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Last post Author Topic: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?  (Read 85591 times)

rgdot

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #50 on: March 22, 2009, 03:01 PM »
LOL, the obvious answer is that the only way they can meet and avert destruction is in the 10th dimension

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #51 on: March 22, 2009, 04:53 PM »
they're already farther apart than the circumference of the Earth, so who can say?
-cranioscopical (March 22, 2009, 02:54 PM)

Er...  :-[

The track has to go around lots of mountains and things.... adding to the length of the track. :D

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #52 on: March 28, 2009, 01:22 AM »
I was wondering what all the fuss was about until megaupload gave me this beauty today...

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #53 on: March 28, 2009, 01:24 AM »
nosh: solution :)
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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #54 on: March 28, 2009, 01:31 AM »
That was quick Quick! Thanks. WTF are these guys thinking anyway?!

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #55 on: March 28, 2009, 06:36 AM »
Enter 3D-based Captcha:
news.cnet.com - 3D-based Captchas become reality

Can be tried here, for example:
YUNiTI.com - registration

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #56 on: March 28, 2009, 12:24 PM »
Enter 3D-based Captcha:
news.cnet.com - 3D-based Captchas become reality

Can be tried here, for example:
YUNiTI.com - registration

That one isn't too bad.

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #57 on: March 28, 2009, 01:01 PM »
Not too bad for humans, but I'd suspect very simple for computers also in it's current implementation.

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #58 on: March 29, 2009, 03:51 AM »
Here's a good one......
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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #59 on: March 29, 2009, 12:58 PM »
Here's a good one...... (see attachment in previous post)

...And everyone else, too!   :o

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #60 on: April 01, 2009, 11:42 PM »
What I want to know is, what happened to the "read it aloud" feature? I haven't seen it lately. Now they're really discriminating against people with impaired vision.

And now, companies are using it for all kinds of things - I had to do one to submit a tech support form last night.
Now really, what spammer is going to select required answers for 10 drop-down fields, anyway? Stupid.
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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #61 on: May 08, 2009, 01:44 AM »
Here is a different perspective on the problem: Harnessing spammers to advance AI

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #62 on: May 08, 2009, 06:53 PM »
Here's a good one...... (see attachment in previous post)
The worst part about that is that some are actually like that.

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #63 on: May 08, 2009, 08:15 PM »
I wonder how much time man kind has lost in total when people are forced spend time to decipher some text and put it in a box?


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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #64 on: May 08, 2009, 10:20 PM »
I wonder how much time man kind has lost in total when people are forced spend time to decipher some text and put it in a box?

Ask your local mail man and extrapolate from there  ;)

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #65 on: May 08, 2009, 11:00 PM »
Are you implying that my mail man reads my mails that are in klingon?

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #66 on: May 09, 2009, 10:23 AM »
Are you implying that my mail man reads my mails that are in klingon?
He's probably enterprising enough to do so.

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #67 on: November 23, 2010, 07:02 AM »
chickencaptcha.jpg


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But normally I like when they use ASCII:

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« Last Edit: November 23, 2010, 05:43 PM by Curt »

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #68 on: November 23, 2010, 03:37 PM »
http://www.apathyske...w-to-crack-captchas/

Sigh... I don't know why we bother...
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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #69 on: November 23, 2010, 06:21 PM »
Lately, I'm getting sick of just about everything on the web.  :-\

Anybody else starting to feel like that?
« Last Edit: November 23, 2010, 06:28 PM by 40hz »

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #70 on: November 23, 2010, 06:57 PM »
Lately, I'm getting sick of just about everything on the web.  :-\

Anybody else starting to feel like that?

Yep.

I think we spend too much time in front of a screen though, and that probably jades us a bit more than normal people.
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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #71 on: November 23, 2010, 09:51 PM »
I share the resentment towards having to go through so many of these. Worst of all are forums that both have really hard captchas (often rotated similar letters like lL1i oO0) and that reset ALL entered information when there is some minor error when clicking submit.

+1, and Amen!

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #72 on: November 24, 2010, 02:12 AM »
Lately, I'm getting sick of just about everything on the web.  :-\

Anybody else starting to feel like that?
s/on/in, s/web/world :)
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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #73 on: November 24, 2010, 09:41 AM »
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...the first thing you should notice about this is that it has clearly been designed to be almost impossible to crack, by someone who knows nothing about cracking captchas.

Captcha's are like software security, if you don't know what you're doing you're just wasting everyone's time.

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #74 on: November 24, 2010, 10:15 AM »
...the first thing you should notice about this is that it has clearly been designed to be almost impossible to crack, by someone who knows nothing about cracking captchas.
Hahaha, wonderful quote :D

I hope at least the person designing the captcha had fun.
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