On 20 Dec 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 18:26 +0100, Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 20. 12. 2012 01:47:33 je Ralf Mardorf napisal(a):
Perhaps I'm a computer and I only guess that I'm human.
Captchas seem to be based on the wrong assumption that humans can
recognize shapes
AC writes:
Captchas can be thought of as an attempt to perform the Turing test.
Experience suggests that either computers can pass it and/or humans
fail.
Computers fail about 9 times out of ten. Unfortunately 10% success is
good enough for the spammers while humans often give up after two or
John Hasler wrote:
AC writes:
Captchas can be thought of as an attempt to perform the Turing test.
Experience suggests that either computers can pass it and/or humans
fail.
Computers fail about 9 times out of ten. Unfortunately 10% success is
good enough for the spammers while humans often
On 20 Dec 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 19:12 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Ralf writes:
In real life [captchas are] most of the times are completely
unreadable for me.
I often find them insoluble as well.
:D
For people using braille they for sure much more fun,
On 20/12/12 02:17, Frank McCormick wrote:
On 19/12/12 07:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 18:00 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
Anyone know what would make captcha not work?
In my case the browsers are able to display it, but I'm often unable to
decrypt it.
I've got no issue to
John Hasler wrote:
Ralf writes:
In real life [captchas are] most of the times are completely
unreadable for me.
I often find them insoluble as well.
requesting new ones all the time in the hope of encountering one that is
deciferable...
Hugo
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On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 08:56 +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
So I tried myself and the same thing happened: I got through
once in about a dozen tries.
I'm a dyslexic, simplified it's a perceptual disorder regarding to signs
and to load data from the brain's data storage device, because of the
Ralf writes:
And as already mentioned before, people using braille are completely
lost.
Some sites offer audio captchas as an alternative.
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On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 10:09 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Ralf writes:
And as already mentioned before, people using braille are completely
lost.
Some sites offer audio captchas as an alternative.
Yes, a blind penpal some minutes ago did inform me about that, he also
has written that Dyndns
Dne, 20. 12. 2012 01:47:33 je Ralf Mardorf napisal(a):
Perhaps I'm a computer and I only guess that I'm human.
Captchas seem to be based on the wrong assumption that humans can
recognize shapes whereas automata supposedly can't. Judging from the
reactions on this list, I should perhaps
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 18:26 +0100, Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 20. 12. 2012 01:47:33 je Ralf Mardorf napisal(a):
Perhaps I'm a computer and I only guess that I'm human.
Captchas seem to be based on the wrong assumption that humans can
recognize shapes whereas automata supposedly can't. Judging
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:40:31 +0100
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 19:12 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Ralf writes:
In real life [captchas are] most of the times are completely
unreadable for me.
I often find them insoluble as well.
:D
For
On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 18:00 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
Anyone know what would make captcha not work?
In my case the browsers are able to display it, but I'm often unable to
decrypt it.
I've got no issue to read the examples in the German Wiki, I'm also able
to solve the arithmetic problem
Ralf writes:
In real life [captchas are] most of the times are completely
unreadable for me.
I often find them insoluble as well.
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On 19/12/12 07:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 18:00 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
Anyone know what would make captcha not work?
In my case the browsers are able to display it, but I'm often unable to
decrypt it.
I've got no issue to read the examples in the German Wiki, I'm
On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 19:12 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Ralf writes:
In real life [captchas are] most of the times are completely
unreadable for me.
I often find them insoluble as well.
:D
For people using braille they for sure much more fun, than they are
already for you and me :D.
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On 19/12/12 07:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 18:00 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
Anyone know what would make captcha not work?
In my case the browsers are able to display it, but I'm often unable to
decrypt it.
I've got no issue to read the examples in the German Wiki, I'm
On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 20:17 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
Biggest PITA on the internet.except for spam.
I agree, HTML mails that make intense usage of exotic fonts are seldom,
but OTOH there are nice scripts, I e.g. can't open my telephone bill
with a click and the right-click to
. Chambers that sue completely clueless users
6. Completely clueless users
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