Well, Captcha, I must not be human.

[Fuzakeru]

So I was trying to upload something for a friend earlier and the little Captcha thing popped up. It said that it was checking to see if I was human or not and had me type in some crazy looking code. My fingers went spastic on the keyboard and I messed up. No biggie.

ROUND TWO!

Yeah.... I don't even think the things that popped up for me to type were letters. It inspired a doodle from me but still -

http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa324/ReverseSensibility/Captcha.jpg

Anyone else have issues with these?

[Vyk]

There are some capchas that take a "best guess". Which is weird. I guess you'd have to be human to "come close" to the right answer. A computer would either be in a whole different ballpark or get it exactly right I suppose

[Fuzakeru]

You underestimate my flaily fingertips. LOL Also, sometimes the letters are like upside down and cut in half or written in Russian or something. I don't know. I can never read them without refreshing the dang thing twenty times.

[Jessweeee♪]

Some of them you only have to type in one word. The other word you can type in something like "poopdeedoop" and it'll still be fine.

[Bunny]

I hate them so very much.

[Psychotic]

Captchas are the worst. Suck it up and deal with all the bots and spiders, assholes, this is not user friendly :argh:

[Peegee]

http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/memes-ymb-reporting-for-duty-great-inglip.gif

[Mirage]

There was a human-check that I liked somewhere.

It showed me 5 icons, and the text (displayed via an image) told me to drag one of them into a box next to it.

Like "click and drag the red plane into the square box"

It was quick and simple. Wonder why I haven't seen more of it, perhaps it was too easy to hax.

[Peegee]

There was a human-check that I liked somewhere.

It showed me 5 icons, and the text (displayed via an image) told me to drag one of them into a box next to it.

Like "click and drag the red plane into the square box"

It was quick and simple. Wonder why I haven't seen more of it, perhaps it was too easy to hax.

basically. Unless that test had sufficiently different types of tests and orientations of objects, a brute force program can get around it.

[DMKA]

I don't mind them if you can actually READ THE FREAKING WORDS. So many of them I see lately are unnecessarily illegible.

Speaking of which, has anyone ever used the audio feature on it and found it useful? Everytime I've pressed it it just sounds like a bunch of scary third world people screaming into a metal tunnel.

[NorthernChaosGod]

CAPTCHAs suck balls. The should just ask me a simple arithmetic question via an image.

[rubah]

because robots can't do math, right~

[NorthernChaosGod]

As far as I know, robots can't read pictures.

[Vyk]

You'd be surprised

[rubah]

A'yup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition).

[NorthernChaosGod]

translation of scanned images

I don't think that applies here.

[Freya]

I remember there being some Captcha thing that was cute animals. Like it showed a few pictures of cute animals and you just wrote out what they were for the verification check. :3

[Jiro]

What I don't understand is why the fuck the words or letters have to be so damn hard to read. I can't fucking understand them half the time.

Maybe I'm a robot guys

[rubah]

I don't think that applies here.
well, it's not just robots doing the breaking. It's also low-paid humans. Otherwise, Loony BoB's trick question in the registration page would leave us spammer free. It's the same concept as your math idea