Speaker 1: Blue Hair, F-Sat Number, 11.

Speaker 2: So I guess the, topic today is, Linden Labs is having the FBI looking to, casino’s in Second Life. I am not sure if Linden Labs has the FBI to come and look for the FBI, and start raising their eyebrows to set situations.

For those of you who are not familiar, I believe that in some states, to allow you to gamble, some have an age limit, you can’t gamble, others don’t let you gamble at all, may even require a license. This results in a problem with Linden Labs, even though their, Linden’s, the currency of Linden Labs does not have any value. People outside of Linden Labs perceive it as having value, because you can trade them in to get US money, and walk away with extra cash in your pocket. So, to Linden’s, they don’t care about the value, but to us, as the end user, we do have the value.

So, we are wagering something value. Linden’s have so far called any ad, or they said they would call any ad having casino in it, or anything related to gambling. But I’m still seeing a lot of ads about gambling, all over the search. One thing that I do notice though, is the popular places, and it’s still full of gambling, is pretty much full of escorts. You know, out of the frying pan and into the fire, I guess, I don’t know.

Of course, escort services in Second Life is a whole other topic, and no, there’s no real sex involved. So, what do we have? Linden’s, I believe, the news today said that they were going to allow new features, that you can tell if there is, that if somebody is verified identity. Now, what does that mean? There’s a little additional information there.

They’re verified identity. Let me see what the news site said. Let me just go to Google. And I got this today.

I actually subscribed Google to anything with Linden Labs in it. I believe it says something about that your states could now be figured out. Oh, I didn’t ask the right person. Okay, but anyway, people don’t have to identify themselves.

However, if they do, then casino owners can allow them to enter their casino based on criteria such as their state. What I’m saying here is Linden Labs said on their blog before that they’re going to introduce something called my.secondlife .com. And I think this has something to do with that, verifying who you are. Of course, it could also have something to do with making a MySpace spinoff of Linden Labs that you can incorporate into your world, which would be awesome. Let’s see, FBI Online Casino Probe forces Second Life Upgrade. There it is.

And looking at online casino news, an update registration system has been introduced to Second Life Game by creators. Okay. It’s also related to child protection issues. We’ll have a verified status and a valid identification and payment to the company. Okay, verified indicates there’s another unverified since they have not. That’s been here for a while.

We have been able to detect it. I saw something today in another article that actually went on to say that they’ll be able to restrict people by state and such. And that’s the one thing that really concerned me is a lot of people are going to complain that they don’t want other people to know where they live.

Because it’s more of a privacy issue that results. But then in order to go into these casinos, they need to say where they live. But then what if they don’t always want to be in the casino? They always have that information available no matter what or can they only turn it on when they enter casino? Or is there like some kind of permission based thing where right now we get asked our permissions if we can use, if we’ll allow a scripted object to control how our character moves or how they are animated or take over the input keys or take control of their camera.

Maybe this will be a new thing where you get to verify if you will allow the object to know what state you’re from. I’m not seeing this article. I know I saw this. It was somewhere and it said something specifically about letting people see states. I don’t see this. Second life businesses can then screen casino customers to avoid engaging customers whose age or local legislation prohibits online gambling. There, that’s what I was reading earlier.

So, you know, this is now going to expose your age and your location. The option I have, identity confirmation also puts responsibility of any illegal activity back with the provider and not lending the labs themselves. So, lending is trying to keep themselves out of trouble. And this again was All In My Casino News. Let’s see.

It has an article ID of 13342. I’m not going to be everyone I look that up, but, huh. See now, people are going to know two things about me, my age and my, and my location, right? These age or local legislation prohibits online gambling. Local legislation, heck, there’s a, even some counties prohibit this, whereas a state does not. So, oh my gosh, how are they even going to do that? Are they going to know my zip code or something or what? And are they going to go buy your billing information or are they going to go buy, um, where you say you’re from or do you have to send in about driver’s license? How are they going to confirm all of this? So, acquiring minds want to know what’s going on.

So, what do you guys think? Um, I don’t know, do you mind if Linden Labs allows anybody to see your information like that or, I don’t know, see if they put anything new on the blog today. There’s a release that’s postplot, several high priority modes and, uh, inventory loss.

I got a script, got, found a database loss issue, which I still can’t get access to. I don’t see anything new. I don’t see anything new.

All right. So, personally, I don’t like the casinos. I care less if they’re not there anymore.

Um, it seems like 90% of all transactions from what I’ve seen in the past are casino based, but you know what? That’s really my opinion. I’m biased.

So, you know, take it with a grain of salt. Um, simple games that you can win, I don’t know, Tringo, uh, Spot Matrix, those are actually pretty cool. There’s some skill involved, but slot machines and, I don’t know, I don’t like these games of chance. They’re, uh, they’re always set up so the house makes money, of course. Or else why would the house make a business? So, I just don’t like wriggling with that crowd. And, you know, I can’t imagine if a professional business in Second Life is on the main grid and somebody moves in next to them with a casino. Oh, brother.

That’s the other thing. Casinos are the most lag issues ever. Um, no matter where you go, no matter what casino you walk into or even what sim you walk into that has a casino in a small area on the sim, your sim is going to be lagged to hell.

It’s just very bad on performance. You know, they should make something so that people can only use a certain percent of the sim’s resources based on the percentage of parcel land that they own. This, uh, you know, these people taking up all this server’s resources just so that they can make money and everybody else has to, you know, grind their teeth and try its property values in the sim now.

It’s just painful. Um, my experience has been, uh, I sold most of my land at Higgins and Higgins was great. It performed well.

It was awesome. As soon as I started selling land and I sold a lot of it and then a friend of mine sold a lot of his and then another friend of mine sold a lot of hers in the same region and all of a sudden half the region’s up for sale, but then there’s a casino somewhere that everybody keeps talking to me about. I didn’t find it yet, but everybody keeps saying there’s this casino there that moved in and ever since. It’s been hard to walk and it’s, you know, I’ve been there and I’ve walked around and it’s very hard to do it. And I was trying to figure out why in the heck my sales were going down in Higgins and this is the problem. I still have a store there. Everybody still comes in when they tell me I’m in a store, but the problem is that nobody can walk around and look at my products.

You know, I mean they could just stand there and move their camera around, but everything is lagged so badly. And those people who do purchase a product, you know, I don’t know if the transactions are going up door or not. I hope they are.

Right. But I have got some complaints about some of them said the vendor said to contact the owner and I even have the vendor set up two servers, a backup server in case the first one can’t be contacted. It fails over just because I want to make sure people get the product they pay for.

So me, casinos, I don’t think. Me, verified information identity, I would only go for if this, there was a script that had to ask for my permission to expose that information. I don’t want to let everybody in the world know where I live, know how old I am. You know, well, you know, it’s, I don’t mind telling them, but it’s my personal information. And I don’t know, I think there’s a lot of people who probably agree on this issue. I don’t know.

Maybe Second Life has something else up their sleeve that maybe I’m just totally getting this wrong. But that’s my little spew for the day. And my tooth is killing me so I’m not in a good mood and I have to wait two months until I get a root canal. So I am like, hopefully not having a kidney. Sorry.

Speaker 2: Anyway, I am going to be doing that. So keep in your second life with the blue hair.

Speaker 3: Really for life is an event by the American Cancer Society to raise millions each year for cancer research. Fine Raising has started within the world of Second Life on February 17th and continues up to the main effect until I-28. You can find more details on the website at

Speaker 1: slrfl.org.