Pity there's no alternatives to the BSA. Maybe some enterprising geeks could start one up, dedicated to environmentalism, conservation, science, and other mildly geeky stuff in addition to the BSA. Like the "Mr. Wizard Brigade" or something. How about the Woodcraft Folk (or the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, or even the Brockleything)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodcraft_Folk
Roads, aka the public highway, are legitimately used by many different kinds of user. Although I don't know your specific circumstances, your lack of appreciation of the needs of other users smacks of pure selfishness. If you have difficulty safely passing slower traffic, then maybe you shouldn't be driving.
Here is where you fail to understand the problem.
AH! Now I understand! You are in the wrong conversation and didn't realize it. Huh? I think the OP was clear in explaining what he or she was talking about. No one is saying that we don't need a way of preventing our apps. (HTML or otherwise) from being 'harvested' by bots; the important thing is not to categorize huge numbers of people as bots, particularly people who may have been excluded from things in the past and actually have a chance of living a more fulfilled, independent life if we get things right now.
There is no reason to neglect web site accessibility. People that can't see, or find it difficult to do so, have been poorly served by bad web developers, not by the technology. In fact, I think the technology has been very liberating. The cost of failing to implement enabling technologies is far higher to the whole of society than the 'insignificant' cost of implementing an accessible web site, which is why society should require accessible information. In what sense is driving comparable to web browsing?
Someone I know has developed a similar system that uses a standard, fixed position keypad: The screen (ATM, mobile phone, point-of-sale etc) displays a grid and superimposes jumbled up and repeated numbers over the spaces. Using your secret _pattern_ that is known to the authentication service, you type in the corresponding numbers. Even if someone sees the numbers you type, it is difficult to determine your secret pattern because of duplicate positions for the same number. It's called GrIDsure.
The problem is that anyone can set up to track a mobile phone so long as there is a short window of opportunity to the phone in question. A web form submission (including credit card number I suppose) initiates the process and a reply to the SMS sent to the phone 'authorises' the process. Thereafter the phone is tracked, and the only way the holder of the phone will find out about this is if they happen to recieve a randomly sent warning SMS.
Our chief weapon is asset freezing...surprise and asset freezing...asset freezing and surprise.... Amongst our nuclear weaponry...are such elements as asset freezing, surprise.... I'll come in again.
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Wait and see nanbotnets!
My Nan has been in a botnet since 1978 if you ask me. I blame the ITV wrestling.
Pluses for no hostile natives, though.
Didn't the natives help the first european settlers survive the first few years?
Roads, aka the public highway, are legitimately used by many different kinds of user. Although I don't know your specific circumstances, your lack of appreciation of the needs of other users smacks of pure selfishness. If you have difficulty safely passing slower traffic, then maybe you shouldn't be driving.
There is no reason to neglect web site accessibility. People that can't see, or find it difficult to do so, have been poorly served by bad web developers, not by the technology. In fact, I think the technology has been very liberating. The cost of failing to implement enabling technologies is far higher to the whole of society than the 'insignificant' cost of implementing an accessible web site, which is why society should require accessible information. In what sense is driving comparable to web browsing?
How about the http://www.clarksvillage.co.uk/ Clarkes Village Outlet Shopping Centre in Street, Somerset?
Someone I know has developed a similar system that uses a standard, fixed position keypad: The screen (ATM, mobile phone, point-of-sale etc) displays a grid and superimposes jumbled up and repeated numbers over the spaces. Using your secret _pattern_ that is known to the authentication service, you type in the corresponding numbers. Even if someone sees the numbers you type, it is difficult to determine your secret pattern because of duplicate positions for the same number. It's called GrIDsure.
The problem is that anyone can set up to track a mobile phone so long as there is a short window of opportunity to the phone in question. A web form submission (including credit card number I suppose) initiates the process and a reply to the SMS sent to the phone 'authorises' the process. Thereafter the phone is tracked, and the only way the holder of the phone will find out about this is if they happen to recieve a randomly sent warning SMS.
You'd have hoped so, huh? http://gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html
Just hang on there, mate - I hope you've got a license for that NOT you've just used.
Our chief weapon is asset freezing...surprise and asset freezing...asset freezing and surprise....
Amongst our nuclear weaponry...are such elements as asset freezing, surprise.... I'll come in again.