[extropy-chat] Blog spam

[Emlyn]

On 29/09/05, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > ...so he can access legit sites without
> > spending a lot of time on captchas.
> >
> > It also doesn't defeat the exploit of hiring poor people in India at
> > $10 a day to do nothing but read captchas. Developing world english
> > speakers are a cheap Turing machine.
> >
> > Mike Lorrey
>
> Here's a captcha game:  let's say we want to have a
> site which we want generally accessible to yanks but
> not to developing-world English speaking Turing
> machines.  We want it text based, perhaps trivia
> questions that nearly all yanks will get immediately
> but non-yanks won't.
>
> Turns out it is very difficult:  you would need
> questions that cannot be solved using Google (that
> is a huge challenge in itself) and ideally would
> work for people of all ages.
>
> The ones I thought of will be easy for yanks, altho
> some may be difficult for children (defined as those
> younger than ~40.)  Europeans, did you get any of
> these, even with Google?  Yanks over 40, did you
> miss any, even without Google?
>
>
> 1.  Who often said "...heah's ya beah, Ahhchie..." _ _ _ _ _

Edith

>
> 2.  "I would like to see him win this match, but I
> fear Clay is the better man."  Who is Clay today?

Could be Mohammed Ali

>
> 3.  "Linda Minda fo Finda, b _ _ _ _ _   f _ _ _ _ ...
>
> 4.  The one below KY and above GA.

TN

>
> 5.  The Miami _ _ _ _ _ _ _ s.

Dolphins

>
> 6.  The U.S. has had exactly a hundred of these since 59.

Senators, since Hawaii became part of the union in 1959.

>
> 7.  I had a crush on MaryAnn, but my friend thought
> _ _ _ _ _ _ was better.

Well, it wont fit Mrs Howell, so I guess it's Ginger.

>
> 8.  RayyyyyNeeeeeeer _ _ _ _.
>
> 9.  Little old lady shouting into phone:
> Where's  _ _ _  _ _ _ _?

the beef?

>
> 10.  State shaped kinda like a fat L.
>

Louisiana

>
> Europeans, give me some from over there.
>
> spike
>
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