Bonus if it sorts socks!
Fixed that years ago: choose the kind of socks you like best and standardize. I can now even throw away a single sock without looking for the other one...
Or if you're a university student you can just be that guy that wears sandals all the time. Bonus points if you smell like a barn.
Sadly, if things drag on long enough that statement will be true. There will be people who have been hearing about this war literally their whole lives without really knowing how or why it started.
The best security I've seen on a sign-up form was "if you're a human, please leave this field blank". Bots tend to fill in all fields, so this already goes a long way towards filtering them out.
You can even take this approach one step further and use CSS to move the field outside the viewable range of the page or set its visible property to false so the user won't even see it.
CAPTCHA is not a security feature. It's a way to help avoid robots pretending to be humans. Anyone using it as a security feature is just giving more reasons for people to find ways to break them.
All in all, it's time to get rid of CAPTCHA and move on to some more logical system that would be more difficult, such as a system where users are asked to answer a simple question that contains the answer, such as:
If you were born in 1973 and JFK was shot in 1961, were you alive when he was shot?
How many liters of water fit into a five-liter bottle?
It sounds like a great idea, but I've met plenty of people who wouldn't be able to answer either of your questions. To steal a random quote from the internet:
"Back in the 1980s, Yosemite National Park was having a serious problem with bears: They would wander into campgrounds and break into the garbage bins. This put both bears and people at risk. So the Park Service started installing armored garbage cans that were tricky to open -- you had to swing a latch, align two bits of handle, that sort of thing. But it turns out it's actually quite tricky to get the design of these cans just right. Make it too complex and people can't get them open to put away their garbage in the first place. Said one park ranger, "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."
Nah, they'll sell you that once the sales of the individual installments start to drop off. Then, all the hardcore fans will have to get the gold version to supplement their installments. If Blizzard really wanted to rake people over the coals, they'd give some special unlockable that requires all three installments plus the gold edition.
What, like for small villages in the middle of nowhere without roads?
Yeah, because you can't ride a bicycle off-road. Oh, wait...
While I think this bike is a clear example of form following function, it looks like it has a lot of potential. If they designed it a little differently, it could also be able to carry supplies. Mind you, I'm not factoring in the amount of work required to pedal all that water around.
The problem with the "just download it on kazaa" method is the problem that the RIAA is talking about. They believe that by screwing all of us, they're making the world a better place. I mean, yeah.. it's faster.. cheaper... and just as good quality when you download the MP3... how can a hardcopy compete with that?
I think that if the RIAA actually worked WITH the P2P end of music that they'd probably be having a lot less problems. Besides, sharing music online doesn't have to be such a major issue. I mean, yes, I've downloaded some music, Linkin Park. I didn't know if I'd like their CD, so I just downloaded a song or two and bought it the next day. Either way, you can't exactly stop something that's free, P2P apps will keep popping up.
On that note, at this rate, soon there will be ANOTHER version of Napster, this one made to piss off the RIAA instead of Metallica.;)
Slashdot Mirror
And if your like the average slashdotter, you've never been able to use it. :D
Sure he has. (I'll leave the rest to your imagination)
Maybe they did and he wouldn't tell. Of course, like most /.ers, I didn't RTFA.
Bonus if it sorts socks! Fixed that years ago: choose the kind of socks you like best and standardize. I can now even throw away a single sock without looking for the other one...
Or if you're a university student you can just be that guy that wears sandals all the time. Bonus points if you smell like a barn.
We've always been at war with Eastasia.
Sadly, if things drag on long enough that statement will be true. There will be people who have been hearing about this war literally their whole lives without really knowing how or why it started.
Sweat of my brow? Eh, the price is too high.
That was my first thought, but arrest doesn't always lead to prosecution.
is it a car as long as it has wheels?
I'm going to say yes as it justifies my making vrooming noises when I ride my chair around the office.
Easy, he picks up the phone and whistles really fast.
I'll tell you what's unethical: It would cost me around a million dollars to fill up an iPod, if I bought all my music from the iTMS.
Whine, whine whine...
Sooo... I guess you've never heard of legal alternatives to iTunes like Jamendo (free) or Emusic (cheap)?
But you're right, damn those unethical people for forcing you, the victim, to acquire music solely through Apple.
I don't know! Aaaaaauuugh!
I'm on to you, Mr. Bear.
You can even take this approach one step further and use CSS to move the field outside the viewable range of the page or set its visible property to false so the user won't even see it.
CAPTCHA is not a security feature. It's a way to help avoid robots pretending to be humans. Anyone using it as a security feature is just giving more reasons for people to find ways to break them. All in all, it's time to get rid of CAPTCHA and move on to some more logical system that would be more difficult, such as a system where users are asked to answer a simple question that contains the answer, such as: If you were born in 1973 and JFK was shot in 1961, were you alive when he was shot? How many liters of water fit into a five-liter bottle?
It sounds like a great idea, but I've met plenty of people who wouldn't be able to answer either of your questions. To steal a random quote from the internet:
"Back in the 1980s, Yosemite National Park was having a serious problem with bears: They would wander into campgrounds and break into the garbage bins. This put both bears and people at risk. So the Park Service started installing armored garbage cans that were tricky to open -- you had to swing a latch, align two bits of handle, that sort of thing. But it turns out it's actually quite tricky to get the design of these cans just right. Make it too complex and people can't get them open to put away their garbage in the first place. Said one park ranger, "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."
Don't worry. Apparently there are programs that can read them for you. ;)
Nah, they'll sell you that once the sales of the individual installments start to drop off. Then, all the hardcore fans will have to get the gold version to supplement their installments. If Blizzard really wanted to rake people over the coals, they'd give some special unlockable that requires all three installments plus the gold edition.
What, like for small villages in the middle of nowhere without roads?
Yeah, because you can't ride a bicycle off-road. Oh, wait...
While I think this bike is a clear example of form following function, it looks like it has a lot of potential. If they designed it a little differently, it could also be able to carry supplies. Mind you, I'm not factoring in the amount of work required to pedal all that water around.
The blind users' cats, no doubt.
I have computerless fans. =(
We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical problem -- how to run a sunbeam through a meter.
My finger counting goes up to 11.
I think that if the RIAA actually worked WITH the P2P end of music that they'd probably be having a lot less problems. Besides, sharing music online doesn't have to be such a major issue. I mean, yes, I've downloaded some music, Linkin Park. I didn't know if I'd like their CD, so I just downloaded a song or two and bought it the next day. Either way, you can't exactly stop something that's free, P2P apps will keep popping up.
On that note, at this rate, soon there will be ANOTHER version of Napster, this one made to piss off the RIAA instead of Metallica. ;)