Captcha’s vs. Autobots

Tunog Transformers ah…

Tired of spam, eh…

Every time na nagsa-signup kayo for e-mail or another related service, minsan ay nire-require kayo na basahin ang isang autogenerated image of a distorted word or number, and then kailangan nyo pa itong i-recognize at i-type ang word or number na yon sa isang text field bago kayo maka-proceed. The image usually looks like this:

It’s called Captcha.

CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart”. Ayan ha, may pang-trivia na kayo sa classmates at barkada nyo. ;-P

As the meaning behind the acronym tells us, it’s a mechanism that attempts to distinguish humans from computers. Spammers are usually automated in nature; they are usually computer programs (”bots”) created by bad hackers, programs that mercilessly flood your e-mail, tagboard, trackbacks and chatrooms with hundreds of online casino and porn stuff. (FYI: “Bad hackers” is not redundant. Not all hackers are bad.) These programs imitate human interactions (an exercise in artificial intelligence) such that their interactions are virtually indistinguishable from the equivalent human interactions in the victim system’s point of view, such as your e-mail’s server, your blog’s engine, or even you yourself. (E.g., you can’t tell whether a human or a bot sent you that annoying e-mail.)

And that’s where a solution is needed that can separate the goats from the sheep, the weeds from the wheat, and the bots from the humans. That’s where Captcha’s come in.

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The Moon Landing and the Real Hoax

Today July 20th is the celebration of Apollo 11’s historic landing on the moon. Thirty six years ago, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. took a walk on the lunar surface while Michael Collins, aboard the Command Module, continued to orbit around the moon and took photos of it and the Earth. Many people witnessed this event on TV. Upon setting foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong said “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. Armstrong and Aldrin left their footprints in the Sea of Tranquility.

Unfortunately, a few years ago we were alerted by a show aired in Channel 23 that this historic moon landing is really a hoax. This show, entitled Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?, featured those people who claimed that the landing on the moon was simply a setup in the studio and showed many pieces of evidence supporting their claim. For instance, they observed that the moon dust settled quicker on the moon than on earth, even though there is lesser gravity on the former than the later. And that no stars were found in the lunar atmosphere. And that cross hairs on the photos went behind the objects instead of in front. And that no one could have survived the radiation in the Van Allen belt surrounding the earth, although the astronauts somehow managed to survive.

Their arguments sounded so convincing to me that I almost believed them until I found some very scientific websites that explain why those things happen on the moon contrary to intuition and that the moon landing really happened. So it turned out that the whistleblowers were the real hoaxers.

Check out these sites:

Bad Astronomy on the Moon Hoax

Redzero’s Moon Hoax

All About Eve complete soundtrack now available!

Hello uli!

Available na ngayon sa Audio and Video Page ang sound track ng All About Eve (thanks to Linette for providing me the original files).

Enjoy downloading!

PS: Pag nag-down ang site ko, my alternate site is perryv.blogspot.com.

Full House songs available again!

Hi guys!

Na-upload ko na sa bagong server ang mga songs ng Full House. You can download them again. Just go to the Audio and Video Page.

Good luck.

“Ring 2″ schoolgirl joins GMA 7’s Koreanovela

In just a matter of days, GMA 7 is going to air a two-week long Koreanovela show called Friends, featuring heartthrobs Won Bin (Andrew of Endless Love 1: Autumn in My Heart), Lee Dong Gun (Matthew of Sweet 18 and Martin of Lovers In Paris), and the Japanese schoolgirl turned Sadako from Ring 2, actress/singer/model Kyoko Fukada. (GMA 7 calls her “Fukuda Kyoko”. On the other hand, Kyoko’s name in Japanese is written “深田恭子” (FUKADA Kyoko).)

Just in case you’ve already forgotten her face in Ring 2, here are some small screencaps:

Kyoko was born on November 2, 1982 in Tokyo, Japan. She’s 163 cm (5 ft. 4 in.) tall.

She has been involved in many films and TV series since 1997, including Ring 2 (1999) where she played the role of the pretty schoolgirl Kanae Sawaguchi. She also made some albums and singles since 1999, like Universe (2001) and Flow: Kyoko Fukada Remixes (2002).

She loves swimming, watching movies, reading comics, and collecting “pingu” (a popular penguin mascot/doll).

See more of Kyoko in my gallery.

“Sweet 18″ Opening Song

Hello sa inyo.

Heto na po ang I Know ni Yasmien Kurdi, ang opening song ng Sweet 18.

Thanks to Lhorie for the audio file.

I Know by Yasmien Kurdi (7.5 MB).

If my blog goes down…

Sorry ha kung wala pa rin akong updates ngayon, sobrang busy kasi ako eh.

Just in case my blog goes down again, punta lang kayo sa perryv.blogspot.com.

By the way, like I said before, meron na akong audio files ng All About Eve OST (thanks to Linette ). Just recently, nag-contribute din si Lhorie (thanks din ) ng audio file ng I Know by Yasmien Kurdi. Sorry po kung down ngayon ang isang server na kinalalagyan ko ng audio files kaya hindi kayo maka-download. Magpapalit lang ako ng server.

Sorry po for my hectic sked.

“All About Eve” songs

Hello! Heto na po ang mga songs sa All About Eve. (Thanks to Linette for the songs.)

The song below is the main theme song of All About Eve:

True Love by Fin.K.L

The following mellow acoustic guitar song, sung by Mina, is played whenever Nicole and Kenneth have a romantic moment. Mina also sung many of AAE’s OST songs:

Ji Geum Chuh Rum Man by Mina

The bluesy rock guitar song below is played whenever Erika is in a lone place, crying out of anger, sadness or frustration:

Dong Go On Seul Peum by Park Hee So

Lastly, this videoke song is the one sung by Kenneth in an episode of AAE. Not in the OST.

