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- sheebz, on 04/15/2008, -12/+200Good, the captchas were starting to get pretty damn annoying, maybe this will force everyone to get on a better system.
- pilobilus, on 04/15/2008, -4/+183Who would have thought that the major breakthroughs in visual recognition for artificial intelligence would come out of organized crime?
- takeo1775, on 04/15/2008, -2/+156more successful than me at getting past those...
- rauz, on 04/15/2008, -8/+152I'd like to see them crack Myspace's algorithms...especially since it refuses to accept my entries even when I'm 100% sure what I wrote was correct.
- Ganja420, on 04/15/2008, -6/+133I thought CAPTCHA for digg was supposed to keep you from posting stories drunk
- JamesMorris, on 04/15/2008, -6/+97LOL Myspace.
- dilibau, on 04/15/2008, -4/+85here's the solution:
research.microsoft.com/asirra/ - legendxx, on 04/15/2008, -4/+83may all the spammers burn in hell
- krystalo, on 04/15/2008, -6/+786 seconds for a 10-15% success rate is quite impressive.
- ScorpioDragon, on 04/15/2008, -4/+75Everybody.
Crime and porn fueling internet innovation since the 80s - l2OI3, on 04/15/2008, -0/+69To be honest, with some capchas. That's no faster than me.
- Thugacation, on 04/15/2008, -2/+66Can it get any worse than this?:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2266/2268237679_4be ... - MasterChief4134, on 04/15/2008, -5/+55LOL Myspace... lol
- noahgelman, on 04/15/2008, -3/+526 seconds for a 10-15% success rate? sounds like a virgins first time
- mrloco, on 04/15/2008, -7/+56myspace... lol
- TRScheel, on 04/15/2008, -4/+48I am all for public executions of people stupid enough to believe that a Nigerian prince is going to give them money.
- maninalift, on 04/15/2008, -2/+46As opposed to a virgins second time?
- jer21, on 04/15/2008, -2/+45Microsoft Research is developing something called Asirra which asks users to identify cats or dogs in a picture instead of entering letters.
http://research.microsoft.com/asirra/?0sr=a - barfooz, on 04/15/2008, -1/+42That's not decipherable, period. Being able to distinguish the letter I and the number 1? Ridiculous.
Captchas should be image recognition tasks. Have a picture of a bird in a busy background and ask what color the bird is, e.g. - jcblitz, on 04/15/2008, -0/+36Nope, when you're drunk, CAPTCHA looks normal. It actually promotes drinking and posting.
- themarq, on 04/15/2008, -1/+35Bring on the kitten captchas!
- spyd3rweb, on 04/15/2008, -2/+35How the hell can a bot defeat a captcha that most humans can't even read.
- DubiousDrewski, on 04/15/2008, -1/+33I'm pretty sure the average captcha-reading computer could figure out an algorithm better than the average human could. On Average. Just sayin'
- ozydingo, on 04/15/2008, -2/+32Well, they need to make it a harder problem, so it'll likely be more annoying.
- Oea420, on 04/15/2008, -2/+31(Sorry, forgot this one)
LOL myspace... lol
lol - MoofTheStoof, on 04/15/2008, -0/+29I think it's likely the first sentient AI will probably be some poor spambot.
- WatchDragon, on 04/15/2008, -3/+31We need a captain planet, but for spam.
- mal1964, on 04/15/2008, -2/+29I'm not worried I found the best spam blocker, And the best part of it is i got it free on Kazzaa. It also came with a cool shooter game that when it pops up on the screen you have a chance to win cool stuff.
- JFallon126, on 04/15/2008, -3/+29Dear People Making These ***** Spambots,
***** you.
Sincerely,
The Internet (the part that's made up of people) - shaggyb, on 04/15/2008, -4/+29Lots of inventions are created from negative things. Just think of all the cool things we have because of wars.
- Wilsomatic, on 04/15/2008, -0/+24Sounds like my current time
- TRScheel, on 04/15/2008, -1/+24Evil will always triumph because good is dumb
- grungegbunny, on 04/15/2008, -1/+23Sad.. Captchas are one thing I was hoping they wouldn't crack. The Captcha on most sites is hard enough to read already and Yahoo's takes 2 or 3 tries its so tough.
- AlKo, on 04/15/2008, -2/+24Greed is a great motivator.
- BlaenkDenum, on 04/15/2008, -0/+21To 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/apidocs/captcha/ ]. - Snakedal337, on 04/15/2008, -1/+22He's right. Their captcha rejects me as well. I swear i'm human
- fr3ddie, on 04/15/2008, -2/+23ya computers are terrible at math ;D
- MtheoryX, on 04/15/2008, -0/+19Skynet thinks I need Viagra, apparently.
- TRScheel, on 04/15/2008, -2/+21That's amazing and brilliant all at once.
- fxu1989, on 04/15/2008, -0/+18my lol space
- jaxter2010, on 06/17/2009, -2/+20photos of celebrities.
- fr3ddie, on 04/15/2008, -4/+22the hackers will always win
- fluxion, on 04/15/2008, -0/+17its not a bad approach, or something similar....like trivial questions:
"what color is the sky during the day" in non-so-damn-hard-to-read CAPTCHA image format
"take "hullo", replace the u with e, what does it spell?"
character recognition is relatively easy compared to understanding even simple questions - inactive, on 04/15/2008, -2/+18Can we say Spammers have too much time on their hands to ***** with the lives of the rest of the tubez users? Next we'll have to fingerprint everybody to log in, register, check email, post a comment, and probably even check porn.. wtf people.
- RoboDonut, on 04/15/2008, -1/+17The problem with that is that such images cannot be randomized.
Even if they could, it would require a lot of processing power to do it for thousands of users.
It's a neat idea, though. I would like to see some "CAPTCHACATS" Sort of like LOLCATS, but with captcha-like functionality.
The possibilities are endless. - mtekk, on 04/15/2008, -1/+15nah, too easy. How about calculus, or vector calculus? Maybe solving first order, linear differential equations...
- haikuFU, on 04/15/2008, -2/+15I wonder how they would do with the ones that present you with 9 photos and say choose the 3 photos that are kittens.
- CodeCobalt, on 04/15/2008, -0/+13you remind me of the math geeks at the tutoring center.... who get paid to tell math jokes to each other instead of tutor... I went there for help in calc 2 and they start proving god does and doesn't exist mathematically, start going off on all this weird random crap... then figured out the mathematical number for the color purple... I didn't understand.... and yea biggest waste of a hour ever.
- WiZZLa, on 04/15/2008, -0/+12What about this pic? Even I'm confused!
http://s3.amazonaws.com/Asirra/PhotoDB/0bb0987fc9e ... - inactive, on 04/15/2008, -0/+12IMDb.com already does that. :(
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