The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

KattMan · 2012-03-23 Reply Admin

Flynt:
Your timeline just illustrates how screwed up our priorities are as a society. Why weren't the sexbots first?

Actualyl they were, just not very refined. Ever hear of a vibrator, or those more modern ones that rotate while warming up also. Of course it was only the women that really benefited from them.

2012-03-23 Reply Admin

KattMan:
Actualyl they were, just not very refined. Ever hear of a vibrator, or those more modern ones that rotate while warming up also. Of course it was only the women that really benefited from them.

That's, of course, a false statement for multiple reasons.

2012-03-23 Reply Admin

this is getting NSFW very fast:
KattMan:
Actualyl they were, just not very refined. Ever hear of a vibrator, or those more modern ones that rotate while warming up also. Of course it was only the women that really benefited from them.
That's, of course, a false statement for multiple reasons.

Damn right. Mount one of those babies at crotch-level on the wall and paste a picture of the one-toothed mount man from deliverance directly above. Now it's a party.

KattMan · 2012-03-23 Reply Admin

Zunesize Me!:
this is getting NSFW very fast:
KattMan:
Actualyl they were, just not very refined. Ever hear of a vibrator, or those more modern ones that rotate while warming up also. Of course it was only the women that really benefited from them.
That's, of course, a false statement for multiple reasons.
Damn right. Mount one of those babies at crotch-level on the wall and paste a picture of the one-toothed mount man from deliverance directly above. Now it's a party.

Now you're just being sill.... oh wait, you're serious aren't you?

2012-03-23 Reply Admin

KattMan:
Zunesize Me!:
this is getting NSFW very fast:
KattMan:
Actualyl they were, just not very refined. Ever hear of a vibrator, or those more modern ones that rotate while warming up also. Of course it was only the women that really benefited from them.
That's, of course, a false statement for multiple reasons.
Damn right. Mount one of those babies at crotch-level on the wall and paste a picture of the one-toothed mount man from deliverance directly above. Now it's a party.
Now you're just being sill.... oh wait, you're serious aren't you?

Getting the job done is serious business - I don't kid around.

Now all I need is a recording to say "Pow! Right in the kisser!" each time my teeth taste the drywall. It would be quite the spectacle.

tin · 2012-03-23 Reply Admin

Flynt:
Quicksilver:
1943 Machiens outperform humans at doing calculations 1997 Machines outperform humans at chess 2009 Machines outperform humans at face recognition 2012 Machines outperform humans at solving captachas 2014 Machines outperform humans at 7 minutes in heaven
The singularity is coming! Run run for your lives ... or you won't get one of those sexy 2014 robots!

Your timeline just illustrates how screwed up our priorities are as a society. Why weren't the sexbots first?

Early prototypes existed. But they rarely got past the foreplay chess. And even if they did, they incorrectly recognised the face of the user, causing them to yell out a random name at the most inappropriate time.

2012-03-23 Reply Admin

tin:
Flynt:
Quicksilver:
1943 Machiens outperform humans at doing calculations 1997 Machines outperform humans at chess 2009 Machines outperform humans at face recognition 2012 Machines outperform humans at solving captachas 2014 Machines outperform humans at 7 minutes in heaven
The singularity is coming! Run run for your lives ... or you won't get one of those sexy 2014 robots!

Your timeline just illustrates how screwed up our priorities are as a society. Why weren't the sexbots first?

Early prototypes existed. But they rarely got past the foreplay chess. And even if they did, they incorrectly recognised the face of the user, causing them to yell out a random name at the most inappropriate time.

Knight from G4 to G-spot doesn't compute.

lolwtf · 2012-03-23 Reply Admin

You need to give your email to download Windows patches now? TRWTF.

Matt Westwood · 2012-03-23 Reply Admin

Quicksilver:
1943 Machiens outperform humans at doing calculations

1983 Machines outperform humans at proofreading typoes

Matt Westwood · 2012-03-23 Reply Admin

Ben Jammin:
tin:
Flynt:
Quicksilver:
1943 Machiens outperform humans at doing calculations 1997 Machines outperform humans at chess 2009 Machines outperform humans at face recognition 2012 Machines outperform humans at solving captachas 2014 Machines outperform humans at 7 minutes in heaven
The singularity is coming! Run run for your lives ... or you won't get one of those sexy 2014 robots!

