Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
Dick_Lugar
Trad climber
Indiana (the other Mideast)
|
|
|
Sep 19, 2008 - 01:03pm PT
|
Funny shite...There were some good ones that made me laugh. I was going to give a try today, but looks like the plug has been pulled...bummer dudes and dudettes!
|
|
Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
|
|
|
Sep 19, 2008 - 01:14pm PT
|
Damn - all I have to show for are the "you are about to be banned" screenshots I took.
Anyway, there's always rocklimbing.com; they have lots and lots of avatars and emoticons...
|
|
Nefarius
Big Wall climber
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 19, 2008 - 01:29pm PT
|
For HK....
Some highlights...
Of course, I didn't save my favorite... Maybe Russ will be so kind as to post it here. I just copied and pasted his tinyurl link to the oiled boobs...
|
|
Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
|
|
|
Sep 19, 2008 - 02:15pm PT
|
Yeah - I saw all of those...
I think the fact that there was no pixel or file size limit was definitely knott a good thing.
The "party" GIF alone is 1.6 MB. When this thread was going strong, the pages weren't
loading correctly (on my 2 Ghz Core 2 Duo laptop with 3 GB of RAM), so I suspect it
was screwing something up on the server-side. As you know, sites that allow avatars
have strict pixel-size and file-size restrictions, and I suppose there's a reason for that...
|
|
Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
|
|
|
Sep 19, 2008 - 02:23pm PT
|
Thanks for the explanation.
This site needs avatars like I need a haircut, IMKSHO...
|
|
Nefarius
Big Wall climber
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 19, 2008 - 02:25pm PT
|
Yeah, I agree with Del Cross. Things were loading fine until my java error. :)
Did anyone happen to save a copy of Russ' avatar? It was by far the best.
|
|
Nefarius
Big Wall climber
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 19, 2008 - 02:44pm PT
|
haha Nice, del cross! :)
|
|
Nefarius
Big Wall climber
somewhere without avatars.........
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 19, 2008 - 02:52pm PT
|
I think it was more to do with, as del cross said, the hack could have been exploited in bad ways. I was somewhat proof of that.
|
|
Russ Walling
Social climber
Upper Fupa, North Dakota
|
|
|
Sep 19, 2008 - 03:21pm PT
|
|
|
Nefarius
Big Wall climber
somewhere without avatars.........
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 19, 2008 - 03:27pm PT
|
I pretty much agree with everything in your last post, Rox. Honestly, I was surprised they were capable of fixing the hole so quickly.
|
|
Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
|
|
|
Sep 19, 2008 - 03:40pm PT
|
Rokjox wrote:
Doesn't seem too likely as nobody seems to really take responsibility for anything around here. I feel we are on autopilot, circling endlessly most of the time
Would you prefer a micro-managed, moderated forum?
A whole lot of people seem to like it the way it is.
|
|
Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
|
|
|
Sep 19, 2008 - 03:51pm PT
|
NAw, I got nowhere else to be. Just like YOU.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
Funny - I actually spend way more time on SF Gate and MacRumors, but I still manage
to swoop in here several times a day to have a look. For example, when I found this
thread, it was already up to something like 85 posts...
Pretty sites are way overrated - ask anyone who hung out on rec.climbing when Usenet was the shít.
|
|
cintune
climber
the Moon and Antarctica
|
|
|
Sep 19, 2008 - 05:24pm PT
|
It would be cool to be able to embed video clips right into posts, instead of just links. Mainly for the TR possibilities... but only if everyone doesn't just go all crazy with teh stoopid vids they foundz online.
|
|
Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Nunya, America
|
|
|
Sep 19, 2008 - 06:03pm PT
|
Or wanted to......Arrrrgh.
|
|
steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
|
|
|
Sep 19, 2008 - 06:05pm PT
|
Geezus Russ... that's a bit disturbing. WTF is that a shot of?
|
|
Dr. Rock
Ice climber
http://tinyurl.com/4oa5br
|
|
|
Sep 19, 2008 - 06:09pm PT
|
OK, so has anybody emailed C-Mac and asked for avatars?
No.
Has anybody started a thread takin a pool on "Who Wants Avatars?"
No.
Has anybody been working the boss for Emoticons?
no.
OK then.
I'm cool with that.
|
|
kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
|
|
|
Sep 19, 2008 - 06:35pm PT
|
>How would an exploit be "in a bad way"? ....
>What is the worse thing that could happen?
Rokjox, there's a lot of crazy possibilities. Depending on the browser and OS, a lot of people are running Windoze home edition and insecure Internet Explorer. Seeing del coss's javascript alert, the "You all are about to be banned" popup, though pretty hilarious, was not a good sign :) trojaning the ST'ers computer, stealing their email access, gmail or yahoo cookie (http://tinyurl.com/6fke5q); are the first "worst things" i can think of. there are already enough bots online - machines that have been taken over and the user has no idea.
am not sayin' that anyone on ST might stoop to such levels. just that the site admin had to close that hole. otherwise we could've seen some REAL stalking :-)
Edit - we certainly could have avatars. thru proper implementation rather than by accident.
|
|
Nefarius
Big Wall climber
somewhere without avatars.........
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 19, 2008 - 06:37pm PT
|
Let's hear it for the party poopers!!!
|
|
nutjob
Stoked OW climber
San Jose, CA
|
|
|
Sep 19, 2008 - 08:18pm PT
|
Rokjox,
What if instead of a harmless pop-up window it launched a new pop-up with code that downloads adware, spyware, or viruses when the user clicks the "OK" button or the little x in the upper right corner?
It needed to be closed.
And Russ... I said you could borrow it if you promised to keep yer fingers out of it!
|
|
Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
|
|
|
Sep 19, 2008 - 08:22pm PT
|
Prod, sounds like Jim E owes you a beer... ;)
|
|
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!