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That's easy for sites to work around by adding a date of birth field to the sign-up forum. From BugMeNot TOS: "You will not submit sites that have any form of age access verification (COPPA)."

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Log-in anyhow? Share your account http://bugmenot.com/

Try http://bugmenot.com/

It really helps a lot on those annoying sites.

http://www.bugmenot.com

I have accounts where the password is something useless like that. Those are on sites where the host forced me to create an account to get a coupon or something similarly idiotic to drive up their subscription rates

When you come across these sites you should post your log-in info to http://www.bugmenot.com/
It's helped me get into sites that I didn't wish to log into and I pay back by posting log-in's myself.
It's become well known and many sites have requested theirs not be listed; but in the long run it works very well.

I guess I'll be using Bugmenot with WP like I have with the NY TImes for years.

most people probably couldn't be reasonably expected to remember every fake alias they've ever created.

So don't, use bugmenot instead.

Other sites that require simple registration can usually be circumvented with sites like bugmenot.

Other sites, yes, but not this one. From BugMeNot's submission page: "Likewise, please do not submit logins for paid services."

First, that link requires registration. Yuck.

I prescribe Bugmenot to solve that.

Second, IIRC from Pharm School, expiration dates are legally mandated by the FDA to be when the active ingredient(s) degrade to 90% efficacy?

You're completely wrong.

Alternate link to harvard:

It turns out that the expiration date on a drug does stand for something, but probably not what you think it does. Since a law was passed in 1979, drug manufacturers are required to stamp an expiration date on their products. This is the date at which the manufacturer can still guarantee the full potency and safety of the drug.

Most of what is known about drug expiration dates comes from a study conducted by the Food and Drug Administration at the request of the military. With a large and expensive stockpile of drugs, the military faced tossing out and replacing its drugs every few years. What they found from the study is 90% of more than 100 drugs, both prescription and over-the-counter, were perfectly good to use even 15 years after the expiration date.

There are several tools you can use to make the whole "required registration for everything" a little less annoying:

http://www.bugmenot.com/ has usernames and passwords that people have submitted for a bunch of sites. Very handy when you want to read something in a web forum (or other site, but I've found forums to be the worst) that has really obnoxious registration requirements.

http://mytrashmail.com/ is an anonymous email service that lets you use a temporary email address, without requiring registration of any kind. It's good when you need to sign up for a website that insists on a verifying your email address, so you don't have to risk giving them a useful address.

Finally, if you use a password manager (I've been using KeePassX, it's pretty good and cross-platform), then you don't have to remember passwords anymore, so there's no reason to use a weak password for anything. I don't have any idea what most of my passwords are.

Ever heard of http://www.bugmenot.com/ ?

It's nifty, use that instead ...

You don't even need to register a throwaway address for Hulu or sites like it. Enter bugmenot, savior of the net.

Bugmenot unfortunately lost their courage a few years ago when they changed the way they function. I suspect they were threatened by a lawsuit. Now, any domain or site owner can request that bugmenot exclude their site from participating, and I've found that so many of the popular ones do that it's lost all practical value for me.

I now use mailinator for all my throwaway registrations, then if I care in the least I change the password just in case someone else reads from the same random email name that I did. I usually don't. For more "durable" sites where I'm likely to participate over a longer time, I'll create a unique sneakemail address and keep them around forever. When something like the Gizmodo breach happens I simply flag them as spam, and they plonk all the email from them for me. I've had to do that a couple of times now. I find their service is well worth the $24/year.

You don't even need to register a throwaway address for Hulu or sites like it. Enter bugmenot, savior of the net.

NYTimes should ditch the paywall for more ads, it is the only way to make money unless you give them something truly useful and unique for a subscription.
People can just use www.bugmenot.com to get around logins.

username: bugmenot
password: bugmenot
http://www.bugmenot.com/view/lucidchart.com

Initial letter from FBI and response by Wikimedia Foundation
  Wikipedia article in question, image in question.
  New York Times story (login). Britannica uses the logo

Two solutions to this:

#1 - bugmenot.com
#2 - mailinator.com

I haven't used my real e-mail for a (useless) website in something like 7 years.

To actually read TFA: http://www.bugmenot.com/view/nytimes.com

try BugMeNot next time. (just looked on bugmenot for gdgt) Crap, gdgt is blocked from bugmenot. well, you can use this for other websites that you need to log into on a one-time basis

http://www.bugmenot.com/

For those of us who don't have NYTimes accounts, remember bugmenot

Check BugMeNot for a login so you don't have to register.

(I believe a free, painless registration is required to read the full article)

BugMeNot.com

From bugmenot.com:
Username: arizonafrank
Password: poochie

Idiot-run newspapers are why bugmenot was invented.

