Comments on: A Stroll Down Memory Lane http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2006/08/09/a-stroll-down-memory-lane/ Specializing in Bovine Fecal Detection Since January of 2002 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:29:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Former AOL customer http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2006/08/09/a-stroll-down-memory-lane/#comment-191372 Former AOL customer Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:29:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=2630#comment-191372 The general public needs a better education about internet cookies, too (including blocking and destroying them). The vast majority of the time cookies serve the interests of marketers -- not consumers -- and violate privacy. And of course marketers don't want consumers to know that this is the case. Grocery store club cards also create an enormous repository of private information that could easily be shared or leaked. (See www.nocards.org.) They really are not OK. The general public needs a better education about internet cookies, too (including blocking and destroying them). The vast majority of the time cookies serve the interests of marketers — not consumers — and violate privacy. And of course marketers don’t want consumers to know that this is the case. Grocery store club cards also create an enormous repository of private information that could easily be shared or leaked. (See http://www.nocards.org.) They really are not OK.

]]> By: Former AOL customer http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2006/08/09/a-stroll-down-memory-lane/#comment-12724 Former AOL customer Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=2630#comment-12724 The general public needs a better education about internet cookies, too (including blocking and destroying them). The vast majority of the time cookies serve the interests of marketers -- not consumers -- and violate privacy. And of course marketers don't want consumers to know that this is the case. Grocery store club cards also create an enormous repository of private information that could easily be shared or leaked. (See www.nocards.org.) They really are not OK. The general public needs a better education about internet cookies, too (including blocking and destroying them). The vast majority of the time cookies serve the interests of marketers — not consumers — and violate privacy. And of course marketers don’t want consumers to know that this is the case. Grocery store club cards also create an enormous repository of private information that could easily be shared or leaked. (See http://www.nocards.org.) They really are not OK.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/2006/08/09/a-stroll-down-memory-lane/#comment-12725 Anonymous Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.insignificantthoughts.com/?p=2630#comment-12725 <strong>A Work In Progress</strong> <strong>Data Mining, Part II: Identification...</strong> I saw this on the front page of theNew York Times this morning, and I was stunned at how quickly anonymous data becomes not so...... A Work In Progress

Data Mining, Part II: Identification…

I saw this on the front page of theNew York Times this morning, and I was stunned at how quickly anonymous data becomes not so……

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