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Aug 23

reCaptcha is Getting Too Darned Hard

Unreadable captcha

reCaptcha used to be the least frustrating Captcha system out there. It presented the best solution out there, taking unreadable words from books and making them readable. It helps the OCR, and it helps the Internet.

They forgot that OCR is smart. It was designed to be. You know, in hopes of reaching the OCR singularity.

As some very nice people on SuperUser Chat pointed out, as the OCR systems get trained, they find fewer words hard. Soon the OCR becomes smart enough to recognize 99% of all words.

Meanwhile, the humans are silently working, while getting harder and harder Captchas.

Hell, it’s the poverty cycle for words. Check that. Most of these Captchas aren’t even words anymore.

This is the exact opposite problem from years past, when all the bots would be classified as humans. Now, the humans are being classified as bots.

Posted 9 months ago

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captcha, problems, wtf, twitter,

Aug 21

My Ideas Are Shtty So I'm Going on an Internet Diet

I hope this guy realizes that the first world solutions solve third-world problems too. By accident, granted, but still.

Posted 9 months ago

Aug 8

Posted 10 months ago

Jul 6

Keep Calm and Carry On - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Keep Calm and Carry On was a poster produced by the British government in 1939 during the beginning of World War II, intended to raise the morale of the British public in the event of invasion. It was little known and never used. The poster was rediscovered in 2000 and has been re-issued by a number of private sector companies, and used as the decorative theme for a range of other products. There are only two known surviving examples of the poster outside of government archives.

Posted 11 months ago

facebook,

(Source: reddit.com)

Reblogged 11 months ago from tmblg

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facebook,

abcworldnews: NYC PET STORE BANS BUYING PUPPY WHILE INTOXICATED First we’ve heard of what seems like a pretty good idea… the AP reports that a Greenwich Village pet store, surrounded by bars, has made a policy official — you can’t buy a puppy if you’re drunk. From the AP: Workers at Le Petite Puppy in Greenwich Village say customers tend to stumble in after happy hour and purchase a dog without thinking. Drunken customers now are forbidden to even hold the puppies, because they can drop them. Read more at ABCNews.com.

abcworldnews:

NYC PET STORE BANS BUYING PUPPY WHILE INTOXICATED

First we’ve heard of what seems like a pretty good idea… the AP reports that a Greenwich Village pet store, surrounded by bars, has made a policy official — you can’t buy a puppy if you’re drunk.

From the AP:

Workers at Le Petite Puppy in Greenwich Village say customers tend to stumble in after happy hour and purchase a dog without thinking. Drunken customers now are forbidden to even hold the puppies, because they can drop them.

Read more at ABCNews.com.

Reblogged 11 months ago from abcworldnews

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facebook,

Jul 5

Reblogged 11 months ago from peoplewho

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Jul 3
abcworldnews: A security guard attempts to restrict a photographer from taking photos of a protest calling for the release of detained Thai human rights activist Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, outside the Thai consulate in Hong Kong, June 29, 2011. Pruksakasemsuk, was arrested in Thailand, April 30, on charges of insulting the king. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images) For More from Today in Pictures 

abcworldnews:

A security guard attempts to restrict a photographer from taking photos of a protest calling for the release of detained Thai human rights activist Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, outside the Thai consulate in Hong Kong, June 29, 2011. Pruksakasemsuk, was arrested in Thailand, April 30, on charges of insulting the king. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)

For More from Today in Pictures 

Reblogged 11 months ago from abcworldnews

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Jul 1

If you can capture a woman’s imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.

- Kathleen Tessaro (via kari-shma)

True but makes no sense.

(Source: kari-shma)

Reblogged 11 months ago from kari-shma

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facebook,

Jun 30

Fear is like a banana. Only the outside is dangerous.

Posted 11 months ago

google it dumba$$, facebook, hey that actually kinda works,

Reblogged 11 months ago from leilockheart

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facebook,

Jun 24
nirak: “Think Bigger: 3 billion dollar theft gets man 40 months, 100 dollar theft gets another 15 years.” - @JPBarlow Once again from ross’s twitter. 

nirak:

“Think Bigger: 3 billion dollar theft gets man 40 months, 100 dollar theft gets another 15 years.” - @JPBarlow

Once again from ross’s twitter. 

Reblogged 11 months ago from tmblg

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Jun 15

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AP: Gabrielle Giffords released from hospital

producermatthew:

Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been released from a Houston-area hospital five months after being injured in a shooting.

The Congresswoman had been in rehabilitation in Houston since being wounded at a “Congress on your Corner” event in early January by suspect Jared Lee Loughner.

Giffords spent five months in the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound to the head.

Reblogged 11 months ago from abcworldnews

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Also stalkerish.

Also stalkerish.

Reblogged 11 months ago from leilockheart

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