[meteorite-list] Encyclopedia of Meteorites : New features

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Sep 22 18:25:33 2006
Message-ID: <5co8h2lv7tin0k72psmred6e0c1ptn99t5_at_4ax.com>

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:18:25 -0500, you wrote:

>i was under the impression if you asked to copy someone's info, they usually
>said yes. if they did all the work, it seems to me it's common courtesy to
>ask them first if you can use it to save the work, time, and/or money it
>would take to gather the info yourself. i don't think it's a misuse of
>security issue at all. just my $0.0000000000002. take care
>susan

If all it did was stop you from copying text from that web page (as some sites
do) it wouldn't be an issue. But you seem to not have understood my point-- it
stops cutting and pasting from working AT ALL. For instance, if you happen to
have that page open and are working on something in Photoshop, you try to copy
an element from one photo to another, you CAN'T, because that web site has
disabled cut and paste. Or you are working in MS Office, and cutting a piece of
text from one document to another, you CAN'T, because that web site has disabled
cut and paste. Or you do a little math using calc, and you try to copy the
result to a document, you CAN'T, because... you get the point, and any number of
other examples. I don't know about other people on the list, but I am almost
always running more than one (and usually more than 2 or 3) things on the
computer at one time, and deeply resent having one web site disable a basic
feature of my full system while that web page happens to be open. That's what I
mean.

>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse_at_charter.net>
>To: "MeteoriteList" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
>Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:32 PM
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Encyclopedia of Meteorites : New features
>
>
>On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:21:21 +0200 (CEST), you wrote:
>
>
>>Registering is part of our computer world. Didn't you
>>register when you bought your PC
>
>Nope.
>
>>and regstered your
>>Windows software,
>
>Nope.
>
>>didn't you register at your web
>>provider ?
>
>Only because I have to.
>
>I haven't tried your site yet, so I'm not complaining about that (though if
>you
>have to register just to view stuff at all, that is usually a sign for me to
>move along from a site and not look back) but there is at least one
>meteorite
>site that really annoys me. I don't know which one it is off the top of my
>head, but the person is so paranoid about not having some of the text copied
>from their descriptions, they did something to the site that made it stop
>Windows from being able to use the clipboard while that site is open. Not
>just
>not copy from those pages, no other running program is able to copy or paste
>anything, either. If you have anything that you need to copy from any
>program,
>you have to close down any browser windows showing that web site (and when
>the
>problem started showing up every once in a while, it took me a while to
>figure
>out what was happening). THAT is what I consider an offensive use of
>"security".
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Received on Fri 22 Sep 2006 06:25:18 PM PDT