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- alpha88, on 06/09/2008, -1/+151And then there's the Rapidshare CAPTCHA. The worst and most extreme of all CAPTCHA images. So difficult, it takes most humans at least two tries before getting it correct. It gives you multiple letters, but you must choose only 4 which have a cat symbol beside them. Thank ***** for "Happy Hour" when no CAPTCHA is needed.
- rypic7, on 06/09/2008, -1/+115too bad half of the CAPTCHAs i run into are too distorted for even a human to decipher.
- theradical, on 06/09/2008, -3/+71Good job summing up the wikipedia page, Time.com.
- inactive, on 06/09/2008, -1/+65Rapidshare's captcha is so effective, even humans can't get it right most of the time.
- S1ngular1ty1, on 06/09/2008, -0/+46"But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct."
- inactive, on 06/09/2008, -0/+43How long does it take to download a 1MB file from rapidshare?
10 Minutes. 1 minute to download and 9 minutes trying to figure out the ***** captcha. - Dipeksounds, on 06/09/2008, -2/+45I hate those rapidshare type the image, with those ridiculous cats and dogs, blegh.
- Enroth, on 06/09/2008, -15/+55"When its scanners find a word they can't read, they automatically turn it into a CAPTCHA that gets exported to a website in need of one. A human reads it and transcribes it, and the results get sent back to the scanner and added to the archive"
There has to be someone looking at the word before it is turned into a captcha otherwise it would defeat the purpose of the captcha (how would the program know if you had entered in the correct letters if it doesn't know them) - Samas11, on 06/09/2008, -1/+36Couldn't agree with you more alpha88 - and the cat images are so twisted and distorted they look exactly the same as the ones with dogs!! ARG!!!
- Stavrosian, on 06/09/2008, -2/+34I guess it works though. I was getting so annoyed with that ***** captcha that I purchased premium.
- chungyc, on 06/09/2008, -0/+31At this rate, it won't be the military or academics, but rather spam that becomes the impetus for sentient artificial intelligence ...
- dudefather, on 06/09/2008, -1/+32which would you prefer:
A: A puppy (the bad kind)
B: A pretty flower from your sweetie
C: A large properly formatted data file - Reiben, on 06/09/2008, -2/+30Thats the idea...
- ayeroxor, on 06/09/2008, -4/+31"Every web surfer, has been forced to stop and perform this weird little task"
Is the task entitled, "Figure out why the ***** you put a comma there?" - stefankoegl, on 06/09/2008, -1/+28On the presumption, that most clients will enter the right text for the image, they can accept the first few entries for each image and check the rest against the majority of entries that have already been entered.
- alpha88, on 06/09/2008, -0/+26THE OTHER ONES HAVE DOGS?
I honestly couldn't tell what those mangled piles of pixels were. - roomforpanic, on 06/09/2008, -0/+26I signed up for something the other day and the CAPTCHA said 'Rick Astley'
- webkami, on 06/09/2008, -0/+23A sample for those who never seen one.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lazzarello/2434405650 ... - magawake, on 06/09/2008, -3/+24Anyone ever use the CAPTCHAs for RapidShare, where you have to type where you see a 'cat'? Its impossible !
- MellerTime, on 06/09/2008, -0/+20The ones I've seen (from http://recaptcha.net/) have consisted of two words. Presumably one word is already known, another is potentially a word needing to be learned. You still have to get the known word correct in order to pass the test, but the second non-known word's value is stored to be verified by others later on.
Edit: Looks like S1ngular1ty1 got to the same conclusion as I did through a FAQ entry... - Kyrgizion, on 06/09/2008, -0/+20"Please solve global worldhunger, add a theorem about the vector field of Hawking Radiation in a closed system, prove that entropy always increases in said system, and enter below the missing chemical bases needed to cure cancer. Thank you."
- inactive, on 06/09/2008, -0/+19I'm sure every digger would say C.
- senorcool, on 06/09/2008, -0/+19relevant comic:
http://www.handrooster.com/comics/20070427.gif - seanieb, on 06/09/2008, -1/+18Spam emails have a higher success rate at getting past several spam filters if they come form a legitimate source (such as Google or Yahoo), spammers outsourced this problem to asian CAPTCHA sweat shops, where human would spend their entire day filling out captcha to webmail accounts so the spammers could register.
