Dear Dish on Baseless-ly Neurotic Questions
Dear Dish,
According to my computer, your blog is putting cookies on my computer.
In the words of Cindy Lou-Who, "Why, Dish? Why??"
Is this part of some global domination effort? Are you spying on me?
Sincerely,
A Knowledge Surfer
Dear Surfer:
Once again, we thank Dr. Robert for his technological wisdom. Dish's comments on his response are in italics.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome boys and girls to another fun-filled (or is that fact-filled) episode with Doctor Robert. Can we just say where Doctor Robert has been lately? The Apple Store. The sole reason being that Cosmopolitan indicated that a great place to meet single men is at The Apple Store. We all know you want to end up with a geek...because geeks don't harm women. They like playing Dungeons and Dragons and reading ancient issues of Uncanny X-Men (and if you got the Weezer reference in that sentence, BRAvo.)
Taken from Wikipedia (Dish continues to wonder why Dr. Robert didn't learn anything about Wikipedia from the Hatchet fiasco), cookies (in the web browser sense, not the ones Mama Robert made years ago that were a hit in the lunchroom) are used for authenticating, tracking, and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences or the contents of their electronic shopping carts. The term "cookie" is derived from "magic cookie," a well-known concept in UNIX computing which inspired both the idea and the name of HTTP cookies.
Let's say you go onto a website which we all love...Facebook (Dish doesn't think Dr. Robert should be saying that we all love facebook when he is not even a member). Well, if you allow your browser to accept cookies from the Facebook website, then your browser can remember great things like what your username was, or what colour theme you had on it last (if only Facebook had this feature...it would be the ultimate!). Or when you go onto aircanada.com and look up flight information to Charlottetown (woops, sorry, only one flight per month out there!) (Dish does not appreciate Dr. Robert's cracks about her home town), then if you allow your browser to accept the website's cookie then you may not have to re-enter all the same information the next time you go back. It will be saved within the input fields and you can choose or not choose to use them.
Doctor Robert personally sees no harm in accepting cookies. Sure, there are malicious users out there but if you are visiting trusted websites (like this one for example), you know that Dish is not trying to kill your computer. But for the ultra-suspicious, you can easily go into your web browser settings (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, etc.) and indicate that you do not wish to accept cookies. This won't affect your visiting of the site but each time you return you may have to input information (if there were fields to input them to in the first place).
I must leave now as a fox has started to talk up Doctor Robert while he was writing this entry from the Apple Store. Ciao!
posted by Dish @ 11:58 AM
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