On one of my sites, I found that the spam bots were getting through Google Captcha as if it wasn't there. I tried a math test and the spam bots stopped getting through... Can you explain to me why as I would find it much easier to write a script that could solve simple math?
My biggest problem with Captcha is that the clients do not like it at all. They want an easy life.
I guess that you are either being sarcastic or you do not travel much as most web sites do that. Even big names.
The ones that really piss me off are people like Google when I am already logged in and they could just look at the preferences I have set rather than go to some search of IP addresses to make a guess at where I am on the planet and then get that wrong. If I log into Yahoo Messenger, messenger will work fine but it will also open 2 other windows with an impressive array of unintelligible gibberish in some foreign script. Laos is a great country for this as older OSs (like XP) cannot render their script and most web sites get completely confused about which language to offer.
Not true, a couple of years ago I would have argued with you as I repaired many MacBook Pros and Thinkpads etc. which were easy to get apart and put back together without breaking anything. Now they are specifically designed to stop you doing that. It is only the timeframe that I am arguing...
...most programmers seem to be far more interested in more impressive things like making sure whatever you are doing is in the wrong language and you cannot find any way of returning to the English language that you have set on your computer - (not that I get really pissed off with that)
There is often good reason for staying with a (Free)DOS based system. In real time systems you can write something that actually works but if you put it on XP or Linux etc. it no longer works in real time and that can be a big problem in control systems. Most of the added complexity in XP etc. is to make the UI pretty and if you do not want that UI then why tolerate that added complexity and additional probability of failure. POS systems may be called real time but they are not as real time as machine control systems where waiting for the OS can have serious consequences. No system is perfect but allow a good analyst to have all the options and a good reason to choose the best one for the job rather than coming to the stupid conclusion that one answer should fit all.
I love the idea of singing motherboards:-) it would be much better than this stupid idea that is being forced on us in order to make more money for M$...
Logically, a person who works and travels in both countries would need his phone unlocked if he wants to use a Canadian provider while in Canada or in fact any area not covered by his provider. I can quite understand providers wanting to lock phones but to break such an agreement is not and should not be criminal. Intent should be a part of the equation in that if I have a good reason to need my phone unlocked (examples already given) and I want my contract to continue and intend to continue to use the original supplier, then no harm is being done and in a civil case and they would be stupid to take me to court but as they have made this criminal, no harm is required. This is where America has lost sight of justice and is now just protecting the money men at the expense of the people.
They have very good reason to feel threatened. If Europe starts to get its act together, American people may start to think that it is possible and demand the same.
The competition can be impossible to work with in some countries. I am currently in Thailand where the banks are good. OKPay demand that I jump through certain hoops to verify, fine. So I let them pay some money into my account but it arrives without any code that they need to verify so I cannot verify. OKPay say that I need to find that code and I need to find out whom on the route from wherever to Thailand lost the code. I cannot, so I try the credit card verification. They deduct a small amount from my credit card and I have to say how much. They want to know exactly how much in Euro but my statement is in Baht and the rates vary each day. I have no idea how much the amount was in Euro and neither do my bank. So they ask for some paperwork to verify but they want paperwork that is in English which is not going to happen here as this is Thailand where they speak Thai. All my official letters are in Thai which is written in what looks like dead worms.
Paypal, who have frozen my money before and whom I hate, allow me to say how much was deducted in Baht and the codes appear on my statements. Paypal has its faults but it works better.
I think that you should read the true story of Lockerbie rather than the US story. That aside, bombs are easy to get on to a plane today and it is normally old style leg work that provides the security -
notice it was Saudi intelligence (is that an oxymoron?) that told us of the event... When the plane arrived in England security looked,, found printers and declared it to be an error but the US security refused to let the cargo continue. The bombs are not as easy to detect as you are led to believe. Normal methods cannot tell between explosives, batteries or toner.
I think the real irony is that if you want to blow up a plane you need to use the tried and tested methods as they are the only ones that we do not protect against. No one has ever blown up a plane with a bottle of water, it was theoretical, but you cannot take a bottle of water onto a plane. Most planes were blown up with bombs made to look like ordinary objects. The bomb that blew up the plane over Lockerbie was made to look like a radio and the explosives were disguised as batteries, this would still work today as no one stops you from having a radio in your suitcase in the hold.
The security theatre has only served to frighten the people into letting our rulers do as they wish. The lack of real terrorist events is because no one is really trying to kill us. If a group started up today with the brains of the IRA we would be just as screwed today as we were back then. Although most of their success was due to American help which might not be as easy to get today.
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On one of my sites, I found that the spam bots were getting through Google Captcha as if it wasn't there. I tried a math test and the spam bots stopped getting through... Can you explain to me why as I would find it much easier to write a script that could solve simple math?
My biggest problem with Captcha is that the clients do not like it at all. They want an easy life.
Time to dump Yahoo, I only still use it for the spam filter which it has been good at but if it expects me to look at ads I will stop using it.
and breath other people's exhaust all the way? You must have an interesting definition of healthy...
" just skip a $6 coffee on the one day"???
Are you crazy? The neighbours would be wearing the honey... A day without coffee is far too dangerous.
