Teodor Muraru

Inside India’s CAPTCHA solving economy

No CAPTCHA can survive a human that’s receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of “data processing” while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA’s. | August 29, 2008

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail’s CAPTCHA broken by| July 3, 2008, 5:46am PDT

Google’s reCAPTCHA flawed | December 15, 2009

Cloned In China

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Answer Quotes:

• Alcohol may not be the answer, but it makes you forget the question. — When faced with the Gandhi quote “Alcohol is not the answer to life’s question”, Vijay Mallya once responded “At least it helps you forget the question”
• Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. ‘No’ is the answer.  — Erik Naggum
• Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. ‘Yes’ is the answer.
• Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions. — William Allin
• Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions. — Woody Allen
• If love is the answer, can you please repeat the question? — Tomlin Lily
• The Answer to the great Question of…Life,the Universe and Everything…is Forty-two. — Adams Douglas – 1952 – The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• The answer is blowin’in the wind. — Dylan Bob 1941 – Blowin’ in the wind
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Friendship Quotes

• Prietenia este confortul inexprimabil de a te simţi în siguranţă cu o persoană, fără a trebui să-ţi cântăreşti gândurile, nici să-ţi măsori cuvintele.
• Prietenia este o haină valoroasă care se curăţă când se murdăreşte, nu se aruncă la prima pată.
• Prietenia este unicul leac împotriva unei sorţi vitrege şi e pururi alinare a sufletului.
• Prietenia este cel mai de preţ bun al omului. Fără prietenie nu e dragoste, fără dragoste nu e prietenie.
• Toti oamenii te aud cand vorbesti; prietenii insa inteleg ce spui, iar cei mai buni prieteni sunt cei care pricep si ceea ce n-ai spus in cuvinte!

• Daca cineva spune ca are o constiinta curata, asta inseamna , de obicei, ca are si o memorie proasta!
• In viata este ca la bal mascat: cand toata lumea isi scoate masca, se duce veselia!
• I can’t see the END. I have no CONTROL and I don’t think there’s any ESCAPE – I don’t even have a HOME anymore. Definitely time for a new keyboard…

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The ‘Train that Never Stops’ Still Seems Appealing (Video)

Instead of stopping, this train picks up and drops off a shuttle from its roof. Pretty slick.

It looks cool and it doesn’t brake for anybody. No, it’s not a teenage rebel, it’s a train. The “Train that Never Stops” looks to save passengers time and train companies money spent on fuel. This concept, which has been kicking around for years, proposes that trains have a special shuttle on their roofs that passengers can enter and exit. At each stop, a new shuttle is picked up and an old one is dropped off, letting passengers (dis)embark via the shuttle without the need for the entire train to stop. It’s an ingenious idea and a fascinating one to watch in action. Check out the concept video below.

Birth of nanotechnology documented by this historic IBM photo

“The birth of nanotechnology is popularly taken to be 1989, when IBM Fellow Don Eigler used a scanning tunneling microscope to create the company’s logo out of xenon atoms.”

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