The process was pretty slick, and the system did not choke on the debit card I used. Apparently, the online registration process is done by a third party, and I wasn't happy being constantly assailed by IBM logos as I stepped my way through the process. I certainly hope that IBM is compensating the State of Arizona handsomely for its advertising. If not, I'm really gonna get irritated. I'm not going to spend a lot of time explaining what cookies are and why they may or may not be the last great repository of evil.
Some cookies are really useful and keep track of subscription information for various sites.
But others are of absolutely no benefit to the user. I really dislike the number of cookies left on my system by advertising banners. I abhor the practice used by Web sites that reattempt to send a cookie after it has been refused. Some of these people have the retry set to ten or more attempts. Now this could be really dangerous.