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In 2001, Dan S. Wallach, a professor from Rice University, argued that "those determined to bypass copy-protection have always found ways to do so – and always will". [15] Most of the early software crackers were computer hobbyists who often formed groups that competed against each other in the cracking and spreading of software.
This CAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA v1) of "smwm" obscures its message from computer interpretation by twisting the letters and adding a slight background color gradient.A CAPTCHA (/ ˈ k æ p. tʃ ə / KAP-chə) is a type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human in order to deter bot attacks and spam.
reCAPTCHA Inc. [1] is a CAPTCHA system owned by Google.It enables web hosts to distinguish between human and automated access to websites. The original version asked users to decipher hard-to-read text or match images.
If the user answers the KNOWN word incorrectly, they fail the captcha. However, if the known word is typed correctly, the user passes the captcha regardless, and the ansswer to the unknown word is passed to the captcha service for evaluation as a possible solution (explained in the article as a points based evaluation).
EnhanceHistory shows diffs in the history of an item.; Single column diffs - Display the diff page as one column instead of two.; Suppress redundant entries merges edits by the same author to one entry, and highlights large edits.
Product activation is a license validation procedure required by some proprietary software programs. Product activation prevents unlimited free use of copied or replicated software. Unactivated software refuses to fully function until it determines whether it is authorized to fully function. Activation allows the software to stop blocking its use.
A userscript (or user script) is a program, usually written in JavaScript, for modifying web pages [1] to augment browsing. Uses include adding shortcut buttons and keyboard shortcuts, controlling playback speeds, adding features to sites, and enhancing the browsing history .
Registered users may immediately e-mail other users if they activate an email address in their user preferences. All logged-in users may mark edits as minor. They may purge pages without a confirmation step, but are still required to answer a CAPTCHA when adding external links.