Saturday, December 15 2001

Benjamin Wright : "The [ IE6 P3P ] filters force administrators to post new privacy policies for their web sites,

coded in a technical language called P3P. The filters punish administrators who fail to publish properly coded P3P privacy policies by blocking or impeding their cookies. Cookies are an important web feature. The P3P coding language raises, for any corporation, government agency or other institution that uses it, a lawsuit danger. A privacy policy written in it exposes the organization to liability, with little or no escape."

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Dick Snyder : "Years ago I had brunch with a fabulous, very stylin' woman.

Afterward, my suggestion was that we go check out a few design-y stores and art galleries. Maybe she just didn't like me, but her preference was to go jogging. I mean, this woman had a jogging date set up after brunch. . My feeling was that pretty much sums a person up. On a Sunday afternoon, you can go shopping with a guy as cool as me, or you can go jogging." Dissing Toronto is something of a sport in Montreal. It is often unfair and sometimes even unjustified. But it's just so hard when you read stuff like this. Consumer courtship?

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is discrete

| source : web1913 | Discrete \Dis*crete"\, a. [L. discretus, p. p. of discernere. See {Discreet}.] 1. Separate; distinct; disjunct. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, ``I resign my life, but not my honor,'' is a discrete proposition. 3. (Bot.) Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually coalescent. {Discrete movement}. See {Concrete movement of the voice}, under {Concrete}, a. {Discrete proportion}, proportion where the ratio of the means is different from that of either couplet; as, 3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion to 6 as 8 does to 16. But 3 is not to 6 as 6 to 8. It is thus opposed to continued or {continual proportion}; as, 3:6::12:24. {Discrete quantity}, that which must be divided into units, as number, and is opposed to {continued quantity}, as duration, or extension. | source : web1913 | Discrete \Dis*crete"\, v. t. To separate. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. | source : wn | discrete adj : constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions" [syn: {distinct}]

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