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No one’s perfect and everyone makes mistakes … including Google. Here is an actual screenshot (with an exploded view of the item of note) of my iGoogle page today.
As you can see, the weather in Germantown calls for a high of 78 degrees, mostly cloudy, and winds approaching that of a Black Hole.
“Sometimes we all just need to laugh a little”
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Hello World,
It’s not everyday I stumble across what I like to call a “paper clip” idea. These are ideas that are so simple in design that it even surpasses the intellect of the “well educated” … like the paper clip. Props to the man or woman who invented the paper clip. Well I came upon what I think is another such idea.
For years web developers have been developing way to prevent spam bot from infiltrating their sites and submitting hundreds of form entries. Thus was born the Captcha, a dynamically generated warped image of a word or phrase. The user must enter the word or phrase in the text box before submitting the form. This technology helps prevent spam bot from automatically reading the word of phrase and successfully submitting the form. Unfortunately, many times it is difficult for even the human to read the word or phrase.
Can you tell what letter (or number) that is between the 5 and 3? Neither can I.
As I was registering at another forum site I was presented with a rather unique, what I like to call a low-tech way of validating human response. Ask the user to solve a simple expression.
You simply supply the answer to the expression. The expression is dynamically generated and can contain any combination or numbers and operators. Yes, a computer would be able to recognize and calculate such an expression much faster than any human but that’s assuming that the spam bot can read the expression. Could we not use a form of Captcha technology to provide the expression and allow the human to enter the answer? One number … not some word or phrase, uppercase or lowercase, just one number.
Just a thought.
Ciao
Hello World,
Well it has finally happened. Marvel Comics has officially entered the online world of comic distribution. - Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited! This new site gives you access to thousands of Marvel Comics in digital format. For the price of one (maybe two) comics per month you can get access to their entire library of comics.
I’ve been reading Marvel Comics since … I’ve been able to read. I’ve collected many comics (hundreds) over the years and still collect more. I don’t consider myself a “bulk collector” of comics. I only buy the issues that I’m interested in reading and I only read the stories that are of interest to me. I have never been able to find (or afford to buy) the first issue of some of my favorite comics. Now I can read them online and just like when I hear a song I really like, I can purchase the hard copy at my local comic store.
The downside … you are unable to download the comics for off-line viewing. I hope that they add that feature sometime soon. If they would make the comics available for download (I’d pay a little extra for that - .99 per issue) that would give me a reason to buy the Sony Reader Digital Book. Better yet … if they created an API to their library of comics i would dedicate myself to creating a “killer” comic book based app in Flex/AIR.
Oh well … baby steps
Ciao
