And as Mac computers become more popular Flash could become obsolete. One
can but hope.
----- Original Message -----
From: "ted chittenden" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] BBC News - Legal action on 'zombie cookies' filed in
US court
Radio and TV stations utilizing the Flash player for their streams (and
there are many as noted) risk losing listenership should the Iphone become
any more popular.
Ted
---- Flor Lynch <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Although it isn't mentioned in the article, I think Adobe ought to -
> while they're at it - re-design their Flash product(s) from an
> accessibility point of view. Many radio & TV stations are now using
> embedded Adobe Flash players, which, despite the best efforts of the
> stations' site developers, in many instances remain, at best imperfectly
> accessible to us, at worst quite unusable. the move is towards flash,
> not away from it - as yet.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Pietruk" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] BBC News - Legal action on 'zombie cookies' filed
> in US court
>
>
> > Collin
> >
> > The first thing to do, when reading a story such as this, is take a
> > deep
> > breath and place things in proper perspective. Graham Cluley, in the
> > conclusion of the news story, I believe hits things on target.
> > lThe question, for users, is whether or not this actually means
> > anything.
> > My thought is that, for you and me, this is much ado about nothing as
> > the
> > info fathered is harmless and may actually enhance the user experience
> > on
> > a given site or while listening to a given type of audio. It isn't
> > being
> > used to compromise you in any way or to steal from your credit card,
> > checking account, whatever.
> >
> > Instinctively, folks don't like being tracked -- I understand this.
> > However, it is happening every day and if you use a credit card, a
> > shopper's card at a grocery store, use a cell or landline phone, post
> > email, send text msgs, twitter, file a tax return, apply for anything,
> > et
> > al et al, you are being tracked.
> > I worry about tracking if the intent is to steal something from me;
> > otherwise, it is a part of contemporary life which, more often than
> > not,
> > makes things simpler for us.
> > After all, a cookie, be it flash or otherwise, will more often than
> > not
> > simplify my use of a site the next time I come to it as it remembers
> > things.
> > The time it may become a hindrance, as pointed out on another list, is
> > when it triggers a setting that may interfere with someting ie;
> > preventing
> > me playing something more than xx times in yy time.
> >
> >
> > So relax, consider yourself more well-informed as you likely never
> > heard
> > of flash cookies until this news story, and continue doing what you
> > have
> > been doing.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > God's answers are wiser than our prayerss.
> >
> > --unknown
> >
> >
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