made things a lot worse. When my oldest (who is actually good at math) went to school, he never got in trouble because he'd get some A's, a few B's and occasionally he'd even get an F... by now, math and other subjects are so dumbed down that any reasonably smart person gets straight A's - and suddenly you're being punished for being too smart... In the end, we need kids to fail more in every way.

Peter.

I can't remember anyone recently claiming that the US was a democracy... House members voting against what their constituents want, presidents signing clearly unconstitutional bills into law and the supreme court refusing to hear important cases? Just cause the president belongs to the democratic party, doesn't mean our formerly great country is still a democracy...

To bring jobs back to the US... put in the internet kill switch, use it once, and all those call center jobs will come right back! :)

I like the touch surface but that "simple" window manager is just that. Simple. Too bad that there is a difference between simple and better. Just like a skateboard is simpler than a car doesn't make it more suitable to go to the grocery store with.... After all that talk of "lets increase interactivity because you can't reduce 10 fingers to one x/y coordinate" I think its a little strange that they then go to "lets reduce x/y window layouts to just x"...

In the end it just looks like an effort in changing things just for the sake of change.

Peter.

Any method you use can be broken. Your only chance is to reduce the likelihood that your site is worth the effort.

Basically, if you use a common solution - no matter of FOSS or commercial - then there will be a thousand other sites that use it too. This attracts attackers because they know when they hack it once, they can re-use it.

However, if you handcode something, no matter how primitive, it likely lasts a lot longer because nobody bothers hacking into your site...

Of course that doesn't work if you have a large site like myspace - there, a single site is worth the effort by itself.

Anyway - then there are two things - a really fast moving animated gif and silly things where you ask people to identify items usually work.
I help out with a site that randomly takes five pictures of cats and dogs and it asks you to identify which of the images contains the highest number of kittens... We barely ever get spam through - and that with almost 20K attempted submissions by non-humans a day makes us pretty happy

Peter.