[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/books/review/far-from-the-tree-by-andrew-solomon.html?pagewanted=all[/url]

[url]http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/syria-drops-internet-1C7319908[/url]

Syria's collectively offline.


US/Clinton release plan to go for the AIDS tipping point (more treated than infected)
[url]http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/29/15544096-clinton-us-to-go-for-aids-treatment-tipping-point?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=6[/url]


UN implicitly recognizes Palestine as a state
[url]http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/29/15546351-un-upgrades-palestinian-status-in-body-bolsters-statehood-claim?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=4[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;319960][url]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/books/review/far-from-the-tree-by-andrew-solomon.html?pagewanted=all[/url][/QUOTE]
The article loads, then suddenly disappears. Not sure why that is, but Flash is broken for me because I want it that way, if that has anything to do with it.

Sweden's running out of trash

[url]http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/28/163823839/sweden-wants-your-trash[/url]

[QUOTE=jasong;319989]The article loads, then suddenly disappears. Not sure why that is, but Flash is broken for me because I want it that way, if that has anything to do with it.[/QUOTE]It may be the paywall. You're allowed free access to 10 articles a month (per PC). If you go over that, it will load the article, but then overlay a solicitation to buy a digital subscription.

[QUOTE=schickel;319997]It may be the paywall. You're allowed free access to 10 articles a month (per PC). If you go over that, it will load the article, but then overlay a solicitation to buy a digital subscription.[/QUOTE]
Well, it shows up for a split second, so I wonder what a well-timed screen capture could accomplish.

[QUOTE=jasong;320005]Well, it shows up for a split second, so I wonder what a well-timed screen capture could accomplish.[/QUOTE]

A well-timed ESC key will work just as well, I think.

[QUOTE=axn;320007]A well-timed ESC key will work just as well, I think.[/QUOTE]:davieddy:

Don't say it out loud....they might notice and fix the security hole in their paywal!

[QUOTE=schickel;320019]Don't say it out loud....they might notice and fix the security hole in their paywal![/QUOTE]

This is second hand info, but...

They already know about it, dude! Their IT people are not morons. The behavior is by design. It'd be too easy to build something that you can't bypass. But they'd rather have us cheapskates view the page (and the ads therein) rather than not view them at all. They just hope that those who're annoyed enough will subscribe.

just copy the link and open it with a different brand of browser. This is how I read all the Nate Silver stuff during the election.

an interesting bit
[url]http://bit.ly/t4pz3M[/url]
you play the judge, in an Uk court : hear the defendant, the police report, mitigating/aggravating facts, what the judge ask...
and the judge explain the sentance