Poor domain name choices!
October 27th, 2005

Firstly there is Who Represents?, a database for agencies to the rich and famous: http://www.whorepresents.com/

Second is the Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views: http://www.expertsexchange.com

Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island: http://www.penisland.net

Need a therapist? Try: http://www.therapistfinder.com

And there is an Italian Power company: http://www.powergenitalia.com

Finally we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales: http://www.molestationnursery.com

(Shamelessly stolen from WebHostingTalk, but I guess was stolen from a b3ta newsletter a while ago.) 

Digg’s Evolving CAPTCHA
October 2nd, 2005

Approximately 30 hours after I posted Digg made a change to CAPTCHA by altering the foreground colors and background colors, alternating normal and bold face, and mixing upper an lowercase letters. With the a slight modification to my program (not making all letters lowercase) it reduced my program’s accuracy to 11 % (out of 200 samples). But there was another problem, approximately 15% were not human solvable.

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