So… I have gotten a few funny CAPTCHAs recently as I have signed up for some services online. CAPTCHAs are those extra parts of sign up forms on websites that ask you to read and type in some sort of distorted-looking word. You probably think they are annoying (and I happen to agree with you), but they are a good way to reduce the amount of spam on websites due to attacks from spambots and other automated programs. reCAPTCHA is one of the more secure (and accessible) CAPTCHA services available. In fact, it is so secure sometimes that I even have a hard time signing up for things when they are protected by reCAPTCHA. The few I have had recently have either been completely unreadable or have contained characters that you can’t actually type. I mean, you can get them by using the Windows character map, but who wants to do that? Here are a few hard ones:
Umm… I think the first word is the name Gwinn followed by a period. The second word? Not sure at all. I think it might be something like “höara”. Anyone else have a better idea?
Twelve and three-quarters? Really? How do you type that? 12¾.
Another fraction. Sheesh. 10½.
CAPTCHAs are used to determine if the user of the system (that the CAPTCHA is guarding) is a human. The word CAPTCHA resembles the word “capture”, but it is an acronym meaning “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. If you would like more information about CAPTCHAs you can visit the reCAPTCHA website.
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