Goodbye to Paypal?

[Lanark]

The driver for this will be that they are expecting negative interest rates, I'm sure they don't care about the £12, they just don't want to be stuck paying for millions of pounds worth of inactive deposits.

[Mike4]

Does anyone else here find that CAPTCHA thing intensely infuriating?

"Select all the photos including a fire hydrant".

"Try again"....

Select all the same photos.

"Try again"

GRRRRRRRRRR

[servodude]

Does anyone else here find that CAPTCHA thing intensely infuriating?

"Select all the photos including a fire hydrant".

"Try again"....

Select all the same photos.

"Try again"

GRRRRRRRRRR

I find them most infuriating when I fail them...
This one had me so stumped I kept it:


- sd

[Breelander]

I find them most infuriating when I fail them...
This one had me so stumped I kept it:

You may not be aware that when you are presented two Chaptchs to type, the first is the one that proves you are human, the second is 'crowd sourcing' OCR of scanned text that has stumped computerised OCR. Yours looks like one of the second type.

The unknown word is then paired with a second Captcha word whose correct translation is already known. This is the “control.”

Several Web users seeking entry to secure sites are then given both words and asked to decipher them separately.

A correct answer for the control word proves that the user is a human and not a machine. Answers for the unknown word are compared with the O.C.R. guesses and the context analysis. ... If enough users fail to identify an unknown, the word is deemed to be indecipherable and is marked as such.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/scie ... ptcha.html

[servodude]

You may not be aware that when you are presented two Chaptchs to type, the first is the one that proves you are human, the second is 'crowd sourcing' OCR of scanned text that has stumped computerised OCR. Yours looks like one of the second type.

Indeed!

I was surprised that I couldn't help them out with their image detection
- I went for 1845 which apparently was not correct
I was pretty sure I was human and managed to convince them on the next go

-sd

[GoSeigen]

You may not be aware that when you are presented two Chaptchs to type, the first is the one that proves you are human, the second is 'crowd sourcing' OCR of scanned text that has stumped computerised OCR. Yours looks like one of the second type.

I wasn't aware. What a wonderful invention. My perception of ReCaptcha is transformed.


GS

[JohnB]

Its all the inages where the thing does not fit neatly in a box. Just how much of a traffic light sliver counts, is it the poles, etc.

[Mike4]

Its all the inages where the thing does not fit neatly in a box. Just how much of a traffic light sliver counts, is it the poles, etc.

Yes that puzzles me too and means there is no way of being certain on is selecting all the correct boxes.

My annoyance with the 'fire hydrant' one I failed recently was that living here in the UK not New York, I don't really have a clear idea of what all the different types of fire hydrant look like, and the pictures contained several foreign-looking contraptions which may or may not have been fire hydrants. So there is a cultural dimension at play too.

[Mike4]

Does anyone else here find that CAPTCHA thing intensely infuriating?

"Select all the photos including a fire hydrant".

"Try again"....

Select all the same photos.

"Try again"

GRRRRRRRRRR

I find them most infuriating when I fail them...
This one had me so stumped I kept it:


- sd

Did you try pressing that loudspeaker symbol, which I suspect would have translated the partially concealed numbers into spoken word?

[JohnB]

The loudspeaker ones are completely different challenges. Less ambiguous, but take even longer to answer.

[servodude]

Does anyone else here find that CAPTCHA thing intensely infuriating?

"Select all the photos including a fire hydrant".

"Try again"....

Select all the same photos.

"Try again"

GRRRRRRRRRR

I find them most infuriating when I fail them...
This one had me so stumped I kept it:


- sd

Did you try pressing that loudspeaker symbol, which I suspect would have translated the partially concealed numbers into spoken word?

I should've typed "the text"

[Mike4]

I should've typed "the text"

Ah yes. Reminds me of those apocryphal tales of calls to computer support from users saying they can't find the "Any" key....


(As in "Insert floppy disk, press any key", for those wondering.)