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cue the jokes about TDWTF captchas.
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At least they're all legible.
Have you ever seen google's totally undecipherable ones?
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At least we don't get stupid messages about UGG boots anymore.
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TRWTF is that the Avast! one is barely concealed at all. I'm sure most OCR would have no problem with it. Not very encouraging for security software.
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I'm pretty sure no one has ever said that seriously.
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Um, the vast majority of these are from reCAPTCHA, which is what Google uses. When there are two words, and one is totally undecipherable, you can put anything for the one you can't read, it's the "re" in reCAPTCHA.
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TRWTF is readable CAPTCHAs.
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Also linkedin made things a little bit difficult:
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Go Marlins! We may not be able to beat your team, but we can certainly BEAT your team!!!
Captcha: plaga. Sounds like resident evil 4 has infected this system.
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I think the last time I confused "but" with "butt" was in 2nd grade...lame.
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I don't know where you get your info, but Google does not use recaptcha. recaptcha always comes with two words, and it is usually (maybe always) in a box that says "recaptcha" somewhere on it.
To see an example of Google's CAPTCHA, go to Gmail or Google Voice or something like that and click on "Create an Account". Google's CAPTCHAs are undecipherable by humans. They are random strings of letters that are elongated, swirled, and scrunched together.
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It's been a while since I took algebra, but I don't remember any answers that were a single captcha.
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Loved it!
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Google's captcha is horrendous. It's the only one I consistently have to try two-three times before finally correctly guessing the indecipherable letters.
PS: I'd just like to go on record that I am a Phillies fan living in South Florida. The ONLY reason I had that Marlins screenshot to upload, is because they were playing the Phillies at home. I just hate to see my name next to that team. :) And for the record, that was the game that Halladay pitched a perfect game!
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Google uses (runs?) recaptcha. A lot of those were recaptcha. One word is known, the other not. If it's obvious one word is unreadable, you know which is which. If you're nice you can click the button to generate another. If you're not, you can type anything.
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http://www.google.com/recaptcha maybe?
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You win the best comment contest! 1,000,000 Internets for you! /s
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You guys are my uncle. Funny that Google doesn't eat their own dog food, even though they probably should.
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Your move captcha (from reddit/funny)
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I take it Dan entered the last one in LaTeX...
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About a week ago i was trying to help my Mom submit a hotel booking "protected" by a captcha. She filled out the form and tried to enter the 7-character captcha to find that the text field accepted a maximum of 6 characters. After trying a few times to guess which character it wanted her to leave out, getting it wrong, and losing all the data in her form, she brought it to my attention.
I refreshed the page a few times to see if it would give us a 6-character captcha. But it was always 7 characters. "No problem" I said, and after about 15 seconds of installing Firebug I overrode the field to allow 7 characters. Of course this time when she submitted the form with the full captcha, we were greeted with a database error having to do with "mysql_captcha_answers"...
At this point I thought it was pretty unlikely that this hotel was accustomed to receiving requests over their website (they may have been confused as to how unpopular their website was!) I suggested she give up and book by phone. She moved onto another hotel website, to be greeted with another form and an alphabetical captcha. Of course, when she submitted the form she received an error saying "the verification code must contain at least one numeric digit."
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distinguished mordions
I've clearly wasted my life here.
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More of these:
http://captchart.posterous.com/captchart
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Destroy the Captchas!
http://www.e4.com/game/captcha-invaders/play.e4
(link was marked as spam, so copy and paste away I guess...)
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I once got a CAPTCHA from TicketMaster that had the character ⅜ (U+215C, VULGAR FRACTION THREE EIGHTHS) in it. I typed that in and it even accepted it, although that may have been a recaptcha in which case I could have typed anything.
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Let no man ignorant of arithmetic enter here!"
Captcha: tego - uh, how boring!
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What's the problem with the "screw" one? Is the word not considered clean? It's just a carpenting tool... or is the image itself not clean (i.e. noisy, dirty)? The others are great though :)
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Keep it clean. No Bert Glanstron, Darth, or common memes allowed.
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CAPTCHA Test (Required For Anonymous Users) Prove that you're not a robot. Type in the word you see in the image.
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What, you can't make jokes about the fact that "crappie" is a fish?
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what you DONT know is that the word is really 12 characters long and only the first 3 are visible.
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Nothing vulgar about three-eighths. Two-thirds, sure. At least, if you multiply top and bottom by three.
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I have had it with these muthuh-****ing memes in these muthuh-****ing comments!
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It's also cheap and dirty, seeing that there is a shilling being exchanged between the two.
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I'm an honest guy without any decet.
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I'm pretty sure no one has ever said that jokingly.
This ruined my Friday. The morning Error'd and coffee is the only thing that gets me through the day. Now I'm going to have to go search for other internets to lift my mood.
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That unreadable word in Google's reCaptcha is google using you to decipher books it's OCR'd.
http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore
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Awesome! +1e99
Addendum (2010-09-03 13:40): The "whitespace" was a nice touch.
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The language is the that of Mordor, which I will not utter here.
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Even more here: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/recaptcha-paint.php
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/recaptcha-recaptcha2-paint.php
I wonder who stole "Responsibility Scallop" from who, though...
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Hey guys... those "butt" ones didn't say "butt". They said "but". You know, the English conjunction, with one 't'.
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ObOldPlayboyPartyJoke:
First Sweet Young Thing: "What's the difference between a nail, a bolt, and a screw?"
Second Sweet Young Thing: "I've never been bolted. Tee hee."
(Our Unabashed Dictionary defines captcha as something that sounds suggestive but is actually quite innocent.)
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He finally gave up on the crappy captcha, put the text TO PROVE YOU ARE A HUMAN, TYPE THE ANSWER TO: 1+3 = ? IN THE CAPTCHA BOX. in huge red font over the captcha, and left the captcha generator active but changed the code to just check if the captcha answer was 4.
Worked perfectly, no more bots (they kept trying the captcha!) and only smart people with a modicum of reading comprehension managed to figure out how to sign up...