If we speak about Arab tourists, the ones rich and free enough to dare going to USA, we speak about some amazing money... Remember, Fortune 500 doesn't really include every guy especially from dictatorships.
I speak about a modern dressed, educated person who is unlucky to come from a place with muslim majority and acts as "suspicious" since the idiot at customs have no fscking clue about "jet lag" let alone left his home town once in his bureaucrat life.
I don't blame the customs, I blame the people actually spending their hard earned money and waiting at queue at consulates (yes!) to get into USA. This is beyond stupid and shows real lack of honor and pride if you ask me...
I think real world terms (money) will be more explaining. If I was offered to go to USA with $50K of money _without_ any kind of special treatment and having to spend all the money there, I would reject it.
I did a similar thing way before Sep. 11 against France. Simply rejected to travel giving the ultimate shock to consulate on phone. They wanted "background check" 3 days, I told them they should background check themselves especially what did their family elders did in Vichy period. I bet I got a nice "file" there now:)
You know what? If you are lucky to come from certain "non aryan" place and do couple of things very wrong, that "pain in the ass" could become literal.
I have no clue why people travel to USA from certain areas, it is like visiting Germany as a Jew in 1939. Goodwin or not, it is the truth for some. If people with thousands of dollars in their pockets and way better education/personality than that customs nazi guy keeps taking all that treatment, it will never, ever fix.
Of course, besides the reasons of it shipping for free, IE 4.x was a really piece of good engineering compared to Netscape 4. IE 5 shipped, Netscape was still a rival, the best IE ever for Windows, the 5.5 shipped and put the final nail to Netscape 4's coffin.
When Netscape/Mozilla were struggling, with no hope to compete, MS IE quality diminished. If this "free offer" causes windows security industry to concentrate on Enterprise, not the consumer level... It will really hurt MS in real terms, not some bad quality browser we talk about..
Speaking of not being effected by Windows, it is impossible. The first day I booted my G5 1600 Mac giving up Windows, as a Windows switcher, I tested a firewall with logging. There were thousands and thousands of port 135 hits (Blaster) effecting my browsing speed.
Can you compare Minidisc's format (ATRAC) to MP3 and tell a single difference between them? Don't be fooled by "free" offerings, MP3 is a damn proprietary codec owned by 2 companies and besides it was cleverly shipped as licensable, it is inferior to ATRAC, especially ATRAC3. If Sony had a little oversight for future, we would see.atr files instead of.mp3.
You sound like there was a single other way to put 74 min high quality music to 160MB of space and Sony didn't choose it. Minidisc in physical form also just differs from "standard" CD with a single difference, it is not Philips/Sony joint venture, it is a Sony invention. Nothing else.
You gotta thank a company from Cupertino opening the door for such absurd things and its "community" defending it. If nobody comes up with the idea of multiple game stores, competing in prices and service (like Symbian land), it is that companies success (!) too. Nobody asks for competition anymore, ein device, ein distribution point, ein community.
If it is wasn't the case, the idea of buying an high end expensive phone/device and using no name, untested batteries and ending up with a burned face etc. suing the vendor was another reason. People have no clue what "ampere" is and what kind of gigantic power stored in a technology which is already at its limits.
I guess we got old and they can't remember that junk named as "virus scanner" diverting users from real virus scanners as "they already have it" so they can't understand the concern.
It almost created a floppy age disaster until companies, users figured it is fast, free but doesn't really find viruses! I remember F-Prot and Thunderbyte first got their name by showing the virus farm user has been living with.
The issue is simple: AV is considered an extra "utility" by MS, not their bread and butter. So basically they won't care enough like a real security company.
These guys managed to make windows "safe", simply a "root terminal" with careless user on the other side clicking "OK" to each prompt like a robot.
If they weren't fast and they didn't share their data in certain large malwareinfections, MS you see now wouldn't exist. Ordinary users won't care about their lousy coding, business practices until one day, all Work computers they have acts like out of control, they lose massive money, the govt. departments cease to function.
AV programs (please, forget norton) has reached this point because there were free competition out there. Once more, MS breaks competition from outside, we will really see the results soon.
You sound like all the "competition" is evil, payware solutions. They are freeware and some very good freeware exists like Avast.
A fast scan for a AV product generally means it is doing pure signature based scans which were abandoned in MS DOS 6.22 ages by real AV companies. There is no analysis of any kind going on, no decompression, no link checking, no behavioral pattern checking.
