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Submission + - A vision for a world free of CAPTCHAs (slate.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 24, 2009 @02:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: Slate argues that we're going about verifying humans on the Web all wrong: "As Alan Turing laid out in the 1950 paper that postulated his test, the goal is to determine whether a computer can behave like a human, not perform tasks that a human can. The reason CAPTCHAs have a term limit is that they measure ability, not behavior. ... the random, circuitous way that people interact with Web pages--the scrolling and highlighting and typing and retyping--would be very difficult for a bot to mimic. A system that could capture the way humans interact with forms algorithmically could eventually relieve humans of the need to prove anything altogether." Seems smart if an algorithm could actually do that.

Comment Re:Hey! (Score 1) 650

by Usayd on Friday June 13, 2008 @07:43AM (#23776239) Attached to: UK Can Now Hold People Without Charge For 42 Days

Even if it was one person, it wouldn't be justified. The US needs a lot more than 'bashing', its needs accountability. 42 days is ridiculous, these governments are out of control.

Submission + - Facebook Leaves Advertisers Exposed to Hate Speech (newscloud.com) 1

Submitted by

NewsCloud

on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @04:02AM

NewsCloud writes: "Does Facebook believe that no publicity is bad publicity? Why else would they leave a group called, "Fuck Islam" open since July 21, 2007 despite more than 53,482 members joining an opposing group called petiton: if "f**k Islam" is not shut down..we r quitting facebook group. Furthermore, advertisers such as Sprint, Verizon, T Mobile, Target, Qwest and French's wouldn't be too happy to learn that they are paying for ads on the "Fuck Islam" group pages.

I'm not advocating a policy against free speech, just strict enforcement of Facebook's own Terms of Use. The group name is clearly vulgar and obscene. Arguably, inflammatory and hateful. Facebook has positioned itself as the darling of the social network world, without the spam, porn and the sex offender problems of MySpace. Yet, this sort of thing isn't new to Facebook (see Facing Up to Facebook Racism and Elder hate groups on facebook. There's even an active group called I hate Iraqis targeting Iraqi refugees fleeing to Jordan.
Shouldn't a startup like Facebook, worth reportedly more than a billion dollars with over a hundred employees be expected to comply with its Terms of Use in less than six weeks?"

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