Virtual Imager

I see the same thing as Bruce in IE6

You can't see anything! It is a material that covers the skin (from view), but lets the ultra-violet rays tan the skin beneath it. The tanned skin is then displayed only by choice and at the complete discretion of the tanee! Nice try though. I think you'd look good in sunglasses, Madman!

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So I just figured I would try to get ahead of the game and prevent him doing this Daffi, who is this jerk? Does he have a site? Maybe you could report abuse to his webhost. I'm sure there are other people on this forum who might know how you can report him and to whom. You may not be able to protect your images, but you sure should be able to cause this guy some well deserved problems.

First of all, "dishing out information for free" on this forum is a choice. Many people do charge for passing along information. They are called consultants and teachers. Second of all, the information being passed here on the forum, in general, was not created by the person doing the passing, except in the case of people sharing scripts they have written and then they do it by choice. The information is being freely shared by the person who holds it, not stolen from him without his permission. Any copying of creative work (that the creator has not chosen to share) by its very nature causes loss to the author, composer, artist, or inventor who created that work. Creating and selling art is my livelihood. It puts food on my table. When you copy and enjoy and profit from my creative efforts, you are causing me to lose the fruits of my labor. Having other people labor for your benefit without compensation is immoral. If the work they were doing were physical instead of creative it would indeed be called slavery whether you believe it to be that or not. Luckily the courts do not agree with you. I also profit from teaching others how to do what I do. The information I give them is freely available on the internet in tutorials. I have no problem with that. I even am happy to share the information with people on this forum and do from time to time when a Photoshop question comes up and I can be of help to someone. That is an entirely different matter. No one is taking that information from me without my consent. I can choose when and with whom I share information. I can choose how much information I want to give away for free and at what point I should ask them to enroll in a workshop or ask someone else. With the information I give them, they may be able to make their own creations... that is good. And it is different then them taking mine. That's why information and creative property are not the same thing. Due credit is all well and good. It does not, however, make it ok to steal and appropriate other people's work without compensation.

Weezy, Can you point us to an example of an image on the web loaded that way? I'd like to see what happens to it when I try to save it, etc. Also, can you explain how it's done? Is there software that does this? Can it do it in batches? Or is it done manually one image at a time with each square being uploades seperately? Sounds cumbersome if that is the case... Thanks, VI PS: Gee thanks, Robert! If the whole world didn't already know how to steal images, they certainly do now! Do you have any recipes for bombs that you'd like to post too??? OK, sorry. Maybe the comparison is a bit strong But really! I know the info is out there and many people have that knowledge, but it's not as many as you think.... The average person (not the ones who moderate these forums, but the ones like me who come looking to learn, and not the ones in your IT classes, but the ones in other areas of study perhaps) would not know how to do that. Hell, plenty of them don't even know what the right click is for. After all the talk (on this thread today and on Weezy's thread about TCH Policy yesterday) about copyright infringement, do we really need to give people a step-by-step on how to do it?

I like that typing notification too... it keeps you from talking over each other and ending up with two different conversatiions going... you answering one thought and he on to another. If I know someone is typing a reply, I can hold my next thought and stay with the program. Usually.

Yeah... I see that works too. I guess we're all just up the creek then without the proverbial paddle. All we can do is trust people and you know how that far will get us. My belief in the inner goodness of all souls has been seriously challenged as of late. Oh well...

PM sent... I pasted in three articles from the NY Times, Vanity Fair, etc. concerning anti-semitism in France being not only on the rise, but prevalent. Scary stuff!

Thanks.... I'll try it. What are the major differences between the free and the pay versions? Anyone have any strong feelings about either version?

Thanks. Sounds like I should leave the exception in place. Youneverknow (pun intended) when I might need expert help to fix problems. Do these problems HAVE to be computer related????

