Can you honestly say that with a straight face while browsing the hundreds of fart apps and stupid slideshows of 5 pictures or less? The App store is indeed cluttered by tens of thousands of utterly useless and worthless apps, but the Wi-Fi finding category is certainly not contributing by much.

So while just about everyone on this thread is actively debating the legality of mass-buying and reselling tickets, as a Slashdot member, I'm interesting in how they broke the system.

It seems to me that, while reCAPTCHA created a very interesting system, they exposed themselves to a ridiculously simple attack: the reuse of previous catpchas and the reuse of their identification numbers.

Fixing this would be very easy. I'm thinking of this method:
1. Every graphic image of captcha in the system is assigned a unique ID along with the response, just like it is right now.
2. When an external website requests a challenge, the system picks a captcha ID at random in the database.
3. Take this captcha ID and write it in a database, along with a random number.
4. From now on, the random number (ie "public random ID") is used for the website that is using it.
5. As soon as the challenge is solved (website proceeds with the rest of the user authentication), the public random ID database item for this number is marked "Wasted", and will never be used again.

There! Fixed.

They're fucking GUNS!

Losing 250 toobelts or phones or pants or metal detector wands, fine whatever. But they're losing guns here! You know, those metal things you point at people and they die? Like, forever?

It's really something to witness. I was next to a coworker that was telling me about the damn window that popped up everytime he launched IE8 and didn't know what to do about it. I tell him "Read it?" he goes "okay fine", he reads it skipping every other word, then goes "Well? I don't want anything so waht do I click?"

As an IT administrator, I would like to tape iPads in front of user's screens. This is going to be so simple they can't do it wrong.

That's not all. To this day, we still occasionally receive an email consisting of nothing more than an attachment "winmail.dat"

i eventually gave up on trying to tell mail administrators to set outlook clients properly or to set Exchange rules for outbound formating. I've installed "Lookout" plugin on all users' Thunderbirds.

It's really as if Microsoft deliberately tried to break email interoperability so they can attempt to monopolize it. Hmm.....

Actually, you are just as likely to be hit. A miscalculated oversteer turn (drift) could make the car plunge right on the inside of the track. I would observe a robotic car driving from far away...

Right so I can just go rent whatever crazy car I've never driven before, crash it, and then go "Well you know I wasn't familiar with that particular car."

You're driving a huge metal bullet that can kill many people in a matter of seconds, it's your damn responsibility to know how to operate it. IF you're too dumb to know how to turn the engine off, DO NOT DRIVE THAT CAR.

It pisses me off that driver's education classes teach people to obey traffic laws but give them zero knowledge of how to keep control of this killing machine on wheels.

wondering how they lived without the thing they had no practical use for before they bought it.

So I've been eating my raw meet and crunching vegetables for some time when one day, Borgt brings a thing he calls "iFire" from his city to mine. He tells us iFire is like the sun but portable.

I told him to take it away, as I have no practical use for it. My vegetables are crunchy, and meat tastes good, what could I possibly benefit from fire?

Oh you mean, we can discover NEW USES after being put in contact with new applications of technology?

I guess all those sheeps will still buy iPads, right? Damn sheeps!

Disclosure: Ba-a-a-a-h.

Well let's see. Last time we all went nuts over what Apple was possibly going to revolutionize a market with a new innovative gadget or not, was when they were 'about to possibly announce a PHONE'.

What came next? Oh right, a truly innovative phone that revolutionized not only the entire mobile phone market, but the portable-pocket-computer market as well, and then went on to sell millions and millions of those rectangle boxes.

So yes, the entire world comprised of people interested in technology is buzzing around like crazy because, as the speculations, chances are good that the same company will do it again with something else that will possibly revolutionize a whole market and change a part of our lives as technology yet again makes a leap forward.

We're excited because it's exciting.

If this bores you and you can't be bothered until the product is actually out the door, then don't read the stories and don't comment on them. Just scroll down buddy, more stories about Microsoft's hacking vector software is on the way.

By the way, this is not just 'tech'. The same thing happens with cars as well. Some company may or may not come up with a new innovative product and we all get giddy about it and post countless blogs and forums threads about it. And we love it.

"Global Warming Or: None Like It Hot!"

Narrator: Of course, since the greenhouse gases are still building up, it takes more and more ice each time. Thus solving the problem once and for all.
Suzie: But--
Narrator: Once and for all!

"The End".

And this is why Slashdot remains to me the best site to read news and discussions about technology-related subjects. I'm here reading comments about framerate in videogames when all of a sudden, a group of people spontaneously burst into the technicalities of cinema cameras and how the motion is captured on film.

This is FASCINATING stuff, thank you for that. You're already +5 Informative, but I'll pretend-mod you to +6.

You must be new to smuggling.

I'm not saying the poster is right on his claims, but the basic principle is that:
1. Take cheap diamonds from conflicted African country
2. Put them in a bag
3. Go to Canada
4. Open the bag in the bottom of a Canadian mine on a Monday night during the hockey game
5. Tuesday morning: Wow! We've just found an assload of diamonds! Let's go laser etch them for authenticity right away!

It's not like that's such a complicated plan. Are they doing it? I have no idea and frankly, I can't decide which sounds more plausible. a) A giant multinational acting kindly? or b) A giant multinational bending the laws for profit.

Tough choice!

One million points and some robot parts for having summed up the whole public-smoking debacle in a nice to comprehend paragraph.

That's exactly why I support banning of smoking everywhere in the entire world with the exception of a smoker's own house and possibly car as long as no passengers are in it.

You can shoot your heroin all you want, as long as your needle isn't accidentally reaching my arm. Second hand heroin!

Congratulations on being born from a family tree of geniuses.

What the author of the post means is that for every mom and pop out there except yours, they will find a device such as this to be their main choice of "computerinternetthing".

The fact that your grandpa can use Excel to make a spreadsheet is pointless to the fact that old people of any generation have a hard time dealing with the top technology of the same time. So this device is the WebTV that Microsoft knew was a good idea ten years ago, but in a working condition.

Damn straight! Grado headphones are the second best headphones I have ever heard.

A few years ago I bought (impulsively I might add) what I think is the best sounding headphones: Stax headphones, or rather, earspeakers as they say. http://www.stax.co.jp/Export/SRS2050II.html Not exactly this one, as the one I had has been discontinued, but pretty much the same. At 1000$ for the set (earphones and mandatory amplifier), it's a bit insanely expensive. But the sound that came out of that was sublime, as true experience to be lived.