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[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

Andu:

Thanks for lightening up this thread... ( I had to hold myself down 
after reading
"OJ certified not guilty")

Much needed/appreciated laughter aside: you make a good point. The 
sense of security when in fact anyone with ill intentions will find a 
way around it... etc. can be more dangerous...

Then where do we go from here?

Seems  we saying:
a) no please people, be smart, do not distribute MC engine as a player 
and
b) do not create a tool that will auto set *.mc  docs to auto boot from 
either
       i. the mc engine itself
	ii. some stand alone we might create with the engine embedded.

"there is no difference" (between a and b)  you said.

OK, then if that IS what we are saying (I am losing sight a bit of what 
each of you wizards thinks we can/should or should not do. except for 
Chipp who seems fairly adamant about being very careful.)

Then where do we go from here?

If we back off for a moment from the goal of "ubiquitous as Acrobat" 
then
one middle ground for now seems clear: at least you can distribute a 
standalone
whose duty is not to download and run just any stacks, but only those 
that we
create and which it calls for. Then we use the web to deliver that 
standalone. As we do now from

www.himalayanacademy.com/studyhall/

(fyi, that technology there is 2 years old... (2.3.2) need to upgrade 
it all but I want to understand all this first.)

or, Andu, do you mean to imply "No, go ahead and distribute the 
engine... there will always be a risk, no matter what you think you can 
do to secure it."

mmm. Scott Raney are you lurking? Please do jump in!

Happy Holidays to all!

Sivakatirswami



On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 08:09 AM, andu wrote:

> Here's a less microsoftian solution for a "sane" MC helper application 
> for browsers:
> make a stack which opens off screen or invisible with something like...
>
> on startup
> answer "Ready to format your hard drive??"\
> with "OK" and "Cancel"
> if it is "Cancel" then quit
> exit startup
>
> Move the answer dialog into the stack, save and make it a standalone. 
> Use this standalone as the helper application instead of MC engine and 
> send me $300 every year.
>
> Regards, Andu Novac