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Record 1 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Codes (Software)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
DEF

To put information into a software program so that it cannot be easily changed by a user ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Codes (Logiciels)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Códigos (Soporte lógico)
  • Programas y programación (Informática)
CONT

Para asegurarse de que la aplicación sigue siendo segura, evite codificar de forma rígida una versión del protocolo.

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Record 2 2019-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Codes (Software)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
DEF

[A fork in which] a change of rules ... creates blocks recognized as valid by the old software [and that] is backwards-compatible.

CONT

During Bitcoin’s first two years, Satoshi Nakamoto performed several soft forks by just releasing the backwards-compatible change in a client that began immediately enforcing the new rule.

OBS

Forks can be both hard(i. e., not backwards compatible) and soft(i. e., backwards compatible), and can occur due to a change in consensus or a change in blockchain protocol(i. e., underlying code).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Codes (Logiciels)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes

Spanish

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Record 3 2019-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Codes (Software)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
CONT

Any great technology needs an upgrade from time to time and this is what Ethereum has decided to do. As opposed to the soft forks that just make an upgrade by creating a new cryptocurrency, this hard fork splits the cryptocurrency code into two.

OBS

Forks can be both hard(i. e., not backwards compatible) and soft(i. e., backwards compatible), and can occur due to a change in consensus or a change in blockchain protocol(i. e., underlying code).

Key term(s)
  • hardfork

French

Domaine(s)
  • Codes (Logiciels)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
DEF

Modification majeure [d'un] protocole [de cryptomonnaie], dont les nouvelles règles ne sont pas compatibles avec les précédentes [afin] de pouvoir réviser n'importe quel aspect du code de la [chaîne de blocs].

CONT

Lorsqu'une trop grande quantité de mineurs refuse d'adopter les nouvelles règles de la monnaie, le groupe de mineurs qui veut modifier les paramètres va suivre une autre route pour donner naissance à une nouvelle monnaie sur une nouvelle chaîne de blocs. On parle alors de «fourche majeure» ou de «hard fork».

Spanish

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Record 4 2019-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Codes (Software)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
DEF

A point at which an existing blockchain splits into two or more different blockchains.

CONT

Forks can be both hard(i. e., not backwards compatible) and soft(i. e., backwards compatible), and can occur due to a change in consensus or a change in blockchain protocol(i. e., underlying code).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Codes (Logiciels)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
DEF

Bifurcation dans la chronologie de l'existence de la chaîne [de blocs].

CONT

[...] la chaîne de Bitcoin Cash se séparera en deux : celle du client principal, Bitcoin ABC, et celle de Bitcoin SV, qui s'oppose aux changements apportés par ABC. L'embranchement aura lieu à 16 h 40 [...]

Spanish

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Record 5 2013-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

To convert information from its original format into content that can be displayed on the Web.

CONT

For example, to code a text file into an HTML file is to webify it; to turn a hard copy print file into a PDF is to webify it; to scan an image, use a program to convert it to a GIF or JPG file, and then FTP it to a server is to webify it; to convert an audio file into a format for play on the Web is to webify it; or to convert a video file into a program that can be streamed on the Web is to webify it.

OBS

webify: The Translation Bureau recommends in its revised 2013 Linguistic Recommendation that “web” not be capitalized when it is part of a compound, whether the compound is written as two words or one, with or without a hyphen.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Internet et télématique
DEF

Action de convertir un document ou un fichier pour le rendre accessible via Internet.

OBS

webifier : Le Bureau de la traduction préconise dans sa Recommandation linguistique révisée en 2013 la minuscule initiale lorsque «web» est utilisé comme préfixe pour former des termes dérivés.

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • War and Peace (International Law)
CONT

POW [Prisoners of war] tap code. This is not international Morse code. In Communist Vietnamese POW camps, Americans devised a means to tap/spell messages with a small rock or other hard object through the walls of their cells. It was an alphabet matrix, five lines across, five lines down.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)

Spanish

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