As with any good xkcd, this one has a serious point behind it. Spambots and other autonomous agents are becoming increasingly sophisticated. There may be a time soon when captchas and Turing tests may be a requirement for any sort of online interaction.
This video conveys perfectly how I feel: Just another example of that creativity that is not supposed to exist on social media sites.
Very funny Alex strip: It’s so tempting to simply delete all of my Inbox…
His page would look like this: Some absolute gold in there. “Bill Gates just bought Azerbaijan”. The Wall-to-Wall between Bill and Steve. And I love the gift from Linux on the bottom-left corner.
xkcd’s take on the PirateBay trial. So kids, fire up your torrent clients and start seeding.
(via Matthew Bozarth) A WoW insider joke I had to share. Has the Ice Stone melted?
xkcd once more manages to distil complex issues in an understandable and undeniable manner. The weakest point in any computer security system is the carbon-based element managing the keys.
The BBC reports that a man has been convicted for murdering his wife after she changed her Facebook marital status from “Married” to “Single”. This is further proof that Facebook is dangerous and should come with some form of warning: “This website can cause long-term damage to your relationship; put Read more…