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[–]ani625 513 points514 points ago

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Well, should I?

[–]its2amdamnit 119 points120 points ago

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"But officer, the internet told me to!"

[–]cyber_officer 34 points35 points ago

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This cannot be verified. I am going to have to bring you in.

[–]btitcomb 25 points26 points ago

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it was just a terrible understanding!

[–]dkitch 17 points18 points ago

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And that's how...

puts on sunglasses

...the culprit was captcha'd

[–]TheSlinky 4 points5 points ago

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YEEEEAAAAAAHH

[–]its2amdamnit 7 points8 points ago

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.... and make me cobbler?

[–]ginja_ninja 5 points6 points ago

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It is a fairly safe bet that he will experience consequences which have permanently changed from what they previously were.

[–]MananWho 215 points216 points ago

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No, you should not add her a friend. Then she'll know who raped her.

[–]Alias_ 46 points47 points ago

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you gotta make a fake account first, duh.

[–]blitz79 19 points20 points ago

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If she doesn't already suspect Glenn Beck that is.

[–]griffkins 4 points5 points ago

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I suspect that this young girl was a very young girl in 1990...

[–]reliq 1 point2 points ago

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Beck's a monster.

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[–]strayclown 11 points12 points ago*

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I know where this is going. Sir you are aware that cat is a gateway meat, yes? I know munching a stray kitten seems like a victimless feast now, but before long you'll be robbing people to score a stray penguin and it'll seem like no time until you try to mainline me.

END THIS INSANITY BEFORE IT BEGINSß

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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Hey man...

you got any penguin?

[–]thedaylights 1 point2 points ago

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yflWuv8n6E

Howard, it's Bateman, Patrick Bateman. You're my lawyer so I think you should know: I've killed a lot of people. Some escort girls in the apartment uptown uh, some homeless people maybe 5 or 10 um an NYU girl I met in Central Park. I left her in a parking lot behind some donut shop. I killed Bethany, my old girlfriend, with a nail gun, and some man uh some old faggot with a dog last week. I killed another girl with a chainsaw, I had to, she almost got away and uh someone else there I can't remember maybe a model, but she's dead too. And Paul Allen. I killed Paul Allen with an AXE in the FACE, his body is dissolving in a BATHTUB in Hell's Kitchen. I don't want to leave anything out here. I guess I've killed maybe 20 people, maybe 40. I have tapes of a lot of it, uh some of the girls have seen the tapes. I even, um... I ate some of their brains, and I tried to cook a little. Tonight I, uh, I just had to kill a LOT of people. And I'm not sure I'm gonna get away with it this time. I guess I'll uh, I mean, ah, I guess I'm a pretty uh, I mean I guess I'm a pretty sick guy. So, if you get back tomorrow, I may show up at Harry's Bar, so you know, keep your eyes open.

[–]CleverAllonym 77 points78 points ago

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it's not rape if you yell surprise first.

[–]1276284 17 points18 points ago

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SUPPLIES!!

[–]Glayden 36 points37 points ago

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protip: png's preferable to jpg as the image format when taking screenshots of pretty much anything except photos.

[–]bkd9 3 points4 points ago

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why?

[–]fraserm 38 points39 points ago

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Artifacts. Ancient ones.

[–]Gonzopolis 4 points5 points ago

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We want secrets! And they better be ancient!

[–]thundirbird 1 point2 points ago

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Artifacts, but mostly reddit likes being pedantic. Plus "PNG > JPG" = instant karma.

[–]Clbull 27 points28 points ago

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ಠ_ಠ

[–]ElzarTheChef 2 points3 points ago

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BAM

[–]nothowthatworks 39 points40 points ago

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I'm glad you've discovered the upside-down writing abilities of your keyboard. Did you know that there are also other methods by which you can type? For example, if you place your keyboard perpendicular to your monitor, keypresses will send sideways characters through your wired or wireless connection. This is why it is very important for wireless keyboards to be facing straight towards the monitor. If you don't, your writing might end up crooked like this!

[–]Mason11987 9 points10 points ago

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You're doing well with this. Keep it up :)

[–]hexr 3 points4 points ago

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Unfortunately my desk is uneven

[–]gissberg 80 points81 points ago

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here's the worst one I ever got.

link

[–]lolwutpear 29 points30 points ago

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This is my favorite.

