On 10/2/07, Eke Nordin  wrote:

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> On 10/2/07, Nick Guenther  wrote:

> > On 10/2/07, Eke Nordin  wrote:

> > > On 10/2/07, Hannah Schroeter  wrote:

> > > > Hello!

> > > >

> > > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:29:30PM -0500, Todd Alan Smith wrote:

> > > > >On 10/1/07, Anton Karpov  wrote:

> > > > >> i have nothing to hide ;)

> > > >

> > > > >http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

> > > >

> > > > "Cool" link... Information about an article about privacy, and for

> > > > downloading it you need javascript and whatever more... (I didn't

> manage

> > > > to get the full text).

> > >

> > > Not to mention no download unless registration.

> > >

> > > Sort of makes the whole excercise rather pointless (if the point

> > > wasn't to laugh at gullible people).

> >

> > Yes, I thought that too, but then I just noticed the download links on

> > the left. Here is a direct link to the one I downloaded--no javascript

> > needed. Tell me if it works for you:

> >

>

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID998565_code249137.pdf?ab...

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> tid=998565&mirid=1

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> It's flaky at best for me. Didn't work at all from the office, worked

> once from home. I read the "download difficulties, click here" when

> it didn't work at the office. That page states that download requires

> registration and login, which apparently isn't exactly the truth.

>

> Whatever. Thanks for the support and clarifications, the paper seems

> (after the most superficial skimming) well worth the effort to read. Now

> returning to normal mode of silent, stumped lurking.

Indeed, it is well worth the read; downloading it requires neither

registration nor the employment of JavaScript. (I, too, had difficulty

determining how to download it when I first stumbled upon the page.

Poor page design, perhaps. Anyway, I should have clued everybody in

when I posted the link.)