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How to create a multi-page JPG or PDF
J. Clarke wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
Just for hohos, I went to the NYT site using Firefox and loaded articles until it told me my ten count had been exceeded. So then I went there from Chrome and was able to see another 10. I didn't try doing it from Opera and Safari and the several other browsers I have installed. Then I logged in as a different user (that's logged into Windows, not into the NYT site) and opened Firefox and had no trouble reading 10 more articles. Did you try deleting cookies from within the browser? -- Crow- im fcucking druk * Knghtbrd makes sure to log everything Crow- says tonight ... MrBump heheh MrBump He said he'd marry me! damnit!! Crow- dude no way Knghtbrd MrBump - he's not THAT drunk MrBump Knghtbrd: I'm crushed ) |
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How to create a multi-page JPG or PDF
| Just for hohos, I went to the NYT site using Firefox and loaded articles
| until it told me my ten count had been exceeded. So then I went there | from Chrome and was able to see another 10. I didn't try doing it from | Opera and Safari and the several other browsers I have installed. | If you just go into the Firefox privacy tab and select custom settings from the dropdown you'll see cookie options. If you then select to accept first party cookies, block 3rd-party cookies and delete all cookies when the browser closes, you'll have full cookie functionality while blocking a great deal of spying between websites. The only thing you might lose would be useful functionality of permanent cookies: The ability for websites to recognize you on return. You should then be able to also read the NYT to your heart's content. To put it another way, the NYT does not actually have a paywall. If they did you'd have to log in to read articles. If you ever find that you can't read articles at NYT you probably have sub-optimal cookie settings that are allowing you to be spied on by ad companies as you travel online. |
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How to create a multi-page JPG or PDF
Mayayana wrote:
The ability for websites to recognize you on return. That and more. Some shops store your cart in a cookie. so if you decide not to buy yet and return a few days later, all the stuff you selected already is still there. I hate it when stores don't offer that. But the main thing is, it's up to me to decide whether something is valuable to me or not and to allow permanent cookies accordingly. It is not up to them to mess around on my machine regardless. Axel |
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In article , Axel Berger
wrote: you're ripping them off because you get 10 free articles per month and for more than that, you're supposed to pay. as i said, there are ways around that, but by doing so, you're getting something for free to which you are not entitled. The honest straightforward way to do that is logging in with credentials and having them count the number of articles on their server. that's one way. it's not the only way. it's also a hassle for those who are under the 10 article limit. the point of the 10 article limit is to provide enough of a sample to entice people to sign up. locking it down will drive people away. What they actually seem to be doing is snooping and hiding stuff on your computer to be shared with all kinds of other intruders they allow to run their malicious programs on your machine. nonsense, but even if that were true, you're arguing *for* a dedicated app because an app is sandboxed and nothing else can get at it nor can it get at anything else. Only first party cookies, mostly deleted at the end of session with some exceprtions and no scripts, and if those only first party scripts, none by foreign and external snoopers is the sensible and standard configuration. The way they do,it, they also quite nonsensically allow ten article per machine used, so home, work, tablet and phone make 40 for many users. Conversely it is only ten for all users sharing a machine together. Any sense in that? Thought not. there's a lot of sense to what they're doing because it's hassle-free for those who don't want to subscribe with an enticement to subscribe once they reach the limit. simple concept. But non-simple, sneaky, and underhand implementation. nonsense. |
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In article , PeterN
wrote: Now that you have vented a personal attack, that means you won't admit being wrong. If the previous sentence is incorrect, please explain your logic. you attacked first, as you always do. Kindergarten response. EOD wrong again. you prove my point even further by attacking again. facts are facts. |
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How to create a multi-page JPG or PDF
In article , tlvp
wrote: desktop (no hyphen) program is old school, ... Darn tootin' it is ... as am I. no surprise there. ... especially with laptops being so common these days. With changing times, standard terminology gets to become a bit of a misnomer ... just like "dialing" a phone number in the absence of dials. people don't say dial a number much anymore. they say text me, since voice calls are far less common. ... everyone now calls it an app, ... Present company excluded, if you don't mind :-) . one exception makes no difference. ... which is short for application, a term which actually goes back over thirty years. Oh, the term goes back way beyond "over thirty years": I remember filling out applications to college over half a century ago, as well as job applications and an application for a driver's license long before that. But they weren't being called apps yet, then :-) . that's a different context and you know it. application in the context of computers is another name for a program. software can be divided into two general categories, application software and systems software. on the mac, end user software has always been called an application, and on os x, the extension is .app. classic mac os didn't have extensions, but the file type was appl, short for application. on windows, end user software is often called an executable and has an ..exe extension. It took Apple (who else, after all?) to coin (and fail to copyright) the term "app", as "short" for "application program" (in lieu of simply "program"). nope. users did that, not apple. in fact, the term predates apple's use of it. But enjoy your revisionary etymological history. it isn't me who is revising it. |
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In article , Mayayana
wrote: | ... which is | short for application, a term which actually goes back over thirty years. | | Oh, the term goes back way beyond "over thirty years": I remember filling | out applications to college over half a century ago, as well as job | applications and an application for a driver's license long before that. | But they weren't being called apps yet, then :-) . It took Apple (who else, | after all?) to coin (and fail to copyright) the term "app", as "short" for | "application program" (in lieu of simply "program"). The only people I've heard call Desktop software an app is programmers. then you need to get out more. Apple then popularized it for iPhone trinket apps. no they didn't and they're not trinket apps either. the app store is a distribution method, and includes things like photoshop touch and lightroom mobile. I now assume people mean phone or tablet software when they say "app". nope. Most people wouldn't know to call PC software an app. oh yes they do. I never liked the word. It sounds lazy. And a program is really not an application until it's used for something. nonsense. an application is an application whether or not it's used and regardless of what it's used for when it is. For that reason I prefer "program". A word processor is a program. A letter typed in that program is an application. nope. something done in a word processor is a *document*. (Microsoft started calling .Net programs "solutions", which is similar to "application". The term has marketing built-in.) ..net is microsoft proprietary. But then programmers are also fickle about what they call themselves: author, developer, programmer, engineer, architect.... They've tried every term from the building trades. there are many types of programmers. some write apps, some write operating systems and some write server back end code. there's a wide range of programming tasks and therefore there cannot be one single term to define them all. On the bright side, I haven't heard anyone say "proggie" for awhile. That was the most adolescent, obnoxious one I've heard. another is 'lappie for laptop. "i have a new proggie on my lappie." gag. |
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