This works, but even the cheap cost of Asian labour was too much of an over head for these spammers. There is/was (allegedly, I think I saw this in a google talk or TED talk) an online marketing company who’s main income was from sending spam emails. They set about using humans to do the image processing that their computers could not do, cracking the CAPTCHA's. But with one big difference, they wanted to do this for a little money as possible. They came up with an incentive based system, so that normal people would type in the CAPTCHA's for them, but on a massive scale. So the company went about setting up a pornagrahic website at a low, once of cost, this site had lots of content for free, after a user had view the site for a number of minutes a pop would emerge. “To continue viewing the site please fill this in”. The user was show a Google or a Yahoo CAPTCHA . The user would then fill it in, doing so several times during the duration of a visit. This proved a cheap and highly reliable way of bypassing CAPTCHA and working around todays image processing limitations.
Spammers are inginuitive and it really is an arms race, as long as there is money to be made, people will continue to try and game the systme. - Canadian0207, on 06/09/2008, -0/+16but have you even read spam emails these days?
99% of them don't even make any sense. They're just garbled up text with a link at the bottom. I'm surprised ppl still fall for this. - Gullop, on 06/09/2008, -0/+16http://recaptcha.net/
- xenoputtss, on 06/09/2008, -0/+14Is the puppy mechanical in any way?
NO, it is the bad kind of puppy!!
Then B!
Correct, C would have also been acceptable. - crazyjake, on 06/09/2008, -0/+13SPAMBOT!!!
- tama00, on 06/09/2008, -3/+16funny this was mentioned, youtubes capatcha got cracked today looks whats starting to happen!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpqYe3ej5xo - JangoFett, on 06/09/2008, -0/+13Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
- shertzerj, on 06/09/2008, -0/+12Don't know why you're getting dugg down, I thought it was a valid question.
- Zaggynl, on 06/09/2008, -0/+11"It's nice to know we humans are still good for something"
..buried - serif69, on 06/09/2008, -0/+11We're no CAPTCHAs to love
- sickanimations, on 06/09/2008, -0/+11"Public domain!"
- Crisender111, on 06/09/2008, -0/+10A little tip to decipher the RS CAPTCHA
Cats are sitting, Dogs are standing.
But they still ***** suck. Damn you Rapidshare. - nVoy, on 06/09/2008, -0/+10The ***** Captcha is the worst security feature ever implemented. What a ***** hassle. It's only right they compensate with "happy hours". If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
- inactive, on 06/09/2008, -4/+13Its articles like these that make me want to masterbate at the end of a ***** day.
- jasdf, on 06/09/2008, -0/+9It took me 7 tries last night to get that one. Once I figured out that some letters had dogs, and that the dogs had pointy tails I was able to get it.
- PawFox, on 06/09/2008, -0/+9It's a bitch - I do have to admit.
- ElbertF, on 06/09/2008, -0/+9It shows two words; one is known, the other is not. You have to enter both, but only one has to be correct.
http://recaptcha.net/ - zeabu, on 06/09/2008, -0/+9After downloading lots of porn you get used to them.. In fact I know half of them by heart.
- 30thElement, on 06/09/2008, -0/+9You know the CAPTCHA and so do I
- inactive, on 06/09/2008, -0/+9Digg users need to be told what a captcha is? What's next, "Sending e-mail for Dummies"?
- Anonymous3, on 06/09/2008, -0/+9Nothing wrong there!
In related news, half of the Philippines apparently decided to join youtube yesterday. - markr, on 06/09/2008, -0/+9You will have to literally enter a cat while you are standing up
- Enroth, on 06/09/2008, -1/+9Most questions are buried (I don't know why, its as if Digg on the whole is against people learning), but if I get an answer I don't care.
Thankyou everyone that answered. - Rozza, on 06/09/2008, -0/+8i had one of those stupid cat things, http://imgplace.com/image/view/d5dfefd04145b403713 ...
lol cats would be proud - Pushkin, on 06/09/2008, -1/+9You mean it's a tabby?
- inactive, on 06/09/2008, -0/+7It used to just be "Enter the following letters", then "Enter the letters with a cat on them", then "Enter the letters with a cat standing up (NOT SITTING DOWN!)".
I'm afraid of what they'll do next time. - coyote1284, on 06/09/2008, -0/+7Rick-rolled by CAPTCHA!
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