Your timeline just illustrates how screwed up our priorities are as a society. Why weren't the sexbots first?

Early prototypes existed. But they rarely got past the foreplay chess. And even if they did, they incorrectly recognised the face of the user, causing them to yell out a random name at the most inappropriate time.

Knight from G4 to G-spot doesn't compute.

Don't knock it till you've tried it. A rook is also quite good, although a little short. For true nirvana it needs to be a queen - the ridges on the crown have her screaming with delight.

Matt Westwood · 2012-03-23 Reply Admin

this is getting NSFW very fast:
KattMan:
Actualyl they were, just not very refined. Ever hear of a vibrator, or those more modern ones that rotate while warming up also. Of course it was only the women that really benefited from them.

That's, of course, a false statement for multiple reasons.

She buy a vibrator But man I can't hate her When the batteries run out She give me a shout

AndyCanfield · 2012-03-24 Reply Admin

You need to give your email to download Windows patches now? TRWTF.

About 2-3 years ago I stopped getting Windows Update Critical Patches because it requires you install spyware ("Windows Genuine Advantage") first.

2012-03-24 Reply Admin

In general I find it's obvious enough which recaptcha word is the test word and enter only that and it still works.

Watson · 2012-03-24 Reply Admin

Flynt:
Quicksilver:
1943 Machiens outperform humans at doing calculations 1997 Machines outperform humans at chess 2009 Machines outperform humans at face recognition 2012 Machines outperform humans at solving captachas 2014 Machines outperform humans at 7 minutes in heaven
The singularity is coming! Run run for your lives ... or you won't get one of those sexy 2014 robots!

Your timeline just illustrates how screwed up our priorities are as a society. Why weren't the sexbots first?

Why is sex so difficult? Why is sex so hard? It leaves you sweaty, sore And so emotionally scarred. It's always a let-down That ends up in a row. Can't we get machines to Do this sort of thing now?

Arancaytar · 2012-03-24 Reply Admin

I've noticed the recaptcha problem lots of times myself. A lot of the words will simply be unreadable gibberish. You can simply ignore this, and enter pretty much anything for that word.

As we all know, recaptcha uses two words because one of the words is known and used for verification, while the other is the actual "crowdsourced OCR" one. You're not supposed to be able to tell which is which. Obviously, when one of the words is not in the Latin alphabet (or even actually text), that's the unknown word. Enter random gibberish for that and the correct answer for the other, and you're in.

This should also actually help the recaptcha project, since the wildly divergent answers give them a clue that the word cannot be read.

2012-03-24 Reply Admin

Are you sure you want "Hewbrew?"

2012-03-24 Reply Admin

The last is not a Daleth, it's a Terminal Koph, so it's eloheka. It's been a long time, but it seems to mean "I shall curse you."

2012-03-24 Reply Admin

Jeff:
The last is not a Daleth, it's a Terminal Koph, so it's eloheka. It's been a long time, but it seems to mean "I shall curse you."

No it doesn't! It means "Your god", as many already stated.

2012-03-24 Reply Admin

Your Name:
You can just type in the word of your choice there. If enough other people pick the same word, it'll even show up in Google Books as that word! Neat!

Hence 4chan's massive campaign to use the N-word for every captcha.

Strolskon · 2012-03-24 Reply Admin

Mike:
Your Name:
You can just type in the word of your choice there. If enough other people pick the same word, it'll even show up in Google Books as that word! Neat!

Hence 4chan's massive campaign to use the N-word for every captcha.

Of course the ReCaptcha people already know this and will mark every occurrence of it as "pending manual review". That is, of course, assuming that enough people type nigger instead of skipping it that they don't mark it as "gibberish" first.