[–]braveryonions 4 points5 points ago

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[–]RichardBachman 197 points198 points ago

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Did it work?

[–]slimjuvie[S] 300 points301 points ago

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It did!

[–][deleted] 255 points256 points ago

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It's because it only know one of the words, in this case the first one, it doesn't matter what you write on the second.

More info, http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore

[–]krisssy 54 points55 points ago*

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Yup. This particular word (and all words on this page/book in the captcha system) were probably scanned upside down. If everyone types the upside-down characters that you typed, the captcha OCR software will start to read upside-down characters on book pages as the upside down characters that you typed.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were not only upside-down characters in the captcha system, but also book page numbers, foreign characters, picture symbols, signatures and a whole lot more scanned images which the OCR can't read as latin text.

[–]Yserbius 20 points21 points ago

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Yea, that happens to me a lot. I used to just reload the captcha, now I just type something stupid in.

[–]accipitradea 14 points15 points ago

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[–][deleted] 8 points9 points ago

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Excuse me, you can't break a captcha with obscenities. Even without all the other checks and redundancies it has, even 4chans large captcha attacks are too small to actually do anything. They can easily be screened out.

[–]Benlarge1 7 points8 points ago

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4chans large captcha attacks are too small

lol

[–]sprucenoose 9 points10 points ago

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I've had a number of mathematical expressions and non-Roman characters appear on recaptcha. I just type whatever I want since I know it's obviously focusing on the other word. I feel bad since I know I'm not contributing to the OCR of the text, but it's way too much trouble to reproduce the character, particularly when I know no one else will go to the trouble and my submission will be lost as static.

It should have the option to report an impossible captcha, for these instances. Though many would probably be automatically flagged due to the variety of responses, many might get wrong interpretations. On the mathematical equations, they might be interpreted without the sub or super-texts, for example, and lead to confusing results.

[–]bdunderscore 1 point2 points ago

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Actually, if everyone does write something different in, that shows up very clearly in statistical analysis of the results and should (if they're doing it right) result in someone taking a look and fixing it. So keep on doing what you're doing :)

[–]lowbot 2 points3 points ago

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OCR isn't that clever. You can type these in all day upside-down and not change anything. By the time it gets on re-captcha, the system admits it can't read it and requests human assistance. Its not dynamically learning.

[–]Forbizzle 1 point2 points ago

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exactly, the OP just entered garbage into the system. If he'd typed the word right-side up it might have contributed to pattern recognition for upside down text.

[–]dreamersblues 1 point2 points ago

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Google should pay him to do that.

[–]untogethered 44 points45 points ago

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Wow, when did Google take over Recaptcha?

[–]bondagegirl 49 points50 points ago

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Eh, about a year ago.

[–]nkzuz 41 points42 points ago

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And they know where you log in since then. ಠ_ಠ

[–]nickbfromct 1 point2 points ago

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that is NUTS!

[–]lowbot 7 points8 points ago*

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I love it when people start their responses with "eh." I picture them surprised that they're on reddit and we somehow awoke them from a daydream while they were sitting in an especially comfy chair.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points ago

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when they decided they wanted to quit paying people to digitize books for them

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points ago

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tl;dr

Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct.

Relevant

[–]Smashure 22 points23 points ago

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How did the amank's cobbler taste? would you recommend eating one again?

[–]slimjuvie[S] 55 points56 points ago

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A+++ This cobbler left me extremely satisfied. Would eat again

[–]unrealious 8 points9 points ago

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Mmmmmmmhhh 'ɹǝ1qqoɔ

[–]drukaree 9 points10 points ago

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You're doing it wrong.

[–]upsidedownman 38 points39 points ago

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˙sɐɥɔʇdɐɔ ǝʞɐɯ oʇ ʎɐp ʎɯ sɐʍ ʇı ˙ʎɹɹos

[–]r4nf 9 points10 points ago

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How did you make that backwards 'I'?

[–]uncreative_name 12 points13 points ago

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Assuming the second word was the reCaptcha portion, yes.

Google has a sorting algorithm that tries to pick out bad submissions, because 4chan tried to make every reCaptcha word "penis" around the time of moot's Time Man of the Year thing.

[–]Jigsus 1 point2 points ago

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it just detects if the word repeats in more submissions

[–]davvblack 6 points7 points ago

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Every once in a while, two people submit penis for the same question. It has to have happened.