Does every freeware AV do such things? Of course not but when OS vendor suggests "here is your AV solution", it is more like trusting to Apple's simple snow leopard trojan checker in Safari. Once there is a real developer who can code morphing code, that checker is useless.
Symbian Signed can access such critical data and basically you aren't getting a certificate if you don't explain the company who is in charge of signing it the reason you want to transmit users phone number.
Gathering ones phone number via application require "root access" in terms of UNIX. All of these policies have been setup by smart phone OS vendors because of real life issues. Apple simply ignored all the experience others gathered and rolled their own.
There is a hoax running especially in Europe, +358 or similar number, similar to Italy code (+35). Once you get a "ring" from that line or tricked calling it, your phone bill will be doomed. I speak about thousands of dollars (euros) here and you can't get that money back.
They can't filter the number too since telecom system only allows +35**** to be banned, which would mean Italy would get blocked. Problem of these guys was finding juicy rich people. Just imagine some iphone freeware vendor supplies it to them, a good database of iphone owners.
I can't believe people trying to justify "freeware" vendors access to phone number. It is totally impossible on other smartphone operating systems, on Symbian you can't even dare to try it.
There isn't a single other phone allowing this. On Symbian, you can't simply make your app "call" a number or send a sms without user getting a huge warning on screen.
Gathering phone numbers can be done only that way, there is no central "app store" which leaks user phone numbers.
I believe J2ME apps can't even try to do such sms/dial thing if they don't have a security cert.
These issues were fixed almost a decade ago, Apple ignored all the hard work done by others and rolled their own control freak store. This is just one of the results. I also saw couple of idiot developers on digg.com bragging about they know every user running their application and pirating it.That is one more scandal waiting in line to unearth.
People doesn't have monetary ties with MS, at least not the majority of them. Each person having "google ads" in his/her blog is a business partner of Google and you can't expect him/her to be objective.
In every Google story, sites become something like MS dealer conference, all 1000s of them managed to get an account from Slashdot and started posting.
I am not even mentioning "do no evil" and brain dead actually believing as if such thing would happen. You know, all prophets died very rich as they did no evil:)
This is really interesting one since every time the term "open source" confuses people like that, RMS'es point of open source doesn't have to be "free software" (as in speech) is justified.
I am not hoping you will understand my post as you attack another poster over a gigantic information/advertising monopoly. Heard the IBM's 1930s sale to Germans? Would it make any difference if the "application" and "device" was completely open source, documented? Would it change the way it was abused?
Still having problems? Apple iPhone/iPod, has some "license" like a freaking freedom fighter, almost open source fanatic. Does it make any difference for Developers and Users? Can they do whatever they want?
BTW, what is your problem with Symbian? Everyone doesn't like Google policies doesn't have to be a Symbian developer or user. To justify, Symbian foundation release will be so huge and game changing that everyone ignoring Symbian, especially after Qt acquisition are really making a poor decision right now.
It is terrible for us but some people loves it, especially casual type games rock with touchscreen.
Anyway, I think Sony and others are missing the point. It is how easy it is to buy a game, almost globally! You feel like gaming, you just enter your password and the game is there. No serials, no credit card numbers, no physical media, no J2ME warnings (don't ask), no IMEI entering while purchasing... IMEI is the most evil DRM system ever BTW... Buy a game tied to your device IMEI, device dies, game is gone too. Happened to me couple of times.
It is amazing that they don't see the real deal, take lesson from Apple's success with that "gaming creature". I remember almost buying a PSP game for 20 dollars and gave up just when I saw post and packaging cost $25!
I share everyones passionate hate against IE especially since I have to run a Virtual emulator to run that IE (for testing sites) but entering a browser that way, relying on a meta flag which can be implemented by anyone and trusting users to differentiate between a browser engine and UI sounds too much to me.
I believe users need exact same rights to install a browser rather than a ActiveX control so they better advertise their browser instead of plugging into others. They should also check the market for why exactly their browser isn't that much used, why some users have very serious privacy concerns about them lately and why a certain team at Google insists on driving people and companies nuts by insisting on that absurd "updater" policy.
What if MS plugged into Google browser and enabled IE engine whenever a site looks for IE? This has no end. People can't differentiate between an engine and a UI, even on slashdot you see comments like "but Safari is closed source", think about ordinary users and who will they contact when Google engine fails browser?
