Showing posts with label human. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human. Show all posts

Friday, March 6, 2009

Pepsi or Coke.....

Yeah, I don't like Coke but I also don't like Pepsi. Now if it's available to drink and there's nothing else I'd rather have, like a barqs rootbeer, then give me a coke or pepsi. Why do I have to like one or the other though? Why is it that when I said that I don't like coke, the first thing people said was "Oh, so you're a Pepsi guy?" Why is it that we as people must be categories and classified into every little thing imaginable, we can't just be people. If somebody was mad at me let's say during a debate and he said "We'll of course you don't know what you're talking about, you like Pepsi." or "We'll of course you don't know what's actually funny you like Invader Zim" I'd say it's no worse than them just flat out calling me stupid, dumb, retarded, an idiot, a moron, a buffoon, or ANY other derogatory statement. Of course people want to be around those that are like themselves, it's only a reflection on the true nature of man and just how self absorbed we all really all. I know I'm guilty of this, I hate on Mac users, people with chrome 22s' on their cars, liberals, jocks, just look at my other posts and you'll see. Yeah, I could say I do this for comedy but that still doesn't cover the fact that I mean what I write and it's a statement on how I feel. Still though, I will respect peoples legal rights to do the things they do, and the things they love. After all, that is what we all are, people, not Coke or Pepsi, but people.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Verify this ancient language for access.


DISCLAIMER: If you don't want to hear every little thing I have to say and just wanna skip straight to the message of this wall of text, skip to the bottom.

Don't you hate CAPTCHA, which are those annoying little word verification images that show you an image that's really illegible and forces you to write what is asks for in a text field? I hate them. It's a good idea when you think about it, but it just doesn't do as well in the application. The main purpose is so these things called bots don't spam websites with false accounts and posts, CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. To put it simply it's so websites can ensure that only real people are creating accounts and posting and doing whatever else requires this form of verification. It's just crappy that some of the images have to be so warped that you can hardly read them. The only real reason I can think of them doing that is because some loser with no life may have actually took the time to make a program that finds the verification image when it goes to that page and uses some sort of algorithm or identification device which examines the image and inputs what letters and numbers it's able to read. Basically, the program acts as if it's a person looking at the image and once it figures out what it is it inputs it so as to complete the verification process. That's the only reason I can fathom for them making those types of images. Here's something else to think about, sometimes if you are unable to do the image it lets you do a simpler one. What's the point of the hard to read one if they have an easy to read one? I'm not even going to bother to get into that but here's what I really wanted to say. Sometimes if you can't read the image it lets you listen to something, and then type in what you heard. Those are often very hard to understand, so it's just as difficult and irritating as the image based ones. What if you are def and can't do the image one? That must really suck. Well, I haven't done this in a while so I'm gonna go nostalgic on my ass and sum this all up with a summarization (LOL redundancy).

Spoiler Alert! - For those you didn't get the message of that post and don't want it revealed to them point blank it's going to be stated next.

This Posts Message: CAPTCHA Verification images are tedious and annoying, end of story.