Worst Captchas of All Time

Worst Captchas of All Time surely has some ideas for a SigBovik paper. read more

Captchas are getting more and more difficult in an arms race against botnets. It seems that lately I have trouble doing them. 1. Is this proof that I am a bot? 2. OMG we have to invent something better than a captcha. SOON!

"Microsoft has applied for a patent for 'securely providing advertising subsidized computer usage.' The application describes how face-recognition webcams and CAPTCHAs can be used in schools to ensure that computer users are paying attention to ads, and the recourse of 'disabling or even repossessing the computer' if they are not." Quoted from Slashdot Patent How crazy is that?

ToorCon Seattle Beta I'm attending ToorCon Seattle Beta this weekend. Today was a single track made up of 20 minute talks. ToorCon is really best in breed when it comes to hacker conferences. Highlights follow: Beetle, from the Shmoo , opened the conference with WiFight Club . Of course, by me mentioning that, you're officially in WiFight Club. This will eventually become a competition that is summarized best with the phrase: "Faraday Cage Match". He mentioned interesting projects...

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Kevin Rudd gets a website, Kevin 07 , and t-shirts to match! Note the URI , ending with .com. You would expect that someone who was running for PM of Australia would at least have the decency to have an Australian URI , ending with .com.AU! Who the heck would wear the T-shirt and why? Also, note the presence of Flash, but not the presence of captions. Slackers! Good thing! The page markup validates! And it is reasonably accessible according to Cynthia Says! :) BAD - Note the presence of...