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The Toast - 10.3.08 - Heather Locklear vs. The Cops, Singing Pooches, And Kardashian's Out!
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Time for Toast! Here's what's going down in HollywoodLand this week:
Star Gazing
Heather Locklear vs. a bottle of Xanax...who do you think won? Yep, the 5-0 nabbed her on suspicion of D.U.I. and we have the pics.
Mindy McCready's singing the "Wish I woulda stayed in the mobile home park instead of violating my probation" blues after her recent arrest.
Another week, another naughty adult video allegation for Britney Spears. This one's holding some weight though and we have a preview!
Reel World
Singing cartoon dogs hit the big screen in Beverley Hills Chihuahua. If you want to see this movie, I don't want to know you or anyone who associates with you.
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is looking halfway decent...especially compared to this week's competition.
Tube Talk
Kim Kardashian's out on her ginormous rear after the Dancing with the Stars folks said "See ya!" to the young lady.
David Letterman managed to make things pretty awkward when Anne Hathaway visited his show this week...and we have the clip.
There's a bunch more to talk about, but I'm really tired of typing so hey, how's about just clicking the Featured Video tab to watch?
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What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books.A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them Ñ colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.
About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into "reading" books.
To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then transformed into text using "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect.
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly.
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Currently, we are helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive and old editions of the New York Times.