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* [gentoo-dev] Re: [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki
  @ 2010-04-11  9:52 99%                       ` Duncan
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From: Duncan @ 2010-04-11  9:52 UTC (permalink / raw
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René 'Necoro' Neumann posted on Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:26:18 +0200 as
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> Both points also apply to the audio captcha, as you have to a)
> understand the word and b) from this infer the correct writing. Which
> becomes even more difficult as English is a language, where the
> spelling/pronounciation-relation is quite loose (plus you have
> British/American spelling varieties).

Good point.

Captchas are a bit like radiation or chemo treatments that try to kill the 
cancer (spam) without killing the human, aren't they?  If the anti-cancer/
anti-spam treatment's to be worthwhile at all, it seems one must accept 
that it be potent enough that it will kill some of the good guys in the 
process.

-- 
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman




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2010-04-03 13:40     ` Dror Levin
2010-04-03 17:40       ` AllenJB
2010-04-03 18:56         ` George Prowse
2010-04-04 23:19           ` Ben de Groot
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2010-04-10 15:40                   ` George Prowse
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2010-04-10 18:26                         ` René 'Necoro' Neumann
2010-04-11  9:52 99%                       ` Duncan

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