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A reader asks...
Q. "How much is Bill Gates worth?"
A. Actually, Bill Gates lost another $7.2 million in trading on Friday, based on his Microsoft holdings. Microsoft's shares lost 1 cent to close at $69.18.
The chief software architect will wake up today with only $49.9 billion in his wallet.
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A psychiatrist on a hike fell into a depression.
Is Greed Good For AOL And ISPs?
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Lemmie See Your Cookies
You've probably heard about "COOKIES" being on your computer... small files that record some information about you (info that you filled out on a form when you visited a website).
But what is it, exactly, that websites are sending and receiving with these "cookies"?
Well, it depends. Websites such as The New York Times use cookies to save your ID and password. Not for any bad reason, just to speed up your login. Other websites use cookies to keep track of your visits. They commonly log the visit frequency and the pages and areas visited. A shopping site might record your purchases.
Cookies can be helpful, saving you the trouble of retyping a user ID and password, but they can also be used to collect market research. That's what bugs some folks.
They are usually small text files, and they are found here:
C:\windows\cookies\. Cookies are
encrypted so your personal information is concealed from prying eyes.
This information is typically about you and your preferences. This helps the website customize your next visit. Cookies only contain the information
that you, yourself, provide when visiting a particular website.
A typical cookie looks something like the example from Yahoo below.
B*ekvrtlcst21b1&b=2&f=a*yahoo.com/*0*9854 etc, etc, etc.
As you can see, the only thing you can actually decipher is the site: yahoo.com. The other information is simply my preferences in code.
So, take a peek at a few of the cookies stored on your system to see some of the
places that you visited and the cookies that they left behind on your
machine. Either click on the link that I gave you above or do the
following...
1.
Open MY COMPUTER
2. Open your C DRIVE
3. Open your WINDOWS folder
4. Open your COOKIES folder
4. Look at all the sites that gave you COOKIES
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