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Reply #22

pacattack05 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:43:17 GMT

Sorry, didn't mean to put words in your mouth. I just remember a time when I used to be able to upload pics from my computer, such as my documents/videos section. But those pics were uploaded to my computer, so that doesen't qualify as my computer pics I guess. The editor would prompt me to browse as a choice, and I used to click on the picture and insert it into the editor. Now I have to put the url in. I don't even see the browse option anymore, so that's why I thought something was different.... [ More ]

Reply #21

KY Floyd — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:23:06 GMT

I beleive it was illegal to photocopy currency at one time. When the technology was new, the ability of machines to distinguish real currency from photcopies wasn't very good, so photocopies could be used in many machines. The ability to easily make realistic looking counterfeit currenct is obviously something the government has a lot of interest in. Shortly after the first batch of new and supposedly hard-to-counterfeit bills came out a while back it took only a few weeks or so before some teen... [ More ]

Reply #20

mylollipop — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:02:34 GMT

I remember that! And it was a big no. no, so we had to mimeograph play money instead. Counterfeiting was much easier back then I guess.

Reply #19

justxploring — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:58:40 GMT

I have a question. When I was growing up I thought there was a law, as strange as it sounds, prohibiting the reproduction of money by photocopying (we used the word mimeograph..remember?)

I suppose as long as you don't put your money in your all-in-one and copy it and then try to use it at the supermarket, nobody will care. LOL Just curious. Was that one of those urban legends

Reply #18

time*treat — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:49:04 GMT

Mike, why not just upload your pics to the members' pages--> https://www.lotterypost.com/members/ ? All Au and Pt members can save their pics, custom avatars, .htm and (i think) .xls files over there.

Reply #17

LOTTOMIKE — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:36:06 GMT

i'm still learning about computers so i'll be the first to admit i was thrown for a loop because as soon as i got on i had a PM from someone telling me to check my signature that it was naughty and even that person seemed to know that it might've been an outside problem because i never would post vulgar stuff and of course i knew todd would never do that so it never entered my mind about him either.i thought i might've been hacked or something,lol.but someone told me i might've been using up som... [ More ]

Reply #16

four4me — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:00:36 GMT

can you see this picture i copied the URL from mikes avatar

And no it was not me you messed with your signature.

Reply #15

LOTTOMIKE — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:57:43 GMT

todd i never thought it was you.the reason i knew it wasn't was because someone posted a dirty message where my signature used to be.i think i might've used a signature that was used by someone else or something and they changed it.

Reply #14

Todd — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:53:43 GMT

Again, check the Help forum for detailed instructions for posting images.

Reply #13

Todd — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:52:39 GMT

If you are insinuating that I have changed anything about your signature I have not. I haven't even been on my computer since this morning.

Reply #12

Todd — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:51:28 GMT

I've not changed anything about images, there is no way (and never has been a way) for someone to see an image on your computer. It has to be uploaded somewhere. How else would someone see it? Would people have access to your computer over the Internet? Again, this is nothing specific to Lottery Post, it's the same everywhere, and Lottery Post uses a more powerful text editor than most forum sites. If you check the Help forum you will see a detailed post about posting images.

Reply #11

ThatScaryChick — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:19:44 GMT

It's ok. Not everyone is computer savvy and we all learn about these things in different ways.

Reply #10

LOTTOMIKE — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:15:17 GMT

thanks chick,i'm still learning about all this stuff,i honestly had no idea what i was doing .i'll be more careful.

Reply #9

ThatScaryChick — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:12:54 GMT

If you need to find a place to host your picture, there are some free hosting websites you can use which is better then taking other people's bandwidth. You can upload pictures for free using ImageShack or Photobucket. Both are pretty good hosting sites.

At the moment, I am actually using Photobucket to host my avatar.

Reply #8

pacattack05 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:09:50 GMT

I may be wrong on this, but Todd changed the way the editor works by not using the pics stored on your computer because people can't see the picture. The only way now is to either take the risk of the pic being erased or paying for hosting.

There are many pics in my older blogs that don't have the pictures anymore because the host found out and took them away...lol

Reply #7

Uff Da! — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:05:02 GMT

I recall people advising someone to do just that when they learned that another person selling a similar item on eBay had used their own photograph of an item rather than taking the time and trouble to do their own photography. Can you imagine what a surprise it would be to someone trying to sell something if the photograph of the object they are trying to sell turns into a crude photograph for the public to see? The message is clear, That will show you for stealing photo and my bandwidth! They

Reply #6

pacattack05 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:04:10 GMT

That's It ....HA ! I feel so much better. I love you....lol

Phew...

It's funny because I was on the net looking at hosting sites and hoped to see the word. I did see it and by the time I came back to say I found the word, you beat me to the punch...lol

Reply #5

ThatScaryChick — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:00:30 GMT

Bandwidth

Reply #4

pacattack05 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:58:28 GMT

I think they do know, and wanted to piss you off for drawing off their Blank . I forget the computer word for it.

Reply #3

LOTTOMIKE — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:55:23 GMT

yes i think i might have.does that mean they know i used the image or they just randomly change it? i guess maybe the person was pissed or something,lol. the look on my face was priceless.i'm definitely not that way as the signature implied.it was just immature on whoever did it.silly.

Reply #2

pacattack05 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:53:17 GMT

I read somewhere, that if you get the picture by right clicking and scrolling down to the properties and copying and paste the image url into the editor, it could get erased or changed by the host for that picture.

In other words, some sites don't like people taking their picture via the properties because it takes away from their memory for lack of the right terminology. There's a word to replace memory but I don't remember what it is.

I used to be on a site that I used for hosting videos... [ More ]

Reply #1

ThatScaryChick — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:44:05 GMT

LottoMike, did you hotlink the image from another site? Meaning did you direct link it from someone elses site? If you did, they have the ability to change the image to something crude.

important question

LOTTOMIKE — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:42:35 GMT

my signature was apparantly changed to something totally different than what i had posted and also it was something totally immature,i thought i was the only one who could change my signature.how is it that it could be changed to something without me changing it