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To: Valuepro who wrote (268985)	8/13/2010 4:58:24 PM
From: posthumousone	Respond to of 306849

Suvery Methodolgy - still looking for the actual questions and how they are asked Methodology of the MCSI The Index of Consumer Sentiment (ICS) is based on the monthly telephone survey of the US household data. The Index is aggregated from five questions on the following topics: i) personal financial situation now and a year ago, ii) personal financial situation one year from now, iii) overall financial condition of the business for the next twelve months, iv) overall financial condition of the business for the next five years, v) current attitude toward buying major household items. The ICS is calculated from computing the “relative scores” for each of the five index questions: the percent giving favorable replies minus the percent giving unfavorable replies, plus 100. Each relative score is then rounded to the nearest whole number. All five relative scores are then summed and the sum is divided by 6.7558 (the 1966 base period) and the result is added 2 (a constant to correct for sample design changes from the 1950s). ICC is calculated by dividing the sum of the rounded “relative scores” of the questions one and five by 2.6424 and adding 2. ICE is calculated by dividing the sum of the rounded “relative scores” of the questions two, three, and four by 4.1134 and adding 2

To: Valuepro who wrote (268985)	8/13/2010 5:06:55 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Respond to of 306849

Your concerns are not unwarranted dailymail.co.uk

To: Valuepro who wrote (268985)	8/13/2010 5:17:32 PM
From: S. maltophilia	Respond to of 306849

It's not enough to delete cookies anymore. Check this out: Give long-lasting Flash cookies the boot Google and other search services aren't the only ones attempting to keep tabs on your browsing habits. Adobe's Flash Player uses Local Shared Objects (LSO), also known as Flash cookies, to allow Web sites to record your activities and personal information. And because the information resides outside the browser itself, there's no simple way to delete it. The BetterPrivacy add-on removes Flash cookies automatically or selectively. After you install the program, it looks for the folder that stores LSOs and then waits until you close Firefox. Then it opens a window indicating the number of LSOs installed on your system and asking whether you want to view or clear your Flash cookies. The program's main window--which you can access from the Firefox Tools menu--lists the origin, name, size, and date of the LSOs, as well as whether they are protected. Buttons on the bottom of the window let you protect or remove individual cookies, remove them all, or edit the protected list. Because many services require LSOs, BetterPrivacy takes no action until the browser closes. Some Web services require a persistent Flash cookie to function properly, which is why you have to be careful not to delete one you need. The NettiCat site provides a link to an FAQ that can help you decide which Flash cookies to hold and which to dump. news.cnet.com google.com

To: Valuepro who wrote (268985)	8/13/2010 7:53:26 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

<<You must be young - I'm 65. I find that young people today don't have the concerns about privacy that us older folks do, though they should.>> i am 69, and what you say is for sure.And that is a scary thought to realize that it is true. It makes more and more that the younger generation can be "zomboidized"---i will say frankly my nieces and nephews i find SHOCKINGLY stupid, and they grew up in Fairfeild Conn. and went to the best schools---and they are so DUH, if i wander into history stories, they look blank--they know nothing. And they don't seem to care! We are already deep inside Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" Max

To: Valuepro who wrote (268985)	8/13/2010 7:57:38 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

"Suppose your employer had access to what books you ordered from Amazon.com, or checked out from your local library. Now suppose he didn't approve of what your were reading, and found some way to let you go. Would you still approve of this kind of snooping?" It's ROUTINE! It's SOP! Wake up and smell the coffee! You're employer ALREADY monitors all the activity that happens on your business PC. If he feels like it, he can set up Google Alerts for whenever your name or handle pops up anywhere on the internet, at work or not at work. I have several of these running on people I monitor. If he wants to dig deeper, he can access your credit reports, criminal history, etc. There are sophisticated programs used by skip tracers available for anyone. My advice - live a life you can be proud of, and you've nothing to fear.