I ran into this CAPTCHA test today:

Are you serious? What the heck does that say ... paledolurt? Paledolum? Seriously? This is how the Internet has progressed??? Frustrating users to no end with stupid tests to prove they're human??? Seriously??????????????

Email and the lack of authenticated SMTP also pisses me off. I wake up in the morning, download 200 emails to my personal email account and find 190 are spam that are picked up by my filter, 4 are emails with a big image (thus defeating the spam filter), and 2 are in a foreign language.

The lack of centralized identity solution also pisses me off (although OpenId is very promising). Instead of me having to fill out my title, first name, last name, email address, home phone, work phone, street, city, state, country, and zip code every time I want to register/buy something, can't i just give the new registration form a URL that tells you who I am?

Posted by roy on November 28, 2006 at 12:15 AM in Ramblings | 8 Comments

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Comment posted on November 28th, 2006 at 02:55 PM
The newspaper blog that I post in had the same question. Why the hell do those verification codes need to be so hard to read? Does that somehow reduce the chances of the person being the actual owner of the computer he/she is posting from? They have verification code in the newspaper blog, but they are as clear as a bell and you can type them in all caps or all lower case, whichever you want.
Comment posted on November 28th, 2006 at 03:20 PM
They're SUPPOSED to distinguish between people and humans, but i'm pretty sure humans fail that test a lot higher than they should... boo!
Comment posted on November 28th, 2006 at 03:25 PM
"People and humans." Did you mean machines and humans? That would make some sense I guess.
Comment posted on November 28th, 2006 at 12:19 PM
great rant haha.. that captcha is awesome!
Comment posted on November 28th, 2006 at 08:10 AM
happy bday retard.
Comment posted on November 28th, 2006 at 09:56 AM
i believe the correct slang is now "r-tard" ;D

thanks
Comment posted on November 28th, 2006 at 11:31 AM
ARTARD...
Comment posted on November 28th, 2006 at 03:19 PM
<mumbles> i'm not a artard....