[–]vertagano 8 points9 points ago

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Especially when the word was penis.

[–]davvblack 3 points4 points ago

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Penis.

[–]unrealious 6 points7 points ago

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sıuǝd

[–]davvblack 20 points21 points ago

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Heh, it looks like they are docking.

[–]Spleen_Muncher 5 points6 points ago

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FOR FUCKS SAKE DONT LET EM TOUCH

ILL FUCKING KILL YOU

[–]Carambar 42 points43 points ago

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reCaptcha only need one of the two words to work. The other one is not checked. He could have written "amanks niggers" and it would have worked.

[–]starkinter 89 points90 points ago

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Yep, he could have written "amanks [anything]". But if he wanted, yeah, he could have written "amanks niggers"...

[–]Frothyleet 57 points58 points ago

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It's a reference to a coordinated 4chan attempt to teach the captcha bot that word for every recaptha image.

[–]SirChasm 12 points13 points ago

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How does this work? Everyone types in 'nigger' as the other word and it'll think that nigger is an acceptable entry for any word it displays?

[–]potatolicious 32 points33 points ago

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No, recaptcha collects the responses to the unknown words in order to digitize old books that are hard for OCR algorithms to scan.

So one day you may be reading the digital text of an old novel and run upon a passage of "niggers niggers niggers niggers".

[–]starkinter 6 points7 points ago

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It would be stupid to assume that recaptcha doesn't have some sort of mechanism in place to prevent this though.

[–]Frothyleet 2 points3 points ago

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The mechanism is, generally, that it shows the same word to many individuals. Likely in this instance though Google may be hand-checking any OCR results that are racial epithets.

[–]danjayh 11 points12 points ago

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only if one didn't know that 4chan had already injected 'penis' into the system rather successfully...

[–]starkinter 19 points20 points ago

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That article says that it was unsuccessful.

[–]iamtew 4 points5 points ago

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Update: I asked Ben Maurer, chief engineer of reCAPTCHA about this ‘penis flood‘ attack, Ben says that they’ve anticipated this type of attack and they have numerous protections that will keep the penises from penetrating the reCAPTCHA barrier.

:)

[–]ntou45 7 points8 points ago

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Fuck Amank, man.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Actually that's not completely true. ReCaptcha uses humans to decipher scanned texts. One word they know and test you on. The other they're tricking you into telling them what the word is.

Here's Google's explanation: http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore

Google's image labeler does the same thing and makes a game out of it.

[–]Ikn0w 91 points92 points ago

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[–]RipRapRob 61 points62 points ago

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4 legs, 5 feet.

[–]unrealious 28 points29 points ago

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8 legs, 5 feet, 2 tusks, 1 trunk, 1 penis (not pictured).

[–]RipRapRob 8 points9 points ago

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1 penis, two penis heads.

[–]King_Hippo 4 points5 points ago

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It's not a rhino, but I can't help but think of this song. My kids love it so much and it always puts a smile on my face.

[–]wizkid123 355 points356 points ago

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˙˙˙ɹǝʌǝןɔ ʎɹǝʌ

[–]asskickingjedi 368 points369 points ago

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You must be in Australia...... or a wizard.

[–]meean 105 points106 points ago

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[–]asskickingjedi 127 points128 points ago

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[–]Gimli_The_Dwarf 24 points25 points ago

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Do not anger technomages, for you are crunchy and good with milk...

[–]asskickingjedi 18 points19 points ago

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What about a TechnoViking?

[–]raspy_wilhelm_scream 25 points26 points ago

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Oh god, please don't upset TechnoViking.

He would flood our homelands with torrents of glowsticks and pacifiers before marauding through our vanquished fields, on a search for virgins, as the pounding techno beats dance to him.

[–]sillyvirus 39 points40 points ago

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appreantally you haven't met technoviking's brother Club kid cop

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points ago

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TASER RAVE

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

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Thunderbirds are go

[–]ZoopZeZoop 6 points7 points ago

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Hail, Mighty Thor!

[–]makemeking706 2 points3 points ago

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Whatever you do, don't tell Tracy Morgan. I hear he is very afraid of Wizards.

