Word: ids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...using it for. This is what every website wants to know. If it serves up 300,000 pages of information a day, does that mean 300,000 different people came to visit, or 50,000 who each visited six times? Glaser's techies tagged each user with a special ID number, or cookie, that identified them. Most big sites do the same thing, from Microsoft's to Time Warner's. But Real crossed the line when it correlated that ID number with each user's e-mail address and matched it to the user's offline listening habits. Even this...
...medical records. If anything alarming, such as a spot of blood or some defective DNA, shows up, both she and her physician will receive a health-care alert. By the same token, if she ever falls ill while traveling, doctors can instantly punch up her records, using her medical ID card to gain access...
...doesn't matter," said assistant athletic director Stephen Staples. "You just have to have the appropriate 20 ID numbers...
...true, he laments. "Everybody knows their sign." People even use it to verify identity--Kirshner's underage son once got carded by a bartender who, examining his fake ID skeptically, quizzed him on his birthday and his sign. "It just goes to show," Kirshner jokes, "that's one thing astrology's good for-it provides a good question to ask as a bouncer...
...years after losing his job, Abramian still carries around his Harvard ID card in his wallet...