(o^^)o Worufu » recaptcha http://www.hafenscher.net/blog personal website of Wolfgang Hafenscher Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:18:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Having fun with captchas http://www.hafenscher.net/blog/archives/278 http://www.hafenscher.net/blog/archives/278#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:04:16 +0000 worufu http://www.hafenscher.net/blog/?p=278 Just when I thought captcha systems are getting dumber and dumber there pops up a very nice talk about the usefulness of solving captchas.

But first I want to show you a captcha which Google presented to me some time ago. Do you have any idea what that is supposed to mean? I don’t.

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Another captcha on Twitter. Easy to decipher but still made me smile for a second. Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke.

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And now comes the video of a nice talk about re-captcha. A project with a great idea: instead of making people just waste time by solving captchas they aim to extract useful human power out of it.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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