Captcha

[quigon-jin95]

What is the deal with the captcha??? I understand what it is for but it really serves no purpose anymore, other than to piss people off it seems like, you know i mean? I dont want to decipher some hidden message everytime i try to buy something or even post a comment on youtube, it makes me not want to do things. How many companies do you think have lost sales due to "Buyers Friction"? Buyers friction is when you go to but something and you have to jump through hoops, such as verifying your email, captchas, verifying credit card to prove age and etc, especially when companies like amazon and apple have one click buy things to make it all easier

[Skaren]

People still attempt to use macros on sites, Captcha stops that. Fun fact: every Captcha text comes from old books and scripts that can't be deciphered by a computer, and when you translate it, you're actually helping translate old texts. Usually old newspapers.

[quigon-jin95]

At 5/25/12 03:32 PM, Skaren wrote: People still attempt to use macros on sites, Captcha stops that. Fun fact: every Captcha text comes from old books and scripts that can't be deciphered by a computer, and when you translate it, you're actually helping translate old texts. Usually old newspapers.

Interesting but for somethings such as posting comments, i shouldnt have to do it more than once in one session because if i already did it once why would i need to do it again?

[Skaren]

At 5/25/12 03:34 PM, quigon-jin95 wrote: Interesting but for somethings such as posting comments, i shouldnt have to do it more than once in one session because if i already did it once why would i need to do it again?

It could be to prevent spamming, since you could be a spam bot.

[BizzarroPMP]

Fun Fact: Most of the old texts in Captchas are from the Necronomicon. So by solving Captchas you are actually helping Cthulhian cultists summon the Great Old Ones.

[Jester]

At 5/25/12 03:40 PM, BizzarroPMP wrote: Fun Fact: Most of the old texts in Captchas are from the Necronomicon. So by solving Captchas you are actually helping Cthulhian cultists summon the Great Old Ones.

You say that like it's bad

[Squidbit]

At 5/25/12 03:34 PM, quigon-jin95 wrote:

At 5/25/12 03:32 PM, Skaren wrote: People still attempt to use macros on sites, Captcha stops that. Fun fact: every Captcha text comes from old books and scripts that can't be deciphered by a computer, and when you translate it, you're actually helping translate old texts. Usually old newspapers.

Interesting but for somethings such as posting comments, i shouldnt have to do it more than once in one session because if i already did it once why would i need to do it again?

Because if they only made you do it once, you could type in the captcha and then let your spam bot loose.

[kakalxlax]

a few letters wont prevent me for downloading stuff

[tox]

Proving your human, NA it knows that already
oh no ... a hinder on my entertainment
I also heavily question the description of old texts.. heavily question

[MaartenC]

At 5/25/12 03:34 PM, quigon-jin95 wrote:

At 5/25/12 03:32 PM, Skaren wrote: People still attempt to use macros on sites, Captcha stops that. Fun fact: every Captcha text comes from old books and scripts that can't be deciphered by a computer, and when you translate it, you're actually helping translate old texts. Usually old newspapers.

That is interesting, actually.

Interesting but for somethings such as posting comments, i shouldnt have to do it more than once in one session because if i already did it once why would i need to do it again?

That's probably because you've either spammed too much, or you're posting a lot of comments with short intervals.

[quigon-jin95]

At 5/25/12 03:32 PM, Skaren wrote: People still attempt to use macros on sites, Captcha stops that. Fun fact: every Captcha text comes from old books and scripts that can't be deciphered by a computer, and when you translate it, you're actually helping translate old texts. Usually old newspapers.

Wait wait wait, if im translating something that hasnt bben previously translated, then how does it know whether or not its right? i could then just type mindless garble and it would be like "Astro Pies? Sure why not?"

[NeutralObjections]

At 5/25/12 03:32 PM, Skaren wrote: People still attempt to use macros on sites, Captcha stops that. Fun fact: every Captcha text comes from old books and scripts that can't be deciphered by a computer, and when you translate it, you're actually helping translate old texts. Usually old newspapers.

No kidding! Well, you learn something new everyday.

[Sense-Offender]

On some sites, I have to refresh like 20 times before I can tell what the hell to type.

At 5/25/12 03:40 PM, BizzarroPMP wrote: Fun Fact: Most of the old texts in Captchas are from the Necronomicon. So by solving Captchas you are actually helping Cthulhian cultists summon the Great Old Ones.

It will be the end for us all!

[Xergozy]

At 5/25/12 05:24 PM, quigon-jin95 wrote: Wait wait wait, if im translating something that hasnt bben previously translated, then how does it know whether or not its right? i could then just type mindless garble and it would be like "Astro Pies? Sure why not?"

the second word in the captcha is the one you 'translate', you only need to enter the first one correctly then the second one you don't.

[Archonic]

At 5/25/12 08:52 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: It will be the end for us all!

That's the wrong picture. Here, fixed.

[BumFodder]

To stop spam and to transcribe books easily.

[Sense-Offender]

At 5/25/12 09:39 PM, Spretznaz wrote: That's the wrong picture. Here, fixed.

Shub Niggurath is freakier looking.

[HighWay]

I always get the ones with the words I don't even have letters for on my keyboard.

fuck captcha

[Archonic]

At 5/25/12 09:52 PM, HighWay wrote: I always get the ones with the words I don't even have letters for on my keyboard.

That's because you don't have to type both words. The one that's either a number, foreign language or has normal formatting isn't checked. You only have to type the one that's distorted in some way.

[PuRpLe-KusH]

Interesting, I was unaware of what those things were called

[Lepy]

At 5/25/12 03:32 PM, Skaren wrote: People still attempt to use macros on sites, Captcha stops that. Fun fact: every Captcha text comes from old books and scripts that can't be deciphered by a computer, and when you translate it, you're actually helping translate old texts. Usually old newspapers.

What I heard was that in Google's captchas (or maybe any captcha with two words), the 2nd word is a word from a newspaper or a book that a computer couldn't decipher. But that can't be the case with -every- captcha, I could imagine.

But hey, I'm no captchspert.

[BizzarroPMP]

The Cult of Inglip is a bastardization of the wondrous terrors that are the Outer Gods.

Nyarlathotep sits in Azathoth's court with the foolish cultists squarely in his gaze, biding his time until he will unleash horrors innumerable.

[Sense-Offender]

At 5/26/12 04:31 AM, BizzarroPMP wrote: Nyarlathotep sits in Azathoth's court with the foolish cultists squarely in his gaze, biding his time until he will unleash horrors innumerable.

Azathoth!

Lovecraft is so metal.

[BumFodder]

At 5/26/12 04:31 AM, BizzarroPMP wrote: The Cult of Inglip is a bastardization of the wondrous terrors that are the Outer Gods.

Nyarlathotep sits in Azathoth's court with the foolish cultists squarely in his gaze, biding his time until he will unleash horrors innumerable.

trololol

[BizzarroPMP]

At 5/26/12 11:26 AM, Sense-Offender wrote: Azathoth!

Lovecraft is so metal.

Lovecraft is VERY fucking metal.

I just hate that everyone who paints Azathoth's court takes the "flute" thing so literally......o__<