The gruesome possibility that criminals may hack off a finger has already been discounted by Hitachi's scientists. Asked if authentication could be "forged" with a severed finger, the company says: "As blood would flow out of a disconnected finger, authentication would no longer be possible."
I must admit that was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline...
I suspect Ryanair is mostly upset about the screen with markup. If all the sites did was search for the cheapest airfare and forward you then there would be nothing whatsoever Ryanair could do about it.
"Ryanair has a policy of preventing screenscrapers unlawfully accessing Ryanairâ(TM)s website, because in many cases these screenscrapers are engaged in some or all of the following unlawful/inappropriate behaviour:
1. They are in breach of Ryanair's copyright rules. 2. They are in breach of Ryanair.com's terms of use. 3. They are levying unjustified and unnecessary handling charges (in some cases up to double the Ryanair fare) on Ryanair passengers. 4. They don't provide passengers with Ryanair's accurate terms/conditions. 5. They don't provide passengers with up to date flight or change information. 6. They are delaying ordinary passengers' access to the Ryanair.com website."
At the risk of sounding like an Apple fanboy, the iPhone is fantastic as a remote touchpad using the Touchpad Pro application (free through Installer on an unlocked iPhone).
VNC server has to be running and accessible from the wireless network. An optional paid upgrade for the server is a Media server app that runs on a (Windows) box and controls iTunes, WinAmp or MCE.
It's a great solution, much better than a wireless keyboard/mouse when you're on the sofa. Takes a few seconds (and clicks) to open and choose the server to connect to, but once connected it's very responsive.
This would still work if you had enough visitors - but rather than selling a list of cracked captchas you'd sell access to a real-time captcha cracker that a bot could use to bypass pretty much any 'real user' verification system.
The Firefox plugin at
http://www.customizegoogle.com/
has various options, including filtering out specified domains from all searches, removing ads and adding site thumbnails...
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"authentify" - Does that mean simultaneous identification and authentication? Does "indentificate" mean the same thing?
FTA:
The gruesome possibility that criminals may hack off a finger has already been discounted by Hitachi's scientists. Asked if authentication could be "forged" with a severed finger, the company says: "As blood would flow out of a disconnected finger, authentication would no longer be possible."
I must admit that was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline...
I suspect Ryanair is mostly upset about the screen with markup. If all the sites did was search for the cheapest airfare and forward you then there would be nothing whatsoever Ryanair could do about it.
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/news.php?yr=08&month=aug&story=reg-en-050808
From their news post:
"Ryanair has a policy of preventing screenscrapers unlawfully accessing Ryanairâ(TM)s website, because in many cases these screenscrapers are engaged in some or all of the following unlawful/inappropriate behaviour:
1. They are in breach of Ryanair's copyright rules.
2. They are in breach of Ryanair.com's terms of use.
3. They are levying unjustified and unnecessary handling charges (in some cases up to double the Ryanair fare) on Ryanair passengers.
4. They don't provide passengers with Ryanair's accurate terms/conditions.
5. They don't provide passengers with up to date flight or change information.
6. They are delaying ordinary passengers' access to the Ryanair.com website."
At the risk of sounding like an Apple fanboy, the iPhone is fantastic as a remote touchpad using the Touchpad Pro application (free through Installer on an unlocked iPhone). VNC server has to be running and accessible from the wireless network. An optional paid upgrade for the server is a Media server app that runs on a (Windows) box and controls iTunes, WinAmp or MCE. It's a great solution, much better than a wireless keyboard/mouse when you're on the sofa. Takes a few seconds (and clicks) to open and choose the server to connect to, but once connected it's very responsive.
Surely reducing the minimal feature-set isn't a step forward?
Did you run that through Google Translate?
This would still work if you had enough visitors - but rather than selling a list of cracked captchas you'd sell access to a real-time captcha cracker that a bot could use to bypass pretty much any 'real user' verification system.
The Firefox plugin at http://www.customizegoogle.com/ has various options, including filtering out specified domains from all searches, removing ads and adding site thumbnails...