Cookies are little snippets of info stored by a web site on your computer's hard drive. The data in these cookies is only supposed to be accessible by the site that put it there. Of course, sometimes security holes get found, and since you might give, say, your credit card info to a site that could then conceivably store that data in a cookie, some people are concerned about such things. There are basically two kinds of cookies you might encounter on AtAT. They are as follows:

1. AtAT Preference Cookies. If you set your AtAT Preferences to change your flavor theme, window colors, font colors, text size, or time zone, your settings are stored in cookies. The information stored is extremely minimal. For example, if you set the flavor theme to be Strawberry, the theme cookie contains nothing but the word "strawberry." If you set your text to be bright green, the text color cookie contains nothing but "00FF00," the hex value for bright green. No sensitive info of any kind is being held in these cookies, and right now only five of them exist. If these cookies are somehow compromised, the worst that can happen is that some nefarious hacker discovers that you're on European time and you like big pink text on a dark brown background. (Eeeyewwww.) If you don't change your Preferences from the defaults, these cookies are never set. These are the only cookies that AtAT itself sets and uses at this time.

2. Third-Party Advertiser Cookies. AtAT is free to you viewers because advertisers pay the bills. While we serve some ads ourselves, others are served automatically through third-party advertisers, some of which may set cookies when coming to you through AtAT's site. Generally, these cookies are used solely as a means to track whether you've seen a particular ad before, so that you could be shown a different ad each time, but you'd have to ask the advertisers exactly what's what. Currently, in addition to the ads we serve ourselves, AtAT is serving text ads via Google's AdSense program and ad content from Amazon.com (both of which, we believe, set a number of tracking cookies). For details about what information these sites may be storing, please contact them directly, as AtAT has no control over those cookies and no access to their contents. Ads served by AtAT's servers do not set or use cookies.

Here's some good news: if you're really concerned about cookies and the potential invasion of privacy they may represent, you can disable cookies in your browser and AtAT will still work just fine. The only drawback is that you won't be able to customize your preferences, but everything else will work perfectly-- or, at least as perfectly as with cookies on. So if you like, feel free to turn off those cookies and stick it to the man!

What disappoints you most about the video iPod 1.0?
	It doesn't get Cinemax
	It requires far too much physical effort to cram a DVD into the Dock connector
	You can't stick your face in the screen like with the TV in Videodrome
	Showing home movies on the iPod makes it too easy for viewers to escape
	I can fit 140 hours of TV in my pocket, but it sure is a hassle lugging this couch everywhere I go
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