Few will argue that cookies serve a legitimate need for intra-site surfing. The shopping cart example above is a good one.
The real issue is the handful of companies with ads that are pervasive. I get a nice little prompt each time someone tries to set a cookie on my machine. (I do this out of curiousity, more than a privacy concern.) Doubleclick ads show up all over the place. Even worse, I see cookies being set from *.207.net from everywhere.
Try to go to www.207.net - it is a blank page. They want to track you, but they don't want you to easily see who they are. Those cookies are set by an online marketing giant Omniture.
I can block all future cookies for this 207.net domain, but they never use the same one twice. So you cannot have a blanket deny for all 207.net cookies. One site will have 398jdije.207.net - the next may be 39du39.207.net.
It is this type of deliberate obfuscation that earns my distrust.
Yes, there have been some shortcomings with the this game. I feel that the positives outweigh them by far.
I love the stat tracking in this game. In addition to tracking your progress through the ranks for promotion, there are countless medals, ribbons and awards that you can earn by performing certain tasks. Some are trivial, like surviving a very high parachute jump. Others are impossible - check out http://ubar.phusion9.com/ for some examples.
The games tracks tons of useful/useless information about everyone - - Time spent with each map/kit/army - kills and deaths with each map/kit/army - proficiency with all of the various vehicles/weapons
This game has been a blast, consuming tons of my free time over the past few weeks. There is nothing like hovering in a blackhawk with 5 teammates, waiting to capture an enemy flag while mowing fools down with a chaingun. Fun stuff.
The small bugs, like the crappy in game browser (improved with the 1.01 patch) and the flawed teamkill punishment system are nothing compared the favorible gameplay I have experience.
Thomas Jefferson was a "Republican," but not like the Republicans that are in power now. Jefferson's Republican party evolved over time to become the Democratic party of today.
When I went to see the movie, a guy in the audience brought his Master Replica lightsaber. I had never seen one of these before. In a dark theater, the glow was convincing and impressive.
This would be a realistic and safe alternative to playing with gas.
(Whenever he would hold up the lightsaber the crowd would fall silent, waiting to hear the ignition sound - each time followed by a round of applause.)
People steal cars everyday. It is uncommon for a car owner to return to the car maker and blame them for making a car that could be broken into. Along the same lines, it is not a conflict of interest for GM to start selling cars with Lo-Jack for an additional fee. Who thinks GM is going to ease up on their default security in order to sell more Lo-Jack systems? I guess that depends on how shiny your hat is.
Microsoft isn't writing the viruses. They are just trying to add Lo-Jack to their OS.
Now if you can prove that Microsoft is intentionally leaving holes in their products to allow the bad stuff in, then that is a different story.
End users learn how to search better and avoid these junk sites.
I am sure most of us have figured out how to find what we are looking for via Google. In time, the rest of the internet population will adapt to avoid the spam traps.
Since I started google-hacking for MP3s (songs I already own of course,) I have seen several companies adjust their pages to show up in the natural search results for a google-hack search for pretty much any artist. The intarwed is full of jerks waiting to exploit any potential avenue that might get them traffic.
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Few will argue that cookies serve a legitimate need for intra-site surfing. The shopping cart example above is a good one.
The real issue is the handful of companies with ads that are pervasive. I get a nice little prompt each time someone tries to set a cookie on my machine. (I do this out of curiousity, more than a privacy concern.) Doubleclick ads show up all over the place. Even worse, I see cookies being set from *.207.net from everywhere.
Try to go to www.207.net - it is a blank page. They want to track you, but they don't want you to easily see who they are. Those cookies are set by an online marketing giant Omniture.
I can block all future cookies for this 207.net domain, but they never use the same one twice. So you cannot have a blanket deny for all 207.net cookies. One site will have 398jdije.207.net - the next may be 39du39.207.net.
It is this type of deliberate obfuscation that earns my distrust.
Yes, there have been some shortcomings with the this game. I feel that the positives outweigh them by far.
I love the stat tracking in this game. In addition to tracking your progress through the ranks for promotion, there are countless medals, ribbons and awards that you can earn by performing certain tasks. Some are trivial, like surviving a very high parachute jump. Others are impossible - check out http://ubar.phusion9.com/ for some examples.
The games tracks tons of useful/useless information about everyone -
- Time spent with each map/kit/army
- kills and deaths with each map/kit/army
- proficiency with all of the various vehicles/weapons
This game has been a blast, consuming tons of my free time over the past few weeks. There is nothing like hovering in a blackhawk with 5 teammates, waiting to capture an enemy flag while mowing fools down with a chaingun. Fun stuff.
The small bugs, like the crappy in game browser (improved with the 1.01 patch) and the flawed teamkill punishment system are nothing compared the favorible gameplay I have experience.
Yeah, get in line folks - err, wait, I don't think I understand this thread
Actually, only 4 of the root servers are in the US. The fifth North American server is in Quebec.
Thomas Jefferson was a "Republican," but not like the Republicans that are in power now. Jefferson's Republican party evolved over time to become the Democratic party of today.
Only $120
When I went to see the movie, a guy in the audience brought his Master Replica lightsaber. I had never seen one of these before. In a dark theater, the glow was convincing and impressive.
This would be a realistic and safe alternative to playing with gas.
(Whenever he would hold up the lightsaber the crowd would fall silent, waiting to hear the ignition sound - each time followed by a round of applause.)
People steal cars everyday. It is uncommon for a car owner to return to the car maker and blame them for making a car that could be broken into. Along the same lines, it is not a conflict of interest for GM to start selling cars with Lo-Jack for an additional fee. Who thinks GM is going to ease up on their default security in order to sell more Lo-Jack systems? I guess that depends on how shiny your hat is.
Microsoft isn't writing the viruses. They are just trying to add Lo-Jack to their OS.
Now if you can prove that Microsoft is intentionally leaving holes in their products to allow the bad stuff in, then that is a different story.
Great observation! I only wish that your post was modded insightful rather than funny.
What is to stop me from organizing a campaign to 'remove' all of my competitor's links?
Your "Paris Hilton" results would have been fine if you simply included -slut in your search term.
What about option 3?
End users learn how to search better and avoid these junk sites.
I am sure most of us have figured out how to find what we are looking for via Google. In time, the rest of the internet population will adapt to avoid the spam traps.
Since I started google-hacking for MP3s (songs I already own of course,) I have seen several companies adjust their pages to show up in the natural search results for a google-hack search for pretty much any artist. The intarwed is full of jerks waiting to exploit any potential avenue that might get them traffic.
For me, 5% of the money spent on p2p would be $0
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