solving CAPTCHAs to transcribe books?
Old article, but still a good read!
In short, reCAPTCHA has found a nifty way to crowdsource book transcriptions. When users solve a CAPTCHA through reCAPTCHA, the software will give users two words: one with a known answer (the control word) and one where the OCR software wasn’t quite sure what the word was. Once a certain number of users have solved the suspicious word with the same result, it becomes a control word itself and the OCR software can learn this word.
10 awesome .htaccess hacks for WordPress
.htaccess, the file which control the Apache webserver, is very useful and allows you to do a lot of things. In this article, let’s see how .htaccess can help you with your WordPress blog, for both security,functionnality and usability.
Warning
When editing or modifying the .htaccess file of your WordPress blog, make sure to always have a backup that you can restore in case of something went wrong.
Shady Reshipping Centers Exposed, Part I
Great story about what might happen if you get your card stolen that slashdot.org picked up on. Well worth a read!
Last week, authorities in New York indicted more than 100 people suspected of being part of a crime ring that used forged credit cards to buy and resell an estimated $13 million worth of Apple products and other electronics overseas. In this post, I offer readers a behind-the-scenes look at a somewhat smaller but similar organized crime operation that uses stolen credit card numbers to purchase and launder high-end electronics.