Profiles with optional contact information are built in to the forum software, and have been deliberately disabled. The choice to not allow you to find a way to contact each other is a deliberate one. The horse is already dead, there's no point flogging it.

valerie wrote: Well then why does one want a blog?

Comments.

If you've got comments, you've got repeat traffic. Repeat traffic is where the money is. Writing your own comment system safely is hard. There are lots of gotchas when it comes to sanitising input.

Once software gets to a certain size, nobody understands all of it. Therefore, all well known programs are broken, though the adage is more normally stated as "all non-trivial software is broken".

The advantage of Wordpress, Drupal etc, over closed formats is the former will tell you something is broken, and the latter will fix it silently without ever telling you at all, giving you no notice that you might have been compromised, leaving your vulnerable for years after something has been fixed.

Most problems are in addons, because they have less peer review. Installing addons is bad even if the code is good, because every line of code you ever add increases your attack vector. Think of it like firing a crossbow at a target, and every line of code is an extra ring around the bullseye. That's not to say don't use addons, just don't install random crap that sounds sort of interesting - just install stuff you need.

As a recommendation? None. I don't like any blogging software. I went through every different project I could find, and they were all crap, so I wrote my own instead. I won't even recommend mine because that's broken too - it's just broken in ways I understand (and also requires the installation of an entire framework that you can't install without a VPS).

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Quote: Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong

-- Oscar Wilde

Warriors vs Cavaliers?

Are you sure they're not stoner teenagers playing Space Invaders?

I've broken up with someone over something I've said in my sleep. I was informed later that it wasn't so much dreaming about somebody else, it was more the admitting I was cheating in my dreams that did it.

Better question - why do snorers always get to sleep first?

I don't snore, but I do talk in my sleep. Enough that I sometimes wake myself up.

Josephine Jobert and a Bonobo.

I don't like ice cream at all, which, in many ways, makes me perfect husband material.

I started the day looking for an old cartoon. I've been looking for it for about a decade now, and finally found it. It was called Skywhales. It took me so long to find it because all I could remember is it was broadcast in the early 80s, it was about death, and the character had a mohawk. But that's not what I'm listening to. The search lead me to looking for other old recordings, until I came across this.

This song is called "Mary Had A Little Lamb" and the performance is by Thomas Eddison. This is the first recording on his tinfoil phonograph.

Mary had a little lamb : Thomas Edison : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Marcel666 wrote: I don't have a problem with it,saves me a bundle on shampoos,gels etc.

In three hundred and fifty thousand million years of evolution, humans are the only species to have invented the salon.

I just use water, like every single animal in the world, other than humans born after 1960.

I was part of the first ever academic year to learn metric in this country, and what you learn as a kid sticks.

The problem is, of course, they changed it after we'd already started learning, so I like small measurements in feet and inches, and long measurements in kilometres - which is the opposite way round we do things. You buy screws in mm, and measure roads in miles, and I want to buy screws in inches, and measure roads in kilometres.

72 inches for me. That's about a million centimetres (I'm not very good at metric).

It's already about 18 inches, so that's 54 to go.

That's my ambition too. The more people complain about my hair, the longer I'm determined to make it.

Your address is a (shortened hashed version of a) public key, your wallet is a private key.

Everyone can see which safe the public key belongs to, but only the private key can open the safe.

Your software should be able to generate new addresses for you with a click or two. How depends on exactly which software you're using, but there are literally thousands of clients, so it's hard to give a hint.

It isn't strictly necessary, and not always possible, to use a new address for each transaction. See this to weigh it up for yourself.

A wonderful song, unless you happen to be Australian where it has a very different meaning.

The Pogues - A Pair of Brown Eyes - YouTube

Of course they do, their friends get a pass, and everyone else is held to a higher standard.

Just like every human in every environment.

The problem isn't with moderators, it's with forum design. Forums have never had any tools for filtering your own content, beyond the token gesture of a half-arsed ignore button. That's where the real problem is.

The point of Bitcoin was to provide a decentralised currency, and on that score it's a magnificent failure. It just moved the centralisation of power from Western Bankers to Chinese sys admins, as a result of the fundamental design flaw of requiring ever increasing computational input which shifts power from individuals and necessarily results in centralisation.

Or in other words, while Bitcoin claims to be a peer-to-peer system, it's actually a mining pool to mining pool system, and you're not a mining pool.

So the question is, do you trust Chinese sys admins with your money any more than you trust Western bankers with your money? I don't.

On the other hand, do you trust Chinese sys admins with your money any less than you trust Western bankers with your money? I don't.

Investing is a gamble and the big wins have probably already happened.

As an electronic payment system in which you keep a low balance used to exchange for goods/hard cash quickly, it's probably fine.

rmalten wrote:
I think Mr.BouldRake would have tried it..

Afraid not. I haven't touched VR since the 90's - haven't even tried Cardboard yet.

When Brian Fargo discovers VR, I'll find an excuse to justify it. Until then, it's a tantalizing 240 GTM surveys away.

Quote:Or BouldRake may be programmed such software to my 3D glasses.

Don't tempt me. I've been drooling over an OSVR (Open Source Virtual Reality) kit for a couple of weeks now. Just out of my price range on the grounds I can code the thing, but don't have the artistic ability to make something anyone would use (ie, can't make any money from it).