Asirra is a web service developed by a Microsoft Research team to replace Captcha as an HIP. (If you don’t know what Captcha is, click here). Asirra uses pictures of cats and dogs to distinguish between an automated bot and a human. The visitor should distinguish between the cats and dogs correctly to continue in the sign-up page (or wherever you use Asirra). Currently Asirra is given as a web service and anyone can implement it in their websites by pasting some code provided by Microsoft.

The research team claims that Asirra is secure because they use a “large” database of cats and dogs. The pictures are obtained from the Petfinder website. They also claim that the database contains more than 3 million pictures. Now how useful is the product? Can it really be used instead of Captcha? Continue Reading »

I was checking out the latest version of EA Sports Fifa - Fifa 2008. I found a bug in it…

I was playing a match between Liverpool and Manchester United, and my controller was assigned to ManU. Continue Reading »

From Google Adsense website:

AdSense for content automatically crawls the content of your pages and delivers ads (you can choose both text or image ads) that are relevant to your audience and your site content—ads so well-matched, in fact, that your readers will actually find them useful.

For example, I saw an Ad of “Colgate maxfresh” in my website homepage. No, I am not selling toothbrushs in there. The website just provides source code for some purely technical and mathematical stuff. Continue Reading »