Lurk Report HERE

[Taz-in-Space]

...today is Lurk Day! And TAZ is HERE!!!

Whaaattt? Nobody here?
No Lurk Report??

"mlmbd?"
"MLMBD!"
"MLMBD!!"

...anybody?...

...*sigh*...

[David E. Gervais]

Seeing Taz react to there being no lurk report is definately a kodak moment. So, I took my avatar cam and captured the moment,..

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"What? grrrr, no Lurk Report again, Grrrrrr."

Be carefull mlmbd, it's not usually a good idea to raise Taz's blood pressure

Cheers!

[Ed Kolis]

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
Fyron, Digital signatures have been around for a long time,..

Here is a blatant example of a digital signature using my name..

(snip)

How would that be useful to sign anything? The only way you can verify it is if you know how it is produced, and if you know that, what's to stop you from producing counterfeits? e.g. I start making images with the "David Gervais" RGB code in the corner!

I suppose it might work the first time - "Hah! That's not mine! All the other ones have those five pixels in the corner!" - but then after that you'd have to change your signature on all existing images and a simple fc oldimage.bmp newimage.bmp would easily root out the differences...

[David E. Gervais]

Ed, I never said or implied that this form of digital signature was fool-proof, or counterfit proof, just that there were ways of imbedding a digital signature into bitmaps. (heck once the pic is converted into a 'loss-compression' format like .jpg there is a good chance that the signature would be fried.)

Just because something can be copied or tampered with doesn't make the original less valid. I could errase the name of 'Boris' from all of his paintings, but that wouldn't change the fact that the painting was done by Boris.

Nuf said, Cheers!

[David E. Gervais]

..It's called bumping with pictures,..
(for the Lurk Report..)

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Cheers!

[mlmbd]

David, Thanks!

The next Lurk Report. Who knows when?

Have a great one!

mlmbd

[David E. Gervais]

Well, it's friday and I really miss the lurk report. That said, here is a mini 'Lurk-Post'

This week David's Avatar Thread passed the 1000 post mark and he updated his Avatar Emporium,.. and wouldn't you know it, it is already out of date due to more avatar Posts. (Dare I say this guy is fanatical?)

On another note, the Name-Changing Thread has been spammed,..

But this is not a bad thing, just lots of fun. (I hear that this thread might be pure Evil, but don't let that stop you. Check it out.)

FYI S'Katchoo's Brain has been stolen, read the ongoing story here.. The Bar Trek Thread

I know this post was/is mostly self serving, but I feel much better now

Cheers!

P.S. I hope this tiny post helps Taz feel better.

[ June 06, 2003, 13:44: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]