The best way to deal with this is to send a polite email to the web master of any site that uses these (or any other M$ only extensions)
And people, the keyword here is polite, ok?
I have seen, admittedly on UseNet, flamewars erupt over this, and have seen webmasters respond positively to polite suggestions, that they should make their website standardized.
Please remember that this is not an IE vs Navigator issue, this is about encouraging webmasters to make their sites accessible to everybody, regardless of browser choice, java or no java, flash or no flash.
Sometimes, though, webmaster@xxx.com is not the right person to address, because (s)he might have to much prestige invested in the site to admit making mistakes, especially mistakes that decrease profits for xxx.com
wouldn't it be possible to set up a logging program that ran a metric on each message that came through, based on date, to and from and message content, that could not be reversed to actually produce that data, but would have an astronomically improbable chance of being reproduced by a fake message?
What you describe could easily be done by the mailserver, and in fact constitutes a message digest like the ones used for generating digital signatures.
original article: http://www.cnn.no/TEKNOLOGI/IT/0001/25/5838915.htm l
CNN NORWAY -- 16-year lod Jon Johansen broke the codes which protect DVD-disks. Now mediagiants like Sony, Warner and Disney want to punish the norwegian. Monday he spent 7 hours in police questioning.
"We have filed charges against Jon and Per Johansen on behalf of MPA and DVD CCA", confirms lawyer Espen Tøndel from Simons Musæus to Verdens Gang.
Motion Picture Association (MPA) is the organisation representing the interests of USA's seven largest movie producers: Walt Disney, Sony Pictures, MGM, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studio and Warner Bros.
DVD CCA controlls and protects copyrights on DVD products.
Jon and his father are charged with violating copyrights and penalcodes [sic!] after the 16-year old participated in an international ring that developed and distributed the program DeCSS. The program makes it possible to copy DVD movies.
"The charges are invalid. The codes on DVD disks do not provide copy protection, but play-back protection. All that we've done is to make it possible to play back DVD on our computers", Johansen told Verdens Gang after being released from questioning monday evening.
The "agency to combat economic crimes" also searched the home of pupil Jon Johansen (16) from Steinsholt in Vestfold.
Johansen were forced to hand over his mobile phone, computers, a number of CD's and the passwords to the computers.
The District Attorney Inger Marie Sunde from the "agency to combat economic crimes" confirms to the Evening Post that a search warrant was obtained for searching the home of Jon Johansen.
Sunde says the agency takes a serious view of the type of crime that the 16-year has been charged with.
Johansen became known in computing circles last year when it became public knowledge that he had participated in the group MoRE that broke the codes which protect DVD movies
Already at that time, when Jon Johansen was 15, was he contacted by the firm Simonsen Musæus which asked him to remove the information about DeCSS.
Last week, MPA's view was supported in an american court of law, so that links to DeCSS had to be removed from several american webpages.
So far, they are the only ones in the world against whom charges have been filed, after MPA last week had their view confirmed in an american court that all internet-links to DeCSS had to be removed. But he does not regret that he came forward in full view after the news about DeCSS became known.
"Somebody has to fight this fight", he says and prepares for a long night.
Johansen has posted his version of the Agency's action on the website www.slashdot.org
CNN Norway has written this article with contributions from Verdens Gang.
The poll asks "Should it be illegal to break the protection codes?" and the three options are (from top to bottom):
I think that the best usage for distributed computing in connection to the Genome Project would be a threading analysis:
Predict the coding sequences in a given portion of the genome and then thread them across a representative selection of the PDB, checking which structures represent probable proteins.
The problem here is that the amount of data to download would be rather significant, so we might not get a lot of participants.
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What's so special about Wireless LAN's as opposed to normal (Wirefull?) LAN's?
Seen from the computer's side, it's just a network card, isn't it?
> Linux (pronounced "Lynn-ix") Obviously, this guy never installed Linux on a machine with a soundcard....
And people, the keyword here is polite, ok?
I have seen, admittedly on UseNet, flamewars erupt over this, and have seen webmasters respond positively to polite suggestions, that they should make their website standardized.
Please remember that this is not an IE vs Navigator issue, this is about encouraging webmasters to make their sites accessible to everybody, regardless of browser choice, java or no java, flash or no flash.
Sometimes, though, webmaster@xxx.com is not the right person to address, because (s)he might have to much prestige invested in the site to admit making mistakes, especially mistakes that decrease profits for xxx.com
What you describe could easily be done by the mailserver, and in fact constitutes a message digest like the ones used for generating digital signatures.
Maybe it's just me being stupid, but how can the Linux box score 200% higher in generated traffic measured in ops/sec and only 6% higher in kbit/sec?
Does this indicate that the pages delivered were not identical?
original article: http://www.cnn.no/TEKNOLOGI/IT/0001/25/5838915.htm l
CNN NORWAY -- 16-year lod Jon Johansen broke the codes which protect DVD-disks. Now mediagiants like Sony, Warner and Disney want to punish the norwegian. Monday he spent 7 hours in police questioning.
"We have filed charges against Jon and Per Johansen on behalf of MPA and DVD CCA", confirms lawyer Espen Tøndel from Simons Musæus to Verdens Gang.
Motion Picture Association (MPA) is the organisation representing the interests of USA's seven largest movie producers: Walt Disney, Sony Pictures, MGM, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studio and Warner Bros.
DVD CCA controlls and protects copyrights on DVD products.
Jon and his father are charged with violating copyrights and penalcodes [sic!] after the 16-year old participated in an international ring that developed and distributed the program DeCSS. The program makes it possible to copy DVD movies.
"The charges are invalid. The codes on DVD disks do not provide copy protection, but play-back protection. All that we've done is to make it possible to play back DVD on our computers", Johansen told Verdens Gang after being released from questioning monday evening.
The "agency to combat economic crimes" also searched the home of pupil Jon Johansen (16) from Steinsholt in Vestfold.
Johansen were forced to hand over his mobile phone, computers, a number of CD's and the passwords to the computers.
The District Attorney Inger Marie Sunde from the "agency to combat economic crimes" confirms to the Evening Post that a search warrant was obtained for searching the home of Jon Johansen.
Sunde says the agency takes a serious view of the type of crime that the 16-year has been charged with.
Johansen became known in computing circles last year when it became public knowledge that he had participated in the group MoRE that broke the codes which protect DVD movies
Already at that time, when Jon Johansen was 15, was he contacted by the firm Simonsen Musæus which asked him to remove the information about DeCSS.
Last week, MPA's view was supported in an american court of law, so that links to DeCSS had to be removed from several american webpages.
So far, they are the only ones in the world against whom charges have been filed, after MPA last week had their view confirmed in an american court that all internet-links to DeCSS had to be removed. But he does not regret that he came forward in full view after the news about DeCSS became known.
"Somebody has to fight this fight", he says and prepares for a long night.
Johansen has posted his version of the Agency's action on the website www.slashdot.org
CNN Norway has written this article with contributions from Verdens Gang.
The poll asks "Should it be illegal to break the protection codes?" and the three options are (from top to bottom):
-Yes, that's why the codes are there.
-No, the movie producers are overprotective
-Only if it is used for commercial purposes.
I think that the best usage for distributed computing in connection to the Genome Project would be a threading analysis:
Predict the coding sequences in a given portion of the genome and then thread them across a representative selection of the PDB, checking which structures represent probable proteins.
The problem here is that the amount of data to download would be rather significant, so we might not get a lot of participants.