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Submission + - William Gibson talks of Siri and how cell phones are destroying our memory. (thehighbar.tv) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 20, 2012 @10:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: The legendary author discusses his childhood, his craft and his hope for a future he has never truly predicted. How technology is acting as prosthetic memory causing us to forget more.

Comment "or even Myspace" (Score 1) 2

by mikeww on Friday August 10, 2012 @06:15PM (#40952213) Attached to: Training Cops To Use Social Media Information

The homepage on their machines is almost certainly AskJeeves.

Comment They make good use of humans... (Score 1) 1

by mikeww on Friday August 10, 2012 @06:11PM (#40952181) Attached to: CAPTCHA: Why it's terrible and some potential user-friendly alternatives

...to help digitize books and addresses where OCR is unreliable. The CAPTCHA gives you one word which it knows the answer, and another which it is trying to solve. Several humans are compared and the end result is recorded. I think that making use of humans in some form or fashion will for the foreseeable future be a benefit to these human testers, although yes, they are annoying.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Canadian programmers in the USA?

Submitted by mikeww on Friday August 10, 2012 @06:06PM

mikeww writes: From internships, contracts, to full time employment, how difficult is it for Canucks to make a buck down there?

Submission + - CAPTCHA: Why it's terrible and some potential user-friendly alternatives (roarc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 10, 2012 @05:41PM

An anonymous reader writes: I was Ironically foiled by the very subject matter of this article by Slashdot's submission form. CAPTCHA puzzles are a necessary evil to prevent us all from an inbox full of viagra. However, they're inconvenient, inaccessible (for visually impaired users) and machines are getting better at solving them too. How can CAPTCHA puzzles be made more relevant, user-friendly and future-proof? Will they even matter any more in the future? I'm an Undergrad Artificial Intelligence Student and these are my thoughts.

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