Hi,
Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker maintain a metered paywall, allowing users to read a certain number of articles at no cost. Once you have read the "free/sample" articles, you are required to pay for the subscription. The reason why we mention a link might be paywalled is because there is a chance that some readers won't be asked to pay for it when they click on the source link.
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This is in contrast to some other news outlets like say The Information, which has a hard paywall, that requires you to absolutely pay for content if you want to read an article there. If we link to The Information, we will 100 percent mention that the link is paywalled. And if you look at some of the stories we have covered that The Information broke, you will see that we have instead linked to other news outlets that rewrote The Information's stories.
We try not to link to any paywalled outlet unless there is no alternative source available, in which case we have limited choice. Sometimes an alternative source is available but the story might be riddled with factual errors or too many grammatical mistakes, in which case, we again resort to the paywalled outlet. In any case, we try to link to an alternative source as well, which would not charge readers whenever that is possible.
Fair point, but consider this: He was 12 years, 11 months and a few days old at the end of January 2018. He turned 13 in February of last year. The Guardian story was published this week, so the kid had exactly a year (and a few days) to grow by one year. Which he did.
A friend had a similar experience. His unlocked iPhone won't support SIM card from one of the carriers for some reason. He complained to Amazon and they sent a new unit. Nobody ever came to pick the "defective" iPhone unit. He just tried SIM card from a different carrier and it worked. He has been using both the iPhone units for more than a year now.
There isn't one. Here's what Akamai advises: "The best way to identify if a device is vulnerable or actively being leveraged for UPnProxying is to scan an end-point and audit it's NAT table entries. There are a handful of frameworks and libraries available in multiple languages to aid in this process. Below is a simple bash script used during this research. It is capable of testing a suspected vulnerable endpoint by attempting to dump the first 10,000 UPnP NAT entries from the devices exposed TCP daemon."
Hi,
The developer event, where this announcement was made, is still underway. Bixby being made open to developers was announced about five minutes ago and there is no news article that has covered it yet. So I wrote it myself and that is why there is no link in the summary. When a good source becomes available, we will add the link and any additional details.
Thanks!
Yes, an earlier version of the story mentioned the screen resolution of the older generation MacBook Air. We regret it. We do not know the exact resolution of the new MacBook Air's display. What we know so far is that it is has a Retina display. We will update the story when Apple's official website adds tech specs of the new devices they are announcing today.
That's a fair question. As someone else pointed out here, ISRO is not a household name in the US and EU. Plenty of people know it, but most do not. That's why whenever we are covering a subject that is outside of the US and UK, we try to add some context. It's a very common practice. See for instance, this WSJ headline [link will take you to Imgur, a third-party image and video hosting service].
That said, I think it would have been better if the headline said India's Space Agency. I have made the change.
That's general tech support. You can go a week back and see similar tweets from them to some users. They are now acknowledging that it's a widespread issue. A tweet directed at all their followers saying something is wrong with their connection today would quality as an acknowledgement. You have a nice day, too.
Before anyone asks, we are aware of Apple's developer conference. The company has just unveiled iOS 12, and is describing the new features. Most of the features are yet to be announced, so we will be running that story in about half an hour.
No, they did not kill it. They had a new motto for Alphabet, but Google's CoC continued to have instances of "don't be evil." Here's a version of its CoC, captured in January this year by Internet Archive.
Thanks. Due to some unicode issue, the correct Wikipedia link is breaking in the summary. An alternative would be using a URL shortner, but I think many people would not want to have a secondary link, so I have swapped the link with a different source altogether.
Hi,
We're aware of the issue. Some planned backend maintenance and upgrade is partly to be blamed for it. Things would be back to normal, if not better, in a few days.
I agree with your general assessment of Forbes. They do have a contributor program which many people have been abusing for years by writing misleading articles.
However, this particular story is written by a full-time staff reporter there. It's his scoop, and many reputed security journalists have shared it on social media, lending it more credibility. (Also, in general, we avoid linking back to Forbes because of its annoying daily quote thingy and stand on adblockers.)
Opinion on Forbes is mine and it does not reflect the views of other people on Slashdot's staff.
