User: thepacketmaster

Anything goes in the Virtual worlds

On: Law and Virtual Worlds

The whole point of participating in a virtual game is that anything goes. Dungeons and Dragons, Mechwarrior, Warhammer 40K are the predecessors to these virtual worlds, and the whole point of these games was to destroy your opponents and play with your teammates. It was like that because of the rules. If you did't like the rules, or the game master, you didn't play the game. So if Shadowbane can't control the game properly, whether it is because of bad programming that left a vulnerability, or for any other reason, don't both playing.

Won't work unless it's globally enforceable

On: Liability and Computer Security

Unless there was some way to enforce this for software companies around the world, this won't work. No government will handicap their own country's software companies by making them delay product releases. The masses will buy whatever is out first, putting those security conscious companies at a competive disadvantage, since software companies outside the country could simply beat them to the markets.

Here's how we do it in Canada

On: U.S. Considers Microsoft Passport as National ID

In brief, I work on a project in Canada, which is meant to do just what this article is suggesting. If anyone is interested in the project, you can find the press release on it at. http://www.bceemergis.com/en/newsroom/press_releas es/2001/june6.asp