Posted by dorayme on 05/05/07 09:44

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<xDSZh.398467$5j1.393901@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote:

> > So more care is needed I guess in the construction of these
> > things, but the idea is pretty good as far as I can see?
>
> Pardon my French, but the idea sucks. :-)

I have been looking into it a bit and the business of letters on
backgrounds does suck more than I thought! And a test should
really not depend on just vision. I came across one view that
they are easy to robot crack by getting humans to solve them on a
high vol site and relaying the info back! Now I guess, if this is
right, this puts paid to all such "Turing" tests for such
purposes.

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dorayme

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