L.C.

Somehow reminds me of Sniper and nostalgia.

@freakmonger How much more do you need in donations?

Purpose of this thread: To evaluate the integrity of the SSC policies and find out what SSC stands for Here is the most important part of the SSC policies for zones to qualify for SSC: -------------------------------------- SSCV Realism Zone: Settings made by The Ghost Ship - Original content? Yes Unique map that is a variation of Warzone CTF maps Original content? Yes Problem: Permission had to be attained from hallucation of Chaos Zone/League SVS for this zone to attain an SSC slot Questions: 1) Who owns the SVS content? 2) Who has the authority to deny or permit the usage of SVS content and material? Notes: It is true that I do not "own" Jackpot SVS, likewise passplay or hallucination "owning" Chaos Zone/League SVS, or Bargeld "owning" Alpha West. As best put by Bargeld in relationship to SVS and VIE content, "own is just a generally accepted term for the sysop that makes the end decisions." (45332) -------------------------------------- SSCV Battle Zone SVS: Settings use Alpha West settings. Unique map is designed by PsyOps from scratch that has an Alpha-like structure; ?go battle in Chaos Zone/League SVS Situation: Zone attained clearance for an SSC slot. According to hallucination (44742), he would like to keep Alpha West as a subarena in Chaos Zone/League SVS to help the zone's population. The reason Alpha West was shutdown, according to Bargeld, was because "alpha was dead, had been for a while, and yeah sure people dropped in from time to time, but thats why i figured a nostalgic subarena in chaos was a good solution," (44958) later, in support of hallucination, saying "its all to help CZ population out." (45503) PsyOps states that his Battle Zone SVS has the "same chance to split up chaos pop" (291) as Alpha West does, and "maybe even more, battle had a pretty large following at one time." (292) He claims, based on logical speculation, that his zone could have just as easily been denied an SSC slot as Alpha West (read the next section for information about this). In response, I say "If you made it, it's your property. This is how [sSC/ouncil] see it," (302) to which he replies "yes but if it threatens population then they should consider it the same." (303) SSCX Alpha West: Bargeld is current the recognized owner, who "makes the end decisions" (45332) for the zone. However, according to The Ghost Ship, "At this point if its SVS noone "owns" its. Sure someone might run it... but noone "owns" it. That's where the whole [politics] of the SSC gets really messy. You simply cannot have a system that allows you to claim ownership of things that were in the game before play-run zones even existed. Tbh the only person that would really have any right to claim ownership of any of this ... that is still semi-active is sadly Alex (Ghost Ship)." PsyOps had attained permission from Ghost Ship (confirmed by Bargeld [44960]) to run and get SSCX Alpha West hosted before a situation between operators of Chaos Zone/League SVS, Bargeld, and the council erupted. After attaining permission from Ghost Ship to rerun the zone under his operation on SSC, Bargeld, becoming aware of what had happened, notified PoLiX (investigates non-SSC zones that want to get an SSC slot to see if they pass the policies to qualify for SSC) "specifically not to do alpha," (44980) and relayed to Ghost Ship via e-mail what he had told to PoLiX. Right now, the situation has been concluded as no-go for SSC, but see "Purpose of this thread" at the top of this post. PsyOps raises a good point, to me anyway, in regards to the two questions I asked for SSCV Realism Zone in the previous section, and the above paragraphs. Problem: I detect that there is inconsistency in the upholding of "Here is the most important part of the SSC policies for zones to qualify for SSC" at the top of this post. Does it stand up to its words or not? Why? Who? What? When? Where? Etcetera. In other words, I would like to know, publically stated, whether or not the Council really stands up to that. If not, that's all I would like to know and hear ("the rest" will happen by itself). -------------------------------------- Notes about myself and in regards to myself: I am a business man. Even though I charge nothing for my hosting services as far as Subspace go, I treat everyone under me as a client and customer. Why? Because it's good practice. It's clean, professional, simple, and generally a good way to operate a system. Here is what I care about: the satisfaction of the service I provide to my customers. If they're not satisfied, I am not satisfied. Here is what I don't care about: the agenda of the council, as long as my customers are happy within reason, as SSCV is partly dictated by the policies established for SSC network hosts at http://www.sscouncil.com/guidelines.php. I do not find any part of this thread in violation, speaking on behalf of SSCV, of the guidelines and policies set forth by the council for network hosts. Here is what I am seeking: I want to know the accuracy of the policies in regards to its integrity. I want to know if the policies' integrity really stands up to its words or is leaving out important information. Why? So that I may know how to operate my business on SSCV and inform my clients with accurate and precise information as to what they can and cannot do, and why. Last notes: I don't care if the council has an unfair agenda as long as the truth comes out. Please refer to "Why?" in the previous paragraph. -------------------------------------- Special notes to individuals involved (particularly Bargeld, hallucination, passplay, PoLiX, and others directly involved): By no means do I post this thread under the motive of "exposing" someone, or of a personal kind. If any part of this thread, you feel, infringes on such, please notify me -- and I apologize. The last thing I would want to do is make enemies; I am not an unfriendly person, and I try not to be one. I try to be fair, and I go about my researchs and investigations as sincerely, fairly, honestly, and truthfully I can. I am a truth-seeker and critical thinker. I apologize for the length of this thread, but I could not cut it shorter and simpler. For those that read through, or at least understand the point I am concerned with, I very much appreciate your time and your opinions. Ultimately, if you wish to look into situations yourself, my advice would be to keep the concepts and philosophies of 'critical thinking' very close (critical thinking is an honest and sincere truth-seeking process that looks from and in every direction and attempts to eliminate as much bias throughout the process). Additionally, I will not tolerate replies to this thread that are not serious and not willing to consider every angle, regardless of the 'who'. This thread is public for a reason. (If you want to ARGUE, go make your own thread. This thread is for DEBATE and thoughtful opinion.)