[–]ds2k7 2 points3 points ago

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He turned me into a whale! Is this awesome?(y/n)

[–]soylentgringo 8 points9 points ago

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[–]Rafe 13 points14 points ago

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[–]whoadave 22 points23 points ago

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YOU'RE A WIZARD, HARRY (watch 'til end)

EDIT: NSFW language

[–]joeldavis 7 points8 points ago

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you son of a bitch.

[–]papajohn56 5 points6 points ago

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YER THE GRAND WIZARD, HARRY

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points ago

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[–]pksquared 2 points3 points ago

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[–]dumptruckman 1 point2 points ago

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You gotta admit.. That song is pretty damn epic.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Dat necro sound!

[–]Press_Start 5 points6 points ago

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I am an Australian wizard so both my upside down attrs cancel each other out. So my typing is right side up for you guys.

[–]MananWho 6 points7 points ago

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Interestingly enough, being Australian and being a Wizard are mutually exclusive...

As is usually the case when being in one of the categories is physically impossible.

[–]InternetiquetteCop 12 points13 points ago

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Dude, you do know that Australia is now officially a real place, right?

[–]boss1000 12 points13 points ago

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No, he's acting like a wizard. The lines are written down beforehand.

[–]TheEngine 8 points9 points ago

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And he will learn the words! For there will be no scripts on the night!

[–]Carpeabnocto 7 points8 points ago

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You are aware that he's not actually a wizard, right?

[–]Matt872000 5 points6 points ago

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He's just a conjurer of cheap tricks...

[–]zyzzogeton 4 points5 points ago

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[–]asskickingjedi 2 points3 points ago

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He conjured these guys? He is awesome.

[–]ex_ample 4 points5 points ago

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It's a recaptcha, so only one of the words 'matters'. The other word they actually want to know what it says.

[–]Etab 3 points4 points ago

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He bought his keyboard from eBay.

[–]SarahC 3 points4 points ago

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˙̞̰̭ͫ͒͂˙̖͙̅̆ͨ͆͂͒̈́˙̟͔͙̬͎̬l̤̪̪͖̙̮̥͒̇ͨ͋͒ͬǝ̮̝ʌ͔̪͔͇͎̰̗̈̌ͧ̔ǝ̞͉̠̜ḽ̦̭̮͎͑ͦ̿̾̚ ̱̩͉̯̬̘͒̃̊̋ɹ́͐̆͌̇͒ǝ̥̣̜ɥ̜͌̾́̿̔̈ͤƃ̺͒ı̦̹̪͕̝̓̑̀ͭ̎ɥͤͩͭ̍̎ ̞͍͓ͮͣ̃ɐ̮ͯ̓ ̫o̬̺̻͙͙͑ͪͬͪʇ̯͉̺̹͔͈͎ ͎͍͖̰̗͒ʇ͚̪̫̯̃ͅı̞͉̮̝̿̋ ̻̻͎͙̍ͪ̓͑̉͌͌s͍͐ǝ̰̹̲ʞ͈̹̰̱͎ͥɐ̟̯͕̗ͥͅʇͦ̀ ̜̳̳͊̿ͯș͛ͬͣ̄ı̐̒ͪɥ̳͔͙͎͎̽ʇ̞̬̙̥͈ͯ͛̿ ̘̆ͪl̥̗̜̞͉̤̍ͫl̘̱̽͛ǝ̻ͯͧ͛̔̎̚ʍ̹̦̪̩ͪ̈ ͕̰̰̺͙̳̲̿̎̇̄͑'̥̟̝̽̍͒̃ɥ̲̙͙̘̘ͩ̏͛ɐͪ̈́̍ͬͮɥ̻̼̮̱̪̙̘̋ͮ́̚

[–]AtheismFTW 1 point2 points ago

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What if he's an Australian wizard? Does that just make him a normal American?

[–]eswarjj 1 point2 points ago

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oh, a lizard

[–]Theawesomething 1 point2 points ago

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[–]corneredpretzel 11 points12 points ago

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I don't get how re-captcha works. It's supposedly using humans to read a word that the automatic scanner can't recognize. So how can it know if you've inputted the correct word if it doesn't even know it itself?

[–]TheDunadan 10 points11 points ago

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That's why all re-captchas have two words. One of the words it knows and checks your input against what it has on file. The other word is one it doesn't know yet and learns based on your input. I'm not the best at explaining things clearly, hopefully that makes sense.

[–]bagofmarbles 15 points16 points ago

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There's a reason it has two words. One word is a word it knows and the other is a word it doesn't recognize. Then it distorts the two mildly so you wouldn't generally be able to tell the difference.

