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Gnome 2.18 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the brand-spanking-new dept.

xdancergirlx writes "Gnome 2.18 was released today (on time as usual). Detailed release notes are available. Nothing revolutionary in this release but definitely some nice new features, bug fixes, and improvements."

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  1. Re:That's Nice by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ---because machine image recognition is an area of tricky tricky research and requires serious computational power. Note that spammers have yet to defeat the wonky text + squiggly lines test for posting on slashdot. And thats just OCR. (While people with very limited intellectual capacity seems to make it through in hoards ;)

    Spammers dont care about Slashdot, at least on posting here.

    We are bombarded with ads in email and web browsing. Last we want is "I work for Intel and we makes teh bestest produkt. Come ask us Q's that we can answer." (oh well, we do have that... but NON paid sponsorships... nevermind). Only greifers and trolls want to cause trouble for slashdot. Well, unless you all think that page widening posts were corporate ads.

    Now, how would I beat the captchas? It's easy. Just troll usenet for lots of porno images and serve them up to users. When you need a captcha broke, use a porn surfing user to "beat it" for you.

    Human based schemes will always be broken by using humans to break it for you. It just depends if you use a good enough bait to start it with. Next, it will be 2 minute vids for captchas. 2 captchas to 1 vid would be nice, for both spammers and pornsters alike.

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