[extropy-chat] Blog spam
Emlyn
emlynoregan at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 05:32:23 UTC 2005
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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