2012-03-24 Reply Admin

I wonder if the response would be accepted if it didn't include the vowels.

da Doctah · 2012-03-24 Reply Admin

Would a French captcha be accepted if you left off the accents?

2012-03-25 Reply Admin

freakpants:
Anketam:
Is it sad that despite the fact that this topic has not been up for an hour and people already figured out what the Hebrew Captcha was.

Maybe because they speak the language? I'm not sure if you're aware, but this internet thing is available to people that speak hebrew as well! Amazing!

No Way! Next you'll be telling me the Ruski's and Chinese can use it too....

2012-03-25 Reply Admin

Hmmm. This "obscure" book is, judging from the typography in the Hebrew word, either a copy of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (the scholarly edition of the Hebrew Bible), some other study edition, or a nicely formatted computer-typeset scholarly work about that same Bible.

The real WTF? That the folks at Google are willynilly scanning stuff like that without figuring out what it is.

Watson · 2012-03-26 Reply Admin

Ollie Jones:
Hmmm. This "obscure" book is, judging from the typography in the Hebrew word, either a copy of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (the scholarly edition of the Hebrew Bible), some other study edition, or a nicely formatted computer-typeset scholarly work about that same Bible.
The real WTF? That the folks at Google are willynilly scanning stuff like that without figuring out what it is.

They have this woodchipper that they just toss books into. The paper blizzard that sprays out the other end is videoed by multiple high-resolution high-speed cameras; edge matching algorithms trawl this raw scan data and join fragments back together to form complete pages. The problem is that it's harder to distinguish different types of paper and it's sometimes difficult to tell which page belongs to which book.

2012-03-26 Reply Admin

freakpants:
Anketam:
Is it sad that despite the fact that this topic has not been up for an hour and people already figured out what the Hebrew Captcha was.

Maybe because they speak the language? I'm not sure if you're aware, but this internet thing is available to people that speak hebrew as well! Amazing!

And there I was thinking the jews had their own internet ...

2012-03-26 Reply Admin

AndyCanfield:
I ran into a captcha once that basically read like this: \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Supposedly this could be parsed into V's and W's and M's and I's, but the combinatorial numbers were impressive. Probably NP-complete, and if anyone every answered the captcha he would win a Nobel Prize.

I think they call that a resistor in english.

2012-03-26 Reply Admin

An Old Hacker:
Anketam:
freakpants:
Anketam:
Is it sad that despite the fact that this topic has not been up for an hour and people already figured out what the Hebrew Captcha was.

Maybe because they speak the language? I'm not sure if you're aware, but this internet thing is available to people that speak hebrew as well! Amazing!
Yes I realize that. The thing is that having multiple users that know both Hebrew and English that are so active that they post in less than an hour of it being up, and are even correcting each other! That my friend is sad.

That's only because you don't understand that English is not the only universal language out there.

Specifically, Jews of all nations are taught to read Hebrew so that they can read from the Torah (the five books of Moses), even if it is only for their bar-mitzvah.

That's why Marco Polo took Jews with him, by the way...

I'm not even Jewish, and I was embarrassed to be confused because I missed the holem.

Now, if folks were correcting each other about Esperanto, THAT would be sad...

omg they're everywhere !

Nutster · 2012-03-26 Reply Admin

There is no Nobel Prize for mathematical analysis. A Fields medal however could be a possibility.

2012-03-26 Reply Admin

L.:
freakpants:
Anketam:
Is it sad that despite the fact that this topic has not been up for an hour and people already figured out what the Hebrew Captcha was.

Maybe because they speak the language? I'm not sure if you're aware, but this internet thing is available to people that speak hebrew as well! Amazing!

And there I was thinking the jews had their own internet ...

They do.

We're on it.

2012-03-26 Reply Admin

Meh, foreign words in captchas could be worse. They could be in Klingon. Even worse than that, the enormous arguments that would result over the exact spelling, use, and meaning of each word.

2012-03-26 Reply Admin

L.:
freakpants:
Anketam:
Is it sad that despite the fact that this topic has not been up for an hour and people already figured out what the Hebrew Captcha was.

