Apropos of Bizness -vs- 'Regulations': JPMorgan, via NYT:

Post #380,990 by Ashton 9/19/13 5:49:24 PM Reply	Apropos of Bizness -vs- 'Regulations': JPMorgan, via NYT: JPMorgan Chase to Pay $920 Million in Fines Over Trading Loss No link--sent via e-mail; dowanna 'use-up' the pittance allowed by NYT©Â of free peeks-for-the 88% unwilling to pay Real-ish $/mo. Love. It. Sock the Mofos-at-the-Top" pointedly ... (for their already having Shot-Self-in-Foot-and-Mouth Disease by losing a few ill-gotten $B --via a level of incompetence hardly-ever-Seen in the daily labours of dedicated Public Servants Anywhere. Fuck >You!< narcissist/monopolist MBA-deranged CIEIOS ... wherever found. Can we bring back Tar-and-Feathered solutions to extreme cases of megalomania?? ..Pretty Please? If All the CIEIOs were laid end-to-end at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.. Would the Mourning-Dove's call be any less sweet?
Post #380,991 by folkert 9/19/13 5:50:49 PM 9/19/13 5:51:36 PM Reply	Those are per computer... set with Cookies. So each computer gets its own. Unless you login or they have changed it. (Which I seriously Doubt) -- greg@gregfolkert.net "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Edited by folkert Sept. 19, 2013, 05:51:36 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #381,017 by CRConrad 9/20/13 12:10:32 AM Reply	Per browser, even.
Post #381,019 by folkert 9/20/13 1:26:42 AM Reply	Yessum but most people... Can't even begin to wrap heads around that. -- greg@gregfolkert.net "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Post #381,020 by CRConrad 9/20/13 3:21:36 AM Reply	"Most people", sure, but most people here...? I mean, by pure calendar years, our oldest and feeblest members are probably Ash, the Gryge, perhaps Hugh and Rand and... Idunno, something like that order(). I hope you're not saying those* guys wouldn't understand a concise explanation like my attempt below? Except I suspect most of them know this already: Web site owners often want or need to keep track of who has visited their site and some details of the visit (when, which pages, how many pages this month, etc). One way to do that is with "cookies", little snippets of data that the site's Web server sends to the user's browser to keep. Since each browser keeps its cookies stored in its own way, a user who has several browsers on the same machine also has several different sets of cookies on that machine. For places like the NYT, who want to keep count of how many pages you've visited for free, this means that the user can browse his allotted number of pages in each of his browsers, so for example having three different browsers installed means you can read thirty NYT pages each month in stead of ten. Except of course, as has been pointed out above, opening a link to such places in an "incognito", "private" or "anonymous" -- or what have you -- tab or window is even better, since that means any cookies get discarded after you close that session. (Thus you can in effect circumvent that policy totally, subject only to the limitations set by your own conscience.) In both FireFox and Chrome the menu you get when you right-click a link has an "open in private window" choice; the one in Internet Explorer (version 9 here) does not. --- (): Sorry to any greybeards who feel left out; 'tis naturally only because I've been misled by your youthful on-line demeanour. Or youngsters I promoted in age; that again is of course due solely to your impressive aura of intellectual maturity. -- Christian R. Conrad* Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #381,173 by rcareaga 9/22/13 10:30:47 PM Reply	I'm feeble enough to pay the NYT It's been the first place I go each online morning for the past fifteen years, and while I'd rather the tariff was more modest, I think it's an endeavor worth supporting. I'd probably pay for The Guardian as well. For our home-grown Chronicle? Not a chance. cordially,
Post #380,994 by Another Scott 9/19/13 6:06:58 PM Reply	"Private Browsing" is your friend. In Firefox on Winders: Ctrl-Shift-P In Chrome on Winders: Ctrl-Shift-N In Safari on Winders: Click on the "Gear" at the upper-right, select "Private browsing..." (Make the appropriate key substitutions for your OS of choice.) Cookies will be sandboxed in such a session. You can go to the NY Times (and probably the Washington Post and others that have a free article limit) and browse to your heart's content. When you reach the limit, just close the Private session window and start it again - your count will go back to zero. Alternatively, do a Google or Twitter or Facebook search of a quoted sentence from the article and you'll often get a clickable link to the full thing. Of course, if you read scores of articles at such sites every week, you should feel guilty enough to have some sort of subscription. ;-) HTH! Cheers, Scott.
Post #380,999 by Ashton 9/19/13 7:11:52 PM Reply	Ah.. thanks; timely reminder. And yes: Fair is fair: my irregular 'use' of their mondo-dbase just doesn't merit Conscience-money, by my lights.
