Computer vision experts have been able to design programs to foil CAPTCHA with a high degree of success. I have designed a CAPTCHA that is based on the identification of attributes contained in an image generated by the grouping of easily recognized 3-D objects. I call this the Virtual Photographic CAPTCHA and it is likely to remain invulnerable to automated attack for many years to come
i'm a little late to the prom - but for the record
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I ummed and ahhed for ages before finally ordering a Psion 5mx, and it does everything I need it to, other than play Doom(1)
It might not have been the greatest device for trying to write my lecture notes into (sometimes that small keyboard was just too small to keep pace with a lecturer), but you could happily play a nice 'shades of grey' port of doom on it. Probably the most impressive bit of software i ever saw running on that little beast.
http://www.bioeddie.co.uk/main/emulators.htm#enc or e
i'm sure i'm not the only one to have had brand name cd players / midi systems that stopped reading cd's after a couple of years, (probably because the lens has become dirty/oily).
as dvd players use the same technology, it will probably be this that gets them before any of the electronics has a chance to fail.
while the same also applys to no-name brands you haven't paid $$$'s more for something with a couple of extra features and a better logo.
strangley i also know of some old, well used players that seem to refuse to fail.
as this is exactly what i was going to mention i second that.
the backend of phpwebsite is nicely elegant, real simple. it also seems the choice for many 'computers are what you use to access the internet' blogger types.
so if a teen girl who's pressing issues are more about sharing make-up tips than debugging php code can use it then it's probably gonna be a perfect choice for your parents.
this is going to be the most expensive slashdotting ever... (try and tell me you didn't click on that link!)
you slashdot guys are so good to us - you figured we'd want that warm fuzzy feeling from having just cost someone a shitload of money from doing nothing but that we'd be too lazy to actually goto google and type it in ourselves
with the i-opener we actually had to go out and buy the things, now we get to bring a company to its knees just by clicking a link...
the whole article, interesting as it was, seemed like an infomercial or something, similiar to the one that appeared on slashdot the other day about data recovery
every sentence seemed to have been penned to cast Chenbro in the purest possible light, with continued empathsis as to the superior quality and commitment of the workers.
if tom's hardware started to show this kind of bias in it's reviews it would quickly turn heads.
it almost seemed like the journalist didn't bother with writing the article himself and just got one of Chenbro's copywriters to do it for him.
Perhaps one of the most important lessons of today could be to look at America's foreign policy since Sept. 11 as it is widely agreed that it was this that helped provoke the attacks.
3000 cillvians may have died in the WTC attacks yets many 1000's more died in America's attacks on Afganistan
America is attacking Iraq on the basis that they won't allow access to weapons inspectors...while America alone rejected to enforce 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention agreement on inspections.
America and its new war on terror stinks of hypocracy and imperialism...rather than a country that has tried to learn from a tragedy.
I don't know about you, but Mum wants to write letters and she wants to see one word processor, not vim, emacs, AbiWord, OpenOffice Write, Kate, [...]
while there may be many different versions of wordprocessors (office suites, and even desktops) from open source developers there also used to be many different commercial wordprocessor packages before a defacto standard (word) emerged.
Over time defacto (ie: stndard bundled versions) of open source software will also appear
Last year Nokia originally scheduled this for a Q1 (March) release where as now it will be September before the shops see stock (6 months late!)
Why don't nokia just give a release date and stick to it?
The funny thing is the same thing happened when trying to get my 7110 when I had to wait several months after they were supposed to be available (and I was one of the first 150 in the UK to get one).
On the 7110 the then 'next big thing' WAP was the most unusable bug infested piece of crap and they sent me two new phones over the next few months before it would even start to connect reliably.
I'm dying to get one of the new 7650's but with a new OS, GUI and camera features I wonder whether as an early adopter I face receiving a irritatingly crippled piece of hardware just so nokia can be first to market.
Globalism would seem to imply the efforts of many countries in the world getting it together and collaborating (rather than fighting against each other or being invaded by european empires.)
Really though its the multinational corporations working through things like the WTO to make less developed countries relax trade laws and 'welcome' foreign investment.
Read: exploit that countries economy, sell their western brand products abroad and set up huge 'guarenteed' investment projects that western companies control and own
This creates a system where the poorest countries are indefinately stuck in poverty. Nike employs people in the poorest countries to make its trainers for peanuts, but once this country is making trainers for the whole world how does it escape into a better economy? It can't and the world economy is set up to mantain this.
The rich grow richer and cream all the profits while the poor continue to suffer by working 12 hour days in sweat shops.
