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Techies and Trekkies Unite!
emmetropia writes: "Startrek.com has announced that there is going going to be an Online Convention in early August. Every attendee will be able to make themselves look like any of your favorite ST species, Borg, Klingon, Vulcan, Terran, Ferengi, etc etc. The servers for the event are supposed to be able to handle up to 100,000 users, which would mean a rather large convention, let's just hope it doesn't suffer the same fate as Final Fantasy. With full 3D conventions here now, can a holodeck really be that far off?"
Oddly enough, treckies chances of getting laid at this convention are identical to those of getting laid at a real convention.
One of my favorite ways to have fun. I dress up in my Jedi robes with my lightsaber, and crash the real convetions. Had a friend who would dress up as Solo too. Damn the trekkies would go apeshit. But then we took it too far, and my friend started in on someone dressed up as Scotty about how the Falcon could outrun that ugly looking enterprise... The second largest ST convetion riot in North America.
Ouch.
With full 3D conventions here now, can a holodeck really be that far off?
Yes.
Next question?
As an avid fan, I was interested and decided to sign up. I happened to mistakingly clicked on their privacy policy and I found this buried in the bottom:
VCLLC may also sell, transfer or otherwise disclose user information, including PII, in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, the sale of substantially all assets, or other fundamental corporate change.
So, if they all of sudden become a porn spewing outfit, they have all those email addys and what they call "PII" (personally identifiable information -- like your address and phone number)at their disposal.
Stupid internet.