You must be a total jerk to take all that hassle to do the video and post it to Youtube with massive, needless overcompression. I feel sad for the work, nothing else. I think they did the youtube upload wrong too or did some huge mistake like editing in compressed format, hope some video pro having time will contact them for the raw source and package it fine.
If Apple didn't say a word about it and iTunes 9.2 somehow wiped out your entire library of family photos because of a glitch, you and the company going low enough to act like another vendor wouldn't have a WORD to say. Wanna bet? iTunes doesn't have to sync with anything else than Apple products reliably and even if you have an Apple product, it has tendency to make paranoid backups just in case if something goes wrong.
Do you know how stupid it is to act like one of the World's most advanced multimedia/smart devices fooling a media/file sync application hoping nothing would happen? Palm doesn't value their customers data at first place. First issue (if that joke continued) would be the "case insensitive" variant of HFS+J used versus ext2 and Apple's attitude towards easily ejectable devices with the help of journaling and aggressive (fs)syncing.
No, Blackberry licensed a shareware globally (aka World License) to support their customers who wishes to use iTunes. Apple never ever had any problem with people integrating with iTunes using documented methods like applescript, "system events", use of that plain XML library file.
If you want to see a software which goes way beyond Blackberry (and even Apple) one, check Nokia Multimedia Transfer. It supports dozens of phones, integrated with iTunes, Nokia is a very tough rival to Apple and Apple doesn't say a word about it. Why would they? The entire concept of OS X and iTools is used. It is actually what "iTools" are, integrated, dynamic libraries which can be embedded into any OS X application.
Please, please for God's sake... If someone idiot enough to ship a product with Microsoft USB vendor id and suggested/advertised the product can be used with Microsoft software, we would have an example in hand.
Every single keyboard conforms to HID profile, keyboards part is supported by every OS conforming to USB standards. It has nothing to do with iPod or a freaking Microsoft OS. I guess Linux having good USB support made people forgot how USB really works, what vendor ID is, what model ID is. Once upon a time, we even memorised hex vendor IDs.
Want another example? Logitech, Swiss guys spend millions to have extra software giving extra,bonus features. Now, my Chinese A4Tech keyboard will act like a Logitech device and I will demand Logitech to support it, with their software. Man is it WebOS or the abused brand "Palm" making people act like this? Do you know how low Palm got by acting like an iPod? I have never, ever heard a USB device acting like another from any vendor. Perhaps those counterfeit stuff could be doing it, not a real&known brand.
If I was a mobile developer (which is hell harder than desktop), I would stay away from a platform made by a company acting like that. "We can't sync with iTunes?", hell yes you can. Just download some damn software from Nokia and Blackberry and learn how to do it. Especially Nokia's multimedia sync which easily surpasses iTunes own syncing with wireless support should give a clue how it is done.
Near all of those formats are called "industry standard" for some reason: They are DESIGNED by AV industry themselves, completely documented and just because they are patented, it doesn't make them proprietary. They proprietary only on Wikipedia which seems to love that word, rest of the industry loves them as "vendor neutral" formats, ages ahead of anything comparative.
If MS video took off, they would see what proprietary is. They should be thankful to AV industry and Apple who kept up with true standards. There was nothing stopping Apple from tweaking AAC (which is part of mpeg4) a bit and coming up with.APL and suing everyone who dares to implement it. Of course, these industry outsiders loving to use the word proprietary but can't differentiate between extension and format are still calling AAC as some Apple format. No, it is part of MPEG4, Apple did a favour to you to keep up with MPEG STANDARDS and hell yes, multiple billions of dollars spent on the mpeg standards with millions of engineering hours, they will have patents on them just like $150M Hollywood production will have copyright.
If it is used in its purpose, ROT13 is a great thing. Ever checked Wikipedia about movie title just before entering the movie? Try one time but careful, just 3-4 lines later, entire plot has been described including the ending.
Back in old days, people on Usenet, discussing about a movie's turning points, used ROT13 in such paragraphs. It is just one example... It was never intended to be a real crypto system.
Ever considered someone like you, Mr. AC set that specific page knowing the law allows such things? Or people loving to attack their own countries founder, never seen anywhere else are setting those pages and complaining to courts themselves?
As you are guessing, I am guessing too... No hard feelings!
