Avali Nexus

(05-30-2015, 09:05 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-30-2015, 08:45 PM)Ryuujin Wrote: [ -> ]Stuff like this sits in a weird legal limbo. It's entirely possible to make music, or an image file, or an algorithm that in digital form, shares binary values with another program, music, data file executable possibly by accident.

And it creates bit of a legal mess, because when you make digital data what you're making and placing copyrights on is the binary raw data, because that file can be loaded up and used any number of ways, not just as an executable, picture or whatever. If the WAY in which it was used what mattered then you could legally copy stuff so long as you claim you only intended to use it in a different way. So when you end up with 2 seperate things, that come out with identical sections of binary, it's plausible for one of the creators to sue you for infringing their copyrights. 

In the early days of the internet in the USA, when the courts realized that computers often had to copy copyrighted data (copying it from the hard disk into random access memory) they asked that computers not have RAM so that they wouldn't have to copy data. Only recently has someone even prototyped a computer that doesn't use RAM.

>"not use ram"

(05-30-2015, 09:08 PM)kawaiiChiimera Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-30-2015, 09:05 PM)SilverOtter Wrote: [ -> ]In the early days of the internet in the USA, when the courts realized that computers often had to copy copyrighted data (copying it from the hard disk into random access memory) they asked that computers not have RAM so that they wouldn't have to copy data. Only recently has someone even prototyped a computer that doesn't use RAM.

>"not use ram"

It's disk is basically the RAM too now. But now we must ask the question: When I want a temporary variable, where do I store it?

..Yeah I don't think Microsoft's porting Windows to that thing anytime soon.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you actually need RAM, can't you just download it?

(05-30-2015, 09:15 PM)Sankoro Wrote: [ -> ]Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you actually need RAM, can't you just download it?

(05-30-2015, 09:15 PM)Sankoro Wrote: [ -> ]Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you actually need RAM, can't you just download it?

http://www.downloadmoreram.com/

*snigger*

(05-30-2015, 09:24 PM)Ryuujin Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-30-2015, 09:15 PM)Sankoro Wrote: [ -> ]Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you actually need RAM, can't you just download it?

http://www.downloadmoreram.com/

*snigger*

Thanks Ryuu, now I have more space to save pictures of funny cats.

I've been trying to sketch a new design for my 'vali for hours, but I keep forgetting I can't draw.
I can always drink my sorrows away.

(05-30-2015, 10:46 PM)Sankoro Wrote: [ -> ]I've been trying to sketch  a new design for my 'vali for hours, but I keep forgetting I can't draw.

Spoiler

I can always drink my sorrows away.

Ohplease San, you draw better on your off days than I can draw to save my life. That looks awesome.

I dunno who Rezi is but I'm proud of him from being in the Top 3.

Keep using the report feature on spambots.

I do check them as well and will delete obvious spammers.

As for anti-spam measures I have a few tricks that I can look into implementing. One of my favorites is that instead of admin activation- which is tedious to tell who is a bot and who isn't, you instead make it so a new account has to have its first 3 or so posts moderator-approved.

Spambots will happily do their thing, but it will NEVER be visible on the forum other than to moderators/admins. It can be quickly cleaned up that way, and the spambots will move off on realizing that their garbage is not visible.

*click*
... *click click*
Wha.
*reloads page, more clicking*
Weird, the next comic isn't lo-...
...
*looks down*
*"MAY 29th, 2015"*
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...
...
*Shoots self*

(05-30-2015, 11:50 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: [ -> ]Keep using the report feature on spambots.

I do check them as well and will delete obvious spammers.

As for anti-spam measures I have a few tricks that I can look into implementing. One of my favorites is that instead of admin activation- which is tedious to tell who is a bot and who isn't, you instead make it so a new account has to have its first 3 or so posts moderator-approved.

Spambots will happily do their thing, but it will NEVER be visible on the forum other than to moderators/admins. It can be quickly cleaned up that way, and the spambots will move off on realizing that their garbage is not visible.

