View Full Version : Well, Captcha, I must not be human.
Fuzakeru
03-23-2011, 06:18 PM
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?
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
03-23-2011, 06:27 PM
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♪
03-23-2011, 06:32 PM
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
03-23-2011, 08:50 PM
I hate them so very much.
Psychotic
03-23-2011, 08:56 PM
Captchas are the worst. Suck it up and deal with all the bots and spiders, assholes, this is not user friendly :argh:
Peegee
03-23-2011, 09:58 PM
http://chzmemebase.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/memes-ymb-reporting-for-duty-great-inglip.gif
Mirage
03-23-2011, 10:15 PM
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
03-23-2011, 10:35 PM
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.
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
03-24-2011, 01:01 AM
CAPTCHAs suck balls. The should just ask me a simple arithmetic question via an image.
rubah
03-24-2011, 03:22 AM
because robots can't do math, right~
NorthernChaosGod
03-24-2011, 03:38 AM
As far as I know, robots can't read pictures.
rubah
03-24-2011, 05:09 AM
A'yup (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition).
NorthernChaosGod
03-24-2011, 06:34 AM
translation of scanned images
I don't think that applies here.
Freya
03-24-2011, 09:38 AM
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
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
03-24-2011, 06:39 PM
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
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