Second Life and Virtual Worlds
The Daily Mail Online, a UK news organization, has an article on the state of bionic bodies. Forty years after the TV show the 6 Million Dollar Man, we are pretty much there.
Get the details here: The age of the BIONIC BODY: From robot hands controlled by your mind to electronic eyeballs, experts reveal 6 medical marvels introduced by new technology.
PayPal is changing their policy. Will that affect those of us that use PayPal with Second Life in the USA? No one is sure.
The email that PayPal is sending out reads:
Dear Nal:
We are making some changes to the PayPal User Agreement, PayPal Privacy Policy, PayPal Here Agreement and the PayPal Website Payments Pro and Virtual Terminal Agreement that will go into effect on March 29, 2017. If you’re interested in more detail, please visit our Policy Updates Page. Updates include:
- We’re updating the list of items that will not be eligible for PayPal Purchase Protection or Seller Protection.
- We’re revising the set off rights by removing the 180 day past due requirement.
- We’re updating our list of restricted activities.
- We’re notifying you of the movement and processing of information to cloud-based service providers.
- We’ve updated the “Payment Method Used for My Transaction” section to describe changes that give you more control and choice in how you want to pay.
- We’re changing some of the fees we charge.
These changes, along with the others detailed on our Policy Updates Page , will become effective March 29, 2017 for all U.S. users. We encourage you to review the Policy Update and familiarize yourself with the changes that are being made. If you do not agree to these amendments, you may close your account before March 29, 2017.
Thank you for being a PayPal customer.
Sincerely,
PayPal
Indigo Mertel is active in Second Life™ and SL social media. She also owns and pays for East River Community land, which you’ll find as Strange Sands Beach – East River Community (SLURL), Helvellyn (URL), Hardknott (residential).
She recently contacted me writing,
Various blogs are commenting on Linden Lab’s® response to Pres. Trumps Executive Order requiring additional vetting of all people coming from 7 countries identified be Pres. Obama as not having governments capable of providing background checks of their citizens.
Most are supporting the Lab’s statement;
I am not seeing any thought or facts presented, just emotional ‘oh yeah, this is good.’ So, here are some facts and questions.
First, if you haven’t heard, Linden Lab issued a statement on a controversial subject in the USA and world. The title points to which one of the many.
There is a page in the Second Life™ Wiki listing the official user groups. Currently there are four weekly meetings;
The Bento Development group has changed to the Content Creation group. There was another Content Creation/Mesh Import group that stopped meeting in 2014. The meeting transcripts for that old group are still available. They are not the same groups but, similar.
This week and next there are no Content Creation group meetings. The next meeting is February 17.
Currently the Content Creation group meeting in Hippotropolis is the most interesting. They are dealing with the challenges of creating Bento Content. As problems come up the Lindens look at ways to make fixes or changes and users work to figure out work-arounds and better methods for creation. Various Lindens attend the meetings.
Medhue Simoni is one of the better know modelers and animators in SL. He has a post in the SL Forum containing videos that show how to make your own LoD (Level of Detail) models.
See: How to make LODs / Levels of Detail