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vcoleiro1:
I thought I was the only one who hated Captcha.  Even its name is painfull, you cant even complain about it without looking at how its spelled.   I HATE IT.

Even worse is the questions some game sites ask like who is some game characters brother or side kick, if you havent played the game (and sometimes even if you have) you need to then search
the internet for the answer.  In the words of Catherine Tate (Nan)  "What a load of old sh.t"


hypernova:

--- Quote from: vcoleiro1 on August 25, 2011, 04:45:59 am ---Even worse is the questions some game sites ask like who is some game characters brother or side kick, if you havent played the game (and sometimes even if you have) you need to then search
the internet for the answer.
--- End quote ---

IBM's Watson would be able to get most of those answers, I bet.

Howard_Casto:
I always thought captcha was a stupid concept. 

Text recogniton software is still to crappy to read text off of an image unless the font is REALLY clear.   Instead of distorting the text or adding in lines and nonsense and coming up with gibberish words, why not just save the password as a bitmap image (randomly generated of course) in a cursive font?  Hardly anything can read cursive except people.  Heck most of your novelty fonts are unreadable by OCR software, so just pick one at random when generating the image... no distortion needed!

Nephasth:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 24, 2011, 12:49:43 am ---You only have to get the more legible word correct.  You can put gibberish for the other.  If you don't believe that, try it for yourself.

--- End quote ---

Tried it. Doesn't work.

RayB:
Obviously OCR has gotten good enough at text recognition that they need to distort and add the crud in. You think they don't TEST this stuff out?

One guy has a brilliant idea to replace captchas: Have a slider that you have to click and slide from left to right. Could a bot do that? I'm not sure.

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