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Submission + - The coming end of "free content" news? (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by Koreantoast on Friday May 25, 2012 @04:46PM

Koreantoast writes: Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway recently purchased 63 newspapers and plans to purchase more over the next few years, noted during an interview that the current free content model is unsustainable and will likely continue pushing toward more electronic subscription models. This coincides with moves by other newspaper companies like Gannett and the New York Times which are also erecting paywall systems. Buffett notes that newspapers which focus on local content, their unique product, would succeed even if they lose subscribers because their services are irreplaceable. Is this the beginning of the end of "free content" for local news?

Submission + - Google Now Searches JavaScript (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk on Friday May 25, 2012 @12:31PM

mikejuk writes: Google has been improving the way that its Googlebot searches dynamic web pages for some time — but it seems to be causing some added interest just at the moment. In the past Google has encouraged developers to avoid using JavaScript to deliver content or links to content because of the difficulty of indexing dynamic content. Over time, however, the Googlebot has incorporated ways of searching content that is provided via JavaScript.
Now it seems that it has got so good at the task Google is asking us to allow the Googlebot to scan the JavaScript used by our sites.
Working with JavaScript means that the Googlebot has to actually download and run the scripts and this is more complicated than you might think. This has led to speculation of whether or not it might be possible to include JavaScript on a site that could use the Google cloud to compute something. For example, imagine that you set up a JavaScript program to compute the n-digits of Pi, or a BitCoin miner, and had the result formed into a custom URL — which the Googlebot would then try to access as part of its crawl. By looking at, say, the query part of the URL in the log you might be able to get back a useful result.

Comment Re:Different tiers of paswords (Score 1) 339

by AlReece45 on Saturday December 31, 2011 @09:59AM (#38547522) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year?

Tier 0: Primary Email Address(es)

Why? So the other tiers (bank/reputation services) don't have access to reset ALL the other passwords.

Comment Re:Why is it being removed in the first place? (Score 2) 319

by AlReece45 on Saturday April 23, 2011 @10:39PM (#35918516) Attached to: Sony Should Pay For OtherOS Removal, Says Finnish Board

Seems a little off:

Yesterday, MegaCorp2020 legally removed $1000 from your safe without permission. You are now motivated to do something about it.

Your options:

1) Do nothing (congratulations laziness)
2) Go through the proper authorities to respond to the wrongdoing (4 years later: after utilizing 80 hours of your time at the beginning of this case, we have determined this was wrong in a class-action lawsuit: you can either have $200 or go against MegaCorp2020 by yourself)
3) Reclaim what was lost on your own (Suspect left a signed blank check under your safe, where your money was, it'll take 2 hours of your time to use it)
4) Respond with revenge (his house has a lot more bullet holes than it used to)

While I certainly understand that ethically/legally the actions may be wrong-- and two wrongs don't make a right-- when someone unethically takes something from their customers, is it surprising that the customers responded with their most logical choice (#3)

Legally: Its probably illegal.

Ethically: There's a lot of gray-- this is a shade of gray; Not a black.

* IANAL: I AM NOT A LAWYER
** Blank check is equivalent to "the signing key is a fixed part of the console's firmware" (use Search Engine).I don't know how accurate it is, but I haven't found any contradicting evidence.

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