Re: $521m + $45m

From: John E. Hadstate (jh113355_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:03:51 -0500

"Roger Schlafly" <rogersc1@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:cS8Ob.17316$JK6.1206152287@twister2.starband.net...
> "Richard Heathfield" <dontmail@address.co.uk.invalid> wrote
> > Okay, lots of people obviously seem to think that doing kinda-OLE on the
> Web
> > is a cool idea; otherwise, presumably they wouldn't do it.
>
> Maybe. If it is for ads, then they may know that it is obnoxious and
> do it anyway.
>
> > frankly I think the Web would be better off without that kind of junk.
>
> I agree with you. This patent only covers starting things like Flash
> animations starting automatically. If the user has to punch a Play button
> to get the sound and video, then the patent doesn't cover it.
> I think that it is better to punch a Play button anyway, and I hope the
> patentholder forces Msft to drop the obnoxious feature of having that
> junk play by itself whether I like it or not.
>

Stop your Messenger service and set your Internet Explorer security settings
to "High" for all domains.

Then, as you discover desirable features that don't work, re-enable those
features individually as Custom security settings or, if you don't want to
grant certain privileges to everyone, put the site into the Trusted Sites
security domain and grant the required privilege to that domain.