The free market is perhaps the most dangerous aspect of globalisation. It is a 'for the lowest possible cost' approach which is a false economy.
Something that is grown and then transported 1000's of miles is not cheaper than something produced locally. Supermarkets and the like are starting to realise that people actually want their supermarket to sell the food that is grown locally around them.
I don't believe anti-capitalism is the answer though - it is an idealogy. To replace any currently implemented system would cause huge problems (state of russia after the fall of the USSR...).
I believe better regulation is the way forwards. For example what if western countries turned around tomorrow and said that by 2005 all products imported must be from fair-trade sources? Steps like this need to be taken before we can even think about a global democracy
A global coummunity is a good thing(tm), while corporate racism on a global scale is the most frightening aspect of a new world order which can do what it wants, and oneday it might choose to enslave us all. (epic worst-case scenario closing line)
[A] Sony in much the same way that they rebranded the PlayStation1-PSone could 'rebrand' the PS2 to wait for it...
PStwo
[B] Or...the insane IBM lovers relieving themselves over ibm beating sony on the whole PS2 acronym debate should really get a stronger grip on their wildly tangible imagination's (G.A.L.)
either way its an inherently stupid thing to raise in light of those two ports at the back of your computer above the USB
do you guys actually like the old-skool IBM corp.?!
oh and sony nicked their PStwo design from cray!. There thats'll get me flamebait
THINK BEFORE YOU BUY SONY PRODUCTS
I wouldn't ever say 'don't', cos I'm not like that and well sony make some really nice stuff, (vaio's...etc) but their attitude more and more is towards trying to tie people into buying multiple sony products over other makes through proprietry integration.
I'm scared of sony because they have no real competition in alot of their markets, people will buy sony just because its...., sony are becoming an electronics M$.
Sony is so big that while one department embraces open source and linux for intelligent devices the other stuffs MSPocketExplorer on their mobile phones.
And memory sticks just screw Compact Flash - the standards there already so why 'reinvent it' (I betcha have to pay royalties if you wanna produce your own memory stick!)
Oh and theres at least 3 types of memory stick now - hows that for integration...
be different...think you I really want this before you fall for sony's marketing sleight of hand.
"Fuck 'em if they ccan't take a Joke" -J.R.B.D.
I really think that the government should take a bigger interest in developing and mantaining open standards and protocols in software and on the internet. The ability for technology to successfully interact surely produces a more productive environment, and economically successful market, than the inovation starved atomosphere fuelled by the dirty tricks of the not so moral corporates.
Bill G may whine about the morality of software piracy but until he realises that his companies actions are morally perhaps a step beyond those nemesis kids actions microsoft will continue to fail.
Personally I think the software industry to continue to scheme, monoploise and deceive until it reachs the state of the rotten-cored music industry...
::Your right to free speech is not being ::infringed, you're being prohibited from ::spreading information about a criminal ::activity. Do you honestly condone teaching our ::nation's youth the quickest way to kill ::themselves? Quit hiding behind the free speech ::claim.
half of whats on TV involves a criminal element that may possibly inspire those watching; used as a basis on which to base their plan.
If you want to know how to break into a bank watch ironside!
Remember the futurists wet dream of having everything 'internet connected'. The whole thing that suddenly was "this is the future" like a year ago with 'intelligent fridges' and internet-connected hifi's.
Linux's networking features etc. make a great deal of sense to this.
Actually I'd really like a hifi I could stick a USB cable into link it up to the PC for a and set up a playlist remotely/download tunes to. Or even animate the little LED graphics EQ!
from yahoo interview:: >Once again, thanks for the support and the >belief. Don't let anybody f*ck with you for >what you believe in! -I believe in the freedom of information, - that there will always be a outlet for the trading of information in whichever form that takes, - its pretty much inevitable. - The industry will adapt and learn to make money. Back to basics - rather than society fitting into a set business model - business will once again be made to innovate/develop itself around society. -d0pegh0st
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Computer vision experts have been able to design programs to foil CAPTCHA with a high degree of success. I have designed a CAPTCHA that is based on the identification of attributes contained in an image generated by the grouping of easily recognized 3-D objects. I call this the Virtual Photographic CAPTCHA and it is likely to remain invulnerable to automated attack for many years to come
spare us the modesty!
ha, ha, ... shit whats that noise!
