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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday May 21 2017, @07:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the trying-to-get-paid-for-what-they-do dept.

The Boston Globe website is closing off a hole in its paywall by preventing visitors who aren't logged in from reading articles in a browser's private mode.

"You're using a browser set to private or incognito mode" is the message given to BostonGlobe.com visitors who click on articles in private mode. "To continue reading articles in this mode, please log in to your Globe account." People who aren't already Globe subscribers are urged to subscribe.

Like other news sites, the Globe limits the number of articles people can read without a subscription. Until the recent change, Globe website visitors could read more articles for free by switching to private or incognito mode.

Source: ArsTechnica


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @06:53AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @06:53AM (#513366)

    ...but you demonstrate on a regular basis that you can consume text at a reasonable rate and comprehend that.
    With Trump[1] constantly in Transmit mode on Twitter, it seems obvious that he can -write-.
    The question is "Can he read?"

    Lots of folks have noted that his emotional development stalled at an early age (~7 years old).
    Did his reading skills freeze there too?

    He did an interview that's priceless.
    Tucker Carlson asks President Trump what he reads [bustle.com]

    Well, you know, I love to read. Actually, I'm looking at a book, I'm reading a book, I'm trying to get started. Every time I do about half a page, I get a phone call that there's some emergency, this or that. But we're going to see the home of Andrew Jackson today in Tennessee and I'm reading a book on Andrew Jackson. I love to read. I don't get to read very much, Tucker, because I'm working very hard on lots of different things, including getting costs down. The costs of our country are out of control. But we have a lot of great things happening, we have a lot of tremendous things happening.

    ...and I'm not the only one to think he's dyslexic. [google.com]

    [1] ...or is that a proxy/stenographer?

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Monday May 22 2017, @10:24AM (6 children)

    by anubi (2828) on Monday May 22 2017, @10:24AM (#513427) Journal

    I know I can get so involved in detail that I lose sight of the big picture....

    Trump seems to be a big-picture guy, not a detail guy like me.

    Here's hoping Trump will go through our government and clean house.

    I saw how fast a team of MBA's cleaned the techie-types out of our workplace. All that was left were building-fulls of hand-shaking suit men. They did not need to know a thing about coding or circuit design. What they claimed to be good at was their ability to get someone else to design and build stuff. I questioned their ability to back that up.

    Now, I would like to see if Trump can clean the bloatware out of our government the same way. Even if he can't read, its no big deal if he gets the job done.

    At least, nobody owns him. All these other guys we have had in that office have made things worse for us, and better for the ones who owned the Congressmen.

    Trump has shown over and over he does not mind rocking the boat.

    Whatever he does, I do not think he can do a worse job than those before him, some of which have been more crooked than a snake.

    I did not have the option on the ballot that I wanted: Power-On-Reset.

    So, I withhold any hating on Trump until I see more of what he's up to.

    One thing in particular I have concerns over is climate change, which I get the idea he does not take very seriously. I am quite concerned over it, even though my dog in this fight is quite old. I don't want my generation leaving that kind of mess in our wake.

    I feel I am one of many people that could offer insight on energy management, yet we are not "in the system", instead we are out to pasture. At this point in my life, it would cost me more to go to work than I would be paid.

    --
    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @06:43PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @06:43PM (#513659)

      He picked a VP whose chief characteristics is his bigotry and his fundamentalist religious zealotry.
      He picked a guy for SCOTUS who was the only 1 out of 7 appellate judges who is so anti-worker that thought that the "frozen trucker" should have allowed himself to die.
      He picked an Education Secretary whose life's work has been to destroy public education.
      He picked a HUD Secretary who knows nothing about housing.
      He picked an Energy Secretary who had said he wanted to cut 3 cabinet-level departments. (He couldn't remember the name of the 3rd--which was Energy.)
      Every single appointment Trump has made has come with no experience in the area and/or massive conflicts of interest.
      Trump himself is a giant violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause(s).

      Not only has he not cleaned house, he's set new records for doing the opposite.
      Expecting good things from this administration is putting on a blindfold and proceeding into a minefield.

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: 1) by anubi on Monday May 22 2017, @10:59PM (4 children)

        by anubi (2828) on Monday May 22 2017, @10:59PM (#513828) Journal

        Thanks for the post. I had not been following the guy all that close - I have my own dogs in another fight.

        I was not aware of several of the points you brought up. He looks more and more like the MBA crowd who did a lot of us in.