That's what I remember reading anyway.

[–]Esteth 2 points3 points ago

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Re-Captcha will show the same word to many people before assuming that the word is correct. They might also use the input to guide the OCR. In the same way that when you look at somebody's handwriting, you might go "wtf does that even say", but once they tell you, you can see it for yourself.

[–]GuruMeditation 4 points5 points ago

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Finally going to get some use out of that 180° rotating monitor.

[–]the_green_man 3 points4 points ago

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I always wondered what the point of the 180° mode was. Bats?

The 90° I get. That is to play old vertically scrolling arcade shooters in MAME.

[–]Smails 11 points12 points ago

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Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch!

[–]V2Blast 1 point2 points ago

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Very small rocks!

[–]cdrrck24 45 points46 points ago

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the C is capital.

[–]dghughes 7 points8 points ago

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Bully!

[–]slugonamission 21 points22 points ago

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[–]dghughes 22 points23 points ago

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I think captchas of the future will be "how do rainbows make you feel" [ENTER FEELINGS HERE]

[–]kindall 42 points43 points ago

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You’re in the desert, you see a tortoise lying on its back, struggling, and you’re not helping—why is that?

[–]billyblaze 23 points24 points ago

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What do you mean, I'm not helping?!

[–]zotquix 8 points9 points ago

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I mean you're not helping. Why is that?

[–]smart_ass 3 points4 points ago

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Do you make up these questions, r do they write 'em down for you?

[–]zotquix 4 points5 points ago

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Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother.

[–]smart_ass 2 points3 points ago

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Let me tell you about my mother.

[–]smart_ass 3 points4 points ago

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A tortoise? What's that?

[–]you_do_realize 10 points11 points ago

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You know what a turtle is? Same thing.

[–]unrealious 1 point2 points ago

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(π) uɐɹ

[–]watermark0n 10 points11 points ago

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Captcha is becoming almost impossible for even humans to interpret.

[–]TechMadFreakUK 3 points4 points ago*

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Can't agree more.

The ones on the PHP forums when you click to make a search are almost impossible to get right. Captchas are becoming harder to solve in response to new software developed to circumvent them and as a result our browsing experience is affected because we can't get past the damn things.

[–]mqduck 1 point2 points ago

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Actually, you never seem to see the impossibly hard ones anymore. The captchas that Yahoo! Games used to use fooled me at least two thirds of the time.

[–]artyen 37 points38 points ago

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Well played, good sir. Well played.

[–]Good_Sir 57 points58 points ago

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Thanks!

[–]fondofMILFs 6 points7 points ago

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Redditor for eight years. Nice.

[–]sparcnut 4 points5 points ago

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s/years/months/

[–]shillbert 1 point2 points ago

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%s/years/months/g, just to make sure we get all of them

[–]IConrad 2 points3 points ago

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Woot! Now I've only got 24 months left on my mortgage!!

Wait. Shit. My amortization schedule... !!! (O)_(O)

[–]Sir_Overuse 2 points3 points ago

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There it is again!

[–]tworunningcards 7 points8 points ago

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[–]trickyd 7 points8 points ago

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But you used an apostrophe instead of a comma.

[–][deleted] 19 points20 points ago

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Did anyone else click "Continue"?

[–]CleverAllonym 6 points7 points ago

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I did. Yeah.

[–]slimjuvie[S] 6 points7 points ago

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Is this actually a case for posting text in jpg format??

[–]CarpeNivem 15 points16 points ago

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You bite your tongue.

[–]EastYork 4 points5 points ago

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I was in so much suspense, I actually clicked 'continue'

[–]Radoman 11 points12 points ago

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That's pretty good. I laughed.

Seems almost like bot-type behavior to be able to copy it that exact. I'm surprised it took it.

Next up:

snoıɔopıןɐıdxǝɔıʇsıןıbɐɹɟıןɐɔɹǝdns

[–]kobescoresagain 2 points3 points ago

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Oh the is easy:

snoıɔopıןɐıdxǝɔıʇsıןıbɐɹɟıןɐɔɹǝdns

[–]Ekkosangen 1 point2 points ago

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¿snoıɔopıןɐıdxǝɔıʇsıןıbɐɹɟıןɐɔɹǝdns

[–]Already__Taken 14 points15 points ago

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How did you make that upside down d?

