• (nodebb)

    That might be an illustration of what the world looks like with WhatsApp...

  • DFYX (unregistered)

    Wow, that's a pretty modern DB ticket kiosk. The last one I've seen still ran Windows 2000.

  • NULLPTR (unregistered)

    that ticket kiosk fits well to the german railway. Issues and errors everywhere.

  • Prime Mover (unregistered)

    Ho hum, another day, another remake of Pup Fiction.

  • Prime Mover (unregistered)

    Green cod? That's nothing, back in the 70s we kids had to learn all about the Green Cross Cod. Angry envious fish are not to be taken lightly.

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered)

    Re: Which one is math? Given that the Earth is a giant computer built to calculate the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything, England seems to have quite an integral part to play.

  • Brian Boorman (google)

    Pup Pup Pup Puppy dog taaaaallllles. Woof Woof Woof.

  • Math (unregistered)

    Which one is math? That's numberwang!

  • Peter of the Norse (unregistered)

    That last one makes sense. It is a photo of protests in Lebanon after the gvmt. announced a tax on What’s App.

  • Kleyguerth (github) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    Being from a country where whatsapp is THE mean of communication, I can say that's an accurate illustration

  • (nodebb) in reply to Quirkafleeg

    That's a red-herring answer. If England were to be the answer, the question would be "Which one is maths?"

  • Vilx- (unregistered)

    Whatsapp hits 2 billion users. The users are not happy about being hit and retaliate.

  • (nodebb)

    Seeing how people here (Brazil) love Whatsapp, if it goes down then we can expect chaos.

  • (nodebb)

    The point of a Captcha is to give an test that humans can answer correctly more easily than a computer. When both humans and computers have to just guess as to what might be the correct answer, it tells you nothing. This particular test will have a huge false negative rate.

  • WTFGuy (unregistered)

    I routinely flunk the captchas on this site. It asks me to identify e.g. cars, and has one car spread across e.g. 3 tiles. The right answer seems to be to check the tiles with the biggest pieces of the car and skip the tiles with just a bumper or fender. But how much car is too much or too little? The only way to know is to try and then fail. It's irritating, especially for over-precise overly-binary thinkers like most devs.

  • Qazwsx (unregistered) in reply to Nutster

    When both humans and computers have to just guess as to what might be the correct answer, it tells you nothing.

    When you, as a human, read "cabbage", "driving in the rain" or whatever the other options are, your innate understanding of the question and the answers (that don't look like Unicode gobbledygook) can eliminate all the non-math answers, even if you can't tell what the last one is. So it's a bit better than a guess. In general, SolveMedia has the right approach to captchas based on their purpose, because natural language prompts and answers are easy for a human to answer, but hard for a computer. The traditional "figure out these distorted random mixed case alphanumeric digits" ones are useless for humans, and the "select squares with objects you'll see on the road" ones are literally training neural networks to "defeat" the real world counterparts of the tasks.

  • markm (unregistered) in reply to WTFGuy

    Checking all the squares with any part of a car generally works for me. Is TDWTF different?

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