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Huh?, Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news99244610.html| x646d63 |
Posted: May 24 2007, 09:48 PM
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http://www.physorg.com/news99244610.html
The point of captchas is to determine if someone reading the image can match the text version of the image. Without the text version already known, it doesn"t make sense to use it as a validation tool. And if the text version is already known, why are you asking again for the online library? This doesn"t make any sense. Either the captchas will become useless (if there isn"t a "right answer") or we"d be typing in text that"s already known--gaining nothing. |
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| x646d63 |
Posted: May 24 2007, 09:54 PM
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OK, I went to the website and the process was explained there. Might have been nice to have in the article.
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| Thomas the Gardener |
Posted: May 24 2007, 10:06 PM
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That was the first thing I thought too.
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| gopher65 |
Posted: May 25 2007, 01:50 AM
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I haven't gone and read another article about this yet (soon:)), but based on the physorg article, I'd say they send out the same little blurp to a lot of people all at the same time. People type in what they see, and the server compares what they all typed in. The majority answer wins and is confirmed.
That's my guess anyway. I'd do it that way:). |
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Posted: May 25 2007, 02:12 AM
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