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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: recursivelyenumerable on March 30, 2008, 05:15:04 AM

Title: Are CAPTCHAs getting harder and harder for you to solve?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 30, 2008, 05:15:04 AM

Half the time there's at least one or two letters or digits that could go either way.  Does this mean I'm a robot?

Title: Re: Are CAPTCHAs getting harder and harder for you to solve?
Post by: Powerslave on March 30, 2008, 05:17:18 AM

Is this a Jewish tradition?  :wtf

Title: Re: Are CAPTCHAs getting harder and harder for you to solve?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 30, 2008, 05:20:30 AM

Being a robot?  I guess there are the Golem legends...

Title: Re: Are CAPTCHAs getting harder and harder for you to solve?
Post by: Vizzys on March 30, 2008, 05:21:09 AM

CAPTCHAS are those boxes you fill in with the correct letters to show you are not a spambot

I hate some of them aswell 0 or O i can never tell

Title: Re: Are CAPTCHAs getting harder and harder for you to solve?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 30, 2008, 05:24:57 AM

Maybe somebody's been gradually replacing my organs with cyborg parts while I sleep.

Title: Re: Are CAPTCHAs getting harder and harder for you to solve?
Post by: Vizzys on March 30, 2008, 05:26:04 AM

the million yen man

Title: Re: Are CAPTCHAs getting harder and harder for you to solve?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 30, 2008, 05:27:17 AM

million lira more like, or somebody got ripped off.

edit: shit I hadn't heard about the revaluation.  there goes my attempt at wit, sacrificed at the altar of economic appearances

Title: Re: Are CAPTCHAs getting harder and harder for you to solve?
Post by: xnikki118x on March 30, 2008, 11:58:30 PM

Every now and then I have a tough time with them, but I know people who can like never get them right.

Title: Re: Are CAPTCHAs getting harder and harder for you to solve?
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 31, 2008, 12:25:05 AM

I hate the ones that have cats or little swirly doodles all over them that obscure parts of the letters.

Title: Re: Are CAPTCHAs getting harder and harder for you to solve?
Post by: pitohui on March 31, 2008, 01:10:48 AM

Quote from: Groo on March 31, 2008, 01:02:04 AM

I didn't even know there was a special term to describe those things.
There will probably come a point where computers can figure them out better than humans so they'll have to stop using them and try something else.

"It's your birthday. Somebody gives you a calfskin wallet."

Title: Re: Are CAPTCHAs getting harder and harder for you to solve?
Post by: Powerslave on March 31, 2008, 01:42:08 AM

Quote from: Joe Molotov on March 31, 2008, 12:25:05 AM

I hate the ones that have cats or little swirly doodles all over them that obscure parts of the letters.

yeah rapidshare does that now ::)

Title: Re: Are CAPTCHAs getting harder and harder for you to solve?
Post by: Eric P on March 31, 2008, 08:23:06 AM

Quote from: pitohui on March 31, 2008, 01:10:48 AM

Quote from: Groo on March 31, 2008, 01:02:04 AM

I didn't even know there was a special term to describe those things.
There will probably come a point where computers can figure them out better than humans so they'll have to stop using them and try something else.

"It's your birthday. Somebody gives you a calfskin wallet."

ha

nice

Title: Re: Are CAPTCHAs getting harder and harder for you to solve?
Post by: cloudwalking on March 31, 2008, 08:37:06 AM

i like when the letters are totally unintelligible, and when i click the link to hear them read out loud, it's some incomprehensible computer voice, or the link doesn't work period

at that point it's like, do you even want me to sign up here

Title: Re: Are CAPTCHAs getting harder and harder for you to solve?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on March 31, 2008, 10:43:19 AM

I saw a site the other day that had pictures of 4 vehicles and had the caption "click the image that is a truck." I thought that was nice.

Title: Re: Are CAPTCHAs getting harder and harder for you to solve?
Post by: Tauntaun on March 31, 2008, 11:54:18 AM

Quote from: Groo on March 31, 2008, 01:02:04 AM

I didn't even know there was a special term to describe those things.
There will probably come a point where computers can figure them out better than humans so they'll have to stop using them and try something else.

prob blood samples, a figerprint and an eye scan....ALL TO LEAVE A MYSPACE COMMENT!

SMH x2