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Comment Re:"What were you thinking?" (Score 5, Informative) 628

by mattbelcher (#39770111) Attached to: University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department
This might have been true in the past but it isn't true of the current CS department. Since UF was designated a "Research 1" university, the CISE department has made huge strides to increase its research competitiveness. They have won 12 NSF CAREER awards for young faculty, received 11 best paper awards at major conferences in the last 5 years, and have quintupled their external research grant funding.

Submission + - University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department (forbes.com) 2

Submitted by DustyShadow
DustyShadow writes: The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department, which will allow it to save about $1.7 million. The school is eliminating all funding for teaching assistants in computer science, cutting the graduate and research programs entirely, and moving the tattered remnants into other departments. Students at UF have already organized protests, and have created a website dedicated to saving the CS department. Several distinguished computer scientists have written to the president of UF to express their concerns, in very blunt terms. Prof. Zvi Galil, Dean of Computing at Georgia Tech, is “amazed, shocked, and angered.” Prof. S.N. Maheshwari, former Dean of Engineering at IIT Delhi, calls this move “outrageously wrong.” Computer scientist Carl de Boor, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and winner of the 2003 National Medal of Science, asked the UF president “What were you thinking?”

How to Prevent Form Spam Without Captchas 272

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the can't-beat-the-curte-power-of-kittenauth dept.
UnderAttack writes "Spam submitted to web contact forms and forums continues to be a huge problem. The standard way out is the use of captchas. However, captchas can be hard to read even for humans. And if implemented wrong, they will be read by the bots. The SANS Internet Storm Center covers a nice set of alternatives to captchas. For example, the use of style sheets to hide certain form fields from humans, but make them 'attractive' to bots. The idea of these methods is to increase the work a spammer has to do to spam the form without inconveniencing regular users."

Comment Re:Google toolbar (Score 1) 181

by White Shadow (#13646299) Attached to: Google Firefox Toolbar Out Of Beta
Some of the features of the Google Toolbar are a bit computationally expensive (although I'm surprised creating a new window is so slow). One thing you can do is to remove buttons that you're not using from the toolbar; they won't use any extra CPU that way. This can be done by going to View -> Toolbars -> Customize (or right click on the toolbar and select Customize). From there, drag away any buttons that you don't plan on using. Also, simply hiding the toolbar isn't sufficient, you need to remove it from the toolbar completely. I hope that helps speed up your browser.

Comment Virus isn't gone just because you ran anti-virus (Score 1) 579

by Zelxyb (#12414413) Attached to: Handling Viruses in an Uncontrolled Network?
I feel like the highly-rated comments all miss one of the most important points: Once you're infected, running an anti-virus program doesn't fix your problems.

To me it sounds like it isn't that people don't want to have a "good" computer, but rather that they need to reinstall their operating system (and patch, etc.) but don't.
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