I'm suddenly getting pop ups everytime the AIM ad for Travel Zoo appears in the AIM window. I've never had this before. Is this something new that AIM is selling to its advertisers? Can it be blocked? I have SP2 on my computer which is supposed to block pop ups. This is the only one that I get. While we're at it, can those annoying videos with sound that also show up as AIM ads (usually for movies) be blocked? Or should I just stop using AIM and try something else? I don't really want to do that as AIM keeps me connected to many family members at great distances. I doubt my 84 year old mother who lives by herself across the country would know how to install another IM program. She likes to know that she can talk to me whenever she wants throughout the day (thankfully she doesn't go overboard with it... yet). Any advice?

The only exceptiion I have set right now is Remote Assistance. If I change this (delete the exceptiion) will I still get automatic live updates for Windows and NAV? What about notifications of available updates on other software on my computer? Does anyone have any preferences about having or not having this exception? What exactly does it do?

I agree that disabling the right click functions is highly inconvenient... that's why I disable it only for images. On my pages all other functions of right click (like "Back," "Bookmark," and "View Page Source") still work. That's why I thought it was a pretty cool script. Bell, I wasn't able to get a group together to do the seminar in Provence... between the economy and the politics (anti-French feelings here, anti-semitism in France) and the general fear of travel, it was just bad timing. Hopefully it will happen another time. Thanks for asking. I disagree about copyright protection being taken too far. When people profit off the physical work of others without paying them for that work it is called slavery. Profiting off the creative work of others is equally illegal and abominable. VI

You? A negative attitude???? Not in a million years!!!! You have way too good a sense of humor to have a negative attitude. I am very intrigued by this steganography tool... I think I need to know more about it. Care to share? Naughty

Thanks, Dick, that's very helpful and exactly what I thought. Nice to see it in writing though.

I know it doesn't stop everyone. DaffiDuck asked specifically about preventing someone from rightclicking on an image and downloading it. That's what this script does, despite its limitations for stopping other types of theft. Hey Rob, before you go claiming credit, you should know I have the orignal negative. There's still something to be said for using my old trusty low-tech Nikon. I'm shooting digital now (just since May) and I think about that a lot... not having the negatives to prove I took the picture. Of course, there's the metadata (that shows the date created) and the original (unmanipulated) version of the image... better than what someone else would have if they stole the image and we ended up in court. I have to convince myself that that's enough or I'll drive myself crazy worrying about it. The pros of having my images up on my website to promote myself as an artist outweigh the cons of someone using my image. To protect myself, at least a little, I upload very low res images that would not look good printed at any kind of display size, I have hotlink protection enabled and rightclick disabled, I have a copyright notice on each image, and I have the original photos, negatives, slides or unmanipulated versions of the images to prove that they're mine That's as much as I can or am willing to do. If it's not enough, so be it, I guess. Unless someone out there has some other suggestions I can easily implement? I'm all ears.

I use this to disable right click on images only. It works well for IE, not quite so good for Netscape or Mozilla. They also have one that disables right click for all purposes, but I find that majorly annoying.

use your cPanel to enable hotlink protection....

My question is: what if the material is created by me, but an actual copyright has not been obtained through the copyright office? This applies especially to page content and design... sometimes we update pages on an almost daily basis... do we need to get a new copyright every time? Or for every image? Can an entire body of work be protected? And isn't it still theft (although harder to prove) if there is no actual copyright? Can abuse still be reported to TCH, or for that matter to the copyright office, if we have not copyrighted our images, design, content, text, etc?

Let us know what happens. VI

That's what I would do. Good for you. I'm glad someone is taking a stand. Everyone always says that if you post your images you just have to resign yourself to the fact that people will steal them and use them and take credit for them. But it doesn't have to be that way...

Try the links mentioned here

I built my site with Netscape Composer also. The newer versions seem to give me more problems than the old 4.0 or whatever I used years ago! Often, I use ftp to upload. I don't have a subdomain, so I'm not sure what the problem might be, but here are a few things to check: When you hit the publish button, make sure that you check all the settings on both tabs. On the Publish tab, you'll probably have to set up a new site with a new name for the subdomain and make sure that new site is selected from the drop down menu. Then make sure on the Settings tab that the settings correspond to the new site. It may be that you changed the settings for the new site, but have the old site selected on the Publish tab. Just a guess. HTH

thanks, Mike! Rock Sign