Fantastic article on Conficker! And what a great thing it is that magazines like that are still around to write those kinds of articles. Dont get anything nearly as good as that on tv, not even on 60 minutes

Noahsd, definitely wait. If it not a redesigned slimmer pro model, you will at least get intel ivy bridge.

Gullanian, sorry I wrote above reply before I read ur more recent comparison. I still feel its not apples vs apples (pun intended). As someone already said, a better fairer comparison is MBA vs most ultra books.

Just bought the Aspire One 722 + Logitech R800

If it's not jucy enough I'll probably just buy a top of the line laptop or a desktop for the office

Love the star treck analogy!

Edit: Wow, just finished reading, excellent!!

My sites comments are getting spammed right now... but only a few of the posts have links and the links are all broken jibberish like http://eemaahegheakl.com. Also amusing is the comment form has a field for their website but the bot isn't filling it out.

The posts leave as a subject a string of random letters like PvXbhrUtuzDe and the comments are what looks like random sentences from somewhat related articles but they are nonsensical together. It seems to leave a comment every 30 minutes or so and has been doing it since midnight last night. Is this thing just brute forcing through the captcha and straining the server?

I'm only using a basic image captcha because I was lazy and never set up the recaptcha thing. But I'm kind of tempted to just let it keep going to see if it gets me some long tail traffic with its jibberish comments.

I'm not sure, but I don't think that very many people brute force CAPTCHA. I think pretty much everyone who breaks it just pays people in India to do it, or something similar. They charge something like $1/1000 or whatever.

Just about every captcha can be solved by a computer, can't find the website off hand now but some guy writes programs that break all of them.

Captchas are a terrible thing to put on a website imo, there's a lot of other stuff you can do instead.

Eh. The fact that they're breakable doesn't mean that they're not worth using. They still lower the amount of spam by a good amount.

I was just confused why it would leave iJeZwhEIhsL as the subject if it wasn't somehow related to breaking the captcha. Maybe I used the term brute force wrong. I didn't imagine it was just flipping through every 5 letter combination but was trying educated guesses.

Or maybe its an indian lol

What would you suggest instead of a captcha? I had a forum up last summer that got raped by spam until I put one up.

If it's a WordPress site, Akismet is very good. That got the spam down to manageable on S:P.

Great post Nchabazam.

Akismet is cheap and brilliant. We do get a few false positives using it but it's low, around 0.3%. Other than that honeypots work a charm as well as changing the default page names for pages like registration and login if your using a CMS as a lot of bots are dumb and assume the page names will be consistent.

I didn't say that they are breakable therefore don't use them, I said they are terrible to put on websites generally as they are inaccessible, time consuming and annoying for visitors. Especially annoying if the person who plugs it in doesn't execute it right which can have you resubmitting the same form over and over again (for example captcha is wrong, redirects, you enter it correctly but the password field needs re-entering so you have to do captcha again, I just leave sites that do this as I generally cba)

Ok, yeah. I agree with that.

It's sad, though, because CAPTCHAs seemed like a neat trick for a while.

I think my view of captchas is skewed because I've been posting on 4chan for too long and have just accepted them as a fact of life. I imagine a lot of people really do hate them so much they'll not bother posting if they see one.

why is that a partial derivative

looks like a single variable function to me

Is there some website that has "language quick overview in 10 minutes" type material for multiple languages? Basically assuming you know some language and teach basics, link to the API etc so that you can get up and running in 10 minutes.

Maybe some standard example that uses most relevant constructs and simply the source code would be enough for this.

anyone in here do haskell programming?

if so, i need to remove duplicates from a list. sooo "dgheihhdi" should return "dghei". I thought i was so close to doing it but apparently not.

Probably, but i think language-specific sources tend to be really good.

Re nerd alert: Depending on the order of operations, it's either five or zero.

Is this cheating

Well, shoot. I came up with zero from looking at it. Only half-nerd, I guess.

haha yes :P not allowed to use that ha, ive been staring at this for ages! only allowed to use sort and my own function

I guess i should sort all the values, then check one by one if they are equal to each other. If so, drop the head of it? if not, append it to removeduplicates xs. Hmm now how to do that

edit: i realised i used elem in first example i gave which i shouldnt of

but can i sort them given how the top of the function is 'removeduplicates :: Eq a => [a] -> [a]' im such a noob with haskell!

Is anyone good at making games who would want to give me a little help on some issues? The main thing I am concerned about is organization / layout ... my project is getting very big and the layout I'm using (which is still the best I can find) is .... now in question. Anyone pm'able? >.<

edit: im basically looking for a non-language-specific layout / template for an event-driven program.