Maybe because they speak the language? I'm not sure if you're aware, but this internet thing is available to people that speak hebrew as well! Amazing!

And there I was thinking the jews had their own internet ...

If there isn't a conspiracy theory floating around by now that the Jews are plotting to take over the Internet, we might as well start one now. It's inevitable.

2012-03-26 Reply Admin

Anketam:
Yes I realize that. The thing is that having multiple users that know both Hebrew and English that are so active that they post in less than an hour of it being up, and are even correcting each other! That my friend is sad.

"Sad"? What a curious word to use to describe this. "Surprising" I could see. But why is it "sad"?

2012-03-26 Reply Admin

Strolskon:
Mike:
Your Name:
You can just type in the word of your choice there. If enough other people pick the same word, it'll even show up in Google Books as that word! Neat!

Hence 4chan's massive campaign to use the N-word for every captcha.

Of course the ReCaptcha people already know this and will mark every occurrence of it as "pending manual review". That is, of course, assuming that enough people type nigger instead of skipping it that they don't mark it as "gibberish" first.

Good point. A well-known vulgarity or racial slur would probably be spotted. What we need is some really obscure racial slur. Or just an off-the-wall word, like "haberdashery" or "tridecaphobia", and see if it starts showing up all the time in scanned documents.

2012-03-26 Reply Admin

Tud:
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Solve Media makes "advertising Captchas": instead of entering a random word you might have look at a brand name and enter some relevant text. So "do not complain" is not that surprising.

Now there's a brilliant idea! Force people to type in political slogans to access web sites. Do it enough and it could be a form of brainwashing. If somebody has to type "I love Obama" or "Rush is right again" (whichever way you want to go) enough times, maybe it will imprint on their brains and they'll start to believe it.

2012-03-27 Reply Admin

JiP:
It won't be long before Asian characters become the character of choice for captcha's...

Renren.com (a China facebook clone) used a Chinese CAPTCHA for a while, but now they switched back to an English CAPTCHA. Google "renren chinese captcha"

SenTree · 2012-03-27 Reply Admin

Watson:
They have this woodchipper that they just toss books into. The paper blizzard that sprays out the other end is videoed by multiple high-resolution high-speed cameras; edge matching algorithms trawl this raw scan data and join fragments back together to form complete pages. The problem is that it's harder to distinguish different types of paper and it's sometimes difficult to tell which page belongs to which book.

I think Vernor Vinge beat you to that idea, in Rainbow's End if I remember rightly.

kingofdrak · 2012-03-28 Reply Admin

IS I FRIST?:
WOW my first FRIST comment.Game Avatar HD. Can't beat it!

Yeah, me too. First verify comment is awesome, terrible. If it added in my forum, i think noone can register >"<. May be the others is easier :D

2012-03-28 Reply Admin

lolwtf:
You need to give your email to download Windows patches now? TRWTF.

It's for access to hotfixes which aren't yet "publically" available. Although it's an entirely automated system, so they are publically available in that sense. When you request the hotfix, you're emailed a link to a password-protected self-extracting zip file (along with the password). The passwords rotate every few days.

I'm not entirely sure the purpose behind it, but I'm guessing it's to stop people who are absolutely clueless (to the point that they can't click a link in an email and enter a password contained in the very same email) from installing hotfixes until they've been widely tested.

I don't think the advertising captchas would be very effective. The whole point of captchas is that it's more expensive to solve them than it is to generate them. Setting up those advertising ones would take a lot more effort than it takes to solve them, so it'd be easy to have lowly-paid people access the sites using that system and update a database with the image and solution for each new captcha they find.

Of course, the point isn't actually to try to ensure only humans pass the captcha, but instead to fleece ignorant businesspeople. So, I suppose it might succeed at its real goal.

Watson · 2012-03-28 Reply Admin

SenTree:
Watson:
They have this woodchipper that they just toss books into. The paper blizzard that sprays out the other end is videoed by multiple high-resolution high-speed cameras; edge matching algorithms trawl this raw scan data and join fragments back together to form complete pages. The problem is that it's harder to distinguish different types of paper and it's sometimes difficult to tell which page belongs to which book.
I think Vernor Vinge beat you to that idea, in Rainbow's End if I remember rightly.

