I was seriously tired of deciphering the Captchas often, Google has taken a new approach to them. Google is testing a new method that would require users to put pictures in an upright position. The process includes pictures that can’t be oriented directly by a computer and are equally difficult for a human to place upright as well. The team has released three samples that show images testing different images.
I could see this kind of captcha needing flash or Java or something of that sort which would cause it to perform poorly on older hardware. My Pentium II, 366 MHz laptop works fine for normal web browsing but absolutely crawls with Flash Player. This kind of captcha would prevent me (and others) from using Google’s services and would cause us to switch to an online service that does not require this CPU-intensive process.
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Me, I’m VERY tired of all the horsepuckey that I already need to go through just to give my human opinion:
-joining each and every ‘yet another better idea’ blog and being forced to create a membership and then retaining all the hundreds of membership records,
-having to properly retype some severely distorted random text,
-now we have the wonderful, but not quite better, idea of ‘image rotating’ to prove I’m human.
Too many ‘yet another better ideas’.
All this because money is involved. The free exchange of ideas has a negative impact on society, and complicating the information exchange is only part of the picture: just wait until there are more cyberlaws.
I agree with Sonsum: soon enough, there will be mandatory requirements for a browser to have installed Flash, then Silverlight, then Greenlip, then Halftree, then Spudtruck, then Andromeda, then….. too many possible, too many endless and too many seemingly likely options for my needs. I can personally leave the internet, if this keeps up. Yeah, you’ll miss me. Totally fed up.
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The real problem with this idea is that there aren’t that many possible solutions and a bot would have a good chance of success through guesswork alone.
The CAPTCHA would have to accept a certain range of values as being correct. If accepts a range of 10 degrees then there are only 36 possible answers to each image. Odds of 1 in 36 are far to low to keep the bots at bay.
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@Sonsum: it won’t be your computer at all to do the processing, they’ll just serve you 2 pics rotated server-side. And anyways you can do that with 2 lines of javascript, no need for flash.
The point is that if you do it client-side, a bot can easily understand which way to put it upright, that’s why it’s certainly server-side.
@Spuffler: if you hate the internet so much, just get off it, instead of leaving pathetic anti-tech comments on this ‘yet another better idea’ blog.
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what is c supposed to be?
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This is alot better than the horrible blurry warped text that is commonly used.
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You are right, most of the times they just appear too compressed and it becomes impossible to differ when one letter ends and the other begins
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Which way is up in sample C? The pictures look like headache pills with no obvious upright position. A and B are easy.
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