[meteorite-list] Encyclopedia of Meteorites : New features

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Sep 22 19:33:13 2006
Message-ID: <005a01c6de9f$75303de0$755ce146_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi, Darren, List

    By a remarkable coincidence, I first experienced
that same little security wrinkle this morning, and I was
completely baffled as to the cause. But now I know
why it happened... and where. It was a mystery at
the time, though.
    I saved everything in progress, shut down every
running application, turned the computer off and back
on, re-started everything, and was cursing WinDoze
for it the whole 10 minutes... (Do I have to apologize
to MicroSoft now? I hope not.)
    Since Darren has identified the site as David Weir's,
I recall from an old List discussion that he had a real
problem with no-necks lifting big chunks of his material
to adorn their eBay auctions. That was the motive for the
security, I suspect. (As an aside, David, there are at least
two ways that I discovered to circumvent that security.
Not that I was snitching text, of course...)
    Another common page security wrinkle is to direct
all right mousekey clicks to a snippy little alert box that
questions the user's integrity and ancestry simultaneously...
I have run into that on a number of older websites; it is
less annoying but equally circumventable.
    It's not the security device that annoys, as much as
not knowing what's wrong! Why not just title every such
.html page as "Clipboard Is Disabled While This Window
Is Open." Since IE (and most other browsers) displays
the page title in the top bar of the window, it would save
visitors from going berserk and shutting down their
computers...


Sterling K. Webb
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----- 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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