General: May 2006 Archives

Do you know what a CAPTCHA is? It is one of those small graphics people (like me) use whenever a turing test is to be performed - i.e. a human be told apart from a computer. Typically this is used in blogs to allow only human commenters, registering for email/online accounts etc. The idea is to display some warped text on a distracting background so that OCR programs have difficulty recognising the characters from the noise, but not humans. The primary use is to fight SPAM. But...........

For the first time in my life since I got SPAM (and I have received literally tens of thousand junk mail in my lifetime), I had a laugh at the wit of one of the spammers...

(WARNING: Adult content following - only read rest of article if you are older than 30).