I ummed and ahhed for ages before finally ordering a Psion 5mx, and it does everything I need it to, other than play Doom(1)
c or e
;-)
It might not have been the greatest device for trying to write my lecture notes into (sometimes that small keyboard was just too small to keep pace with a lecturer), but you could happily play a nice 'shades of grey' port of doom on it. Probably the most impressive bit of software i ever saw running on that little beast.
http://www.bioeddie.co.uk/main/emulators.htm#en
or was that just bait?
The thing is, I honestly don't want to tell people, "email me at blah blah @ spymac.com." It seems I might be misconstrued as an Apple zealot
a zealot ... i wouldn't even be wanting people to think i use mac ;)
i'm sure i'm not the only one to have had brand name cd players / midi systems that stopped reading cd's after a couple of years, (probably because the lens has become dirty/oily).
as dvd players use the same technology, it will probably be this that gets them before any of the electronics has a chance to fail.
while the same also applys to no-name brands you haven't paid $$$'s more for something with a couple of extra features and a better logo.
strangley i also know of some old, well used players that seem to refuse to fail.
as this is exactly what i was going to mention i second that.
the backend of phpwebsite is nicely elegant, real simple. it also seems the choice for many 'computers are what you use to access the internet' blogger types.
so if a teen girl who's pressing issues are more about sharing make-up tips than debugging php code can use it then it's probably gonna be a perfect choice for your parents.
did i mention it's free/gpl?
this is going to be the most expensive slashdotting ever ... (try and tell me you didn't click on that link!)
...
you slashdot guys are so good to us - you figured we'd want that warm fuzzy feeling from having just cost someone a shitload of money from doing nothing but that we'd be too lazy to actually goto google and type it in ourselves
with the i-opener we actually had to go out and buy the things, now we get to bring a company to its knees just by clicking a link
my new sig's going to be:
click here and google losses $1500
the whole article, interesting as it was, seemed like an infomercial or something, similiar to the one that appeared on slashdot the other day about data recovery
every sentence seemed to have been penned to cast Chenbro in the purest possible light, with continued empathsis as to the superior quality and commitment of the workers.
if tom's hardware started to show this kind of bias in it's reviews it would quickly turn heads.
it almost seemed like the journalist didn't bother with writing the article himself and just got one of Chenbro's copywriters to do it for him.
if its is the driest place on the planet - why does it look like its been raining ?
wow...the insanity of this is almost religious!
a post on recreating fond memories of childhood...
maybe i should consider submitting a paper sharing my experiments into the attachment of banger rockets to household pets.
Perhaps one of the most important lessons of today could be to look at America's foreign policy since Sept. 11 as it is widely agreed that it was this that helped provoke the attacks.
...while America alone rejected to enforce 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention agreement on inspections.
...rather than a country that has tried to learn from a tragedy.
3000 cillvians may have died in the WTC attacks yets many 1000's more died in America's attacks on Afganistan
America is attacking Iraq on the basis that they won't allow access to weapons inspectors
America and its new war on terror stinks of hypocracy and imperialism
I don't know about you, but Mum wants to write letters and she wants to see one word processor, not vim, emacs, AbiWord, OpenOffice Write, Kate, [...]
while there may be many different versions of wordprocessors (office suites, and even desktops) from open source developers there also used to be many different commercial wordprocessor packages before a defacto standard (word) emerged.
Over time defacto (ie: stndard bundled versions) of open source software will also appear
Last year Nokia originally scheduled this for a Q1 (March) release where as now it will be September before the shops see stock (6 months late!)
Why don't nokia just give a release date and stick to it?
The funny thing is the same thing happened when trying to get my 7110 when I had to wait several months after they were supposed to be available (and I was one of the first 150 in the UK to get one).
On the 7110 the then 'next big thing' WAP was the most unusable bug infested piece of crap and they sent me two new phones over the next few months before it would even start to connect reliably.
I'm dying to get one of the new 7650's but with a new OS, GUI and camera features I wonder whether as an early adopter I face receiving a irritatingly crippled piece of hardware just so nokia can be first to market.
- dopeghost
...after this article...any bets on which company is first to trademark the term : Read The Funky Manual?
slap this kid for forgetting ...YUY2, Y411, Y41P, Y42T, Y41T, RGBT, RGB16 (555), RGB16 (565), RGB32,
:)
HMCR, UYVY, UYNV, IF09, YVU9, YV12, Y211, YVYU, RAW8, YVU9,
Globalism would seem to imply the efforts of many countries in the world getting it together and collaborating (rather than fighting against each other or being invaded by european empires.)
Really though its the multinational corporations working through things like the WTO to make less developed countries relax trade laws and 'welcome' foreign investment.
