Ambrosia Dance Club

Second Life is a wonderful platform for social interaction. We learn so much about others from all over the world. Sometimes way too much. What is it that compels people to share graphic details of their real lives with others who they know little about? I am talking about that dread affliction known by its acronym TMI – Too Much Information.

How do you know if you suffer from the effects of this dread disease? If you say lines like the following its quite possible you suffer from TMI Syndrome. Potential cure lines follow.

TMI – OMFG My master bedroom is infested with lice and I have to leave to stay town and stay at the Motel 6 in Fernville while the fumigators put a tent over my house and gas it so pass it along that I wont be online a lot.

Cure -I will be out of town for a few days. Catch you on my laptop!

TMI – I have 5 kids the oldest Bobby just got out of prison and has to wear a darn bracelet around his leg and he just walked within 1000 yards of a school zone and now the police are over at my house and they are going to take him in so i have to run for a bit.

Cure – Brb

TMI – In my country we take the snakes and hang them on a silken rope outside the village and then ritualistically beat them with sticks. After they dry for 3 days we take them down and they are placed in earthenware vessels and cooked at the Aa’Rean which is the center of the village as the women wail and utter lamentations while throwing dust over their heads. then we gather to eat them. It is much delicious i must tell you.

Cure – I like to party and eat delicacies.

TMI – I think my cat is dead. Let me check, yep he’s dead. I have to find a plastic bag. Well you knew it was coming. Lord Percival was always anemic and my other cats would always avoid him and you know when you have 40 cats you will always have the social outcast. Oh well so how is your day going.

Cure – Hey whats up.

TMI – Do you have a minute? I have to show you something. I ate about 5 pounds of lasagna last night and I just took a dump and I swear to you that it looks just like an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake. I have to upload a picture for you. Brb.

Cure – Would you like to see some nature photography?

So what is TMI. It is the dissemination of information about your life that is totally useless to others and puts a mental image of you in their minds that is unpleasant at best and totally horrific at worst. Avoid TMI and have a better public image!

Friday night was slamming at the club. DJ Javier, “The Candyman”, primed the pump with a smoking set of hard driving rock. But the party really swung in to high gear around 9 PM when there were 63 avatars in the sim. If you wonder what that looks like Ambrosia Dancer Roselle shot this from her perch on the stage. When DJ Ringo took the stage at 10 PM the place was still packed and Ringo kept it that way till Midnight with his specially made dance mixes.

Surprisingly, no one was pushing or shoving on the dance floor and everyone was having a great time partying Ambrosia style with the hot dancers who worked hard to keep the fire exits clear at all times. And this is supposed to be the slow season? What’s going to happen when people retreat to their bear’s dens to ride out the winter months? Hold on to your hats, its going to be a wild ride.

by Luscious Luckstone

Tuesday with DJ Kiwi was event time again so we all got a little bit chilly since it was an event for the smallest swimwear – and as always the Ambrosians did not let us down. The clothes came off and the the party was hot. I only took pictures of the winners because the others would have been too much for your innocent eyes to look at with all that exposed flesh – mmm..

Our winners of the day were for the Guys Dutch Kingsley who had a tiny thong on. I have to say personally I was convinced he had a sock down there but it got him the prize money. So Congrats to him and our Barely dressed Girl was crazy Shelbz Rivera who had tiny little flowers in all the right places.. Congrats to her also , the pics of them both will show u how hot they both were. Then next event is to be discussed since we need to see if me Dusty and Kiwi can top this one. We will let u all know asap !!!!

by Phil F. Kearny

A while back Linden Lab introduced Viewer 2. It was pretty much universally hated at its introduction and is still so by a solid majority of people. I decided to give it a try and after several weeks of use I became used to it and abandoned my previous viewer which was Emerald. I was always nervous about using a third party viewer just because of the possiblility of someone being able to insert their own code in for malicious and/or commercial reasons. The Developers of Emerald always insisted that all of their code was transparent and easily viewable and verifiable. But this apparently is not the case.

Recently, one of the developers has quit Emerald and published some interesting things in his blog.

“Unfortunately, I do not feel confident enough to support it any more, for a number of reasons. I did not realize at the time that emkdu was added, that it could be used to add in code I was not able to see. These things were done behind my back, it was found out by others that code was placed in that braodcasted your viewers title bar and executable path in a obfuscated manner. This was addressed, promised to be fixed, and (luckily) people broke through the now encrypted layer to find out that it was not. Of-course, it has been promised to be fixed a third time, but now with an encryption level too high to be broken. Although replacing or deleting emkdu would resolve this issue, I also have to consider that this was hidden in the code for months without anyone knowing..

Regardless of the intentions of those who placed this code there, It has made one thing inescapably clear. I am not able to double check everything any more. I tried to find a solution to resolve this matter, but it appears that most people do not care about this to the level that I do. I made sure the other emerald devs were aware of what is going on via this. As mentioned there, closed source, hidden designs and single developer licenses have no place in emerald. People can make mistakes, but it is important that others can double check without having to break through encryption.”

Whaaaa? Encrypted stuff in Emerald? Who are these people anyhow and do you trust them? At least we know the address of Linden Lab. But what sort of encrypted stuff could it be?

http://nalates.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/emerald-viewer-scandal-erupts%E2%80%A6-again/

“For users of Emerald there are several things that have happened that are alarming. At one point the viewer was sending some user information to the Emerald servers. The dev’s said, ok its fixed and does not do that anymore. LLG found that the data was still being transmitted but then it was obfuscated using an XOR algorithm. This means that simply watching the data stream to see what is being sent out of the viewer becomes more difficult but not that hard to figure out. After another round of complaints the data is now apparently encrypted making it extremely difficult to see what is being sent. I have to ask why, when caught, they went to XOR and, when caught again, then went to encryption? I find this behavior very indicative of a problem. Not only is the code closed so is the data being sent.

Also directory paths and login ID and possibly full real life names were being baked into the AV texture. Thus allowing others to learn an avatars real identity.

The consensus on SLUniverse seems to be to stop using Emerald. I can understand that choice. I am changing passwords and will be using Emerald only with an AV without payment options. The data being transmitted is said to be information about the user’s computer and name but not passwords, but how can I know that?”

I am glad to be on Viewer2 and will gladly sacrifice some bells and whistles like jiggly bewbies.