The EU has just rolled out
a new law requiring websites to request permission before installing any cookies in a user's web browser. In the UK, businesses have been given
a one year deferral on implementation by the Information Commissioner's Office. The ICO have brought their own website into compliance with the law though, showing other websites the way forward. There's a notice
at the top of the page requesting permission to set a cookie, as legally required. Click "continue" without agreeing
posted by crayz
on May 27, 2011 -
57 comments
April 26, 1979, Andy Kaufman performed for a sold-out crowd in Carnegie Hall, who were welcomed to their seat by a
"press kit" containing a bag of jelly beans, a program and flier for the show, and other copied material, supposedly put together by Andy's mother. The show starting off with
an impersonation of Tony Clifton and ending by
taking the audience of 2,800 out for milk and cookies. About 10 months later on February 20, 1981, Kaufman hosted an episode of
Fridays, ABC's attempt to duplicate the success of NBC's
Saturday Night Live. Instead of performing the show as rehearsed, he took the entire cast and crew, the studio audience and
a nation of television viewers hostage. Video links and more details inside.
[more inside]
posted by filthy light thief
on Jul 1, 2010 -
30 comments
Ahh, the quest for the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe. The
classic stands as the benchmark: but are there better? Many think so:
Sherry Yard,
David Lebovitz,
the folks at Cooking Illustrated,
Martha Stewart,
Hillary Clinton,
beloved New York bakeries,
intrepid webloggers.
Alton Brown in an
episode of
Good Eats shows how to get them
thin,
puffy, or
chewy.
Cookbook after
cookbook and
competition after
competition try to ferret out the
best of this american icon. Web recipe sites
have their own favorites.
Some people swear by secret ingredients:
cornstarch,
pudding (which has cornstarch in it),
oats,
great chocolate.
Two thirds of Americans prefer their chocolate chip cookies "nutless."
Others find technique of greatest importance. Is there any end to this
quest for one of baking's
holy grails?
posted by shivohum
on Feb 20, 2007 -
53 comments
GMail not-so-safe Mail. So apparentley GMail has a major exploit that's been discovered by an Israeli hacker.
"Using a hex-encoded XSS link, the victim's cookie file can be stolen by a hacker, who can later use it to identify himself to Gmail as the original owner of an email account, regardless of whether or not the password is subsequently changed." And so the fun with GMail begins..
posted by mrplab
on Oct 29, 2004 -
9 comments
Is Google's use of cookies unnecessarily invasive? Daniel Brandt, described by Salon yesterday as
Mr. Anti-Google, says Google "has inadequate justification for planting a cookie that expires in 2038 on every user, and also recording that user's search terms, IP number, and time-date." Brandt is the man behind the
NameBase conspiracy database (previously discussed
here), and also uncovered the
CIA's illegal use of cookies last March. He insists that Google's use of cookies, combined with the Patriot Act, allows U.S. authorities to "do a 'sneak and peek' search of a Google user's hard drive when he isn't home, retrieve a Google cookie id, and then get a keyword search history" specific to the user's computer. Oh yeah, he also thinks
PageRank is undemocratic.
posted by mediareport
on Aug 30, 2002 -
39 comments
Woohoo! Follow the link to a post at the beloved-by-all-metafilterians
Jason Levine.
read the fourth paragraph: it seems that i'm not the only one highly ticked off by the recent slew of x10 pop-under ads.
Jason has kindly provided links that will set cookies to prevent them from appearing for 30 days, 1 year or 10 years.
I modified the url yet again to keep it from popping up ever again
within my lifetime.
posted by o2b
on Jun 2, 2001 -
40 comments
NYTimes.com has low security
Even me, the casual passerby, could access secret documents about the mysterious "partners," while trying to avoid downloading a cookie. Heh, "channel", "partners", the number 10. They're all related somehow?
PS: "channel.nytimes.com" doesn't give access to pages without logging in. Any ideas?
posted by rschram
on Oct 13, 2000 -
8 comments
