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by user24 15y ago
> Google et al are well aware that CAPTCHAs don't achieve anything ???? > So they build all these CAPTCHA "breaking" sites that actually just return the correct result from their internal databases Oh, haha, I see ;)
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by user24 15y ago
But who'd be doing the solve? If you have a machine to do it then you have a product (but only until the captcha improves, after all that's the whole point). If it's humans, you're either pricing yourself out of the market or using slave la
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by user24 15y ago
$0.001 per 27 seconds gives an hourly wage of 13.85 cents. This system has to be using enforced labour, no-one will work for that little, even in the poorest countries. And that 13 cents figure is assuming that 100% of revenue goes to the i
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by user24 15y ago
Stop Sopa! Black out your keyboard!
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Being Awesome: A list of simple things to become a better person(puremango.co.uk)
1 points by user24 15y ago|0 comments
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by user24 15y ago
Already on frontpage: Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460033 And here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3459966
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by user24 15y ago
I'm guessing the dupe filter doesn't check [DEAD] links
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by user24 15y ago
Clicky: http://blog.mocality.co.ke/2012/01/13/google-what-were-you-t... Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460033
579.
by user24 15y ago
Yegger.
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by user24 15y ago
so true.
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by user24 15y ago
a lot of people use some variant of 'stick', eg 'thumbstick', 'usb stick'.
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by user24 15y ago
I don't agree that the difference between the two phrasings changes the partiality of the sentence.
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by user24 15y ago
A question that bugs me about these kind of locked phones: What about emergency calls? I don't have a smartphone so I don't know how it works, but it seems from what I've seen that modern cellphones prevent people from using them for emerge
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by user24 15y ago
agreed. You get huge, brief spikes of largely useless traffic. I'm not convinced there is an 'active' user of SU; I think people get into a click-the-stumble-button cycle and burn through 10s of pages a minute, meaning that most of the SU t
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by user24 15y ago
yeah I read that and thought "gosh how patronising would that be". also geolocation fails for my IP, says I'm 35 miles away from where I am, which in UK terms is quite far.
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by user24 15y ago
well, it would have been a she, especially in post-war England.
587.
by user24 15y ago
"MS" = Manuscript. "TB" = Tuberculosis. Reading his little abbreviations, it's like some kind of new language or something... ;)
588.
by user24 15y ago
hacker monthly is a very nicely put together magazine, I've read a few issues on the kindle, it's well worth checking out.
589.
by user24 15y ago
yeah that's a pretty restrictive robots.txt
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by user24 15y ago
It's a very interesting, very different experience. I'm not sure what we can take from it. I like the point about "I was so obsessed with the tool that the house was neglected entirely", I feel there's some wisdom in there I can learn from.
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by user24 15y ago
oh come on, you know that's not why they have these rules. What you say may be true, but the banks only enjoy this 'feature' by coincidence.
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by user24 15y ago
Oh, interesting. Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/0QNca.png I'm on Fx 8.0.1/OSX 10.7.2
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by user24 15y ago
well yeah, it's not like they're going to have been preparing to be called a rip off for the last 6 months.. Of course they registered it in response to this... ?!?!?
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by user24 15y ago
No it's not fixed. I was in bed with the screen tilted slightly away from me. Even face on it's still poor. You can't tell me that #333 text on #000 background is a good idea.
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by user24 15y ago
I'll tell you what not to do; dark grey links on a black background. On my laptop screen I literally couldn't see them until I selected all text on the page to see if I was missing something. I was. edit: Looks like this might be a Firefox
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by user24 15y ago
also, it's even not a case of "crack this and get an interview" it's "crack this and get to apply for the same vacancy that gchq publish on their homepage": job id 35874. But, it's a good publicity ruse. edit: the pay's not even that great.
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by user24 15y ago
What about this: I have two teenagers. One is a boy of 13. Do we encounter a similar situation with regard to the odds of the second teenager being a boy? edit: I'm thinking the odds are exactly the same, 13/27, by coincidence, as there are
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by user24 15y ago
it is now he's edited it. Wasn't clear before, to me at least. But then I "don't get it" so what do I know ;) edit: can't reply to you as HN isn't giving me the option. But: No worries, I didn't take it personally, just a little dig :)
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by user24 15y ago
> that the other child is not a (son AND Tuesday-born), that's when the 13/27 arises. No. The other can be (son AND Tuesday-born) as well and the probability is still 13/27. See Colin's reply to me.
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by user24 15y ago
That sounds convincing.

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