There were many news regarding CAPTCHAs recently. If you have been reading my posts, you know that Yahoo, Microsoft and Google, the big 3, had their share of problems regarding broken CAPTCHA that are based on character recognition.
According to Websense Security Labs, the account creation form for Live Hotmail at Microsoft has been the target [...]
In a programmer’s mind
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The CAPTCHA revisited
Staying in touch with the new trends
What is new in the computer world these days? That is a question I asked myself many times a day. In my case, the question is: what is new in the computer world these hours? The sad truth is that I am a news junkie.
On a daily basis, I read or fast-read about 10 to [...]
Creating life with DNA engineering
Can you imagine a world where we create life by taking the building blocks and putting them together just like you are building your Lego castle? Stop thinking, this is happening right now.
This is what the J. Craig Venter Institute is pretending. They did a presentation last February on TED about what they are doing [...]
My first Wii experience
Since Nintendo launched the Wii console, I have been craving to try it. Unfortunately, I had no friend that bought one and each time I went to a game store, their Wii would either be broken or some kid would be monopolizing it.
I wanted to try it because I heard good things about it. I [...]
The delete paradigm
Everyone knows that the computer world is a fast changing one. Programmers have to stay up to date with the lastest technologies to keep going and inovating. One of those concepts that is slowly evolving is the concept of deleting.
In the early days of computing, deleting something meant to permanently remove something from existence. It [...]
The dangers of armed robots
Should we fear robots and those that are armed?
If you have been reading a bit of science-fiction centered around the robotic theme, you know that in most cases, there are problems. Robots or intelligent machines replace every man in their work, they become the masters of the human race and they start a bloody war [...]