Site Privacy issues

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: Just read the def. What irked me (and still irks me) about your post, was *not* your feelings towards my admittedly paranoid view anent intrusions on my personal computers - no, what pissed me off was that I was ready to learn in jejune absurdities, you'd have taken the time and space to help me out a bit - show me that perhaps I'm over-reacting - tell me why I oughta let the little cookies live on my machines. Instead, you very heavily patronized *myself* with your adolescent screed of more-and-more ridiculous questions... "do I remove the battery at night and re-set the BIOS every morning" indeed! So if you're going to join this list and then demean folks you've not met or seem to know little about - I would think that occasionaly you're going to get called out over it. I have had this IBM Thinkpad for about five years now, and got it while I still lived and working in Southern India. I have a firewall, a virus-checker, a spyware checker, and I disallow active-X, Java, Flash, Coookies (unless I can't get business done w/out them)etc. To date I have had one 'infection'; the Welchia Worm. And I got that during a network setup sesson at my employer's - I had to shutdown my firewall to synchronize permissions and set up various clients, someone else on the network was infected and I got it. Noticing that my port was communicating at nearly it's capacity and my computer was getting slow, I scnned it and killed the bug. And that has been the only problem I've had to deal with in five years. Thus am I being: Paranoid? Careful? Absurd? You tell me, Gordon. Just keep the sarcasm and grandiose flights of superiority to yourself, please. Cheers John