Enough of the cookie thing and proceed with what I have to share... I was looking for a *.lit files viewer when I came upon the M$ Reader... it's an ebook reader that is capable of reading the M$ proprietary document format, the *.lit document... ooh, proprietary (no worries, though... it can be converted to other formats courtesy of the open source community)!!! XD
so, what does the M$ Reader have to do with cookies? To be able to purchase or download secure contents, you have to activate the M$ Reader... online... got a glimpse of my point yet?
okay... to be able to activate M$ Reader using M$ Internet Exploder (actually, it's through the IE Tab addon of Mozilla Firefox, initially), I must acquire a dotnet passport... the thing is, while trying to acquire a dotnet passport, I kept getting the error "Cookies Must Be Allowed, etc, etc"... hmmm... why can I access other sites that use cookies, but I can't with the M$ site? it's kinda weird (or is it?).
Checking the M$ IE's Privacy settings (in M$ IE, go to Tools>Internet Options>Privacy), it's set to high (it's the default... I think)... Reading through the high privacy setting definition, it reads as follows:
Ain't that a darling? Micro$oft is exposed by it's own tool... remember, I used M$ IE for the activation, and it's M$ IE that is telling me that Micro$oft either doesn't have a compact privacy policy, or it'll be using the info to contact me without my explicit consent... nice work M$... so, which one is it? take your pick... >_<
Now rebooting... to LINUX!!! XD
