But it's still dodgy - even the page which has the answer at the bottom strongly hints that you need to "Subscribe now" to get "Instant Access to this Solution". I don't have problems with paywalls but this is an extra level of deviousness.
Technically they don't break any of Google's rules. Google's First Click Free initiative is designed to allow paywalled content to be crawled and indexable, subject (among other things) to guidelines like:
- All users who click a Google search result to arrive at your site should be allowed to see the full text of the content they're trying to access. - The page displayed to all users who visit from Google must be identical to the content that is shown to Googlebot.
Now, these are true for EE, but the page which is shown to both Googlebot and users who've clicked through from Google is very obviously geared around making you think you have to pay to see the answer which is at the bottom of the page.
Also, Google only requires that click-through users see the same content as Googlebot. It doesn't require that a casual user sees the same content. Experts Exchange is in effect a paywalled site and you should think of it in the same way you think of other paywalled sites.
Yes, a common suggestion is that Experts Exchange *aren't* playing the system because the answers are there if you scroll down.
I was pointing out that they *are* playing the system because the answers are *only* visible after clicking through from a Google search result. Try finding a page where the answer is at the bottom, and copy the URL into a new tab/window/browser. Abracadabra! The answer disappears!
Experts Exchange is just another paywalled site at the end of the day, but they use dodgy practices to try and make you pay for their service rather than actually concentrating on being a useful service.
On iOS in order to update any of the apps Apple must release a full package (600MB+) and you must connect it to a computer and sync to receive these updates
This certainly *was* true, but iOS 5 will update using deltas (incremental updates), and without any requirement to ever link to a computer - it can be set up and run completely standalone. This addition is late to the party, and likely only available because of the competitors, but it is a moot point now (sorry).
Fair point, it never crossed my mind that the editors actually put any input in, so I just assumed the comment was the submitter's. But as for placing the comment, the reference to Carl Malamud makes it pretty US based
Maybe the patent office have realised that, rather than pay someone for their hard work producing patent reports, they can download them for free over the Internet from a P2P network?
There's no point listing them. It's trivial to set up a new alias so there would never be an up-to-date exhaustive list.
The only solution is to follow the trail of redirects until you reach a real site, and look at that URL. Even then, there are ways to mask that if the spammers really want to.
It closes the hole where the unencrypted *password* can be discovered, leading to not only that one session being compromised, but other sessions being compromisable too.
It's not *perfectly* good to only encrypt the login request, but it's certainly a lot better than "not much good". Security is all about layers, remember. Like an onion.
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The sleeping quarters on submarines are often *always* in use, one shift replacing another regularly.
The only thing I can't see on the iPad is the ability to list bookmarks/nites device-wide. You have to go into a book and tap the Jump To (book-shaped) icon to see your marks in that book
Press the bookmarky icon in the top right to add a bookmark.
Tap and hold to select text to add a note or highlight. And if it's an Amazon-bought ebook then your note/highlight/bookmark will be shared across all your Kindle apps/devices
Very strange, because I press the "Menu" button on my Kindle and I can see both "Add a bookmark" and "Add a note or highlight". And once I've done that I can list (and jump immediately to) bookmarks, notes and highlights for either my current book, or across the entire device. The bookmark even adds a little folded-page graphic to the top corner of the screen.
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Well, after you type the 'r' in 'pore', Google will stop showing you any Instant search results
You can turn on "Multiple sign-in" from your account settings page to get this to work: http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=181599
Google read your comment and liked it so much, they went back in time and did it just as you said!
That shouldn't leave you conflicted, because what you describe is already happening with or without the guff mentioned in the article
I realise they're just another paywall, I even said as much myself already.
But it's still dodgy - even the page which has the answer at the bottom strongly hints that you need to "Subscribe now" to get "Instant Access to this Solution". I don't have problems with paywalls but this is an extra level of deviousness.
Technically they don't break any of Google's rules. Google's First Click Free initiative is designed to allow paywalled content to be crawled and indexable, subject (among other things) to guidelines like:
Now, these are true for EE, but the page which is shown to both Googlebot and users who've clicked through from Google is very obviously geared around making you think you have to pay to see the answer which is at the bottom of the page.
Also, Google only requires that click-through users see the same content as Googlebot. It doesn't require that a casual user sees the same content. Experts Exchange is in effect a paywalled site and you should think of it in the same way you think of other paywalled sites.
Yes, a common suggestion is that Experts Exchange *aren't* playing the system because the answers are there if you scroll down.
I was pointing out that they *are* playing the system because the answers are *only* visible after clicking through from a Google search result. Try finding a page where the answer is at the bottom, and copy the URL into a new tab/window/browser. Abracadabra! The answer disappears!
Experts Exchange is just another paywalled site at the end of the day, but they use dodgy practices to try and make you pay for their service rather than actually concentrating on being a useful service.
Only if you've clicked through directly from a Google search result page
Only if you've clicked through from a Google search result
"My privacy is *very* important to me. Who wants to look after my email?"
Yes, that was the point of the parent post. Hence the CISCO/"cisco dog food", LUNS/"boobies" and BBC/"bbc1" examples too
This certainly *was* true, but iOS 5 will update using deltas (incremental updates), and without any requirement to ever link to a computer - it can be set up and run completely standalone. This addition is late to the party, and likely only available because of the competitors, but it is a moot point now (sorry).
Fair point, it never crossed my mind that the editors actually put any input in, so I just assumed the comment was the submitter's. But as for placing the comment, the reference to Carl Malamud makes it pretty US based
Actually we Brits don't. The service is based on the same system which already exists in the US and Australia.
Even the *submitter* didn't RTFA, which I think is a new Slashdot low.
Maybe the patent office have realised that, rather than pay someone for their hard work producing patent reports, they can download them for free over the Internet from a P2P network?
There's no point listing them. It's trivial to set up a new alias so there would never be an up-to-date exhaustive list.
The only solution is to follow the trail of redirects until you reach a real site, and look at that URL. Even then, there are ways to mask that if the spammers really want to.
It closes the hole where the unencrypted *password* can be discovered, leading to not only that one session being compromised, but other sessions being compromisable too.
It's not *perfectly* good to only encrypt the login request, but it's certainly a lot better than "not much good". Security is all about layers, remember. Like an onion.
The sleeping quarters on submarines are often *always* in use, one shift replacing another regularly.
As Phil Karlton once said
You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
The citation was given as the wordpress.org website
Or even that *possibility*. Very difficult to develop an iOS application using iOS
So have we got a new pope or not?
The only thing I can't see on the iPad is the ability to list bookmarks/nites device-wide. You have to go into a book and tap the Jump To (book-shaped) icon to see your marks in that book
Press the bookmarky icon in the top right to add a bookmark.
Tap and hold to select text to add a note or highlight. And if it's an Amazon-bought ebook then your note/highlight/bookmark will be shared across all your Kindle apps/devices
Very strange, because I press the "Menu" button on my Kindle and I can see both "Add a bookmark" and "Add a note or highlight". And once I've done that I can list (and jump immediately to) bookmarks, notes and highlights for either my current book, or across the entire device. The bookmark even adds a little folded-page graphic to the top corner of the screen.