A brilliant idea, and well executed too. The kind of thing that makes me wonder, I wish I had thought of that! The best part? CMU is behind it. reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books
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Simply brilliant!
There’s a little potential for misuse since if you guess which of the two words hasn’t been correctly read yet you could enter it wrong and still pass the test.
What books? recaptcha sucks, they are telling me to read books. I can do that on my own time. THEY need to read books because they can’t spell “capture” right.
Oh and this comment thing is gay, because I can just put in an email that hasn’t existed. what a waste.
@hihb: Dear, the “comment thing” is not to ensure that you put in a valid email address, but to discourage bots and allow me to get back to you on something you had written. As far as what you think about reCaptcha, you are certainly entitled to your own opinion, if I think it doesn’t make any sense.
@lisathelugubrious: I doubt they use a single answer. They probably sample a large collection of responses before deciding what a given word actually is. But ya, on a single user basis, you might be able to bypass without spelling both of the words correctly. Bear in mind that scanning books is only a nice side-affect of reCaptcha — the main purpose is to stop spambots, and that is still being served.
Point. It’s a very nice idea. I’d love to be able to carry around every book I’ve ever read.
@lisathelugubrious: hmm, not sure I got you there. Kindle, perhaps?
Well I’d go with the Sony PRS, but you get the general idea. :)
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