CAPTCHA

>> 01 June 2008

Hello, internet. There is a thing going on. Perhaps some of you, during the course of your web-explorings have encountered CAPTCHA security technology. If you didn't know, CAPTCHA is these things:
Apparently, they are intended to prevent robots from doing human activities, like voting, and e-commerce. The reasoning is that a robot can read ordinary letters, but not squiggly ones, therefore, if you ask the internet-user to type in the letters that he sees in the image, it will weed out the robots and allow only the humans to proceed.

There is only one problem with this plan...HUMANS CAN'T READ THOSE LETTERS EITHER! At least I can't (and don't you dare insinuate that I am a robot), and I think there are a lot of other people who can't. Ordinarily, when I want to comment on a friend's e-blog, it takes me at least three tries to enter the code correctly. Often, I just give up in frustration.

On the whole, I'm glad we have CAPTCHAs because without them, we would have robots posting on e-blogs and forums and you know how robots are...they would ruin everything.

To see how hard these things are, try commenting on this post. It will make you decipher one of these things. The first time you try to comment, begin the comment with "1". If you fail on the CAPTCHA, try again. This time your comment should begin with "2", etc. This way we can see who is the best, and who is the not best at CAPTCHAs.

6 comments:

Anonymous,  June 1, 2008 at 10:15 PM  

1 I can comment OK. zwtnpdmy.

Anonymous,  June 1, 2008 at 10:20 PM  

1 vniw. I type what I see.
2 ghang.

Joel June 1, 2008 at 11:16 PM  

okay so it seems we have some prodigies in our midst.

Anonymous,  June 3, 2008 at 7:38 AM  

1 ylktivv.

Joel, despite your rather threatening tone when demanding that we not insinuate that you are a robot, the evidence appears to be piling up. This would also explain the drastic improvement in your futbol abilities when wearing your headband... as that is clearly where your soccer-playing microchip is located.

kelley June 3, 2008 at 11:32 AM  

1. wdetmzd

in my experience, the ones on ticketmaster are THE WORST!!

2. otscli

these things always insult my inteligence...

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