[sldev] Re: Texture bugs.

[Jason Giglio]

Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> For HUDS, there's another issue: if you give away a freebie HUD with a 
> texture bug in it, you *know* that the prim owner is the person at that 
> IP address, so putting on a HUD would become like visiting a website 
> with your browser settings on minimum security. I think that there 
> should be three options:

Minimum security?  I'm sure you do realize you get the IP address of
your visitors regardless of their security settings.

I think this whole discussion is silly.  IP addresses are not private
information, end of story.  If you want to do anything on the net you
have to expose it.  If you believe otherwise I guess you get scared when
you see those banners about "Your computer is broadcasting your IP
address, click here to fix it!".

This reminds me of the "debate" on the name2key services.  It was silly
then and it's silly now.

Argent, to be honest I expected better from you.  You were the one that
set me straight when I and others wanted a permissions dialog for
llPushObject.  We don't need any more permissions dialogs crudding up
our immersement.  That's what you said then, and it still holds true.

I think, at most, there should be a tick box in preferences to "disable
http texture fetching".  If someone is that paranoid, they can just look
at gray goo.  Such a simple and greatly useful feature shouldn't be
bogged down by bogus security concerns.