The Choose Your Own Adventure book series was one of my favorites as a young reader.

From the ACM Code of Ethics:

As an ACM member I will

1. Contribute to society and human well-being.
2. Avoid harm to others.
3. Be honest and trustworthy.
4. Be fair and take action not to discriminate.
5. Honor property rights including copyrights and patent.
6. Give proper credit for intellectual property.
7. Respect the privacy of others.
8. Honor confidentiality.

It's hard to square that with the following hair-raising tale Dustin Brooks sent me via email:

In November 2007 I called these three CAPTCHA implementations "unbreakable":

Google(unbreakable)

Hotmail(unbreakable)

Yahoo(unbreakable)

2008 is shaping up to be a very bad year indeed for CAPTCHAs:

• Jan 17: InformationWeek reports Yahoo CAPTCHA broken
• Feb 6: Websense reports Hotmail CAPTCHA broken
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// description of your code here

# for WATIR scripts by marekj testr.us
module TestRun

# TestRun.record(__FILE__,{:1, 'Bacon', :2, 'Apple', :3, 'Cheese'})
#
# writes or appends a yaml doc to file named filename as the file that invoked the method
# ---
# :1: Bacon
# :2: Apple
# :3: Cheese
#
# example: if __FILE__ is c:\foofoo\away\in\windowz\land\scirptname.rb then

what up with this style of google analytics implementation?