The Growlery - Why yes, my sense of humour remains at the 12-year-old level, why do you ask?

11:33 am October 8th, 2008




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	Why yes, my sense of humour remains at the 12-year-old level, why do you ask?
	CAPTCHA programs of the sort seen below are supposed to be completely automated, yes? It's an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart ... But given that anyone could need to enter a response on virtually any site, that means there is no way to monitor or censor them, right? Tags: weird

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	From: curtana	Date: October 8th, 2008 03:42 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Clearly this computer has passed the test.

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	From: mrzero	Date: October 8th, 2008 03:51 pm (UTC)		(Link)

somewhere out there is a nerd who slips those in every now and again.
I'm sure of it.

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	From: swestrup	Date: October 8th, 2008 03:54 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I don't know if you're familiar with Nethack, but its a text-based computer RPG that uses letters to stand in for classes of animals.

One friend of mine once submitted a bug report because a room full of animals lined up to spell 'Fuck' at him.

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	From: q_pheevr	Date: October 8th, 2008 11:01 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Now, if I saw that, I wouldn't be worrying about taboo words; I'd be worrying about whether I had a lizard corpse on me, and whether the unicorn was hostile.

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