Sorry, Vic, I'm a little slow at times.
Keeping in mind this is Big Corporation, to implement the process
to do as you suggested (in your Wed 22:28 post) would take months.
It's kinda like the old saying about IBM in 1980 when they were
planning the PC: "It would take them a year to plan an empty box."
(They actually got the PC out the door in a year.)
George
Victor Odhner wrote:
>
> George, you wrote:
> > I have some reservations about Big Corporation
> > taking a snapshot of my screen. ...
>
> Geez, I thought we were past that. The other
> respondents had made it real clear that this is
> out of line, so I didn't even address it. Let
> me just add my voice to the chorus:
>
> Ain't NO way they could get away with that.
> Besides, it would be blocked by browser options in
> many cases. Even if enabled, the snap process
> might run out of memory trying to create 100-500K
> bytes of image data, depending on how much
> information they were willing to lose. ;-)
> It might try to compress the image on a slow CPU;
> or it might tie up a dial-up connection for a while
> trying to upload the picture.
>
> But even if they were to succeed, they couldn't
> prove that the member had any part in it. It's just
> silly cloak-and-dagger theatrics to go sneaking
> around inside the member's private property so they
> can look over his shoulder as he signs the agreement.
>
> All *I* wrote about was how they could achieve the
> same ends without resorting to hidden cameras and
> secret handshakes on the client side. The server
> has ALL the information it needs to meet both the
> practical need and any legalistic requirements;
> and this with virtually no reliance on the members'
> browser options, memory size, CPU speed or bandwidth.
>
> Vic
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