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Flash Cookies, a Little-Known Privacy Threat
Wiini recommends a blog posting exploring Flash cookies, a little-known threat to privacy, and how you can get control of them. 98% of browsers have Macromedia Flash Player installed, and the cookies it enables have some interesting properties. They have no expiration date; they store 100 KB of data by default, with an unlimited maximum; they can't be deleted by your browser; and they send previous visit information and history, by default, without your permission. I was amazed at some of the sites, not visited in a year or more, that still had Flash cookies on my machine. Here's the user-unfriendly GUI for deleting them, one at a time, each one requiring confirmation.
Now that's a good frist prose!
The parent sounds like the people who still drive cars for transportation. At some point, folks, the world is going to move on to new technology whether or not it is environmentall friendly or you like it. I guess everyone has to make the decision to continue living life and embracing new technology or completely blocking it out and hoping it will go away. Sport utitity vehicles aren't going to go away, folks: they are going to multiply. We shouldn't try to stop SUV's, or to ignore them, we should try to work toward helping them get 5% better gas mileage. And I would take a Hummer over an Escalade any day.
Life is too short to proofread.