(via Metafilter) http://www.captcha.net/ aims to provide automated testing to distinguish humans from bots on the web to prevent e.g. ballot stuffing at online opinion polls, spammers automating yahoo mail signups, and the like.
NYTimes article at http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/10/science/physical/10COMP.html Two things come to mind: 1) might be useful at some stage for doing tests of perceptual systems, in some cases possibly even for directing research (i.e., using the given tests as challenges) 2) make money selling captcha-passing software to spammers although if you do 2), we'll have to kill you. -- Cliff ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
