{"id":483,"date":"2005-12-09T15:18:34","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T20:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=483"},"modified":"2005-12-12T20:18:52","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T01:18:52","slug":"rigging-the-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Rigging the Model"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an earlier post<\/a> I commented on how virtual objects could be coded to do things you don’t expect an object to do in real life. Well, here’s a great example (with some corrected punctuation and spelling) from the Second Life<\/a> forum:<\/p>\n

A girl came onto my land and offered to give me a blackjack table. I took it and put it out the table. It asked for permission to take money like all the other games do. I said “yes” to it and we played a few hands. She won then I won etc. Then the table paid her 10,000 lindens. I grabbed the table real quick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Imagine going into a Las Vegas casino and literally having a conversation with the blackjack table. And during that conversation, you tell the table all your personal information – from your name to your bank account number and password. Then imagine the table wipes your account and wires the money to its creator. That’s what happened here; costing the unsuspecting owner of the turncoat object about US$40 – real<\/em> money. This could become a classic example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an earlier post I commented on how virtual objects could be coded to do things you don’t expect an object to do in real life. Well, here’s a great example (with some corrected punctuation and spelling) from the Second … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}