Read: exploit that countries economy, sell their western brand products abroad and set up huge 'guarenteed' investment projects that western companies control and own
This creates a system where the poorest countries are indefinately stuck in poverty. Nike employs people in the poorest countries to make its trainers for peanuts, but once this country is making trainers for the whole world how does it escape into a better economy? It can't and the world economy is set up to mantain this.
The rich grow richer and cream all the profits while the poor continue to suffer by working 12 hour days in sweat shops.
The free market is perhaps the most dangerous aspect of globalisation. It is a 'for the lowest possible cost' approach which is a false economy.
Something that is grown and then transported 1000's of miles is not cheaper than something produced locally. Supermarkets and the like are starting to realise that people actually want their supermarket to sell the food that is grown locally around them.
I don't believe anti-capitalism is the answer though - it is an idealogy. To replace any currently implemented system would cause huge problems (state of russia after the fall of the USSR...).
I believe better regulation is the way forwards. For example what if western countries turned around tomorrow and said that by 2005 all products imported must be from fair-trade sources? Steps like this need to be taken before we can even think about a global democracy
A global coummunity is a good thing(tm), while corporate racism on a global scale is the most frightening aspect of a new world order which can do what it wants, and oneday it might choose to enslave us all. (epic worst-case scenario closing line)
He said NASA will deploy Cisco's mobile networks on low-earth-orbiting research craft to allow continuous connection to the Internet.
30 years with email, - optimistically I look forward to 30 days without a new outlook exploit
I put forth a solution to the PS/2 vs PS2 debate.
[A] Sony in much the same way that they rebranded the PlayStation1-PSone could 'rebrand' the PS2 to wait for it...
PStwo
[B] Or...the insane IBM lovers relieving themselves over ibm beating sony on the whole PS2 acronym debate should really get a stronger grip on their wildly tangible imagination's (G.A.L.)
either way its an inherently stupid thing to raise in light of those two ports at the back of your computer above the USB
do you guys actually like the old-skool IBM corp.?! oh and sony nicked their PStwo design from cray!. There thats'll get me flamebait
THINK BEFORE YOU BUY SONY PRODUCTS I wouldn't ever say 'don't', cos I'm not like that and well sony make some really nice stuff, (vaio's...etc) but their attitude more and more is towards trying to tie people into buying multiple sony products over other makes through proprietry integration. I'm scared of sony because they have no real competition in alot of their markets, people will buy sony just because its ...., sony are becoming an electronics M$.
Sony is so big that while one department embraces open source and linux for intelligent devices the other stuffs MSPocketExplorer on their mobile phones.
And memory sticks just screw Compact Flash - the standards there already so why 'reinvent it' (I betcha have to pay royalties if you wanna produce your own memory stick!)
Oh and theres at least 3 types of memory stick now - hows that for integration...
be different...think you I really want this before you fall for sony's marketing sleight of hand.
"Fuck 'em if they ccan't take a Joke" -J.R.B.D.
I really think that the government should take a bigger interest in developing and mantaining open standards and protocols in software and on the internet. The ability for technology to successfully interact surely produces a more productive environment, and economically successful market, than the inovation starved atomosphere fuelled by the dirty tricks of the not so moral corporates. Bill G may whine about the morality of software piracy but until he realises that his companies actions are morally perhaps a step beyond those nemesis kids actions microsoft will continue to fail. Personally I think the software industry to continue to scheme, monoploise and deceive until it reachs the state of the rotten-cored music industry...
::Your right to free speech is not being
::infringed, you're being prohibited from
::spreading information about a criminal
::activity. Do you honestly condone teaching our
::nation's youth the quickest way to kill
::themselves? Quit hiding behind the free speech
::claim.
half of whats on TV involves a criminal element that may possibly inspire those watching; used as a basis on which to base their plan.
If you want to know how to break into a bank watch ironside!
Remember the futurists wet dream of having everything 'internet connected'. The whole thing that suddenly was "this is the future" like a year ago with 'intelligent fridges' and internet-connected hifi's.
Linux's networking features etc. make a great deal of sense to this.
Actually I'd really like a hifi I could stick a USB cable into link it up to the PC for a and set up a playlist remotely/download tunes to.
Or even animate the little LED graphics EQ!
from yahoo interview :: >Once again, thanks for the support and the >belief. Don't let anybody f*ck with you for >what you believe in! -I believe in the freedom of information, - that there will always be a outlet for the trading of information in whichever form that takes, - its pretty much inevitable. - The industry will adapt and learn to make money. Back to basics - rather than society fitting into a set business model - business will once again be made to innovate/develop itself around society. -d0pegh0st