It’s right that spamming can be a huge problem. But you can prevent your site from being spammed by following several solutions such as giving the visitor a captcha field to fill in order to verify if he is human.
The exact focus of the inquiry is unclear, but the people familiar with it said Justice Department lawyers appeared to be looking into whether the companies involved agreed to not actively recruit employees from each other
A rare insight into the folk beliefs of 17th-century Britons has been gleaned from the analysis of a sealed "witch bottle" unearthed in Greenwich, London, in 2004. Witch bottles were commonly buried to ward off spells during the late 16th and 17th centuries, but it is very rare to find one still sealed.
Great piece on Big Papi from a guy who loves him, speculates his demise may be more about his age -- maybe he's older than he claims -- and talks about how, despite Ortiz's ongoing collapse, Boston fans continue to love him.
he journalist and author, Russ Baker, says he had a taped interview of Bush’s onetime biographer in which he says Bush told him he intended to invade Iraq as early as 1999, during his presidential campaign. The interview with former Bush ghostwriter Mickey Herskowitz took place before the 2004 election
Wave is a web-based application that marries multiple forms of communication and collaboration, including chat, mail and wikis, into a unified interface. Everything inside Wave happens in real time: You can even see a comment being made as the person is typing it, character-by-character.
Boston Magazine has a long, shocking piece about how the people running the world's greatest university almost bankrupted the school through a series of very dumb financial decisions after a decade of unbelievable growth in the endowment. Reading the litany of horror
Intel’s fabrication plants can churn out hundreds of thousands of processor chips a day. But what does it take to handcraft a single 8-bit CPU and a computer? Give or take 18 months, about $1,000 and 1,253 pieces of wire.
Carbon nanotubes are no longer the proud boast of 21st century materials scientists. It appears their discovery was unwittingly pre-empted by mediaeval Muslim sword-smiths whose tough Damascus blades taught the Crusaders the true meaning of cold steel when they fought over the Holy Land.
As more consumers make the shift to large-screen, flat-panel TVs, Samsung Electronics is betting that the devices can’t get too thin or too green. cThe company launched a line of ultra-slim LCD panels for large TVs that use up to 40 percent less power than conventional LCDs, and yet are just a quarter as thick.
However I have to let You (meaning Ars and Wired) know whats going on over at one of these Social Bookmarking sites: Reddit. Reddit just recently banned a bunch of users on their social media site. No reasons were given, no warnings were issued
Eighteen US soldiers in Kuwait have been tested positive for swine flu, health authorities have said.
The cases are the first to be reported from the Gulf region since the H1N1 outbreak of influenza type A began last month in Mexico.
