• (cs) in reply to Darth Under the Radar
    Darth Under the Radar:
    Captain Normal Form:
    Hey guys... those "butt" ones didn't say "butt". They said "but". You know, the English conjunction, with one 't'.
    I have truncated your "t"...pray I don't truncate it anymore. Yeah, butt some folks can't tell the difference.

    FTFY.

  • (cs) in reply to nimis

    TRWTF is that a link to another post ON THIS SITE is refused as spam.

    http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/19725.aspx

  • Rasmus Toftdahl Olesen (unregistered) in reply to Cbuttius

    I think you are referring to their hiring ads.

  • fjf (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    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.
    Someone has to say it, TRWTF is you thinking CAPTCHAs have anything to do with security.
  • your name (unregistered) in reply to Fred
    Fred:
    BadFellas.org:
    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 :)
    Next time you carpent, consider using a hammer and nails instead of screwing.
    No I'm pretty sure I'd rather be screwing.
  • (cs) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    Destroy the Captchas!

    http://www.e4.com/game/captcha-invaders/play.e4

    (link was marked as spam, so copy and paste away I guess...)

    This game is really funny! I failed at the second level, though (the recaptcha level) :-(

  • foxyshadis (unregistered) in reply to El_Heffe
    El_Heffe:
    TRWTF is that a link to another post *ON THIS SITE* is refused as spam.

    http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/19725.aspx

    You've found something that makes Alex's life a lot easier whenever he eventually moves away from Community Server: Internal links have been filtered by Akismet for years now, none actually exist!

  • fjf (unregistered)

    http://myapokalips.com/public/cartoons/021_Robot_Tattoo.png

    (No href ... Akismet ... spam ... blah ...)

  • llort (unregistered)

    Do any of these(with the exception of the last one) actually count as WTFs?

  • (cs)

    letatio? Is that the daughter of Philatio?

  • Ano (unregistered)

    xkcd.com/233/

  • Paul (unregistered)

    I have misentered your CAPTCHA. Pray I don't misenter it further.

  • (cs) in reply to fjf
    fjf:
    Anon:
    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.
    Someone has to say it, TRWTF is you thinking CAPTCHAs have anything to do with security.

    They can be used as extra security if they are used in a password form in addition to typing in the password. If you get the CAPTCHA or "extra level" wrong you don't get access. That puts paid to any bots that are submitting large numbers of possible passwords as they also need to enter large numbers of possible CAPTCHAs which of course increases the complexity.

  • (cs) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    Destroy the Captchas!

    http://www.e4.com/game/captcha-invaders/play.e4

    (link was marked as spam, so copy and paste away I guess...)

    Stop complaining and install "Linkification" already.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/190/

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to bjolling
    bjolling:
    Mike:
    Destroy the Captchas!

    http://www.e4.com/game/captcha-invaders/play.e4

    (link was marked as spam, so copy and paste away I guess...)

    Stop complaining and install "Linkification" already.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/190/

    Great, a browser plugin that turns links - into links! That sure is a useful addon to further burden Firefox with. I was just thinking this morning "wow, Firefox sure takes a long time to start up, maybe I should install some more addons! I don't need any new functionality but maybe I can find an addon that turns links into links! Yo dawg, we heard you like links!".

  • Thomas (unregistered) in reply to bjolling

    Opera allows you to "Go to Web Address" in the context menu for any text you select. If it's a URL, it opens the page, otherwise it queries a search engine for the word/words selected.

  • Adam (unregistered)

    http://i.imgur.com/qfdZn.png

  • cell phoner (unregistered) in reply to Thomas
    Thomas:
    Opera allows you to "Go to Web Address"…
    Chrome does the same. I don't mean to argue who was first, just wanted to point out that this nifty feature is in both of them.

    Captcha: haero - Someone so strong and bold he doesn't even care about spelling.

  • Ignatios Souvatzis (unregistered) in reply to DaveK

    Bah, all pathetic. If you want to see real captcha failure[1], look at this:

    http://photo.beverly.kleinbus.org/netlog/#turingtest

    or directly at the image that provoked it:

    [image]

    [1] (and have real 21st century internet, instead of or in addition to the legacy 32bit one)

  • Anonymous (unregistered)
    Thomas:
    I also like what TDWTF'c captcha gave me a couple minutes ago. [image]

    The lower image is the same as the black one with some brightness and contrast tweaking. I guess a spambot would be more successful with this one than a human being.

    I have to say I can read the unmodified captcha very easily, it is perfectly legible to me. If you really can't see it you probably just need to increase your monitor brightness (it'll be a lot quicker than taking screenshots of everything and modifying them in Photoshop; yes, there's always a better way).

  • T (unregistered)

    This kind of scared me on the university e-mail login page [image]

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    Thomas:
    I also like what TDWTF'c captcha gave me a couple minutes ago. [ ... image snipped ... ] The lower image is the same as the black one with some brightness and contrast tweaking. I guess a spambot would be more successful with this one than a human being.
    I have to say I can read the unmodified captcha very easily, it is perfectly legible to me. If you really can't see it you probably just need to increase your monitor brightness (it'll be a lot quicker than taking screenshots of everything and modifying them in Photoshop; yes, there's always a better way).
    Your monitor must be waay too bright if you can read that clearly. The problem is really one of contrast, not brightness: [image]

    Even with my monitor's settings turned up to 11, that's only just barely visible.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    Anonymous:
    Thomas:
    I also like what TDWTF'c captcha gave me a couple minutes ago. [ ... image snipped ... ] The lower image is the same as the black one with some brightness and contrast tweaking. I guess a spambot would be more successful with this one than a human being.
    I have to say I can read the unmodified captcha very easily, it is perfectly legible to me. If you really can't see it you probably just need to increase your monitor brightness (it'll be a lot quicker than taking screenshots of everything and modifying them in Photoshop; yes, there's always a better way).
    Your monitor must be waay too bright if you can read that clearly. The problem is really one of contrast, not brightness:

    [ image snipped ]

    Even with my monitor's settings turned up to 11, that's only just barely visible.

