Defective Compass

reCAPTCHA… Stop Spam, Read (digital) books

Posted in Computing, Internet by defectivecompass on January 8, 2008

Thanks for the tip, Diwaker!

A lot of sites use images which cannot be “read” by computers as a means to stop spam. Generally a human types in the word displayed in the image and goes through. The reCAPTCHA project aims at giving you such images for use and in turn uses the typed in results by people to digitally covert books!

http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html

Google Sorry Page…

Posted in Internet by defectivecompass on January 5, 2008

This is interesting. Google thinks that I am a bot :) . I am getting the following page no matter what I search…

google_sorry.png

Gmail and igoogle seem to be working fine… however, the search through igoogle’s page is failing too.