Verily I say unto thee, that Doug Mentohl spake thusly:
> This is the first step in the Architect enslaving us to the Matrix ..
>
> "A weapon used to fight spammers is now helping university
> researchers preserve old books and manuscripts"
>
> 'The test, known as a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Turing Test To
> Tell Computers and Humans Apart), was originally designed at Carnegie
> Mellon to help to keep out automated programs known as "bots."'
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7023627.stm
Actually, this is a brilliant idea. Get the whole world to proof-read
OCRed old books using CAPTCHAs (or reCAPTCHAs, as they're calling them).
It certainly beats Microsoft's vision of the future of CAPTCHAs, which
was to just blatantly steal somebody else's idea:
http://www.seopher.com/articles/microsoft_stole_kittenauth_renamed_it_and_claimed_it_as_their_own_
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K.
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