Da Jool Gguh Ya by Jo Goo Man

Basic Computer Programming for Today’s Politicians

Here’s a basic computer program for the politicians of today, expressed in different computer languages:

C Language

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){   printf(”Hello, Garci!n”);

   return 0;}

C++

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main(){   cout << “Hello, Garci!” << endl;

   return 0;}

C#

public class WireTapGate{   public static void Main()   {      System.Console.WriteLine(”Hello, Garci!”);   }}

Pascal

program WireTapGate;

begin  writeln(’Hello, Garci!’);end.

Java

import java.awt.*;

public class WireTapGate{     public static void main(String[] args)     {        System.out.println(”Hello, Garci!”);     }}

Perl

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;use warnings;

my %hash = (wiretapgate => ‘Hello, Garci!’);

my $stmt = $hash{wiretapgate};print “$stmtn”;

Visual Basic

Option Explicit

Public Sub Form1_Load()

    MsgBox “Hello, Garci!”

End Sub

Visual Basic .NET

Imports System

Module WireTapGate   Sub Main()       Console.WriteLine(”Hello, Garci!”)   End SubEnd Module

ASP

<%     Response.Write “Hello, Garci!<br />”%>

PHP

<?php     echo “Hello, Garci!<br />”;?>

SQL

   SELECT 'Hello, Garci!' AS WireTapGate;

JavaScript

<script type="text/javascript"><!–    var wireTapGate = “Hello, Garci!”;

    alert(wireTapGate);//–></script>

Windows API

#include <windows.h>

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE, HINSTANCE, LPSTR, int){  MessageBox(NULL, “Hello, Garci!”, “Message”, MB_OK);  return 0;}

*nix Shell Script

#!/bin/sh

WIRETAPGATE=”Hello, Garci!”

echo $WIRETAPGATE

x86 Assembler

.model small.stack.datamessage   db “Hello, Garci!”, 0Dh, 0Ah, “$”

.code

main   proc   mov   ax,seg message   mov   ds,ax

   mov   ah,09   lea   dx,message   int   21h

   mov   ax,4c00h   int   21hmain   endpend main

Markup Languages

HTML

<html>    <head>

        <title>Wiretapgate</title>    </head>    <body>        Hello, Garci!    </body></html>

XML

<?xml version="1.0"?><WireTapGate>    <Statement>Hello, Garci!</Statement></WireTapGate>

“Sweet 18″ Theme Lyrics

I Know
Yasmien Kurdi
Sweet 18 theme song

I don’t need to own a fancy car
To drive with you around the city
I don’t need to live in a palace like house
A simple home is enough for me
I don’t need much
Only your attention
I had to hope
To make me feel that i am not alone

I know
Is you my life is worth living
I know
Is you my life is gonna be just fine
I know
If you each day begins with a smile

I don’t really have to worry
Somethings won’t workout for me
I don’t really have to bother
Just as long as you here with me
I don’t need much
Only your affection
To see me through
To make me feel that i am not alone

I know
Together we can make our dreams come true
I know
But through the years we won’t be growing old
I know
Counting stars won’t be so hard to do

There will be your always time
At the end of the tumble shine
Our love for each other never fails
Baby i just know
(i know)
I know
(i know)
I know… wooahh..
I know
(i know)
I know
(i know)
Wooahh…

I don’t need much
Only your affection
To see me through
To make me feel that i am not alone

On why 0.999… = 1

One reason why Dr. Edgar Escultura sought to trash the trichotomy axiom is because of an apparent paradox that 0.999… = 1. But 0.999… = 1 is already proven true in mathematics.

However, I agree that the equation 0.999… = 1 is not intuitive, because in the real world we know that 0.999 is less than 1.

But take note that although 0.999 is less than 1, 0.999… (with the three trailing dots) is not. Pay attention to the three dots.

The three dots in 0.999… means that the decimal point is followed by an infinite number of 9’s. In the same manner, 0.333… means a number with an infinite number of 3’s trailing its decimal point.

These nonterminating repeating decimals sometimes arise when dividing two counting numbers. Say, the fraction 1/3. If we want to obtain the decimal representation of 1/3, we simply divide 1 by 3. Using the manual division we learned in school, 1 divided by 3 is represented as

   +——   
 3 |  1

Since 1 is smaller than 3, we need to append a decimal point and a zero to 1, making the division look like this:

   +——   
 3 | 1.0

Now we can divide by treating “1.0″ as “10″:

       .3
   +——   
 3 |  1.0
    -   9
    ——
        1

The division leaves a remainder of 1. We can still continue to divide by appending another zero to “1.0″ and “bringing down” the zero to the remainder. The result is this:

       .3
   +——   
 3 |  1.00
    -   9
    ——
        10

Treating the remainder as “10″, we can divide it by 3 :

       .33
   +——   
 3 |  1.00
    -   9
    ——
        10
    -    9
    ——
         1

The remainder is again 1. We can still append zeroes and obtain the following:

       .333
   +——–
 3 |  1.000
    -   9
    ——
        10
    -    9
    ——-
         10
    -     9
    ——-
          1

This again leaves a remainder of 1, so the process would continue indefinitely, in fact infinitely. So we can say that the decimal representation of 1/3 is 0.333… (with the three dots). Through this process, we can also deduce that 1/9 is 0.111… and 8/9 is 0.888… .

Now let’s proceed to the proof that 0.999… = 1. There are many ways to prove it, but I’ll show you two ways.

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