Don’t We All Love Spam?
<– Don’t we all love Spam?
Well, I’m sure people that have operated websites or basically even check the simplest thing as e-mail, we know what spam, in the virtual word is.
I was reading Digg and came across this one website that talked about Captcha. If you don’t know what Captcha is, it stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” Yes, I know, it is a completely retarded and obscured name, which is why some smart person invented the idea of an acronym. (Thanks. :)) And basically what Captcha is usually a dynamically generated image that displays text, numbers, or a combination of both that a person must enter to “verify” that they are a “human”. Enough blabbering on about that. If you’d like to read more about Captcha, please [click here].
Anyways, this website I was reading it is talking about a new way to use the “captcha” idea. It is called “reCAPTCHA”. The creators of this is are use the same idea as Captcha but adding a “second word” in the image. This image isn’t really understood by humans. But the basis of this idea is to help OCR (Optical Character Recognition) improvement, which is used in digitizing books.
If you’d like to read more about reCAPTCHA, please visit their website by [clicking here].
Personally, the I like this idea of reCAPTCHA, but at the same time, it could be irritating to enter 2 words rather than just 1, when at times itself, it can be annoying and irritating to enter a word in the first place to tell the computer you’re human. (How ironic. -sigh-)