...to the internet proxy industry :-)
I guess that you are either being sarcastic or you do not travel much as most web sites do that. Even big names.
The ones that really piss me off are people like Google when I am already logged in and they could just look at the preferences I have set rather than go to some search of IP addresses to make a guess at where I am on the planet and then get that wrong. If I log into Yahoo Messenger, messenger will work fine but it will also open 2 other windows with an impressive array of unintelligible gibberish in some foreign script. Laos is a great country for this as older OSs (like XP) cannot render their script and most web sites get completely confused about which language to offer.
Not true, a couple of years ago I would have argued with you as I repaired many MacBook Pros and Thinkpads etc. which were easy to get apart and put back together without breaking anything. Now they are specifically designed to stop you doing that. It is only the timeframe that I am arguing...
...most programmers seem to be far more interested in more impressive things like making sure whatever you are doing is in the wrong language and you cannot find any way of returning to the English language that you have set on your computer - (not that I get really pissed off with that)
... unreliable internet connection (most of the world) this will make it unusable.
http://youtu.be/I9_hWoGrxWg
For what it is worth -
Turbo C++ v1.01 from Borland. Released as a freeware by Borland.
So you can have a free C++ learning platform for students.
There is often good reason for staying with a (Free)DOS based system. In real time systems you can write something that actually works but if you put it on XP or Linux etc. it no longer works in real time and that can be a big problem in control systems. Most of the added complexity in XP etc. is to make the UI pretty and if you do not want that UI then why tolerate that added complexity and additional probability of failure. POS systems may be called real time but they are not as real time as machine control systems where waiting for the OS can have serious consequences. No system is perfect but allow a good analyst to have all the options and a good reason to choose the best one for the job rather than coming to the stupid conclusion that one answer should fit all.
I love the idea of singing motherboards :-) it would be much better than this stupid idea that is being forced on us in order to make more money for M$...
... no story here, move along.
Logically, a person who works and travels in both countries would need his phone unlocked if he wants to use a Canadian provider while in Canada or in fact any area not covered by his provider. I can quite understand providers wanting to lock phones but to break such an agreement is not and should not be criminal. Intent should be a part of the equation in that if I have a good reason to need my phone unlocked (examples already given) and I want my contract to continue and intend to continue to use the original supplier, then no harm is being done and in a civil case and they would be stupid to take me to court but as they have made this criminal, no harm is required. This is where America has lost sight of justice and is now just protecting the money men at the expense of the people.
"The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), for which Aldermaston has become known,[103] is less than 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the village. "
Very well kept secret...
Wrong, it should 'selectively prosecute those who threaten profit, lets not worry about all those crazies with sub machine guns'
He obviously has too much money left and he wants to waste it on lawyers so that he can go bankrupt again...
They have very good reason to feel threatened. If Europe starts to get its act together, American people may start to think that it is possible and demand the same.
The competition can be impossible to work with in some countries. I am currently in Thailand where the banks are good. OKPay demand that I jump through certain hoops to verify, fine. So I let them pay some money into my account but it arrives without any code that they need to verify so I cannot verify. OKPay say that I need to find that code and I need to find out whom on the route from wherever to Thailand lost the code. I cannot, so I try the credit card verification. They deduct a small amount from my credit card and I have to say how much. They want to know exactly how much in Euro but my statement is in Baht and the rates vary each day. I have no idea how much the amount was in Euro and neither do my bank. So they ask for some paperwork to verify but they want paperwork that is in English which is not going to happen here as this is Thailand where they speak Thai. All my official letters are in Thai which is written in what looks like dead worms.
Paypal, who have frozen my money before and whom I hate, allow me to say how much was deducted in Baht and the codes appear on my statements. Paypal has its faults but it works better.
Most cargo arrives in US on passenger planes.
More detail on that story...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_planes_bomb_plot
I think that you should read the true story of Lockerbie rather than the US story. That aside, bombs are easy to get on to a plane today and it is normally old style leg work that provides the security -
http://www.usfinancialpost.com/bombs-found-on-cargo-planes-from-yemen-bound-for-u-s/851567/
notice it was Saudi intelligence (is that an oxymoron?) that told us of the event... When the plane arrived in England security looked,, found printers and declared it to be an error but the US security refused to let the cargo continue. The bombs are not as easy to detect as you are led to believe. Normal methods cannot tell between explosives, batteries or toner.
??? They do not have a work ethic! Getting them to work is like herding cats.
I think the real irony is that if you want to blow up a plane you need to use the tried and tested methods as they are the only ones that we do not protect against. No one has ever blown up a plane with a bottle of water, it was theoretical, but you cannot take a bottle of water onto a plane. Most planes were blown up with bombs made to look like ordinary objects. The bomb that blew up the plane over Lockerbie was made to look like a radio and the explosives were disguised as batteries, this would still work today as no one stops you from having a radio in your suitcase in the hold.
The security theatre has only served to frighten the people into letting our rulers do as they wish. The lack of real terrorist events is because no one is really trying to kill us. If a group started up today with the brains of the IRA we would be just as screwed today as we were back then. Although most of their success was due to American help which might not be as easy to get today.