captcha u24 the image you have to type in before you can post here. an antispam measure. stands for "Computers Are Poor Tools, they Can't Handle it All" actually, stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing-test to tell Computers And Humans Apart" wiki has more info. 061025 ... stork daddy blather you never cease to amaze me 061025 ... captcha I officially am captcha the blatherer. 061026 ... Ouroboros 6ykp my "what the fuck" was audible- changes in blather make me nervous (although this seems like a good thing) 061026 ... nom the castle 061026 ... oren Stopping the spam. What a great_idea! 061026 ... birdmad woo-hoo! spam-free blather 061026 ... Harbinger of doom It's the thin end of the wedge I tell ye. Whurr all doomed...dooomed I tell ye! 061026 ... nom i haven't tried this on my phone yet 061102 ... Strideo As they say: Huzzah! ... 061104 ... shiva surely they could have come up with a better captcha than "type the letters from the image!" 061229 ... u24 it's designed for a specific technical purpose (stopping spam) rather than a philosophical purpose. Check our kittenauth and/or humanauth for a different approach to the technical challenge. not as secure imho. 061229 ... u24 *check out* 061229 ... tessa i keep getting trapped : ( maybe i truly am cyborg 070123 ... sameolme Perhaps captchas will come to be seen as the 1st weapon created for the coming war between synthetic intelligence and humans. 070123 ... nom can someone please make it so i can blather on my phone again, please? 070123 ... hsg 8125? 070123 ... u24 does your phone not show images, nom? 070124 ... nom . 070125 ... hsg u may hv2 go2: View: Show Pictures. thaz what iv to do on my gizmo anyway. often the phone hasettings to eliminate pix & speed the net nerdy surfingness at the expense of pictures, porn, & CAPTCHA. this 8125 is groovy. 070131 ... nom it_works) 070131 ... no reason it said whoo! whoo indeed, blather. 070301 ... . Wouldn't it be funny if "kx21" turned up in the captcha? 070309 ... DannyH It appears to have disappeared. 070310 ... u24 no it doesn't! 070330 ... ... http://xkcd.com/c233.html 070330 ... pSyche Although having a captcha is very useful, seeing as spammers can still get by it, what if blather required the typing of a captcha for every post? I would find this very bothersome, seeing as sometimes my clumsy fingers cause the cave to crumble. 070803 ... jane yes, and i keep forgetting to at least copy what i've just typed, maybe even paste it in notepad, in_case the cave crumbles. i've lost some good long blathes that way. 070803 ... :( What would you do if blather moved to requiring logins? 070804 ... dos I don't know about you, but ... I guess I'd log in. Seems simple enough :-) 070805 ... jane i'd be willing to log in too 070813 ... Doar because I'm a blather_addict yeah....me too. the logging in thingy. .sure. . 070813 ... ever dumbening says nay log in baaaad. i use way too many different names besides my main one. huge buzz/creativity kill. 070813 ... falling_alone i finally can see the correct letters! argh, it only takes me once now! this is astounding, k. k. i see those smug faces of those who've had it all along.... 070813 ... dafremen I suppose I'll get hated on by some for pointing this out: The captah should use separate images for each character displayed. Further, it should have several filenames that contain the same character so that the possibilities become practically endless. All a bot programmer would have to do, is create program that clears his cookies..then goes to "blather" each time, recording the name of the image that appears. At the end, he'd have a list of most if not all possibilities. Then he would go through, entering the correct response for each image int oa database of responses. Even though not all images might not have been found..his bot simply has to refresh the "do you have words" page until one that IS in his database appears. Sample database example: Captcha image: http://blather.newdream.net/images/captcha/e74c2fe75305ea36fd7f145764ea553e.png Response: 8TF6 Captcha image: http://blather.newdream.net/images/captcha/08af5f3bf7f194e8ca8b282100fb43d8.png Response: EVR8 Captcha image: http://blather.newdream.net/images/captcha/b5bbb529fd60bea37aa98dd63c005da3.png Response: 6VTG etc. Sorry for arming the froob spam bots. OH well. It had to be said so that the process can be improved. 080514 ... daf I stand corrected. Well done blather_gods. 080514 ... minnesota_chris there's nothing to keep one from logging in and spamming thousands for the next 24 hours. we all remember what that was like, Neal Boortz and all. 080514 ... u24 daf; as I think you noticed, the images are cached temporarily and regenerated m_c; yeah, I wrote an article about that type of attack; puremango.co.uk/cm_breaking_captcha_115.php it applies to a worrying amount of captchas. either_way, what we have right now has stopped the spam :) 080515 ... anouk are captcha's discriminatory against dyslexic people? 080527 ... somebody are mouses discriminatory against handless people? are monitors discriminatory against the blind? speakers, against the deaf? emotions, against the unbearably reasonable? ... and so forth 080527 ... nomkii moment. filling out a form. on the interwebs. must verify we are verify we are not a lonely perl script seeking solace in the comforts of the wires. challenge human intellect by forcing fingers to burp back nonsense, warped with extra lines, pseudo word, consonant vowel salad. read the example... getting a funny feeling... what the hell? THOSE WORDS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE MY HEAD! dons foil hat. ponders malicious intent. comes up with definition for 'foutencipl' 090226 ... jane as far as the log in goes, it would just be to gain access to the twisty_tangly_web. it should not require the use of a singular moniker. just a speculation. 090227 ... hsg Blather can have ([a-z]+[1-0])^4th or 36 to the fourth different captchas. 1 679 616 090909 ... In_Bloom The other night blather made me type in "cunt" I was mortified and then amused Somewhere someone is laughing 090910 ... no reason pjtv (pyjama television) 140221 ... silentbob The cave crumbles on the first try every time. The second try always works. 140222 ... flowerock. S8un Satan? 160202 ... falling_alone are we still afraid of robots? i still lose words, and instead of trying to recreate the moment i usually give up when i forget to "save all". 160203 what's it to you? who go blather from