[–]RipRapRob 43 points44 points ago

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Rotate your keyboard 180 degrees, look for something that looks like a d.

[–]bcstoner 59 points60 points ago

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You have a lower case keyboard?

[–]RipRapRob 11 points12 points ago

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No, but look what happens to your (uppercase) P-key when you turn your keyboard 180 degrees. I transforms into a lowercase .... well, you'll just have to see for yourself.

(I can't believe how many upvotes you got for that :o)

[–]TangLikeAnAstronaut 4 points5 points ago

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I have a French keyboard. It's kinda useless for anything but touch typing.

[–]Lambsauce 12 points13 points ago

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Oh I got this! q

[–]mkosmo 2 points3 points ago

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That was way too witty for your own damn good.

[–]aksarit 2 points3 points ago

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bɹo˙ʇxǝʇdıןɟ

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points ago

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Yeah I got this the other day.

[–]jimmyb84 2 points3 points ago

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There's an occupation I never thought to consider

[–]fordays 15 points16 points ago

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[–]starkinter 57 points58 points ago

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What an ugly Chrome theme!

[–]BrettWilcox 14 points15 points ago

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I didn't even know they made them that bad.

[–]thegurucam 2 points3 points ago

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solid LOL here

[–]VapidStatementsAhead 1 point2 points ago

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plasmodic LOL here

[–]missyo02 4 points5 points ago

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your l is still upright

[–]ExplainsJokesWrong 16 points17 points ago

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This is funny because the captcha the user is typing into explicitly says "stop spam. read books." The OP does not heed this advice and instead types a bunch of spammy jibberish into the text box . Since he directly contradicts what the captcha tells him to do (by the way captcha is a robot hired by craigslist to murder spammers and force children to read books, as the text implies) he titles the post "Your move, captcha...", expecting said robot to respond to him with a swift kick in the nads or some other violently awesome maneuver.

[–]mrhames 2 points3 points ago

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I hate captcha.

[–]govatent 2 points3 points ago

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Nothing will ever beat the great Rapidshare cats and dog captcha.

[–]Anthaas 2 points3 points ago

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I couldn't help but notice the L is different.

[–]origamiguy 2 points3 points ago

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[–]cagdas 2 points3 points ago

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bacon arlessi

[–]Measure76 2 points3 points ago

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We should all agree to type in 'fuck' when a upside down word, or unintelligible symbol comes up. Hilarity will ensue.

[–]Initialcap 2 points3 points ago

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http://uppercaseit.com conquering upside down captchas since 2009.

[–]minormiracle 2 points3 points ago

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this is easy, but this?

[–]khafra 4 points5 points ago

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I once went to the trouble of finding, copying, and pasting a θ for a recaptcha. I hope they're happy.

[–]lurkerr 1 point2 points ago

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this is the funniest. tell me MIME people, how do i do that too?

[–]sivadwnitsuj 2 points3 points ago

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ןɯʇɥ˙sɹǝʇʇǝןuʍopǝpısdn/ʎɐןd/ɯoɔ˙sǝɹıʍuǝʌǝs˙ʍʍʍ//:dʇʇɥ

[–]olddirtybastard 1 point2 points ago

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how did you get that upside down u?

[–]almostfunctional 1 point2 points ago

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I laughed not going to lie ;o)

[–]danxmason 1 point2 points ago

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Well played.. did it actually work when you hit submit?

[–]jfallon126 1 point2 points ago

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Didn't someone realize that it would be ten times easier and more effective to just have a simple random picture pop up and have the user describe it? And didn't they propose it as a captcha replacement? So if it's a bunny you'd write "bunny" or "rabbit", etc. Or did the spammers find a way to game that too?

[–]alphabethos 1 point2 points ago

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stop spam. read books.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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I think that "amanks HORSECOCK" would have worked...

[–]veritablequandary 1 point2 points ago

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How did you get that backwards d?

[–]articia 1 point2 points ago

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captcha fails have their own tumblr....just wish it was updated more often.

the first one still gets me every time

[–]clearlight 1 point2 points ago

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Note: The 'refresh' button on recaptcha works well to provide a new image without page reload. Click till there's one easy to read.

[–]shdwflyr 1 point2 points ago

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I want to know what happened next. I think you were very close to breaking the internet.