        I am thinking he'll crash the system so much it has to be reset.

        To me, our government seems like a Windows box in sore need of a reboot. Memory is maxxed out. CPU railing. Lots of stray processes still running. While the machine, despite all its resources, is doing very little.

        So far, we have seemed to kick the can down the road, using "extend the debt ceiling" legislation to pay for it, which I feel is coming back to bite us in a big way.

        --
        "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @12:43AM (3 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @12:43AM (#513865)

          Thanks for the post.

          No sweat.

          I had not been following the guy all that close

          I figured as much.

          The frozen trucker case [mprnews.org] is particularly indicative of the direction things are headed.

          A trucker was stranded on the side of the road, late at night, in cold weather, and his trailer brakes were stuck. He called his company for help and someone there gave him two options. He could drag the trailer carrying the company’s goods to its destination (an illegal and maybe sarcastically offered option). Or he could sit and wait for help to arrive (a legal if unpleasant option).

          The trucker chose None of the Above, deciding instead to unhook the trailer and drive his truck to a gas station. In response, his employer, TransAm, fired him for disobeying orders and abandoning its trailer and goods.

          The temperature in the cab was 17F and the heater didn't work with the truck idling.
          He was back to the trailer within 30 minutes.
          The fix-it guy had arrived within minutes of the trucker driving off and was still there upon the trucker's return.

          It appears that Judge Gorsuch crafted his inhuman opinion in an effort to improve his chances for appointment by a Reactionary to a higher court.

          our government seems like a Windows box [...] Lots of stray processes still running

          ...and, with this guy as admin, most of those are malicious.

          Hoping all your projects work out.
          Have a good one.

          -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

          • (Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday May 23 2017, @02:18AM (2 children)

            by anubi (2828) on Tuesday May 23 2017, @02:18AM (#513920) Journal

            Yes... that "frozen trucker" case. Thanks for putting that one in quotes. That clued me in to google it.

            That was a new one for me. You are absolutely right that I have not followed him all that close.

            Anyway, when I fed the "frozen trucker" quote into Google, and was quite disgusted at what it returned... I read the NPR ( Democracy NOW ) writeup on it.

            Your reply has had a huge negative influence on my impression of Trump.

            I agree with the trucker and find minor fault in how he handled things. I am sure the trucker has had "phone promises" just as all of us have, and had no proof that the fixit guy was on his way ( so he could warm up in the fixit guy's truck ), but he KNEW he was freezing to death. Given the circumstances, I would have probably done the same thing. Isn't it against the law to order someone to kill themselves?

            I got this snippet from your link:

            The other judges on the 10th Circuit were willing to apply a dollop of common sense and give the driver the benefit of the doubt.

            In his dissent, Gorsuch dismissed his judicial colleagues’ concerns about health and safety.

            If one cannot discern the letter of the law from the spirit of the law, I question why delegate that man as much authority as a dog-catcher?

            I remember there is some phrase in law where one's intent is major thing that one is judged on. From Wikipedia:

            The standard common law test of criminal liability is expressed in the Latin phrase actus reus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea, i.e. "the act is not culpable unless the mind is guilty".

            Now, how in the hell could Gorsuch pull that one off? The trucker had a guilty mind? He caused this whole thing with the brakes frozen up?

            I now question whether or not Gorsuch is human - this sounds like something right out of a Hitler-era concentration camp story. I wonder how Gorsuch himself would have handled it had HE been the trucker? The fact Trump is putting him in a powerful position, knowing this, to me is a huge negative reflection on Trump.

            In my understanding, the trucker provided due stewardship of that which was entrusted to him. I am sad stuff like this happens, I am glad it got reported, and feel negligent that it went under my radar.

            Sorry for another long rant, but I admit I got pretty steamed reading the links you sent me, and those found on Google.

            Seems I learn more from you guys on this site than anywhere else. Not all of it is pleasant though, but stuff that needs to be known about.

            --
            "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @04:07AM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @04:07AM (#513967)

              Hey, this is important stuff.
              If I got you aware of/interested in things, my work is done.
              {Dusts off hands} 8-)

              -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

              • (Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday May 24 2017, @12:17AM

                by anubi (2828) on Wednesday May 24 2017, @12:17AM (#514595) Journal

                Thanks for the "heads up! Incoming!". And pointing me to the stinking piles I had not seen.

                People like you are *exactly* what I find so important in reading Soylent News.

                Like you say, this IS important stuff. Ignorance leads to poor decisions.

                --
                "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]