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Second Life Hit By Massive In-Game Worm
An anonymous reader writes, "At 2:46 CST today, the game Second Life was hit by a massive attack by a rogue programmer. Spinning gold rings began to appear in the air and on the ground, and as users interacted with them they began to chase and replicate. Apparently, most people are willing to touch an object they've never seen before and this invoked a worm script that was designed to multiply and spread across the 2,700+ servers run by Linden Labs in California, the game's owner. Many of the six hundred thousand active users experienced serious lag and lost connectivity to the servers, making it one of the largest known denial-of-service attacks in an online game. Linden Labs had to invoke martial law and lock out all logins by users except their staff as they began the task of cleaning the servers of what they began to term 'the grey goo.'" Comments in the SL blog entry indicate that Linden Labs had already deployed a "grey goo fence" before this worm struck, but someone found a hole in it.
spontaneously explode from sheer force of concentrated hypocrisy.
Holy crap, someone needs to get a life!
Be relentless!
how the shit did this get modded insightful? The fact that after he spouts incoherant babble he recognises the fact he has no clue?
"Touch" is an ingame command to activate a script in an object, the "Worm" was an object on a linden labs server, when a user touches it, it replicates and follows them around, more people touch, more people get followed, more objects replicate untill the servers can no longer track the objects and go *splat* kinda like a runaway nanotech "Grey Goo" scenario.
I have no problem with people babbling randomness, so long as they're modded down and kept the fuck off my screen.
...I got nothing.
So, they're growing up to be adults, is what you're saying, right?
I'm so gonna be modded down for that. -sigh-
The truth is, 'the video game generation' is merely getting a taste a 'real life' a little early. The previous generations all had to wait until they were out of school to realize they were being sucked into the borg.
I'm not an anarchist. I'm just a realist. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS. It's not all bad. If everyone thought for themselves, we'd have a lot more discontent in the world. There'd be more wars. Our country would be a lot less productive. But then, if everyone joined the borg, then we'd have no innovation and no progress.
The 'video game generation' is no better or worse off than the rest of the USA. It just appears different to those who refuse to change, and is therefore 'bad'.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
jk ;)
Fuck our spinning shiny ring overlords. Why can't we be welcoming our amazonian leather-clad dominatricies?! But noooo we have to have spinning shiny cock-rings of death. Freakin homos.