From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O1rwq-0005AP-BA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:03:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E08DE09AA; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:03:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 450B2E09A6 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:03:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyj26 with SMTP id 26so2031093wyj.40 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:03:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=36RjotDSiTtR1JUWlIYpU7G9kb/lnbQAexwyvJ/G97o=; b=lOzJ55hhTcshxyHdy7EOSz5SZ9fq1czSYBDjwu5fNnQ85p1sKTYstyT3T4HSZkCLQz lZNEgiV8oyf8KV+4cj3HO48lF9cGV2S/IHbSahqKWjNTisj9Hdr26pw09ihmkm2x7LHI MjhhQ2YZMiY1j97WVutbGt60PcTM4Ismr/IUE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Hk7oUIE7ZFprARYnbH3l3GG9dmHGMDDvncKUtSfykqnsoXi5tWGPIG9uKmZKL13plc Yuu0ZM8KFnyRSwSwcfsWXMEfOBaBcHBwYjrJSz7PHd01WIiHiEZUSkSnmw30NAq41gzi zqpU9J4e7HvAitum8yo9QRXGH/hL1ANoCplDc= Received: by 10.216.90.135 with SMTP id e7mr4074655wef.34.1271210584010; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:03:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.18] ([95.147.53.221]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z34sm5461335wbv.14.2010.04.13.19.03.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BC52256.1080907@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:03:02 +0100 From: George Prowse User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki References: <4BB77D99.3090105@allenjb.me.uk> <4BB78F75.50100@gmail.com> <20100410041041.GA8599@linux1> <20100410152509.GA25713@linux1> <4BC0BD98.90703@doublecreations.com> In-Reply-To: <4BC0BD98.90703@doublecreations.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4cf9df29-66dd-475a-91a3-e23d40ff4f35 X-Archives-Hash: af0cd1e52ca0ad955aba01b526b69e6e On 10/04/2010 19:04, Vincent Launchbury wrote: > On 04/10/10 11:25, William Hubbs wrote: >> Yes, it does. However, I would tend to question how practical their >> audio captcha is. Go to www.captcha.net and try the demo a few >> times and see how much luck you have solving audio captchas from it. > > Just for reference, I tried 15 different sound clips and got 5 right. 9 > were completely incomprehensible, 1 was fuzzy, and the other 5 were > quite clear. > > I'd agree that accessibility is important, but if a better solution > doesn't end up working out, ReCaptcha should at least provide access for > blind users, albeit inefficiently. > I was just at Microsoft's site for the hotfix download to fix the Advanced Local Procedure Call problem in Server 2008R2 and you need to enter a captcha to get the link sent to your email address. Just as I was about to enter it I thought I would listen to it just for the hell of it... I couldn't understand a thing, it sounded like two ferrets fighting infront of a de-tuned radio. Whatever system the wiki and the forums have we better make it sure it is the right one because there would be nothing worse than going to a site and finding you can't use it because of a rubbish captcha system.