I want to think he's talking about the .ico of Continuum and it's shortcut.

hahaha

Ooh, it wouldn't cost me a dime.. except for my own license to TCAdmin. I could likely get the hosting for free.

yeah, go ahead and do that. see how long ss lasts then. D: You talk like there's an underground of hackers and cheaters of SS actively watching and spectating the game and community, waiting for the perfect time to strike as a whole body.

http://digg.com/security/Worst_virus_threat_in_history

Existing bans can overlap to new accounts due to some addressing issues. http://www.ssforum.net/public/style_emoticons/default/blum.gif File this at http://bang.subspaceonline.com/

This is a good point. Slashvertisements suck.

What if.. say.. hypothetically.. I was able to bring about a European SSCV, next to the current North American SSCV? Oh oh oh! And connected to a major backbone. Comments please.

Flags in safety zone? Ooh, very interesting! Samapico, any theories? Any possibility of replicating this outside of Hyperspace? How can a flag be in safety zone?

Correct me if I am wrong, but you really can't lolygag around after a domain has expired. You should renew it now.

Here are the GIFs converted to PNGs as promised. ss_giftopng.zip

Samapico is going to become a scientist.. and one day work for Black Mesa. o_o

Wut? There's more?

GURLZ playing computer games? wt? Question: Does Audrey/Mom ever PLAY, or do they just sit in spectator mode and yap all day, or a little bit of both? http://www.ssforum.net/public/style_emoticons/default/aggressive.gif

Jumpgate Evolution looks very interesting. Too bad my lappy wouldn't be able to handle it.

Ok! I will convert what images that are GIFs to PNGs (when I made the kit, I chose the format that offered the lowest filesize) soon. Ok.

Here are the three graphics that I could not optimize due because of Continuum requiring them to be in BMP format. You can grab the rest of the PNGs and WAVs from here: http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=24112&view=findpost&p=258516 On one note, what format should I convert the WAVs to?

How does that happen? I thought bad sectors only occurred via physical damage... ? One step at a time.

Well my kernel, as biologically identified, can call a memory dump ... so, hah! http://www.ssforum.net/public/style_emoticons/default/blum.gif I'm using a custom compile of MentalOS, which contains a modified kernel. Besides, I was describing feelings as naturally as I could. I wasn't writing any of that because I suddenly decided to parallel reality with computers. I wrote it that way because that's how I actually thought. (Yes, absolute geek here. It's like the day your dreams become epic Subspace fights, and you find yourself waking up inside a warbird. pew pew pew)

After all, he IS the most constructive poster of the CENTURY!

Just for a perspective, if this were done 3 years ago under Bush, EVERYONE would notice and EVERYONE would care. I think this primarily depends on how the media spreads the news, and IF they do.

This morning, before coming out of hibernation mode, I dual booted to a Windows-like OS to run a virtual machine of Debian to execute dream-sequence programs. EDIT: ^ rootkit-based execution