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I, Robot

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I just posted an ad on craigslist, but to prove I'm not a web bot or automated script, I was asked to type in the word the appears above.

WTF?!

Apparently it says "MANUS", although the only reason I know this is because there was an option to listen to the word read aloud, presumably for the visually impaired.

These reverse Turing tests are called CAPTCHAs. Last year, my brother Andy posted about his own problem passing one of them.

Maybe robotism runs in families?

Posted by Mark on April 6, 2006 2:01 PM |

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dude - that thing is incomprehensible... there is no way that says manus. i feel the odds of a bot randomly generating the word manus and thus defeating the whole purpose of the thing are way higher than a real person somehow figuring out that says manus.

Posted by: aleem | April 6, 2006 6:04 PM

It says "CBS" doesn't it?

Posted by: Mark Netter | April 18, 2006 2:23 PM

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