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Even as I was beginning to accept Gmail as my personal saviour from unsolicited email (hereafter "spam"), these began to pop up in my inbox: From: Lara Subject: legitimately giddy [IMAGE] (Spiel for some Holding Company) ALL TRAVELS SHOULD BE DONE WITH EXTREMECAUTION. ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATION UP TO3 INCHES BY MORNING. SNOW FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT WITH SNOW ACCUMULATION UP TO 2INCHES BY MORNING... From: Victoria Q. Pace Subject: The employees are now upset because airline spokesmen are denying that the sighting took place. [IMAGE] (Spiel for some Energy Company) There are a number of aspects of the app that are worth exploring. jMaki is an Ajax framework that provides a lightweight model for creating JavaScript centric Ajax-enabled web applications using Java, PHP, and Phobos. Now that I've hit the top its time to slow down a little. I hope that the proceedings will soon after the conference be published. He soon noticed a circular object moving very slowly the sky... From: modernization Subject: There is also a shortage of academic geologists and many university geology programs being closed because of low or falling enrollments. [IMAGE] (Barely readable spiel for some Metals Company) "It's just extraordinary," an infectiously enthusiastic Dr Dodson tells The Scotsman. sbcommlink:visited, . com's Natural Science Center. There is also a shortage of academic geologists and many university geology programs being closed because of low or falling enrollments. Preserved by a volcanic blast?... From: Dorina Howell Subject: Re: my empres [IMAGE] (Viagra at $3.33, Valium at $1.21, Cialis at $3.75... Finally, traditional spam!) the end they reluctantly agreed. The duplicate was an exact physical should be grateful. eat them where they touch the cuticle. Which means that the power is very frightened. curled up my toes and keeled over. stamped into each brick... All this right after the good people at Gmail figured that I have little use for Cyrillic exhortations. Maybe it's a losing battle. Spam may not have that great a success rate, but as sending it is essentially free, what business they do get turns a profit, moreso when Nigerian royalty comes into play. Automated Bayesian filters are nonplussed when completely unrelated content is thrown alongside, and until the filters incorporate some sort of context understanding, this will be pretty difficult to detect, especially since one doesn't want a person's legit correspondence from being auto-stuffed into the Spam folder. Thus, the filter has to err on the safe side, and this means letting many such spamoetry efforts through. 
A Blogger Captcha specimen. It says "dinsvbqr" Kind of like the Captcha situation. Designed to prevent automated signups for online services (such as free email accounts, which spammers would then abuse to - what else - spam), early versions were quickly defeated by recognition programs, and thus to remain effective on popular sites, the Captchas had to grow ever more distorted and complex. A certain OCR Research Team, having defeated a couple of their own, began coding what might be the future of the Captcha, tEABAG_3D : 
It won't be easy for the computer, but it ain't easy for me either. For the record, it says "ver 0.9" Pulling in "abstract 3D imagination" to try and reliably differentiate between computers and humans is a swell idea, but I suspect that making it sufficiently hard that a computer can't break it would make some humans unable to also, which is a big no-no. But the key point is that it won't reduce the cost of Captcha identification below a pretty low threshold - that of hiring a worker in some developing country to do what a human is supposed to do. Considering the number of people earning less than a dollar a day, I wager it won't be too costly. Bartering Captcha solutions for pr0n has already been around for, like, ages. Other stuff falls into this category too. No matter how many times of the age of the universe it takes to break the encryption on some MP3 music file, even if the software manages to lock up the rest of your computer so you can't snoop in its memory, any Tom with a reasonably soundproofed room and good speakers and recorders will be able to make a copy of the music. Okay, it won't be as crystal-clear as the original, but guess what? I think most people don't care. Ditto for locking images with Javascript or whatnot so they can't be saved - hello, Printscreen key. Ctrl-V MS Paint. Worst comes to worst, a decent digicam and some touching up in Photoshop or GIMP. Presto. It's FA Cup Round Three week, and only the $36.60 from Blackburn's Benni McCarthy in that 2-1 over Boro saved me from a fat zero. Man U (and I) were cruising along nicely, them to a nice 3-1 score at 1.55 to the dollar on the half-goal, when a certain Mikael Silvestre practically invited Leroy Lita past him, thereafter waving comically at the linesman while Lita put the ball between van der Sar's legs. A top-class finish, but one which I was not exactly appreciative. Avid followers will recall that the French wonder just pulled a similar boo-boo against Wigan four days before that, to gift Leighton Baines a penalty in the last minute, and cost van der Sar a clean sheet. Either sub Tweety in the 89th minute or ask him to swop positions with Rooney in injury time, I say. And so I drift further - $1601.45/$1700 - good thing I don't do it for real. Absolute confidence in United doing the job against Villa on Sunday night, so a tiny something on the match of the round (Pool vs Arsenal, one must fall!) and Brighton: $10 on the Pool vs Arsenal draw (at 3.10) $10 on West Ham vs Brighton (+1.5) (1.63) Next: I Am Not A Hamster!
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