Twilight6502
join:2003-08-12
Westlake, OH
|  EarthLink is also posting bad information
From EarthLink's site:
"Adware cookies are pieces of software that Web sites store on your hard drive when you visit a site. Some cookies exist just to save you time-for example, when you check a box for a Web site to remember your password on your computer."
Cookies are not pieces of software! They are plain text files that cannot be executed, and can only be read and updated by the Web browser. Companies that provide false information in "public service" messages are making people paranoid about the wrong things, while managing to make themselves look like idiots.
I guess that's what happens when you let the marketing department write technical content. |
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KeepOnRockin
Music Lover Forever
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join:2002-11-08
Beaverton, OR
 ·Comcast
| said by Twilight6502  :
From EarthLink's site:
"Adware cookies are pieces of software that Web sites store on your hard drive when you visit a site. Some cookies exist just to save you time-for example, when you check a box for a Web site to remember your password on your computer."
Cookies are not pieces of software! They are plain text files that cannot be executed, and can only be read and updated by the Web browser. Companies that provide false information in "public service" messages are making people paranoid about the wrong things, while managing to make themselves look like idiots.
I guess that's what happens when you let the marketing department write technical content.
lol. That sounds like non-informed people talking again. That's like the news still calling Napster a "web site". Yes, Napster does have a website, but the program itself is an application. P2P applications are just "sites" to the news  |
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TechieZero
Tools Are Using Me
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join:2002-01-25
Wesley Chapel, FL
| reply to Twilight6502
said by Twilight6502 :
From EarthLink's site:
"Adware cookies are pieces of software that Web sites store on your hard drive when you visit a site. Some cookies exist just to save you time-for example, when you check a box for a Web site to remember your password on your computer."
Cookies are not pieces of software! They are plain text files that cannot be executed, and can only be read and updated by the Web browser. Companies that provide false information in "public service" messages are making people paranoid about the wrong things, while managing to make themselves look like idiots.
I guess that's what happens when you let the marketing department write technical content.
Yeah seriously, it's just data. Why someone had to call it something cute like a cookie was just dumb. |
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sivran
Long Live The Suite
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join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
clubs:
·RoadRunner Cable
| said by TechieZero :
Yeah seriously, it's just data. Why someone had to call it something cute like a cookie was just dumb.
So what would you have them be called? "Reminders" to remind the webserver of some data it had set for you? Something worse to conjure up even more fears? Just plain "files"? :P
The "cute name" thing has been going on since the birth of programming.
Cookies are delicious delicacies.
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angryinch
join:2004-04-01 | "AOL is planning their own spyware removal tool as an added service to subscribers."
Still waiting patiently to see if AOL's spyware remover will wipe AOL itself off the drive.... |
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TechieZero
Tools Are Using Me
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join:2002-01-25
Wesley Chapel, FL |  reply to sivran
How about just calling it DATA... |
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