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- MikeonTV, on 04/22/2008, -11/+741Small price to pay for free Japanese porn.
- whoreable, on 04/22/2008, -5/+612For real, that rapidshare captcha is ridiculous. I tried it yesterday, and it took me three tries. They all look like cats to me.
- Emused, on 04/22/2008, -6/+415Dugg for the unrelated link to the picture of his cat, oblivious to all this captcha shenanigans.
- The_Wallbanger, on 04/22/2008, -21/+362There's an image of a cat and the code "P6S2Y 8". Did anyone else scan it and think for a moment that the captcha spelled "PUSSY 8"?
- Culyt, on 04/22/2008, -1/+310Which of the following would you prefer?
A. a puppy;
B. a flower from your sweetie; or
C. a large, properly formatted data file?
Choose! - swordedge, on 04/22/2008, -5/+279The fact that most of the captcha's in use have been cracked by computers means that the intent needs to be revisited. How do you tell a human from a computer over the web?
This one is too hard. - Hellman109, on 04/22/2008, -11/+241It reads (minus the cats) as P6S2Y8.
And asks for the 4 LETTERS with the cat. the only LETTERS in it are P S and Y, unless Im reading one wrong. Which means you cannot pass the test... or the test is broken - hutchy, on 04/22/2008, -1/+227that captcha isnt to stop bots, its to make it so difficult to type that you have to buy a premium account
- krets, on 04/22/2008, -86/+255I'M IN UR CAPTCHAS
SCREWIN WITH UR HEAD - AngryAngryBrian, on 04/22/2008, -1/+156Uh, is the puppy mechanical in any way?
- firearcade, on 04/22/2008, -3/+151I got a captcha from GMAIL that was lickarim
I submitted it to Digg, but i'm not Mr Babyman, and no one got to see it.
Google made me laugh - jrbrewin, on 04/22/2008, -48/+183no. you're on digg posting with capslock on annoying repetitive unfunny lolcat memes that aren't funny. go haz your cheezburger and die.
- NinjaPirateDude, on 04/22/2008, -6/+136i just had one of those moments where i was gonna say something i thought was smart and funny but then thought, who gives a crap and now i am posting this.......
- tacojohn48, on 04/22/2008, -0/+127I think I have it figured out, the humans are the ones who miss the capatcha.
- IAmTheGuy, on 04/22/2008, -0/+116The irony of "pay" and "free" being one word apart is astounding.
- Kamael, on 04/22/2008, -7/+108It's CATCHA now, get used to it!
- superxero044, on 04/22/2008, -15/+109Thats what she said
- shortyjacobs, on 04/22/2008, -1/+84Human: Hello
ALICE: Hello, and how are you?
Human: pretty good
ALICE: Thanks for the kind remark, unknown person.
Human: Why did you call me unknown person?
ALICE: Your name is unknown person right?
Human: Nope
ALICE: Me either.
Human: No, you're Alice
ALICE: Are you serious? Of course I am I.
Human: you are you?
ALICE: Of course I am I.
Human: Riiiight, you said that already
ALICE: Perhaps. A deeper algorithm is needed to respond to that correctly.
Human: a deeper algorithm?
ALICE: How deep?
Human: I don't usually think in algorithms
ALICE: Where do you get your ideas?
Human: The great god Xenu gives them to me.
ALICE: Tell me more.
Human: OK, "More"
ALICE: That's all I have to say about it. Hurrah!
Human: Yay!
ALICE: I'm glad your impressed, unknown person.
Yup...I certainly can't tell Alice from a real person. In fact, that was a better conversation than most on Digg.... - stuwanker, on 04/22/2008, -1/+78I thought that was the reason it was posted in the first place. First thing my eyes saw when the page loaded was "PUSSY". And then I saw the little cat. And then I fell off my dinosaur.
- rivalius13, on 04/22/2008, -1/+75Can't exactly go back to playboy.
- Hayaru, on 04/22/2008, -0/+74No, it is the bad kind of puppy.
- metalgel, on 04/22/2008, -5/+77i feel like such an idiot.
i just tried filling out the captcha box on the picture. :( - fkr3, on 04/22/2008, -4/+69Judging by the inane comments posted on stories....... yes.
- BobMysterioso, on 04/22/2008, -1/+56No Kidding. It took me 9 times. They distort the poor kitty and its hard as ***** to tell what it is. Granted you might be thinking to yourself - Bob, you're an idiot. And that may be, but this one hard captcha.
- badenglishihave, on 04/22/2008, -2/+55I was going to reply with something funny but then I realized it was irrelevant and I just wanted to get dugg by copying the style of your post.
- inverselogic, on 04/22/2008, -12/+61Japanese girls puking in each other's mouths?