Close - no apostrophe.

I was hoping someone would recognise it.

SenTree · 2012-03-29 Reply Admin

Watson:
SenTree:
Watson:
They have this woodchipper that they just toss books into. The paper blizzard that sprays out the other end is videoed by multiple high-resolution high-speed cameras; edge matching algorithms trawl this raw scan data and join fragments back together to form complete pages. The problem is that it's harder to distinguish different types of paper and it's sometimes difficult to tell which page belongs to which book.
I think Vernor Vinge beat you to that idea, in Rainbow's End if I remember rightly.
Close - no apostrophe.

Damn - I was working from memory, and assumed the singular possessive. Please don't put me in the apostrophe-abuser list!

Watson:
I was hoping someone would recognise it.

Well, either you should be writing the stuff or you're a Vinge fan; I guessed the latter.

2012-03-29 Reply Admin

SenTree:
Watson:
SenTree:
Watson:
They have this woodchipper that they just toss books into. The paper blizzard that sprays out the other end is videoed by multiple high-resolution high-speed cameras; edge matching algorithms trawl this raw scan data and join fragments back together to form complete pages. The problem is that it's harder to distinguish different types of paper and it's sometimes difficult to tell which page belongs to which book.
I think Vernor Vinge beat you to that idea, in Rainbow's End if I remember rightly.
Close - no apostrophe.
Damn - I was working from memory, and assumed the singular possessive. Please don't put me in the apostrophe-abuser list!

You might recall one of the characters wondering why there wasn't an apostrophe in the name.

One thing I came away with is the idea that I think I'd pay to see someone make this walk.

SenTree · 2012-03-30 Reply Admin

Watson:
SenTree:
Watson:
SenTree:
Watson:
They have this woodchipper that they just toss books into. The paper blizzard that sprays out the other end is videoed by multiple high-resolution high-speed cameras; edge matching algorithms trawl this raw scan data and join fragments back together to form complete pages. The problem is that it's harder to distinguish different types of paper and it's sometimes difficult to tell which page belongs to which book.
I think Vernor Vinge beat you to that idea, in Rainbow's End if I remember rightly.
Close - no apostrophe.
Damn - I was working from memory, and assumed the singular possessive. Please don't put me in the apostrophe-abuser list!
You might recall one of the characters wondering why there wasn't an apostrophe in the name.

Memo to self: reread Rainbows End, paying attention to all the details.

Watson:
One thing I came away with is the idea that I think I'd pay to see someone make this walk.

Yikes! That would be interesting.

2012-03-31 Reply Admin

recaptcha may have a word that it may allow not to match. so if you enter the word even if its not clear in the first place, it still will validate the captcha.

2012-04-15 Reply Admin

Brendan:
Brent:
Andrew:
The captcha that is "so complicated that it becomes impossible to read" is obviously Hebrew. Just a click to charmap.exe away. Sheesh, people these days.

Nah, that'd be a waste of time. That's almost certainly the OCR-failed word not the real captcha test word... just type anything for it and enter the other word which is clearly legible.

Always type the word "anus" for the OCR-failed word. People who don't do this are not effective team players.

Captcha: Anus.

You're supposed to write PENIS for the OCR-failed word. I thought everybody knew that.

toshir0 · 2012-05-07 Reply Admin

da Doctah:
Would a French captcha be accepted if you left off the accents?

Nope. Said from experience, I'm french. (I must admit I'm not french on purpose, I unfortunately realized I was one after I was born. Nobody's perfect.)

2013-06-14 Reply Admin

Watson:
Why is sex so difficult? Why is sex so hard? It leaves you sweaty, sore And so emotionally scarred. It's always a let-down That ends up in a row. Can't we get machines to Do this sort of thing now?

W. Shakespeare:
All this the world well knows, yet none know well To shun the heaven, that leads [wo]men to this hell

Not having learned to shun, we have no cause To build machines and let our actions pause.

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