Are you a virtual property thief? academic anonymous surveyFollow

In many ways, yes, we are. We're marinated in American pop culture from all sides, with some other spices thrown in. We're really kind of like the ******* child of America and the UK: We have America's weight, Britain's love of Indian take-away restaurants, we say both "mate" and "*****" a lot and we have gigantic f*ckin' spidersevery nonhuman creature is at least 10 kinds of lethal. Yes, that include koalas. Hell, especially koalas.

Even the rabbits kill dangerous venomous snakes.

You needed a survey to tell you that?

Do you know what would have to happen to make stuff like stealing virtual currency illegal? You do understand that the changes needed to make that stuff illegal could end up destroying MMO gaming entirely?

Come to Australia. You might accidentally get killed!! (If you don't like some animals, just scroll down so you can't see the visuals and listen to the song)

Well in academic research you cant just say 'theft happens alot in XYZ game', you need to back it up with say a survey or whatever.

I am not trying to make it illegal bud, I am coming up with a peice of technology to stop it from being stolen.

The paper also proposes an approach for handling virtual property theft based on improvements to laws related to virtual property and theft, improvements to the virtual world software components and better regulation from governments.

This is a video game forum, forgive me for not analyzing each sentence I write to get the perfect structure, grammar and avoiding slang. I am a published author, I can do it, I am not going to extend to doing it on video games forums and within video games. Your the first I have met who does.

I have very little time with my commitments. This is a video game forum, forgive me for not analyzing each sentence I write to get the perfect structure, grammar and avoiding slang. I am a published author, I can do it, I am not going to extend to doing it on video games forums and within video games. Your the first I have met who does.

Also the algorithm is already written and is working quite well, as intended, thanks for your concern.



This survey is a small study I am conducting on the side to determine how 'cyber thieves' MIGHT be going about their activities. You take the results with a grain of salt, we know it, I know it. The methodology and survey is fine, its been checked by doctors and professors. You can never have a survey perfect, you just have to try achieve the best to suit the purpose.





It is not my stance, I am proposing an approach for managing it, if governments wish too take that stance. I am not a lawmaker I can not instantiate laws myself. I know now it is likely to never happen so my thesis approach is stopping most of it before it can happen.

I know your trolling, so I will take what you say with a grain of salt. Do something with your life don't waste it on here posting disparaging comments on my character and research methods.

I sort of got bored reading this thread... What's happening guys?

I was first published when I was 20, it's no big deal. People view you based on how you present yourself.

Eh, mine was some intern work that got typed up in a memo that got rolled into a lecture and paper. I was surprised my name ended up on the thing, but I was working with good folks. Fun work too, I needed to work equations out by hand to verify the computer model but when I figured out an easier way to do things ("I could do all this with a couple of nested loops") they let me run with it. Add a few days to learn basic Fortran syntax, type everything up, and then I got to go back to working it by hand to verify my loops which verified the real program. Odd that I *still* feel so good about what amounted to making extra work for myself.

OP, we already have a Prime Minister that's a ginger, we don't need you dragging this nation down too.

Yeeeaah ... This OP makes me sad to be Australian. Deakin University is actually pretty good, so it's all the more tragic that an egotistical, unprofessional little mouth-breather is here dropping the name for themself. OP, we already have a Prime Minister that's a ginger, we don't need you dragging this nation down too.