Practical Technology

In the business textbooks of 2025, Microsoft’s slow collapse will be attributed to many things. The failure of Windows Vista to hold the desktop market; Microsoft’s inability to successfully move from a PC product based company to an Internet service based enterprise; and Ballmer’s inability to pull off the Yahoo buyout.
Now, buying Yahoo wasn’t going [...]

Last week was a lousy week for Web site administrators. Depending on your expert of choice anywhere from just over a hundred-thousand to half-a-million plus Web pages had been hacked to turn this into malware-spewing portals.
Panda, the security company, suggested that a recently unveiled ‘elevation of privilege’ flaw that could be used on XP SP2, [...]

It seems like it was the just the other day that I was writing about how CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) was quickly becoming completely useless for Web security. Actually, it was just the other day-two days ago-but I was wrong. CAPTCHA is already completely useless.
I found the [...]

Please. I don’t want to Link In with you today. I don’t want to see your Face, or read your Book. It’s not that I don’t like you. I do. I’d Twitter with you anytime. It’s just that if I get asked to join one more social network, I’m going to scream.
You wouldn’t like that. [...]

You may not know the term, “CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart),” but you’ve used it.
You may not, however, be using it for much longer. Every time you’ve had to puzzle out the letters and numbers from a distorted, scrambled jumble before you can sign up for a new [...]