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The SL Banking ban - fear and greed
It's said that two of the most prevalent economic forces in the world are fear and greed. Linden Lab's new banking ban has highlighted both of those, in spades. Linden Lab has absolutely refused to act as a regulator of banking in Second Life in an ongoing fashion, and have therefore chosen to bar the practice entirely, except where operators can prove that they are already regulated by real-world authorities. Not just legal - regulated.
Linden Lab releases key JIRA statistics, calls for volunteer
Linden Lab's Rob Lanphier, their "open source busybody" released some numbers from the Public JIRA issue-tracker today as part of an evaluation of ongoing bug reporting/triage evaluation for Second Life . In the 7 days from 24 October to 30 October (inclusive), 87 issues were filed into the public issue tracker. Of these issues, 1 was misfiled, 13 resolved (or fixed internally), 8 were imported into Linden Lab's internal issue tracker. 65 haven't gone anywhere.
libsecondlife 0.3 released
Baba Yamamoto reports that the latest libsecondlife release (version 0.3) is available for download now. This version includes full inventory and CAPS/LLSD support. The libsecondlife project is a clean-room implementation of Second Life's communications protocol, with much of the work done by reverse-engineering. In the past, libsecondlife development work has highlighted protocol and security bugs in Second Life's architecture (and at times has been misused). At present it is used as the basis for automation, and some alternative thin access clients. The project is developed in C#. Release notes after the jump.
