Really, if we distill this sentence just a little more, we'll be able to sell it as "Premium Distilled Comments"

Only on /. could this comment be moderated "Insightful" which as disturbing as it is, I guess is true...

There, fixed that for you...

I'm asking for opinions as to what is the (current) best alternative? I am currently (literally...which is actually the reason I looked specifically at this article) working on putting in reCAPTCHA for my site because I figured I'd wait to annoy my users until bots started hitting it...which they started doing a few days ago. I've now had ~50 or so bot accounts get signed up. Although they haven't responded to my confirmation email (and aren't able to login) it is really annoying and each account causes a few emails to bounce.

Anyway, I'm genuinely interested in what people have done for small scale sites. I figure when/if my site starts really growing the solution will change. That said, I'd prefer something simple and easy to implement and I can move to more sophisticated solutions when the need arises.

Just curious, but is it possible to run an X86 emulator on an ARM processor? If so, could they not compile the base OS for ARM, then in the transition period run "legacy" applications under emulation? I understand the major performance hit, but sometimes something is better than nothing at least until applications are ported?

Granted this is pertaining to a more Windows related question, but wouldn't this also be the case if you had to deal with binary blobs for linux?

I hope I'm not making too ignorant of a question/statement...

Well, I'd use Drupal because that is what I've worked with. I've taken the time to wrap my brain around how it does things (which is no minor feat). That said even for some mildly complex situations I never had to actually get down to the PHP layer (although I did a few times just to see how it actually worked).

But to answer your question. I was looking at this exact same question and I guess you can see which one I chose. I honestly don't remember all of the criteria that went into the decision, but I know I found some great tutorials that outlined one of the major pieces of functionality that we were wanting...so that was more or less what sealed the deal. I'd imagine that most people will have worked extensively with one or the other, so the answers you get will be slightly biased, but if anyone has moderate experience with both I'd love to hear an honest comparison.

Then you've obviously failed at parenting (by /. standards). This is especially disturbing coming from someone who's username is commodore64_love

Maybe they should lead by example?

I regularly check my site to make sure that is compliant. Even though I'm in a rapid development mode at the time, when I do find errors they get top priority to fix. Its a mindset that developers either embrace or ignore. Validation errors usually fall into two categories. First is just markup errors (ie. an input element not in a fieldset) the other it is not properly escaping user input. The first requires some conscious decisions about how you want to markup your site, the second is just improving your method of filtering user input. If you just stay on top of either of those scenarios on a regular basis they are both relatively easy to fix. My point is that having a non-validating site is either apathy, ignorance or laziness. I'd like to know which one of those aspects is the reason /. doesn't validate.

...are people who died from Twitter Recursive Downtime Syndrome (TRDS). More or less when Twitter goes down, they want to tweet about Twitter being down, when they realized how that makes them feel they want to tweet that, after about the third or fourth round of that, well it isn't pretty.

Yes, no laptop is complete until it has nipples.

this could lead to "another JFK".
Fire away people...

rather poor choice of words, don't you think?

You and your facts and figures. Please don't let sumdumass talk to some dumb ass in Congress else this will never get gov't funding!

Thats like buying a Ferrari for air conditioning.

Sorry to the people who I moderated earlier...

I just realized...isn't this somewhat of a straw man argument in that why would a blind person even buy a Kindle in the first place?