Post #381,021 by CRConrad 9/20/13 3:24:37 AM Reply	One more tip on external URLs - posting, not opening: Ash: The one thing about the links you post that might be worth eliding is the extraneous information added as parameters to the URL itself. Technically, this is all that comes after the name of the page (or "resource") itself, delimited by a question mark, like so: www.server.site/category/page_or_article_name?who=is_on&what=base&where=first . Most notably, your Salon links usually contain something like "?category=PremiumUser&source=EmailNewsletter". As such, that's probably harmless (i.e, detrimental only to Salon's marketing analytics, since the rest of us who follow your link actually didn't read their e-mailed newsletter at all; unless of course you consider us clicking through an extended effect of sending you the letter...), but other sites are liable to be a lot more devious: Adding some gibberish like "xgsEgh1234dTfdg" in there, individually generated for each recipient, means they can connect each request to their Web server to each e-mail they sent out. Any such sites might get slightly suspicious at you opening the same page dozens of times. From different machines as far afield as Great Britain, Australia and Finland. Within hours or even minutes of each other... So trimming off the question mark and anything that follows it could sometimes be useful. (Other times, of course, that's where the actual address of the resource you're trying to reach is encoded. Like the post numbers here.) -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #381,025 by Ashton 9/20/13 6:58:06 AM Reply	Thanks for clear tip. Noted the [?] previously and had surmised ~~ your point, but failed to verify same. Just did a test: yup: post-[?] is detritus, so will likely remember to sanitize accordingly. 'twas another way of foiling NYTimes, etc. IIRC. To keep hand in the Boolean omniverse: Still keeping alive my Safari/SnowLeopard-version, despite ominous warnings/imprecations to move--> Chrome More I read of opinions of others on That--others also dissatisfied w/Apple's inattention to 'old'=5 yrs machines' Safari glitches--the less I like Chrome's presumptions-too. DAMN. (Already keep FF on-tap/updated as an Alt; just Don't Want To Spend hrs. manipulating/configuring NoScript ... into some form I can abide; White/Black-lists?? its er, granularity Demands pecksniffery way-beyond my tolerance-du-jour, y'know?) I don't fucking-Play with these mindless machines!.. anyway not since CP/M, say. So I get a half-life of ~3 days before I have to close/relaunch Safari; last Update did get a new Safari Version too: BUT Apple still hasn't figured out What >I< Want: On relaunch: put the various opened-pages (via "Reload Previous") in Finder --but Do Not Go There ie OPEN EACH tab Unless: I next click-on-one! Duh. Is this so hard for their boffins to Get? (For a while there, it looked as if they Did Grok This simple alteration.. but Noo, bloody script somewhere reverts to filling-in the URLS in background! Still.) If I had the phone # of the chief honcho of Updates.. ... and If Apple had FF's [about:config] You Could Toggle this 'feature' ON/OFF.. HATE this crap--but have to pay Attention to it, anyway. OK TMI: [burn-before-reading] Yeah too: all I Want is.. for some obscenely-Rich MegaCorp--to keep one of their products Still-working after a measly 5 Years of service: I Ain't about to trash a >$1K machine this soon--to get something ridiculously Thinner! and with soldered-in memory, etc. ..and I Want a pony, too. </burn> Sorry.. some days I HATES this trend of techno-run-amok for-its-Own-sake: not MINE. Back to Pine-mail on Lynx?
Post #381,053 by CRConrad 9/20/13 3:58:09 PM Reply	That FireFox relaunch thing... AFAIK it's default behaviour for FF to "restore" each tab, but not actually download it unless and until you open that specific tab. Could be that it's a non-default setting somewhere... Waitasec, will gogoogling. Here's the basics on restoring tabs (though nothing about whether they're actually loaded or not, AFAICS): https://support.mozi...-previous-session googlgooglgooglgoogl... Ah: Options, Tabs, "Don't load tabs until selected". HTH! -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #381,071 by Ashton 9/20/13 5:56:41 PM Reply	It's a Safari relaunch thing.. alas. Apparently FF DOES Get It; I just have preferred keeping the muscle-memory as makes Safari-moves seamless now.. As browsers go: I Be Conservative/maybe even Reactionary :-0 Thanks, "Don't load tabs until selected" is EXACTLY-what Safari HAS-not. Duh, Apple-kiddies. When I tire of cookie-harvesting and reloads I just may have to go FF ...which means wasted time with baby-talking to NoScript (as seems to need massaging to Each's prefs because: all those Customizable &^#^# Options.) Yeah one man's poison is ... And I Know: adapt/adopt or Die. Or something like that..

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