Please enter the first ten quintillion digits of pi to continue...
Could you use another bot to solve that bot's test?
We already have the reverse, where automated spam tools outsource to humans to beat the captchas: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/technology/26captcha.html
They would have to make a captcha that only a select group of bots can solve
It'll be bots all the way down...
Some fifteen year old nerd: "I got this"
You have 50 milliseconds..
Which of the following would you most prefer? A: a puppy, B: a pretty flower from your sweetie, or C: a large properly formatted data file?
Uh, is the puppy mechanical in any way?
No, it is the bad kind of puppy!
"Complete Super Mario Bros. in under 5 minutes"
I have enough trouble finding all the bicycles in the photos, they wouldn’t need to change much
I've used captchas before, this already happens :(
please click all images with busses
Sees extremely distorted reflection of bus in a store window in one panel; has breakdown
That's pretty much what DRM does, keeping us out of the inner working of stuff
Which would you prefer:
- A large, properly formatted data file.
- A flower for your sweetie.
- A puppy.
Edit: didn't see that someone else had already beat me to it!
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