I am an automatic registrant
… And destined never to be a human being, on delicious anyway. I failed delicious’s CAPTCHA test twice this morning! (The term stands for Completely Automated Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart – so where does does the P come in? Wikipedia, as at 10 December 2008, is more enlightening on this than the Carnegie Mellon official page – the term, apparently, stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. But I digress.)
According to the people who invented the CAPTCHA, “A CAPTCHA is a program that can generate and grade tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot. For example, humans can read distorted text… current computer programs can’t”. So, not only am I a human being posing as spam, I am also a current computer program. It reminds me of the man who thought he was a stamp…
Yep, I do also fail the CAPTCHA stuff very often. This is because this world is pure madness: we are now trying to cheat computers built on purpose to cheat us.
One day all this “computing” will get out of control (if not already)
Frank Calimero
I’m glad it’s not only me FC!
it is know in the computing community that it is only a matter of time before the computers can read the squiggledy and obfuscated text, so the programmers have been preparing even more fiendishly complex and difficult CAPTCHAs.