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If we speak about Arab tourists, the ones rich and free enough to dare going to USA, we speak about some amazing money... Remember, Fortune 500 doesn't really include every guy especially from dictatorships.
I speak about a modern dressed, educated person who is unlucky to come from a place with muslim majority and acts as "suspicious" since the idiot at customs have no fscking clue about "jet lag" let alone left his home town once in his bureaucrat life.
I don't blame the customs, I blame the people actually spending their hard earned money and waiting at queue at consulates (yes!) to get into USA. This is beyond stupid and shows real lack of honor and pride if you ask me...
I think real world terms (money) will be more explaining. If I was offered to go to USA with $50K of money _without_ any kind of special treatment and having to spend all the money there, I would reject it.
I did a similar thing way before Sep. 11 against France. Simply rejected to travel giving the ultimate shock to consulate on phone. They wanted "background check" 3 days, I told them they should background check themselves especially what did their family elders did in Vichy period. I bet I got a nice "file" there now :)
You know what? If you are lucky to come from certain "non aryan" place and do couple of things very wrong, that "pain in the ass" could become literal.
I have no clue why people travel to USA from certain areas, it is like visiting Germany as a Jew in 1939. Goodwin or not, it is the truth for some. If people with thousands of dollars in their pockets and way better education/personality than that customs nazi guy keeps taking all that treatment, it will never, ever fix.
Of course, besides the reasons of it shipping for free, IE 4.x was a really piece of good engineering compared to Netscape 4. IE 5 shipped, Netscape was still a rival, the best IE ever for Windows, the 5.5 shipped and put the final nail to Netscape 4's coffin.
When Netscape/Mozilla were struggling, with no hope to compete, MS IE quality diminished. If this "free offer" causes windows security industry to concentrate on Enterprise, not the consumer level... It will really hurt MS in real terms, not some bad quality browser we talk about..
Speaking of not being effected by Windows, it is impossible. The first day I booted my G5 1600 Mac giving up Windows, as a Windows switcher, I tested a firewall with logging. There were thousands and thousands of port 135 hits (Blaster) effecting my browsing speed.
Can you compare Minidisc's format (ATRAC) to MP3 and tell a single difference between them? Don't be fooled by "free" offerings, MP3 is a damn proprietary codec owned by 2 companies and besides it was cleverly shipped as licensable, it is inferior to ATRAC, especially ATRAC3. If Sony had a little oversight for future, we would see .atr files instead of .mp3.
You sound like there was a single other way to put 74 min high quality music to 160MB of space and Sony didn't choose it. Minidisc in physical form also just differs from "standard" CD with a single difference, it is not Philips/Sony joint venture, it is a Sony invention. Nothing else.
You gotta thank a company from Cupertino opening the door for such absurd things and its "community" defending it. If nobody comes up with the idea of multiple game stores, competing in prices and service (like Symbian land), it is that companies success (!) too. Nobody asks for competition anymore, ein device, ein distribution point, ein community.
If it is wasn't the case, the idea of buying an high end expensive phone/device and using no name, untested batteries and ending up with a burned face etc. suing the vendor was another reason. People have no clue what "ampere" is and what kind of gigantic power stored in a technology which is already at its limits.
I guess we got old and they can't remember that junk named as "virus scanner" diverting users from real virus scanners as "they already have it" so they can't understand the concern.
It almost created a floppy age disaster until companies, users figured it is fast, free but doesn't really find viruses! I remember F-Prot and Thunderbyte first got their name by showing the virus farm user has been living with.
The issue is simple: AV is considered an extra "utility" by MS, not their bread and butter. So basically they won't care enough like a real security company.
These guys managed to make windows "safe", simply a "root terminal" with careless user on the other side clicking "OK" to each prompt like a robot.
If they weren't fast and they didn't share their data in certain large malwareinfections, MS you see now wouldn't exist. Ordinary users won't care about their lousy coding, business practices until one day, all Work computers they have acts like out of control, they lose massive money, the govt. departments cease to function.
AV programs (please, forget norton) has reached this point because there were free competition out there. Once more, MS breaks competition from outside, we will really see the results soon.
You sound like all the "competition" is evil, payware solutions. They are freeware and some very good freeware exists like Avast.
A fast scan for a AV product generally means it is doing pure signature based scans which were abandoned in MS DOS 6.22 ages by real AV companies. There is no analysis of any kind going on, no decompression, no link checking, no behavioral pattern checking.
