That's by no means a solution, as it ignores entirely the main reason for OpenID - avoiding registration.

Yes, the rovers have photographed both moons.

No, you don't.

Why not, and says whom?

I work for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle newspaper, and a Gatehouse site, The Batavian, uses our headlines in their sidebar.

This is a boneheaded, hypocritical move by a desperate company - their market cap has dropped to about $2 million.

If AT&T's service was down, how would they send you a text or voicemail?

I seem to get Mollum captchas on every site that uses it. My IP, user agent, etc. are almost completely static. My comments are grammatically correct, never spammy, etc.

If their system hasn't identified me as safe by now, there's something wrong.

In contrast, to my knowledge Akismet has never flagged me. My comments go straight up on blogs using it. On my personal site, I've had maybe 10 false positives out of several thousand caught.

Mollom, IMO, has a long way to go.

You're just reiterating what I said.

The SDK is free. $0. You can develop anything you want in it, at no cost to you.

Deploying to the iPhone requires $99, but that's an entirely different issue. If your apps aren't worth paying a one-time fee of $99 to distribute on the App Store, you really might as well not be writing apps at all.

Uh, the SDK is free.

Here's their GetSatisfaction page.

Uh, this exploit is targeting ASP/MSSQL.