What is the situation with being unable to change the profile avatar at this time?
I dont see why is it important at all? Avatar is just a picture which represents nothing. As it is a serioius forum I think that avatar is not good idea as anyone can upload picture by its own choice which can be rude, nude or sick. And banning a preson because of avatar is funny too. Thats why there is no avatar. I have argued in other thread that avatars make easier to identify different people, since our brains process images faster than text. |
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So, if I insert this file using an <img> tag, will I get all these flashy things? I don't seem to understand. No , I don't think. (I think)The hacker/s have inject the code into an image and after uploaded this image as avatar. OK, but how was this “image” run, then? |
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Fucking autocorrect.
There won't be any war.
Fact : Gavin will release Gavincoin Fact : Mircea (and friends) will try to dump their Gavincoins and buy Mirceacoins These facts need a percentage. How many people support Gavin? How many people support Mircea? |
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So, if I insert this file using an <img> tag, will I get all these flashy things? I don't seem to understand. |
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Fucking autocorrect.
There won't be any war.
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There won't be any way. Why are you getting so crazy about it?
What that a question for me or someone else? If it was me, won't be any what? Crazy over what? No, it was for ghdp. |
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I could compare to other things and this would contradict to your point completely... Then we agree that the age of a technology is irrelevant to determine its success. |
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There won't be any way. Why are you getting so crazy about it?
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Here's a question.
Say I had 10 coins in a single address. The fork happens and the network splits in two. I then send 1 coin to someone using a single 10 coin input. 1 coin output to the person and 9 coins output back in change.
Have I any way of knowing which chain the change will come back to me on?
The same one the 1 coin payment was made. |
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OK, I see where this is going. However, I don't think this would be as easy. Now everyone in the network switches back to the bottom chain, and the miner switches to mining the top chain. The miner can keep doing this until the fork becomes ridiculously long and the data between the two chains is completely incompatible.
Once the community notice this happening, they will most probably ban the faulty miner (blacklisting their IP or something similar). |
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The feature was removed due to an exploit involving avatars. Only older users (such as myself) have them.
Where can I see how that exploit worked? I'm interested because I don't want the same happening to me when I develop a web platform. |
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A proposal for the new forum is to not include signatures at all. Why not?
Well, what exactly is the purpose of a signature? I know that forums have had signatures for decades, but most of the time people put obnoxious pictures on them, bigger than the post itself (this doesn't happen here, as far as I know, but on other forums), or sell them for advertising (which happens here as signature campaigns). People who use their signatures for something more decent are rare.
Maybe you think: the signature is something I can customize to my liking, similar to my profile. In that case, then I think we should give more options for profile customization (similar to what social networks are doing: a profile picture and a background, among other things).
The reason I propose this, is because signature campaigns significantly affect the quality of the posts. People are posting just to get more views on their signatures without contributing with a useful idea or thought on the topic.
I do have a signature, but it's something too simple: it's just a phrase. I don't think it's important enough to be kept in the forum.
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That's not the way it would work in the attack I'm describing. The malicious miner would still let others mine, it would just alternate which chain they are mining on to help the chain that fell behind catch back up. So instead of splitting 25.5% on two chains, it would be all 51% on chain A half the time and all 51% on chainB half the time. The disruptive part is that there would be switching back and forth all the time, and the two chains could contain very conflicting data.
You know what happens when you do work for half the time? You do half the work. So, having 51% of the hashpower half the time means you effectively have only 25.5% of the hashpower. Also, about letting others mine... Well, you can't just stop them from working (unless you seize their equipment). This has nothing to do with it. |
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Now guys look at another attack vertex. How about not attaining such hash power but highjack just a couple of big pools at the same time. Infiltrate and sleep and pick the worse moment, say when the operators are sleep. And fork this thing real hard or block ALL transactions but just mining empties. Granted the miner will switch but it just needs a little time and a couple of discrediting hate articles and boom. Price down hard!
While theoretically possible, I think a massive infiltration wouldn't go unnoticed. |
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To mine two chains you need double the power, so in this scenario the “51%” would actually be 25.5% and 25.5%.
Don't you mean 102%? No, you have it backwards. To mine 2 chains you need to split your effort between the two chains, so you got 25.5% for each chain. I said it's “double” the power because the total power is double the power for each chain. Just think about it. If you have 51% of the total power, how are you planning to get 102%? It's mathematically impossible. |
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To mine two chains you need double the power, so in this scenario the “51%” would actually be 25.5% and 25.5%.
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You win. I've been defeated.
I hereby declare that, according to amspir, “fiat” will no longer have the meaning “government” related to it.
Or at least, that's what you seem to expect me to say.
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No, because guacamole is more than just plain avocado. You would have just a holy avocado. This is copyright violation. |
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A reference is a source that you use as a basis for a derivative work (in this case, a video), but not using content verbatim not just posting the link and calling it a day.
Please don't take my words out of context. I'm not making a derivative work. Right, you're not making anything. You're just posting a Youtube link and calling it a day. With your attitude, there's no way I will be able to call it a day. |
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A reference is a source that you use as a basis for a derivative work (in this case, a video), but not using content verbatim not just posting the link and calling it a day.
Please don't take my words out of context. I'm not making a derivative work. |
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