[time-nuts] Paywall rant

[DaveH]

(cough)  http://www.breakthepaywall.com/  (cough)

IE7 on up...

CAVEAT:  I have not tried these on the ACM  or IEEE sites but this works on
a couple sites I visit.

Dave 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com 
> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of paul swed
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 06:15
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Paywall rant
> 
> Its actully pretty pervasive these days. I hate those sights so now
> carefully see what googles pointing me to before jumping if possible.
> So a quick question and not to take the thread.
> Anyone know if the old IRE papers might exist someplace for free?
> I ran across a few of the actual magazines and for me it was 
> actually a
> good read.
> Regards
> Paul.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Peter Gottlieb 
> <nerd at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> >   I dropped my membership a couple of years ago.  Every 
> single thing cost
> >   money; I couldn't even skim through papers to see if they were
> >   applicable without paying full price and it became increasingly
> >   difficult to justify membership PLUS paying for browsing 
> privileges
> >   especially when there is actually very little of direct 
> practical use.
> >
> >
> >   On 06/05/12, Attila Kinali<attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
> >
> >   On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:26:56 -0700
> >    Hal Murray <[1]hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
> >   > The IEEE is particularly behind the times. I assume 
> it's left over
> >   from when
> >   > they could get away with it because they only had to jack up the
> >   price of
> >   > printed stuff by a small amount. Some of this may trace 
> back to their
> >   > standards work where they could get away with high prices.
> >   Actually they are getting worse. IEEEs Computer Society 
> started to send
> >   out yearly reminders that it's not ok to share documents 
> you legaly
> >   acuired with your coworkers and friends. Telling them a 
> few times that
> >   this is in contradiction to local law, which explicitly 
> allows me to do
> >   that didn't change anything... That and also the wording 
> that strongly
> >   suggests that anyone who is subscribed to the CDL is a thief
> >   ("illegaly"
> >   copying files and sharing them with the world) led me to 
> the decision
> >   to cancel my subscription.
> >   Attila Kinali
> >   --
> >   It is upon moral qualities that a society is ultimately 
> founded. All
> >   the prosperity and technological sophistication in the 
> world is of no
> >   use without that foundation.
> >   -- Miss Matheson, The Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson
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