Does every freeware AV do such things? Of course not but when OS vendor suggests "here is your AV solution", it is more like trusting to Apple's simple snow leopard trojan checker in Safari. Once there is a real developer who can code morphing code, that checker is useless.
Symbian Signed can access such critical data and basically you aren't getting a certificate if you don't explain the company who is in charge of signing it the reason you want to transmit users phone number.
Gathering ones phone number via application require "root access" in terms of UNIX. All of these policies have been setup by smart phone OS vendors because of real life issues. Apple simply ignored all the experience others gathered and rolled their own.
There is a hoax running especially in Europe, +358 or similar number, similar to Italy code (+35). Once you get a "ring" from that line or tricked calling it, your phone bill will be doomed. I speak about thousands of dollars (euros) here and you can't get that money back.
They can't filter the number too since telecom system only allows +35**** to be banned, which would mean Italy would get blocked.
Problem of these guys was finding juicy rich people. Just imagine some iphone freeware vendor supplies it to them, a good database of iphone owners.
I can't believe people trying to justify "freeware" vendors access to phone number. It is totally impossible on other smartphone operating systems, on Symbian you can't even dare to try it.
There isn't a single other phone allowing this. On Symbian, you can't simply make your app "call" a number or send a sms without user getting a huge warning on screen.
Gathering phone numbers can be done only that way, there is no central "app store" which leaks user phone numbers.
I believe J2ME apps can't even try to do such sms/dial thing if they don't have a security cert.
These issues were fixed almost a decade ago, Apple ignored all the hard work done by others and rolled their own control freak store. This is just one of the results. I also saw couple of idiot developers on digg.com bragging about they know every user running their application and pirating it.That is one more scandal waiting in line to unearth.
People doesn't have monetary ties with MS, at least not the majority of them. Each person having "google ads" in his/her blog is a business partner of Google and you can't expect him/her to be objective.
In every Google story, sites become something like MS dealer conference, all 1000s of them managed to get an account from Slashdot and started posting.
I am not even mentioning "do no evil" and brain dead actually believing as if such thing would happen. You know, all prophets died very rich as they did no evil :)
This is really interesting one since every time the term "open source" confuses people like that, RMS'es point of open source doesn't have to be "free software" (as in speech) is justified.
I am not hoping you will understand my post as you attack another poster over a gigantic information/advertising monopoly. Heard the IBM's 1930s sale to Germans? Would it make any difference if the "application" and "device" was completely open source, documented? Would it change the way it was abused?
Still having problems? Apple iPhone/iPod, has some "license" like a freaking freedom fighter, almost open source fanatic. Does it make any difference for Developers and Users? Can they do whatever they want?
BTW, what is your problem with Symbian? Everyone doesn't like Google policies doesn't have to be a Symbian developer or user. To justify, Symbian foundation release will be so huge and game changing that everyone ignoring Symbian, especially after Qt acquisition are really making a poor decision right now.
I hope you will post a similar post when Apple or Microsoft does something like that and close the case.
I can't use it, basically not available in my country which iPod/iPhone store exists. It is in fact, basic as that.
It is terrible for us but some people loves it, especially casual type games rock with touchscreen.
Anyway, I think Sony and others are missing the point. It is how easy it is to buy a game, almost globally! You feel like gaming, you just enter your password and the game is there. No serials, no credit card numbers, no physical media, no J2ME warnings (don't ask), no IMEI entering while purchasing... IMEI is the most evil DRM system ever BTW... Buy a game tied to your device IMEI, device dies, game is gone too. Happened to me couple of times.
It is amazing that they don't see the real deal, take lesson from Apple's success with that "gaming creature". I remember almost buying a PSP game for 20 dollars and gave up just when I saw post and packaging cost $25!
I share everyones passionate hate against IE especially since I have to run a Virtual emulator to run that IE (for testing sites) but entering a browser that way, relying on a meta flag which can be implemented by anyone and trusting users to differentiate between a browser engine and UI sounds too much to me.
I believe users need exact same rights to install a browser rather than a ActiveX control so they better advertise their browser instead of plugging into others. They should also check the market for why exactly their browser isn't that much used, why some users have very serious privacy concerns about them lately and why a certain team at Google insists on driving people and companies nuts by insisting on that absurd "updater" policy.
What if MS plugged into Google browser and enabled IE engine whenever a site looks for IE? This has no end. People can't differentiate between an engine and a UI, even on slashdot you see comments like "but Safari is closed source", think about ordinary users and who will they contact when Google engine fails browser?