    I guess I have better monitors than you. My three screens are top of the line (perks of being the lead dev) and I had the company recalibrate them just last month. I know they are functioning perfectly as I'm very anal about my displays and regularly do spot tests with gamma and color charts to make sure they are perfectly balanced (I get the company to recalibrate them about once a year on average). Still, I would imagine that the average dev would not be so lucky as to be given three professional level displays just for banging out code, so I understand if your monitor does not reproduce the image as well as mine.
  • Vik (unregistered)
  • neminem (unregistered) in reply to kastein
    kastein:
    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.
    Heh. Don't even really need the captcha - I'm a mod at a decently popular forum. A couple years ago, it was being hit by I'd say a couple dozen spam posts a *day*. That was clearly intolerable. Finally they gave up and tried an experiment: they took out the captcha entirely, replaced it with one of 6 random (obvious) questions about the game the forum is tied to, like "what does an accordion thief steal?" (Answer: "accordions"). They figured if bots started getting through they could just switch out the questions.

    I've seen about a dozen spam posts in the past year, and most of them were clearly posted by a human.

  • Zarggg (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    I guess I have better monitors than you. My three screens are top of the line (perks of being the lead dev) and I had the company recalibrate them just last month. I know they are functioning perfectly as I'm very anal about my displays and regularly do spot tests with gamma and color charts to make sure they are perfectly balanced (I get the company to recalibrate them about once a year on average). Still, I would imagine that the average dev would not be so lucky as to be given three professional level displays just for banging out code, so I understand if your monitor does not reproduce the image as well as mine.
    ITT we brag about our monitors as if it were some indication of our manhood.
  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Zarggg
    Zarggg:
    Anonymous:
    I guess I have better monitors than you. My three screens are top of the line (perks of being the lead dev) and I had the company recalibrate them just last month. I know they are functioning perfectly as I'm very anal about my displays and regularly do spot tests with gamma and color charts to make sure they are perfectly balanced (I get the company to recalibrate them about once a year on average). Still, I would imagine that the average dev would not be so lucky as to be given three professional level displays just for banging out code, so I understand if your monitor does not reproduce the image as well as mine.
    ITT we brag about our monitors as if it were some indication of our manhood.
    If your company provided you with ~ £6000 worth of display equipment (that's almost $10,000 worth in USD) then you'd be bragging about it as well. I fucking love my job.
  • Doug (unregistered) in reply to Captain Normal Form

    Clbuttic!

  • Kevin (unregistered)

    Google gave me HORSEX once. The real WTF though is that in order to share the LOLs with my office, I quickly printed the page off, rather than taking a screenshot, so I have no record of the event.

  • Jim (unregistered)

    Back when spam-bots sent out e-mail using just a couple of random words as the subject line, I once got spam with the subject "rump polish"!

  • BottomFeeder (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous
    Anonymous:
    DaveK:
    Anonymous:
    Thomas:
    I also like what TDWTF'c captcha gave me a couple minutes ago. [ ... image snipped ... ] The lower image is the same as the black one with some brightness and contrast tweaking. I guess a spambot would be more successful with this one than a human being.
    I have to say I can read the unmodified captcha very easily, it is perfectly legible to me. If you really can't see it you probably just need to increase your monitor brightness (it'll be a lot quicker than taking screenshots of everything and modifying them in Photoshop; yes, there's always a better way).
    Your monitor must be waay too bright if you can read that clearly. The problem is really one of contrast, not brightness:

    [ image snipped ]

    Even with my monitor's settings turned up to 11, that's only just barely visible.

    I guess I have better monitors than you. My three screens are top of the line (perks of being the lead dev) and I had the company recalibrate them just last month. I know they are functioning perfectly as I'm very anal about my displays and regularly do spot tests with gamma and color charts to make sure they are perfectly balanced (I get the company to recalibrate them about once a year on average). Still, I would imagine that the average dev would not be so lucky as to be given three professional level displays just for banging out code, so I understand if your monitor does not reproduce the image as well as mine.

    hello TopCoder, long time no see...

  • Cale Gibbard (unregistered) 
    \documentclass[11pt]{article}
\newcommand{\TA}{\mathcal{T}_{\mathcal{A}}}
\begin{document}
$\frac{\Pr[\TA(x) = t]}{\Pr[\TA(x') = t]}$ spitfires
\end{document}
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  • mark244 (unregistered) in reply to Alex

    The information given in this subject is very informative.

    mark244

  • said zuck: (unregistered)

    Here's what Facebook had to say about this: [image]

  • (cs) in reply to DaveK

    Are you sure you didnt mean:

    Martini All Bi Bin Mail Trial Anti Limb Lair A Bar Mini Till A Mini Ill Brat A Rial Limb Nit

    (sorry for the lack of colors)

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