You can use ClickToFlash on Safari in 10.6 to tell the Youtube site to serve the H.264 iPhone version to your browser instead of the flash version too - much nicer.
Not just the iPhone version, but all the way up to 720p if it's available (I believe it's the video the flash player serves you when you append &fmt=22 to the URL, if that still works).
I have no idea if MasterCard, Discover, or Amex have similar rules.
Mastercard definately do, although I can't find the PDF with their merchant guidelines in that I used to refer to. I've worked at a UK based retailer in the past, serving a customer with 'See ID' on the back of her Mastercard. She looked at me incredulously when I refused to accept her ID as proof of signature on the basis that I have no idea what a valid State of Connecticut drivers license looks like (and as parent said, it invalidates the card). She told me that "a policeman told me to do it for security".
Also, when it comes to checking for signatures on Chip & Pin based cards, generally no signature just means a lazy customer. The words "VOIDVOIDVOIDVOID" where the signature strip should be (which is what happens when you try and remove it) is a much more obvious sign that something's odd.
Another customer told me he refused to sign his cards "because then a thief could then learn my signature and use my credit card with it", "But surely leaving the space blank just means that the card thief would just write their signature in the space and save themselves the effort", "...Could I borrow a pen?".
Perhaps I'm not cool enough to get this, but these are the only words I can think of (and by think of, I mean grab from an online crossword cheat-bot), and none of them seem to fit:
Are you sure? I'm running 10.4 and I've never seen it do this. The nearest I can think of is when an app is updated and it asks to confirm whether or not you want to allow it access to the previous version's collection of shared passwords.
My University has a two independent computer networks as far as I know: "Computer Science" and "Everyone else". The "Everyone Else" network runs XP Home, MS Office, IE, with Exchange Webmail for email access, MSN Messenger and the MS Language tools. The Computer Science network runs White Box Linux, with Firefox/Thunderbird, OpenOffice and general Linux dev tools like Netbeans, GNU Emacs, Gedit etc.
Each network's suited to it's purpose. Obviously (for example) I'd prefer it if they made Firefox the default browser on the main network (an older version is available, buried in a 'Utilities' section of the start menu, most people don't know it's there) but then you lose IE-Only functionality in the webmail. I suspect the university gets massive discounts on it's bulk licensing by making MS pretty much ubiquitous.
I'd be curious to see how a more widespread Linux roll-out would work on campus. Obviously the more tech-savvy CS users have no problem with it, and obviously different tools would need to be made available to the other students (I can't see the art department having pupils write their dissertations in LaTex for example) with Windows being made available for the software that requires it.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, we've had pop-ups masquerading as spyware removal tools (amongst other things) for years now. To the people who fall for such things, the categorization of being a browser tool would mean nothing.
It's worth noting that the difficulty is only half of his argument. The other half can be summarised as "Screenshots can be art just as much as photography can". In some cases, this is true. The problems (other than copyright) occur when posted screenshots change from "This in my opinion is artistic and is posted here for others to see and appreciate" to "This is a picture of me hitting an elf for my blog. I've hosted it on flickr so as not to exceed my bandwith limit from my hosting providor".
But I pretty much agree with you though. Ludicorp created the service as a photography appreciation service and they have every right to enforce that. I usually make a point of posting screenshots etc for hosting on other sites such as Photobucket or my ISP's webspace.
Flickr user Pentadact has a rather nice justification on his Flickr profile:
Taking screenshots in games is just like taking photos in real life, only you're in mortal danger at all times and occasionally have to kill people backwards whilst taking them. They're photographs as much as any picture of something someone else made is.
I entirely agree with what he says there, although I can imagine Flickr adding a new flag to their picture browsing. Currently, there's "May Offend". Soon, maybe there'll be "Not a photograph"?
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You can use ClickToFlash on Safari in 10.6 to tell the Youtube site to serve the H.264 iPhone version to your browser instead of the flash version too - much nicer.
Not just the iPhone version, but all the way up to 720p if it's available (I believe it's the video the flash player serves you when you append &fmt=22 to the URL, if that still works).
Mastercard definately do, although I can't find the PDF with their merchant guidelines in that I used to refer to. I've worked at a UK based retailer in the past, serving a customer with 'See ID' on the back of her Mastercard. She looked at me incredulously when I refused to accept her ID as proof of signature on the basis that I have no idea what a valid State of Connecticut drivers license looks like (and as parent said, it invalidates the card). She told me that "a policeman told me to do it for security".
Also, when it comes to checking for signatures on Chip & Pin based cards, generally no signature just means a lazy customer. The words "VOIDVOIDVOIDVOID" where the signature strip should be (which is what happens when you try and remove it) is a much more obvious sign that something's odd.
Another customer told me he refused to sign his cards "because then a thief could then learn my signature and use my credit card with it", "But surely leaving the space blank just means that the card thief would just write their signature in the space and save themselves the effort", "...Could I borrow a pen?".
Do people not use headphones on your commute then?
Are you sure? I'm running 10.4 and I've never seen it do this. The nearest I can think of is when an app is updated and it asks to confirm whether or not you want to allow it access to the previous version's collection of shared passwords.
My University has a two independent computer networks as far as I know: "Computer Science" and "Everyone else". The "Everyone Else" network runs XP Home, MS Office, IE, with Exchange Webmail for email access, MSN Messenger and the MS Language tools. The Computer Science network runs White Box Linux, with Firefox/Thunderbird, OpenOffice and general Linux dev tools like Netbeans, GNU Emacs, Gedit etc.
Each network's suited to it's purpose. Obviously (for example) I'd prefer it if they made Firefox the default browser on the main network (an older version is available, buried in a 'Utilities' section of the start menu, most people don't know it's there) but then you lose IE-Only functionality in the webmail. I suspect the university gets massive discounts on it's bulk licensing by making MS pretty much ubiquitous.
I'd be curious to see how a more widespread Linux roll-out would work on campus. Obviously the more tech-savvy CS users have no problem with it, and obviously different tools would need to be made available to the other students (I can't see the art department having pupils write their dissertations in LaTex for example) with Windows being made available for the software that requires it.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, we've had pop-ups masquerading as spyware removal tools (amongst other things) for years now. To the people who fall for such things, the categorization of being a browser tool would mean nothing.
Now rolled into Google Toolbar for Firefox.
It's worth noting that the difficulty is only half of his argument. The other half can be summarised as "Screenshots can be art just as much as photography can". In some cases, this is true. The problems (other than copyright) occur when posted screenshots change from "This in my opinion is artistic and is posted here for others to see and appreciate" to "This is a picture of me hitting an elf for my blog. I've hosted it on flickr so as not to exceed my bandwith limit from my hosting providor".
But I pretty much agree with you though. Ludicorp created the service as a photography appreciation service and they have every right to enforce that. I usually make a point of posting screenshots etc for hosting on other sites such as Photobucket or my ISP's webspace.