Comments on: Self-Replication http://evansavenue.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/self-replication/ On the road of Second Life®, there are passengers and there are drivers. Erbo Evans has a Chrysler that's as big as a whale, and it's about to set sail... Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:19:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Erbo Evans http://evansavenue.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/self-replication/#comment-104 Erbo Evans Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:58:00 +0000 http://evansavenue.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/self-replication/#comment-104 Yes, Mera and Danielle, you have a point, in that things could always be worse. Still, matters can continue to improve from where they are now...and I suppose what I'd like to see is a way of choking off self-replicating objects <I>before</I> they get out of hand and require drastic measures. "Nip it in the bud," as Barney Fife might say. The question is, how would one do this without unintentionally breaking existing (benign) script behavior? Still, we should give LL full credit for what they've <I>already</I> done in mitigation of this problem. I don't want to sound <I>too</I> much like a "Negative Nancy"; after all, SL is probably one of the single most complex software systems ever designed, and sometimes I think it's a bloody miracle that it works as well as it does... Yes, Mera and Danielle, you have a point, in that things could always be worse. Still, matters can continue to improve from where they are now…and I suppose what I’d like to see is a way of choking off self-replicating objects before they get out of hand and require drastic measures. “Nip it in the bud,” as Barney Fife might say. The question is, how would one do this without unintentionally breaking existing (benign) script behavior?

Still, we should give LL full credit for what they’ve already done in mitigation of this problem. I don’t want to sound too much like a “Negative Nancy”; after all, SL is probably one of the single most complex software systems ever designed, and sometimes I think it’s a bloody miracle that it works as well as it does…

]]> By: Dani2.0 http://evansavenue.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/self-replication/#comment-103 Dani2.0 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:19:00 +0000 http://evansavenue.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/self-replication/#comment-103 I would have to agree with Mera. I was around for the first attack and it was horrible. The boxes swarmed the GR and even with my computer volume turned down you could STILL hear the horrendous noise these things were making. In a matter of 5 minutes I had returned over 30 of these things. About 5 minutes after that the grid was kaput. Yes the griefers have gotten smart but LL is getting smarter. (gasp did I say that) :-) I would have to agree with Mera. I was around for the first attack and it was horrible. The boxes swarmed the GR and even with my computer volume turned down you could STILL hear the horrendous noise these things were making. In a matter of 5 minutes I had returned over 30 of these things. About 5 minutes after that the grid was kaput.
Yes the griefers have gotten smart but LL is getting smarter. (gasp did I say that) :-)

]]> By: Mera Pixel http://evansavenue.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/self-replication/#comment-102 Mera Pixel Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:39:00 +0000 http://evansavenue.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/self-replication/#comment-102 If I may, LL *is* gettig smarter. The outages were nowhere near as bad as they could've been. Griefers had to learn this new technique of transferring ownership of their objects to get close to affecting things as they did. Go LL! As LL gets better at handling the grief, the griefers will have to find new ways to circumvent it. Have viruses been eliminated because we have virus detectors? Have burglers been thwarted due to our home security alarms? It will be a constant game of catch up, but I applaud the LL team for being able to handle issues as readily as they can these days. I remember the past where a simple self-replication will cause a full day of outage. And the past wasn't all that long ago. If I may, LL *is* gettig smarter. The outages were nowhere near as bad as they could’ve been. Griefers had to learn this new technique of transferring ownership of their objects to get close to affecting things as they did. Go LL! As LL gets better at handling the grief, the griefers will have to find new ways to circumvent it. Have viruses been eliminated because we have virus detectors? Have burglers been thwarted due to our home security alarms? It will be a constant game of catch up, but I applaud the LL team for being able to handle issues as readily as they can these days. I remember the past where a simple self-replication will cause a full day of outage. And the past wasn’t all that long ago.

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