This sounds good. Spambots make a post, they get purged as soon as that happens
the "purge spammer" button is my favorite feature of this software.

(05-31-2015, 12:00 AM)Ehksidian Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-30-2015, 11:50 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: [ -> ]Keep using the report feature on spambots.

I do check them as well and will delete obvious spammers.

As for anti-spam measures I have a few tricks that I can look into implementing. One of my favorites is that instead of admin activation- which is tedious to tell who is a bot and who isn't, you instead make it so a new account has to have its first 3 or so posts moderator-approved.

Spambots will happily do their thing, but it will NEVER be visible on the forum other than to moderators/admins. It can be quickly cleaned up that way, and the spambots will move off on realizing that their garbage is not visible.

This sounds good. Spambots make a post, they get purged as soon as that happens
the "purge spammer" button is my favorite feature of this software.

This sounds like too much power for one man.

(05-31-2015, 12:04 AM)Ryuujin Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-31-2015, 12:00 AM)Ehksidian Wrote: [ -> ]This sounds good. Spambots make a post, they get purged as soon as that happens
the "purge spammer" button is my favorite feature of this software.

This sounds like too much power for one man.

I want a slice of this cake.

(05-31-2015, 12:00 AM)Ehksidian Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-30-2015, 11:50 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: [ -> ]Keep using the report feature on spambots.

I do check them as well and will delete obvious spammers.

As for anti-spam measures I have a few tricks that I can look into implementing. One of my favorites is that instead of admin activation- which is tedious to tell who is a bot and who isn't, you instead make it so a new account has to have its first 3 or so posts moderator-approved.

Spambots will happily do their thing, but it will NEVER be visible on the forum other than to moderators/admins. It can be quickly cleaned up that way, and the spambots will move off on realizing that their garbage is not visible.

This sounds good. Spambots make a post, they get purged as soon as that happens
the "purge spammer" button is my favorite feature of this software.

Is there a way to rename buttons?

Because I want the Report button to be called "SOUND THE ALARM".

(05-31-2015, 12:11 AM)Battle Bee Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-31-2015, 12:00 AM)Ehksidian Wrote: [ -> ]This sounds good. Spambots make a post, they get purged as soon as that happens
the "purge spammer" button is my favorite feature of this software.

Is there a way to rename buttons?

Because I want the Report button to be called "SOUND THE ALARM".

I like reports where you can actually write stuff because I always wrote "You know what to do: Nuke from Orbit" on spambots.

(05-31-2015, 12:04 AM)Ryuujin Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-31-2015, 12:00 AM)Ehksidian Wrote: [ -> ]This sounds good. Spambots make a post, they get purged as soon as that happens
the "purge spammer" button is my favorite feature of this software.

This sounds like too much power for one man.

The button goes away after a certain point, so no one needs to worry about being hit by it

(05-31-2015, 12:16 AM)Segolia Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-31-2015, 12:11 AM)Battle Bee Wrote: [ -> ]Is there a way to rename buttons?

Because I want the Report button to be called "SOUND THE ALARM".

I like reports where you can actually write stuff because I always wrote "You know what to do: Nuke from Orbit" on spambots.

Nah, I just want the name changed. You'd still be able to write things.

(05-31-2015, 12:32 AM)Battle Bee Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-31-2015, 12:16 AM)Segolia Wrote: [ -> ]I like reports where you can actually write stuff because I always wrote "You know what to do: Nuke from Orbit" on spambots.

Nah, I just want the name changed. You'd still be able to write things.

When I reported the first spambot we got all you could do here was select a generic category for why you were reporting like ("abuse", "this is spam" etc.)

(05-31-2015, 12:50 AM)Segolia Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-31-2015, 12:32 AM)Battle Bee Wrote: [ -> ]Nah, I just want the name changed. You'd still be able to write things.

When I reported the first spambot we got all you could do here was select a generic category for why you were reporting like ("abuse", "this is spam" etc.)

Ooooh, I get it now.