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Murdoch's paywall is down today 'for maintenance'
RUPERT MURDOCH'S GRAND PAYWALL that is to save his vast media empire from the onslaught of Internet competition has gone down today, but News Corp has reassured The INQUIRER that it is just for "maintenance".
While the website's homepage is present, clicking on any story leads to a blank page that just has the word "OK" in the top left hand corner. But what would seem like a total meltdown of the Media Mogul's beloved walled garden's wall is said to be only "maintenance".
Asked why anyone would want to deny their paying customers website access during the day, the company told The INQUIRER that someone "more authorative" had to answer that question, and then it transpired that they, of course, were not immediately avaliable. They would have to phone The INQUIRER back later.
But as his readers pay only £1 a day, maybe Murdoch's attitude is that they can lose access for the good of their beloved newspaper. Then again, his miffed readers might simply choose another alternative and opt for this sort of jail breaking. µ
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if only rupert murdoch himself was 'down for maintenance' on a permanent basis
the world would be a much better place!
Nobody that knows what they are doing takes a live server down for that long for "maintenance"... Just admit it, it's broken.
If you have maintenance/upgrades to do you deploy them in a test environment first, check them out, and write a full roll back plan. Then when you deploy it live it should work... And of course you have a redundant system there so you can switch back over to that's still running the old system don't you?
Can you imagine if google went down for maintenance for that long? The world (well the world for the general population of surfers) would end!
All news is biased. Though maybe people think their news is more "trustworthy" because they've paid for it. The key is to sample news from many sources, especially those that don't agree with your opinions, and then make an educated judgment.
so I won't be able to access the biased rubbish on their site.
Well no change there, You can usually read it elsewhere for free anyway (and usually less biased)
so I won't be able to access the biased rubbish on their site.
Well no change there, You can usually read it elsewhere for free anyway (and usually less biased)