Sunday, November 2, 2008

Captcha's


Dont you just hate these things? On the internet these days, you need to waste at least 17 seconds on these stupid things to access most internet gateways.
Honestly, who gives a flying flip if some stupid bot can create an email address. Congratulations to its builder. These things, are usually called CAPTCHA's. But what the heck is it?
A CAPTCHA or Captcha is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. The process usually involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. Because other computers are unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct solution is presumed to be human.
Leave your comments about these 'Captcha's' because I would love to get some response from other on the invention that way created with good intentions, but now has become an internet pest.
Corey

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