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René 'Necoro' Neumann posted on Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:26:18 +0200 as |
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> Both points also apply to the audio captcha, as you have to a) |
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> understand the word and b) from this infer the correct writing. Which |
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> becomes even more difficult as English is a language, where the |
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> spelling/pronounciation-relation is quite loose (plus you have |
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> British/American spelling varieties). |
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Good point. |
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Captchas are a bit like radiation or chemo treatments that try to kill the |
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cancer (spam) without killing the human, aren't they? If the anti-cancer/ |
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anti-spam treatment's to be worthwhile at all, it seems one must accept |
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that it be potent enough that it will kill some of the good guys in the |
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process. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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