You must be a total jerk to take all that hassle to do the video and post it to Youtube with massive, needless overcompression. I feel sad for the work, nothing else. I think they did the youtube upload wrong too or did some huge mistake like editing in compressed format, hope some video pro having time will contact them for the raw source and package it fine.
If Apple didn't say a word about it and iTunes 9.2 somehow wiped out your entire library of family photos because of a glitch, you and the company going low enough to act like another vendor wouldn't have a WORD to say. Wanna bet? iTunes doesn't have to sync with anything else than Apple products reliably and even if you have an Apple product, it has tendency to make paranoid backups just in case if something goes wrong.
Do you know how stupid it is to act like one of the World's most advanced multimedia/smart devices fooling a media/file sync application hoping nothing would happen? Palm doesn't value their customers data at first place. First issue (if that joke continued) would be the "case insensitive" variant of HFS+J used versus ext2 and Apple's attitude towards easily ejectable devices with the help of journaling and aggressive (fs)syncing.
No, Blackberry licensed a shareware globally (aka World License) to support their customers who wishes to use iTunes. Apple never ever had any problem with people integrating with iTunes using documented methods like applescript, "system events", use of that plain XML library file.
If you want to see a software which goes way beyond Blackberry (and even Apple) one, check Nokia Multimedia Transfer. It supports dozens of phones, integrated with iTunes, Nokia is a very tough rival to Apple and Apple doesn't say a word about it. Why would they? The entire concept of OS X and iTools is used. It is actually what "iTools" are, integrated, dynamic libraries which can be embedded into any OS X application.
Please, please for God's sake... If someone idiot enough to ship a product with Microsoft USB vendor id and suggested/advertised the product can be used with Microsoft software, we would have an example in hand.
Every single keyboard conforms to HID profile, keyboards part is supported by every OS conforming to USB standards. It has nothing to do with iPod or a freaking Microsoft OS. I guess Linux having good USB support made people forgot how USB really works, what vendor ID is, what model ID is. Once upon a time, we even memorised hex vendor IDs.
Want another example? Logitech, Swiss guys spend millions to have extra software giving extra,bonus features. Now, my Chinese A4Tech keyboard will act like a Logitech device and I will demand Logitech to support it, with their software. Man is it WebOS or the abused brand "Palm" making people act like this? Do you know how low Palm got by acting like an iPod? I have never, ever heard a USB device acting like another from any vendor. Perhaps those counterfeit stuff could be doing it, not a real&known brand.
If I was a mobile developer (which is hell harder than desktop), I would stay away from a platform made by a company acting like that. "We can't sync with iTunes?", hell yes you can. Just download some damn software from Nokia and Blackberry and learn how to do it. Especially Nokia's multimedia sync which easily surpasses iTunes own syncing with wireless support should give a clue how it is done.
Near all of those formats are called "industry standard" for some reason: They are DESIGNED by AV industry themselves, completely documented and just because they are patented, it doesn't make them proprietary. They proprietary only on Wikipedia which seems to love that word, rest of the industry loves them as "vendor neutral" formats, ages ahead of anything comparative.
If MS video took off, they would see what proprietary is. They should be thankful to AV industry and Apple who kept up with true standards. There was nothing stopping Apple from tweaking AAC (which is part of mpeg4) a bit and coming up with .APL and suing everyone who dares to implement it. Of course, these industry outsiders loving to use the word proprietary but can't differentiate between extension and format are still calling AAC as some Apple format. No, it is part of MPEG4, Apple did a favour to you to keep up with MPEG STANDARDS and hell yes, multiple billions of dollars spent on the mpeg standards with millions of engineering hours, they will have patents on them just like $150M Hollywood production will have copyright.
If it is used in its purpose, ROT13 is a great thing. Ever checked Wikipedia about movie title just before entering the movie? Try one time but careful, just 3-4 lines later, entire plot has been described including the ending.
Back in old days, people on Usenet, discussing about a movie's turning points, used ROT13 in such paragraphs. It is just one example... It was never intended to be a real crypto system.
Ever considered someone like you, Mr. AC set that specific page knowing the law allows such things? Or people loving to attack their own countries founder, never seen anywhere else are setting those pages and complaining to courts themselves?
As you are guessing, I am guessing too... No hard feelings!