It probably uses a LOT more info than only the mouse move/mouse click. Remember, google tracking is embedded in probably 99% of websites you visit so from your ip, cookies, tracking, logged in Google profile, etc... they're able to know if you're a human or not.
Nothing as dramatic : if you don't have a strong Google footprint, it is less likely that the system will recognize you automatically as human, and you'll have to answer the picture question.
If you don't have advertising cookies set then you're either a robot or a potentially unprofitable human user from Google's point of view. Both would be best avoided.
As others have noted here, that's not the goal here and the captcha will degrade to the current ones in this case, but it highlights an interesting way for internet properties to maximize their revenue per user by only allowing users whose existing advertising footprint suggests they will contribute meaningful value to use the service in the first place.
Detecting bots is the first step to this, but detecting potentially unprofitable humans would be a natural extension.
Think of it as "remember my login on this computer". If you check the box, you sacrifice security and privacy for convenience. If you don't want to be tracked, you need to perform extra steps.
What does that mean to DRM laws, and Patent laws in the EU. What does trade have to do with those laws?? Every country in EU needs to enforce it? Has it come to that already?
What? this is forth in hacker news, that is the most over rated accomplishment i ever heard.
So you bought an iPhone instead of the old ones, to have the additional features that it provides, and then you don't use it, and call it an accomplishment. That is non sense.
oh New York Times, always a fine reading in the Sunday morning, in fact very interesting. Just to show what lobbyist and the private sector are willing to do, in order to stay in business.
The question is not if its worth, i'm a programmer, and i do believe that construction workers and lady cleaners should earn more then me, since they are forced to do their job, and generally don't like it.
I in the other hand, i like my job. yet i earn more for doing more easy stuff (for me ), seams unfair, this has struck me some time ago. But what we have to accept is that, our income, or the income of a general profession, is based purely on supply and demand, and little more.
i can not say the same about my product http://onetimepost.com/ ... but it only took me a Saturday morning so ... it wasn't like something huge was lost xD
i don't need to hit the link to know that, bitcoin is a transaction, and like that, it has no real value, since it vanish into the air after an transaction its made, its like Commodity, like rice or coffee after used it is no more. But gold, you won't destroy it after buy it.
I don't think I understand you. The value of bitcoin does not vanish after transactions, else it would hardly serve any purpose.
Ron Paul made it pretty clear he doesn't understand the value bitcoin can have because he can't trivially put it in his pocket, (even though he could, on a usb key)
