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Time wasted on CAPTCHAs

Time wasted on CAPTCHAs: You knew it had to happen. Someone had to go figure out how much time we waste typing in CAPTCHAs to gain access to websites. It's how they can tell if you're human or a robot. "Humanity is wasting 150,000 hours every day on these," said Luis von Ahn, an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon. He helped develop the CAPTCHAs … [Read more...] about Time wasted on CAPTCHAs

Educators

According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington was recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 12 year old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints. Every night the maintenance man … [Read more...] about Educators

my day

which I'm *sure* you're dying to hear. I'm in the grocery store. All is going well, we're getting thru without getting run over, 'ceptin for one old lady - and since she was old I won't complain about her. We get to the frozen food aisle. Mom likes Stouffer's and Lean Cuisine dinners, so I'm trying to find something she likes. No luck there, but no biggie - I can … [Read more...] about my day