Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Failure Capcha'ed -- In which Carolyn Complains
I believe I've mentioned before I have a tendency to reverse letters and mix up letters such as d p q g b. I am also directionally impaired. Right? Left? Wait which way?? Driving with me is no fun. Even with the GPS. My son handles it well, though. The little trouper.
Yesterday I was playing tic tac toe with him when we were waiting at the doctor's office (Hep C vaccination booster for him) and I suddenly realized I was using my left hand to write. I happen to be quite facile with my left hand even though I'm mostly right handed. So, this is not terribly unusual. See above, though on the dyslexia-like symptoms. All of which gets me to Capchas.
You know. Those stupid wigged out letters and numbers you're supposed to enter in the box to prove you're not a vile spam bot. You-all know capcha has been hacked, right? The evil spammers came up with the brilliant idea of airquotespayingairquotes people to solve capchas until they could figure out the hack. The payment was access to free porn. Solve these for free pr0n!! I would have failed miserably. And after all that torture they probably would have shown me boobs when I really wanted to see umm not boobs (just trying to keep the space clean here!) So it's been all over that the Google capcha is now hackable in under 3 minutes. MySpace too. That's the power of pr0n, people.
There's really no point to this post except that those stupid capcha's are all over the freaking place and I have the worst time with them. Do you effing know how similar A and 4 look when they're on acid like that? Now pretend you're trying to work out if you're seeing A-then-4 or 4-then-A. And, I've noticed, regardless of hackability -- or maybe because of it?? -- on MySpace in particular the first capcha practically never works. EVER! I've gotten to the point where I automatically refresh for a new one when one turns up. So what's going on under the hood on the submit when a correct answer isn't accepted as correct? Therein lies an interesting little problem for some hacker to work out.
What's that?
No.
Absolutely not.
Hey, I finished Stephanie Meyer's The Host. It was pretty good. And--
I am NOT procrastinating.
Yesterday I was playing tic tac toe with him when we were waiting at the doctor's office (Hep C vaccination booster for him) and I suddenly realized I was using my left hand to write. I happen to be quite facile with my left hand even though I'm mostly right handed. So, this is not terribly unusual. See above, though on the dyslexia-like symptoms. All of which gets me to Capchas.
You know. Those stupid wigged out letters and numbers you're supposed to enter in the box to prove you're not a vile spam bot. You-all know capcha has been hacked, right? The evil spammers came up with the brilliant idea of airquotespayingairquotes people to solve capchas until they could figure out the hack. The payment was access to free porn. Solve these for free pr0n!! I would have failed miserably. And after all that torture they probably would have shown me boobs when I really wanted to see umm not boobs (just trying to keep the space clean here!) So it's been all over that the Google capcha is now hackable in under 3 minutes. MySpace too. That's the power of pr0n, people.
There's really no point to this post except that those stupid capcha's are all over the freaking place and I have the worst time with them. Do you effing know how similar A and 4 look when they're on acid like that? Now pretend you're trying to work out if you're seeing A-then-4 or 4-then-A. And, I've noticed, regardless of hackability -- or maybe because of it?? -- on MySpace in particular the first capcha practically never works. EVER! I've gotten to the point where I automatically refresh for a new one when one turns up. So what's going on under the hood on the submit when a correct answer isn't accepted as correct? Therein lies an interesting little problem for some hacker to work out.
What's that?
No.
Absolutely not.
Hey, I finished Stephanie Meyer's The Host. It was pretty good. And--
I am NOT procrastinating.
posted by Carolyn @ 5/21/2008 08:47:00 PM Permalink
Comments:
Carolyn,
I, too, do a lot more with my left hand than most people do--although I can't write legibly with it. I'm also directionally impaired. I can study a map for 20 minutes, pull out of a parking lot, and prompty turn the wrong direction. I do it all the time. Now you've got me wondering if there's a correlation between the two things.
Patti
I, too, do a lot more with my left hand than most people do--although I can't write legibly with it. I'm also directionally impaired. I can study a map for 20 minutes, pull out of a parking lot, and prompty turn the wrong direction. I do it all the time. Now you've got me wondering if there's a correlation between the two things.
Patti
We must vow right now to never ever be the navigator when the other one is driving. We'd head for Seattle and end up in Winnetka. Or else get there in record time. Would we cancel each other out or be lost forever?
I'm guessing we'd be lost forever, but maybe we could discover a lost civilization or something. ;-)
Did you post the pictures of your flowers somewhere? I'd love to see them.
Patti
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Did you post the pictures of your flowers somewhere? I'd love to see them.
Patti