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Hi, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker maintain a metered paywall, allowing users to read a certain number of articles at no cost. Once you have read the "free/sample" articles, you are required to pay for the subscription. The reason why we mention a link might be paywalled is because there is a chance that some readers won't be asked to pay for it when they click on the source link. [More context: Some outlets let you read an article for free if you visit their links in incognito mode, or if you tapped their link on Twitter or other platform. Disclaimer: Like other news aggregators that rely on news from a number of sources, we don't condone breaking paywall of a news outlet. We use an excerpt or two from their stories, and in return, send them some traffic.] This is in contrast to some other news outlets like say The Information, which has a hard paywall, that requires you to absolutely pay for content if you want to read an article there. If we link to The Information, we will 100 percent mention that the link is paywalled. And if you look at some of the stories we have covered that The Information broke, you will see that we have instead linked to other news outlets that rewrote The Information's stories. We try not to link to any paywalled outlet unless there is no alternative source available, in which case we have limited choice. Sometimes an alternative source is available but the story might be riddled with factual errors or too many grammatical mistakes, in which case, we again resort to the paywalled outlet. In any case, we try to link to an alternative source as well, which would not charge readers whenever that is possible.
Fair point, but consider this: He was 12 years, 11 months and a few days old at the end of January 2018. He turned 13 in February of last year. The Guardian story was published this week, so the kid had exactly a year (and a few days) to grow by one year. Which he did.
macOS and iOS, by default, use curly quotation marks -- we support straight quotation. You can change it by going to keyboard settings.
Sorry about the typo in the headline. I deeply regret it.
A friend had a similar experience. His unlocked iPhone won't support SIM card from one of the carriers for some reason. He complained to Amazon and they sent a new unit. Nobody ever came to pick the "defective" iPhone unit. He just tried SIM card from a different carrier and it worked. He has been using both the iPhone units for more than a year now.
There isn't one. Here's what Akamai advises: "The best way to identify if a device is vulnerable or actively being leveraged for UPnProxying is to scan an end-point and audit it's NAT table entries. There are a handful of frameworks and libraries available in multiple languages to aid in this process. Below is a simple bash script used during this research. It is capable of testing a suspected vulnerable endpoint by attempting to dump the first 10,000 UPnP NAT entries from the devices exposed TCP daemon."
Hi, The developer event, where this announcement was made, is still underway. Bixby being made open to developers was announced about five minutes ago and there is no news article that has covered it yet. So I wrote it myself and that is why there is no link in the summary. When a good source becomes available, we will add the link and any additional details. Thanks!
Sadly there isn't one. Literally all the tech journalists we follow have mentioned their displeasure over the keyboard.
Yes, an earlier version of the story mentioned the screen resolution of the older generation MacBook Air. We regret it. We do not know the exact resolution of the new MacBook Air's display. What we know so far is that it is has a Retina display. We will update the story when Apple's official website adds tech specs of the new devices they are announcing today.
That's a fair question. As someone else pointed out here, ISRO is not a household name in the US and EU. Plenty of people know it, but most do not. That's why whenever we are covering a subject that is outside of the US and UK, we try to add some context. It's a very common practice. See for instance, this WSJ headline [link will take you to Imgur, a third-party image and video hosting service]. That said, I think it would have been better if the headline said India's Space Agency. I have made the change.
That's correct -- what an embarrassing error. Thanks for pointing it out. We have fixed it.
Meant to say, "They are *not acknowledging [...]"
That's general tech support. You can go a week back and see similar tweets from them to some users. They are now acknowledging that it's a widespread issue. A tweet directed at all their followers saying something is wrong with their connection today would quality as an acknowledgement. You have a nice day, too.
Changed it with another link. Is the new link accessible?
Before anyone asks, we are aware of Apple's developer conference. The company has just unveiled iOS 12, and is describing the new features. Most of the features are yet to be announced, so we will be running that story in about half an hour.
All valid points. Thanks for taking the time out to outline them. (No sarcasm.)
Akamai seems to corroborate the 8-million figure, which Hotstar reached on Tuesday. (They reached the 10-million figure on Sunday.)
It's a he, anonymous coward.
Good point.
No, they did not kill it. They had a new motto for Alphabet, but Google's CoC continued to have instances of "don't be evil." Here's a version of its CoC, captured in January this year by Internet Archive.
Thanks. Due to some unicode issue, the correct Wikipedia link is breaking in the summary. An alternative would be using a URL shortner, but I think many people would not want to have a secondary link, so I have swapped the link with a different source altogether.
That was supposed to be Apple. Fixed, thanks for pointing it out.
This is a follow-up to that story with more details, including what has happened since Apple acknowledged the issue and said it was working on a fix.
Hi, We're aware of the issue. Some planned backend maintenance and upgrade is partly to be blamed for it. Things would be back to normal, if not better, in a few days.
I agree with your general assessment of Forbes. They do have a contributor program which many people have been abusing for years by writing misleading articles. However, this particular story is written by a full-time staff reporter there. It's his scoop, and many reputed security journalists have shared it on social media, lending it more credibility. (Also, in general, we avoid linking back to Forbes because of its annoying daily quote thingy and stand on adblockers.) Opinion on Forbes is mine and it does not reflect the views of other people on Slashdot's staff.