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I don't get the question, Sterling. That post was about the inherent insecurities of script languages inside content. RSS is not an exception. As to your comment, good graphics and video cards are a must for modern 3D, certainly, and scenegraph technologies without a doubt. Better transport is a nice to have, but so far, multicasting appears to be working with current technologies. Even broadband is not required. For example, on Wednesday and Saturday nights, the Jewel of Indra 3D site hosts parties. The Blaxxun VRML servers are hosting multiuser worlds with avatars running up to a hundred behaviors per avatar, and from a separate site in San Francisco (Ratty Radio) streaming real time audio music of very good quality into the local player. I can log in, chat, have local audio for voices (synth) and do all of this over a 56k dialup (max is 48k really) and crash only if I fail to clear the cache. Is it perfect? No but it is adequate, works now, and is waaay better than what was tried when we did the Midsummer's Night Dream project some years ago. In other words, we may be pushing the limits but the limits are not what we thought they would be five years ago. We may not know precisely what the limits are except for too many lights in a scene. And that we've always known about. Better graphics cards help. ;-) len From: sterling [mailto:sstouden@t...] Seems to me a good set of graphics cards with new and better video cards could do wonders for 3d. Do we really need a better packet transport technology than packets ? On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > Thanks Jeff and Bill. > > Apparently, any media type developed with internal scripting > is a candidate for exploitation. That's painful. Almost > every media type that is fun to do has that as a feature. > > I was asking originally because a fellow BoD member for the > W3DC (X3D) asked about putting 3D worlds inside RSS. It is > a great idea, but then we have to cope with the kiddies and > the criminals. > > This is interesting reading. > > http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,68004,00.html?tw=rss.TOP > > It corresponds to the darker thoughts I've had since 1989. The only > really safe approach is to recognize the Internet is inherently insecure > and start over with the humbling knowledge that we have to plan for > the dark and dumb sides of human nature when building world wide > systems. So yeah, let's put a semantic engine on top of the current > system and see what they do with that given the unreasonable way > people accept whatever comes out of these boxes.
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