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After the big accounting scandal that came to light earlier this year, now they have announced ~7000 layoffs at Toshiba, mostly in Japan, but some worldwide.
This article says that the PC division will continue. Another source suggests that the PC division may be sold off. Anyone want to speculate about potential buyers?
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 27 2015, @07:57PM
Thank you, AC - you're right, the japantimes simply refused to load at all unless I enabled javascript. It should be noted, however, that the fortune article also uses javascript. I got the page on first loading, but it was mostly ugly. Plain text, and placeholders for stuff. Enabling javascript gives me the full webpage, complete with photos and the box with the quote in it.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 27 2015, @09:33PM
By default, I block absolutely everything except visible text.
I also do not accept cookies.
I have never had the slightest problem with JapanTimes pages.
Indeed, for me, the "your browser needs Javascript" nonsense was actually useful.
It helped me find a good spot in the page's source code in order to index the page to a point very near the start of the actual content [japantimes.co.jp]--which is about halfway down the page for me.
(Their use of accessibility features is extremely poor.)
It would be interesting to know the mechanism--or, perhaps, combination of mechanisms--at work for the folks having difficulty.
...and the Fortune.com page has about the same number of scripts embedded as the "problematic" page and actually would need JavaScript enabled|whitelisted to see its content.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 27 2015, @10:51PM
It seems that I have, at some time or another, given partial permissions to Fortune, and then made them permanent. That is why I was able to scroll down to the text on Fortune's page.
I have never visited Japantimes before, and there were zero permissions enabled.
I run NoScript, as well as RequestPolicy. Yes, they are kinda redundant, but I've gotten used to clicking one, then the other icon when I want to view blocked content. I opened the Japantimes page in Iron browser, and I read the article, then closed it. It is a little more detailed than the Fortune article.
I don't see a need to give permissions to Japantimes, and I'm wondering why I gave permissions to Fortune.