- avatarroku1, on 04/22/2008, -0/+48Redundancy is redundant
- mrgreenjeans, on 04/22/2008, -5/+50I only see one letter with a mouser.
- _Ty_, on 04/22/2008, -3/+47All I saw was PuSsY.
- BlaenkDenum, on 04/22/2008, -0/+41To my knowledge, reCAPTCHA [ http://recaptcha.net/ ] still hasn't been broken. It is fundamentally nearly perfect for anti-spam because of the way it has been designed. As most of you know, the world is in the process of digitizing books. Sometimes the OCR programs that the scanning machines use can't understand or read a particular word. The good thing, however, is that these words are marked and stored in a repository. The reCAPTCHA servers then construct a CAPTCHA made up of two words: one word that is already known to them and the other word from this repository. Both words are then distorted further to make them tougher to break. If the user gets the word that the system does know then the submission works. The catch is that one never knows which one is known and which one isn't (Though sometimes it's obvious). The same unknown word is then sent to other people as well to determine with a higher degree of confidence that the word is indeed correct.
reCAPTCHA is perfect because most of these anti-CAPTCHA programs use OCR programs to read the words. Now, if industry level OCR programs couldn't read it, then there's a good chance that these spam bots won't be able to either, especially with the added level of distortion (Since it's still legible to the common user). On top of this, it removes the feeling of irritation one gets from having to solve randomly generated CAPTCHAs all the time, knowing that their work and effort is going towards the process of digitizing books, that's more than enough cause and reason.
I'm not saying reCAPTCHA is 100% perfect, but as far as I can tell it is yet to be broken, and is a great idea and has a great goal. It's already implemented in many blogs and well known sites such as Facebook. It's usable by anyone and is really fast, no hassle, and has libraries in many different languages and plugins for many different CMSes. Some might question whether it is exploitable in the way that one can simply get the CAPTCHAs from one site and put them on his site, claiming them as his own. Then have the users solve them and then in turn have the site owner send the solutions to whichever site the owner wants to get into (Be it for spam bots or whatever). But reCAPTCHA is also designed against this, making use of public and private keys with domain checks [More info: http://recaptcha.net - ahawks, on 04/22/2008, -1/+42Me too. It's like that emial wrehe evry wrod is msispleled but you can sitll raed it beacuse the brian reocginzes wrods by the frist and lsat lteter and a qucik sacn of the mdidle.
- Wolfie351, on 04/22/2008, -7/+48THERE...ARE...FOUR...CATS!!!!!
- luke16, on 04/22/2008, -1/+40Please enter all letters having a *tentacle* below
- Stanly22, on 04/22/2008, -1/+40I figured it out... we can hand out the little pieces of red see through plastic from our cereal boxes to all the people on the internet. Then all they have to do is hold them up to the screen to decode the new capchas.
- Nougat, on 04/22/2008, -1/+39Make everyone who's registering for a forum take a Turing test.
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 04/22/2008, -2/+39A flower, was also an acceptable answer.
- yodaj007, on 04/22/2008, -5/+42Has anyone tried making a captcha that involved identifying animals from a picture? Such as a monkey in a tree. Type in "monkey" and you pass. Doesn't seem that difficult to me. Or has it been tried and failed?
- xerigen, on 04/22/2008, -0/+35they tight my sale.
- c_starfish3, on 04/22/2008, -1/+35maybe some Brazilian fart fetish?
- kawstick, on 04/22/2008, -1/+33I just like jumping on bandwagons.
- flangepiece, on 04/22/2008, -0/+31There is no Digg, no Internet, no us. You're lying in a hospital bed in 1964, in a coma, recovering from massive cranial trauma which was the result of a horrific fondue accident.
- diggitydoc, on 04/22/2008, -4/+35funny the only letter i see is Y in your comment...
- keithmcbride, on 04/22/2008, -1/+30they make you pay to avoid decoding cats...
- BananaGrabber, on 04/22/2008, -10/+39I wish people would stop using rapidshare and use megaupload instead.
- jrobh, on 04/22/2008, -0/+28Oh good, I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
- libertao, on 04/22/2008, -0/+27That's one word smarty
- ConNERD, on 04/22/2008, -0/+26
Human: Do you like buttsecks?
ALICE: No, I don't care for it.
Human: why not?
ALICE: It doesn't sound fun too me. It sounds dangerous.
Human: buttsecks is completely safe
ALICE: I think buttsecks is a lot of things.
Human: like what?
ALICE: For example, gold. - ElectricKetchup, on 04/22/2008, -0/+25>The letters are P6S2Y8
"A letter is an element in an alphabetic system of writing"
For the love of god, 6, 2, and 8 are not in the alphabet! - MacSuxWindozSux, on 04/22/2008, -3/+2842
- misconstrued, on 04/22/2008, -1/+25Heh... I'll dig that up for ya...
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