Interesting Computer Lessons you learn from the movies...

# High tech equipment is often driven by a computer with a DOS prompt. (re: RoboCop)

# High tech companies don't do offsite backups of the data (re: Terminator 2)

# All media devices are readily available - ie If someone hands you a DAT tape with important data on it your PC will have a DAT drive.

# No matter what you ask a computer to do it will respond with a percentage complete bargraph - especially when searching for data it can accurately give you the time remaining until it finds that data.

# Data searching will always involve displaying all the searched data on the screen until a match is found - this is true of text and graphics such as fingerprints.

# Telephone calls can be easily redirected through places all over the world, and upon a tracea globe will be displayed complete with lines travelling between each place.

# Deleting of data always takes just a little less time than it takes the bad guys to knock down the door.

# Alltechnology is plug and play - every computer can have any piece of technology attached.

# High tech graphical interfaces are often driven by hundreds of keystrokes which do not appear anywhere on the screen.

# IP addresses automatically supply the feds with the physical address (ie log on and they know where you are!)

# Word processors never display a cursor.

# You never have to use the spacebar when typing long sentences. Just keep hitting the keys without stopping

# All monitors display 2 inch high letters.

# High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some such governmental institution, have easy-to-understand graphical >interfaces.

# Those that don't will have incredibly powerful text-based command shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain English.

# Corollary: You can gain access to any information you want by simply typing "ACCESS ALL OF THE SECRET FILES" on any keyboard.

# Likewise, you can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing "UPLOAD VIRUS." Viruses cause temperatures in computers, > >just like they do in humans. After a while, smoke billows out of disk >drives and monitors.

# All computers are connected. You can access the information on the villain's desktop computer, even if it's turned off.

# Powerful computers beep whenever you press a key or whenever the screen changes. Some computers also slow down the output on the screen so that it doesn't go faster than you can read. The *really* advanced ones also emulate the sound of a dot-matrix printer as the characters come across the screen.

# All computer panels have thousands of volts and flash pots just underneath the surface. Malfunctions are indicated by a bright flash, a puff of smoke, a shower of sparks, and an explosion that forces you backward. (See #7, above)

# People typing away on a computer will turn it off without saving the data.

# A hacker can get into the most sensitive computer in the world before intermission and guess the secret password in two tries.

# Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE function.

# Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be accomplished in under three seconds. In the movies, modems transmit data at two gigabytes per second.

# When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building.

# If you display a file on the screen and someone deletes the file, it also disappears from the screen. There are no ways to copy a >backup file -- and there are no undelete utilities.

# If a disk has encrypted files, you are automatically asked for a password when you try to access it.

# No matter what kind of computer disk it is, it'll be readable by >any system you put it into. All application software is usable by all >computer platforms.

# The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has. However, everyone must have been highly trained, because the buttons aren't labelled.

# Most computers, no matter how small, have reality-defying three-dimensional, real-time, photo-realistic animated graphics capability.

# Laptops, for some strange reason, always seem to have amazing real-time video phone capabilities and the performance of a CRAY-MP.

# Whenever a character looks at a VDU, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face.

# Computers never crash during key, high-intensity activities. Humans operating computers never make mistakes under stress.

# Programs are fiendishly perfect and never have bugs that slow down users.

# Any photograph can have minute details pulled out of it. You can zoom into any picture as far as you want to.

How to Clear Your Browser's Cookies

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Online safety is the number one priority for many people in the world today. Clearing your Internet browser's cookies can help by deleting the information that websites have gathered about you and stored on your computer as small text files. Most of these files are completely harmless, but others store where you went, what you did, and any personal information you gave. Web sites may also allow other websites (their advertisers, for example) to put cookies, known as third-party cookies, on your computer. This is a simple guide to clear your browser's cookies to ensure that companies are not keeping tabs on what you do online.

Steps

1. Open your browser. Since each browser is set up differently, we will look at the process for each of the four major browsers: Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 1.5, Opera, and Konqueror.
   

Internet Explorer 6

1. Once your browser is open, select the Tools menu and click Internet Options and select the General tab.
   
2. To delete all cookies, in the Temporary Internet Files section, click Delete Cookies and press OK.
   
3. If you wish to delete only specific cookies and keep others, instead of Step 2:
   
   1. Click the Settings button, then click View Files.
      
   2. Scroll through the list and select the cookies you want to delete.
      
   3. Multiple cookies can be selected by holding down the CTRL key while clicking.
      
   4. Press the Delete key.
      
   5. Press OK on any dialog boxes that appear.
      
   
   

Firefox 1.5

1. Once your browser is open, select the Tools menu and click Options (may also be under Edit -> Preferences depending on your version) and select the Privacy button.
   
2. Select the Cookies tab.
   
3. To delete all cookies click the Delete All Cookies button.
   
4. To delete specific cookies, click View Cookies and look through the list of the sites you wish to delete the cookies for, and press Remove Cookies. You can even expand each site to delete specific cookes from each site.
   

Opera

1. Once your browser is open, select the Tools menu and click Delete Private Data and click the Details button.
   
2. If you wish to keep things such as history, saved passwords, cache, etc., uncheck those items and click Delete. You may get a dialog that says "Active transfer has not been removed." if you are currently downloading a file.
   
3. If you want to only delete certain cookies, click Tools and hover Advanced and click Cookies. From this screen, you can search for and select cookies to be deleted. To do so, select the select the site or the individual cookie and click Delete.
   

Konqueror

1. Once your browser is open, selec the Settings menu and click Configure Konqueror.
   
2. Scroll down and select Cookies.
   
3. Click the Management tab.
   
4. Select the cookies you wish to delete and click Delete, or click Delete All to delete all cookies.
   

Tips

• It is a good idea to clear your browser's cookies on a regular basis.
  
• You can disable or restrict cookies through the sections above. This is recommended for security reasons, but will render some sites inoperable. It is possible to only allow cookies for sites that you specify.
  
• It is a good time to clear your browser's cache while you are clearing the cookies. The cache stores information, images, and web pages on your computer for quick and easy access. Hackers can obtain crippling financial information from your cache if you're not careful.
  

Warnings

• Deleting cookies often means that you will have to re-login to sites that you have specified to automatically keep you logged in. This is not necessarily so if you have set your browser to save your password instead.
  
• Not deleting cookies regularly allows companies and advertisers more about you than you may wish them to.
  
• The use of Internet Explorer may help lead to identity theft, because it allows the use of ActiveX controls. While not directly related to cookies, ActiveX controls pose an immediate threat to Windows users that visit websites that use ActiveX controls to exploit security flaws in Internet Explorer. Experts reccommend more secure browsers, such as Firefox or Opera.
  

Related wikiHows

• Block and Accept Cookies in Internet Explorer
  
• Clear Your Browser's Cache
  
• Be Safe While Online
  
• Use a Credit Card Online
  

Sources and Citations

• Download Firefox
  
• Download Opera
  

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