Energy costs are higher on islands. And in that spirit, islands make an ideal testing place for new energy infrastructure projects, like a fleet of all electric cars. Its a pretty interesting idea, replacing gas stations with battery swap stations. From the NYT (go to bugmenot.com to get around the stupid subscription) article: "We always knew Hawaii would be the perfect model," he said in a telephone interview. "The typical driving plan is low and leisurely, and people are smiling." On this note, what other energy projects would be ideally suited for an island test like this? Personally, I'd like to see a test of a breeder nuclear reactor, a full scale Hydrogen distribution network, a superconducting grid..... And as long as I'm wishing for things I'm not gonna get I want a pony too.

http://www.bugmenot.com/view/facebook.bug (facebook.com is banned from bugmenot, hence the facebook.bug entry)

It's not asking me for a login (Could be as I'm Canadian and in Canada), but did you try bugmenot??

Sadly you can't view other people's status without an account (I guess). I guess I'll just pop over to BugMeNot and...

Facebook isn't even listed on BugMeNot, as they requested that logins for Facebook be blocked.

DAMMIT!

Seems a bit ironic, I can't verify that Facebook isn't blocking BugMeNot because they requested BugMeNot block them...

Sadly you can't view other people's status without an account (I guess). I guess I'll just pop over to BugMeNot and...

Facebook isn't even listed on BugMeNot, as they requested that logins for Facebook be blocked.

DAMMIT!

Seems a bit ironic, I can't verify that Facebook isn't blocking BugMeNot because they requested BugMeNot block them...

Everyone seems to have a problem with it. It's really bugged me that I've never been able to get to bugmenot from work:

Access to this web page is restricted at this time.

Reason:
The Websense category "Hacking" is filtered.

URL:
http://www.bugmenot.com/

does bugmenot count?

Warning: TFA requires registration, or, bugmenot.

If she is convicted of this, that will essentially mean that if you give a site false information when registering, and then access their site, you are immediately guilty of criminal computer trespass under Federal laws, and face up to a year in prison.

Huh. So much for bugmenot.com, then. I'm going to miss their spam-reducing service.

http://www.bugmenot.com/view/pcworld.idg.com.au

also available : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6349

NYTimes randomly requires free registration on popular stories.

Some bugmenot accounts

There is also this for the really paranoid or lazy. If this were a smaller site/forum I'd just hand over my NYT information and let people use it. 'Snot like I haven't enough email addresses to create new accounts with if I wanted.

Oh, and how come I'm not seeing anyone mention Al Gore yet? While certainly he didn't claim to invent the internet it still would have been kind of funny to say, "There! Finally someone can shut Al Gore up!" Or something silly like that.

NYTimes usually requires registration:

http://www.bugmenot.com/view/nytimes.com
user: bugbugbug7
password: bugbugbug

http://bugmenot.com/ is a pretty effective way of getting past those registration requirements for a lot of sites, including the NYT.

I've been using NearlyFreeSpeech for close to 3 years now and would happily recommend them to anyone. They're hosted in the USA so you are subject to subpoenas etc.. but they have the best privacy policy and freedom of speech stance of anyone out there. Their pay for what you use model is also a real money saver. http://www.bugmenot.com/ have been using them since Go Daddy booted them out.

It comes down to one big case of "It's not fair, they're able to read my freely available content without being forced to watch my adverts or register their (fake) personal information".

If search engines follow this ACAP standard and no longer index more than a tiny snippet of the content, then nobody will be able to avoid adverts or avoid registration ever again.

Spiralfrog allows downloads and has universal as their biggest label, but the downloads are DRM encapsulated windows media files which can be copied to mp3 players but not burned to CD, spiralfrog requires a special Active-X plugin so its windows + IE only. I wonder whether the average user will tolerate the restrictions in exchange for being free, or if they'll just stick with p2p downloads instead?

On a whim, I went to SpiralFrog and installed their software. I logged in with a fake account (thanks BugMeNot), downloaded a song from IE7 and from Firefox, and then ripped the DRM off of both using FairUse4WM. The end result was free music, without DRM, and without giving away any of my personal information. If the only trade-off is that you have to use Windows (Firefox works, so you don't have to use IE), that seems fair enough to me. The music is still in WMA format, but with the DRM stripped off you can convert it to whatever format's useful for you.

http://www.bugmenot.com/

Can we?

Where do I sign up to read the announcement?

here

Parent may be violating copyright, but he's not a troll. The subject refers to a username / password you can use to bypass NYT's lame required registration thing (see http://www.bugmenot.com/view/www.nytimes.com )

Or you can use this extension in Firefox to bypass all such 'login required' sites...

For those of you still in the dark out there...

http://www.bugmenot.com/view/www.latimes.com

It has a list of account logins and passwords that you can use for this article.

use http://www.bugmenot.com./

Yet another reason to use bugmenot. . .

I think the least-biased review company is Consumer Reports. They don't have the best electronics reviews always, and their site requires a subscription (and they blocked the one user who appeared on bugmenot), but their reviews are very fair, in my opinion. I read that when they test a car, they don't go ask the dealer - they actually send someone to buy one, posing as a regular consumer, and then test it for days or even months, going as far as loaning it to the families of their employees to report back on. I recall them testing these odd devices called condoms once. I feel ashamed, as a geek, to not know what these devices do - I always thought I was good at hardware, but I have no idea what these might relate to. I got payed $20 to write this post saying they're the best. All kidding aside, I do believe that they have the most unbiased reviews. They even said that people shouldn't upgrade to Vista yet!