• j (unregistered) in reply to Zonkers

    It's a recursive WTF

  • Dude (unregistered) in reply to j
    j:
    It's a recursive WTF

    return It's a recursive WTF();

  • Herman (unregistered) in reply to joe.edwards
    Mark:
    I believe that captcha system is used by google. The little wheel chair if you click it will speak a series of characters to be typed in. Try signing up for a new gmail account to see what I mean.
    Are you saying Google discriminates against the deafblind?
    noooo... The spoken text is for the blind. The picture with the characters is for the deaf. Google has both, catering for people who are both deaf and blind....
  • Joseph Newton (unregistered) in reply to Isuwen

    Re: Please Retype The Bible 2007-02-21 19:29 • by Isuwen Should I be glad I failed the men on that ultimate captcha site?

    IMHO, yes. It means that you are not a robot in the most important sense [though the success of the advertising industry would indicate that you are in the minority.

  • Wene Gerchinko (unregistered) in reply to Nero
    Nero:
    OK, as far as I recognize, the wheelchair needs to be clicked if someone is blind and can't read the captcha. And this leads to another WTF: How the hell a blind person can ever see the wheelchair image?? (OK, I know, it has to have some "alternative text" - but what the image is for?)

    Captcha: "ewww". Yeah.

    Folks can be legally blind, and still see shapes, colors and stuff like that. Why bother yourself with such worries? If you are that worried, take some nylons and wrap them over your eyes, and surf the net. You'll find that the text to speech apps are worth gold then. And maybe, depending on how blind you are, you might understand why the wheelchair icon is there.

  • (cs) in reply to Isuwen
    Isuwen:
    Should I be glad I failed the men on that ultimate captcha site?

    I'm not sure. I am a heterosexual female, and I kept failing the men portion. I almost always got the women version right. Maybe because what women like in men is more varied than what men like in women (visually anyhow). Or maybe I just find it difficult to assess the "hotness" of men young enough to be my sons...

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered) in reply to Nero

    The blind person in all probability won't ever even load the wheelchair image. The alternate text for it is probably more informative, though.

    Hey, the captcha is actually working!

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous Coward

    [quote user="Anonymous Coward"][quote user="foxyshadis"][quote user="themagni"][quote user="Anonymous Coward"]

    When Adams quit his job (was it at Pac Bell?) he lost touch with reality. Dilbert's about as real as Cathy or Family Circus now. [/quote]

    Speaking as a woman (and a mother) I find both Cathy and Family Circus very believable (usually).

  • (cs) in reply to Mordac
    Mordac:

    I thought of the same strip when I saw this article... but oddly enough, I remember Dilbert's last quote as "Stupid scenic descriptions." Did SRA change the line for some reason?

  • (cs)

    It's very common for visually impaired people to have taxicabs take them on their errands -- including, yes, the drive-up ATM. I think I read this in The Straight Dope...Cecil Adams is smarter than you are.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    What is with all this CAPTCHA stuff? I don't get it. The captcha at the bottom of everyone's posts is unnecessarily redundant.

  • (cs) in reply to Arancaytar
    Arancaytar:
    I thought of the same strip when I saw this article... but oddly enough, I remember Dilbert's last quote as "Stupid scenic descriptions." Did SRA change the line for some reason?

    The text in Dilbert's last line is using a different font, so somebody changed it...

  • Jen Larkin (unregistered)

    I vote that the real WTF is that the content doesn't display in the latest version of Firefox, only the introduction does. I had to actually open and use IE to view the content.

    Captcha: kungfu - Guess that's what it takes to get the content to display in Firefox.

  • (cs) in reply to Mark
    I believe that captcha system is used by google. The little wheel chair if you click it will speak a series of characters to be typed in. Try signing up for a new gmail account to see what I mean.

    Exactly that form! :D

    (I don't know why Alex wanted to further anonymise my nick.)

    Anyway -- the real WTF here is, the CAPTCHA didn't validate.

    CAPTCHA: Exactly that form! :D (I don't know why Alex wanted to further anonymise my nick.) Anyway -- the real WTF here is, the CAPTCHA didn't validate.

  • (cs)

    Don't forget that some people are color-bind; they can see the wheelchair and click on it of course, but maybe they cannot see the letters/numbers in the image.

  • dsa (unregistered) in reply to Isuwen
    Should I be glad I failed the men on that ultimate captcha site?

    I tried three times with both genders(for science!) and succeeded only once on either gender. I'd say that is a pretty horrible captcha. (I'm a straight male, for the record, so statistically, if that test were to cater to any one particular group, I'd expect it to be mine.)

    Furthermore, due to there being a finite(and quite small) number of pictures, it wouldn't surprise me if brute-forcing a captcha of that sort was quite possible(unless they ban your IP for answering wrongly).

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