Comments on: More CAPTCHA WTF http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/1159-more-captcha-wtf Helping you to get the most out of modern technology and communications since 2004. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:38:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/1159-more-captcha-wtf/comment-page-1#comment-3551 Tom Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:01:02 +0000 #comment-3551 Hi, this is also definitely worth looking at - 3D-Captcha: http://spamfizzle.com/CAPTCHA.aspx This would require object recognition from bots... Hi,

this is also definitely worth looking at – 3D-Captcha:
http://spamfizzle.com/CAPTCHA.aspx

This would require object recognition from bots…

]]> By: Liam http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/1159-more-captcha-wtf/comment-page-1#comment-2370 Liam Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:14:11 +0000 #comment-2370 That's why we all use reCaptcha. I'm on a quest to write a mod that will implement that in phpBB3. That’s why we all use reCaptcha. I’m on a quest to write a mod that will implement that in phpBB3.

]]> By: Jasidog http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/1159-more-captcha-wtf/comment-page-1#comment-697 Jasidog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-697 <p>Even simple CAPTCHA's have allways anoyed me. So much as to mean that in many cases I won't post/register.</p><p>When I do decide to try my luck I frequently find myself having to tryserveral times before sucess. This whilst thinking I was making a very carefull entry. </p><p>I understand the need for them but I hate them and wish there was a better solution. <br /></p> Even simple CAPTCHA’s have allways anoyed me. So much as to mean that in many cases I won’t post/register.

When I do decide to try my luck I frequently find myself having to tryserveral times before sucess. This whilst thinking I was making a very carefull entry. 

I understand the need for them but I hate them and wish there was a better solution.

]]> By: Codeman38 http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/1159-more-captcha-wtf/comment-page-1#comment-748 Codeman38 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-748 <p>The first one, I *think*, is 3446K... but I can't be certain. It's supposed to look like 3D 'mountains', it seems, but the render's not very good.</p> <p>The second one has the significant readability problem you mention: is left-to-right more significant than top-to-bottom, or vice versa? The letters are staggered just enough to make it ambiguous. If it weren't for that problem, though, you're right, it'd be a cinch.</p> <p>That last one, on the other hand... now that looks positively demonic. Trying to match up the images with all the visual interference in the background is a taxing enough task with mild dyslexia... but on top of that, they made the elementary mistake of combining characters that are easily confused for one another by humans. I *think* the letters are all caps (and an instruction to that effect, embedded in the image, would be useful), but even then, for instance, 'I' and '1' can be ambiguous in some fonts.</p> The first one, I *think*, is 3446K… but I can’t be certain. It’s supposed to look like 3D ‘mountains’, it seems, but the render’s not very good.

The second one has the significant readability problem you mention: is left-to-right more significant than top-to-bottom, or vice versa? The letters are staggered just enough to make it ambiguous. If it weren’t for that problem, though, you’re right, it’d be a cinch.

That last one, on the other hand… now that looks positively demonic. Trying to match up the images with all the visual interference in the background is a taxing enough task with mild dyslexia… but on top of that, they made the elementary mistake of combining characters that are easily confused for one another by humans. I *think* the letters are all caps (and an instruction to that effect, embedded in the image, would be useful), but even then, for instance, ‘I’ and ’1′ can be ambiguous in some fonts.

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