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Re: Linearized computations - was OCR
by Declan McCullagh 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 01:28:20PM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: > I think text is the wrong approach. Put up some pictures, > and a question - 'Click on the white bunny' 'Click on the > chipmunk' 'Click on the Russian icon'. 'Click on the clowns nose' > 'Click on the clown's right hand' > > Taking text, which is explicitly designed to be readable, and > trying to find a degree of distortion which is human (but not machine) > readable is probably a bad approach. Try something a 6 year old > can do, but which is still a PhD thesis problem for computers. I had thoughts along a similar line as Peter's, except to use numbers. Include with <img> tags some .GIFs and ask the person/bot to type in the numbers in the GIFs. Generate the filenames randomly and expire them after five minutes. Should take you 10 minutes to write a prototype CGI script in Perl. -Declan

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(LNE) Majordomo results (fwd)
by Jim Choate 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

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young warrior courses
by Morlock Elloi 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

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Connectivity test
by Roy M. Silvernail 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

Apologies for the noise, but I seem to be having problems with the lne node. Could someone reply offlist and confirm this message got out? Thanks. I'll shut up now. :) -- Roy M. Silvernail [ ] roy(a)scytale.com DNRC Minister Plenipotentiary of All Things Confusing, Software Division PGP Key 0x1AF39331 : 71D5 2EA2 4C27 D569 D96B BD40 D926 C05E Key available from pubkey(a)scytale.com I charge to process unsolicited commercial email

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Re: ANYONES CREDIT CARD # per your request.
by Pippo 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

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by Kevinmk＠usa.com 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

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publi.desarrollo.cursos
by ENSE-CUR 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

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by rickan glueckstein 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

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hello...i applied for your job...
by forgot password 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

Hello. My name is Olga Dunayev and I applied for your job like 2 weeks ago and I payed with a money order, and I was wondering why I never started the job. Wasn't I suppose to start with the job right away? My home adress is 1769 Paso Real Ave. Rowland Heights, Ca. 91748. Please write to me and tell me why I never started. Thank you very much.

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stem cell speech
by Charles Platt 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

Matt, I am baffled that I have not read, anywhere, a suggestion from anyone that George Bush has no constitutional right to set science policy. His speech on stem cell research included a statement that he had decided to proceed cautiously. How does he have the right to make such a decision? Will there be an executive order? This in turn raises the question of how Congress has any right to tell parents what they may or may not do with their zygotes. Control of federal funding is one thing; but I sense a desire to go beyond that, and pass legislation similar to the anti-cloning act which seems destined to become law. Where's the constitutional excuse for this? In the tired old Interstate Commerce Clause? I am not a lawyer or a constitutional scholar, so I may have missed something here. But what troubles me the most is that I have seen no commentators or op/ed writers raising the basic issue of control. Maybe I just don't read the right news sources--or maybe everyone has become so accustomed to centralized authority, extending all the way down to our own genes, the spectacle of a president determining science policy rouses no surprise. ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt(a)coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************

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