Posted by Rami Elomaa on 05/10/07 10:55

"Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaughter@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Rami Elomaa" <rami.elomaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> "Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaughter@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>I was thinking about a way to use a similar idea but to dramatically
>>>increase the ability to thawrt bots.
>>>
>>> The idea is to use the idea that humans can use context and patterns to
>>> understand much better than computers in such cases as the following,
>>>
>>> http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2004/01/16/mipellssed_wdors.html
>>>
>>> So the idea is to ask the user a very simple questions that is written
>>> using misspelled words and such so that it makes it almost impossible
>>> for computers to recognize what the answer is. The question can be
>>> graphically manipulated so that its also visually harder to figure out
>>> like a normal captcha.
>>>
>>> Besides changing the order of the letters in a word one can deliberately
>>> change letters so that the word doesn't make sense but in the context is
>>> not difficult for a human. One can even use bad grammar and a few other
>>> things to make it more difficult.
>>>
>>> I was thinking that one could create a very large database of such
>>> things in different languages that sites could use.
>>>
>>> What do you guys think?
>>
>>
>> You're giving the finger to dyslexic people.
>>
>
> And? So you think they can read normal captchas too?

No, I think the usual captchas are hard to read too, dyslexic or not.

> if they are dyslexic then chances are they can actually read them easier
> because there is context... so you don't have to read letter for letter
> but just get the question.

If normal text with context is hard to read, garbled text will be even more
difficult to read, even if it is in context. Feel free to ignore the issue,
but please don't pretend it doesn't exist.

> Dyslexia is an excuse for stupid people.

And being blind is just an excuse for being clumsy...

Look, if you didn't want feedback then why the hell did you ask in the first
place?

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