do. That gives you immense power over other players in the game. Frankly, I think that suxxors, big time kewl dewd. Why? Because you were the former FBI chief of the Alphaville Government in TSO? And whatever the sometimes-benign features of the AVG, well, any time somebody sets up a big intelligence network anywhere, well, we should all be a little careful, no?
It sounds like a sandbox sandstorm idea that has a lot of traction, but if you are helped in this endeavour by those who would turn all that encrypted access to private convos into power-plays for evil ends, well...who will protect us? No doubt those power-mongers just think they're the intelligent ones, surroudned by idiots, capable only of doing good...but silly me, I don't buy it...I just don't know...I hate it when big businesses in SL use their monopolists positions with technology like this, talking to THEIR servers OUTSIDE the game, gathering intelligence and business information they've harvested off players without their consent, to put to uses, when they haven't paid for such business information.
MySQL is YOUR SQUIRREL, dude gathering MY NUTS. You've got a server holding thousands of encrypted conversations of SL players? Huh? Geez, I'm not going to be getting a Nexcom phone any time soon. And it's not because I have anything to hide in my convos in game because my business is an open book.
Is yours?
*Big, hearty applause*
i do believe that will fix the bug you described 
