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 [...]
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The dangers of armed robots
You shall use the standards
A great news for every web developer in this world, Internet Explorer 8 will render content in a standards compliant way by default. In case you have not been following the recent activities, what was originally planned was to require developers to add a meta tag to specify the version in which you wanted the [...]
The future of applications might be made of air, light or fire
In case you have not been following the development in the field of rich internet application or RIA, there has been a lot of interesting things happening recently. A new battle of the titans is starting and pawns are already on the board.
Yesterday, the leader on the field, Adobe, released his latest offering targeting both [...]
Computers are getting better at character recognition for bad purposes
In a previous post, I wrote about my CAPTCHA plugin for blog publishing system. In that post, I was writing about how Microsoft and Yahoo had their CAPTCHA busted in the recents days. It seems like Google is not doing much better or that people are getting better at writing their own character recognition software.
According [...]
Easy to remember and good password
Is is possible to have a password that is both easy to remember and that is good enough to protect you? The answer is yes!
Some might think that to have a good password you need a lot of random letters of different case mixed with a lot of random number and mixed with a lot [...]
How to share
One of the great paradigm of modern software in the age of networks, is that we want to share. We want to share everything. Pictures, songs, movies, ideas, diagrams, texts, friends, contacts, calendars, videos, personal information, you name it. We want to share with everyone or do we?
Alright, I would like to share my pictures [...]