Well, in any case, my current solution is to fire up Fusion and run Firefox in the operating system of choice, which for me is Vinux. WebVisum is a great extension that automatically solves 'most of these things. It will be neat to use it in Mac OS when Firefox accessibility gets off the ground.
Teresa I'm a pantheist; I worship Pan. On Feb 17, 2012, at 6:43 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > It's to fool voice recognition algorithms. The purpose of a captcha is to try > and prove you're a real human being and not a hacker's script so they come up > with puzzles that are difficult for computers to solve. One of those puzzles > is the garbled audio with multiple conversations. Hard for most people but > also nearly impossible for an algorithm. Not sure how else they could prevent > bad folks from making a lot of fake accounts and such to send out more spam. > > CB > > On 2/17/12 12:33 AM, Jessica wrote: >> They probably haven't; if they'd at least get rid of the jibberish in the >> background, those things might be a little easier to understand. I've never >> understood why that was there in the first place, sense it's nothing but >> pretty much someone talking backwards, if even that. >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adie" <[email protected]> >> To: "MacVisionaries" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:41 AM >> Subject: Re: Captcha Solving on the Mac >> >> >> Hi all >> >> It's not just people with hearing impairments who have trouble with >> these audio captchas. They are, generally speaking, of appalling >> quality. The ones which contain a sentence, as opposed to unrelated >> words and numbers, are a little easier, but really, how can any site >> think they are fit for purpose? >> >> I usually try to record what the thing says, but it often is >> completely indecipherable. Sometimes I swear I have it right and it >> still rejects it. >> >> The site which most annoys me is the UK govt e-petitions site, which >> has these for all signatories. My MP even complained to the Cabinet >> Office and we just got the brush off. Have any of these people ever >> tried one of these themselves? I think not. >> >> It is particularly offensive when they then tell you it's to test if >> you are human. Presumably they thk we are not. >> >> Anyway, even I sometimes get fed up of complaining about them to site >> owners, but I suppose we just have to keep doing it until they stop >> using them. There are other more accessible solutions to the humanity >> thing. >> >> Grump >> >> Adrienne >> On Feb 14, 8:28 pm, Mark BurningHawk Baxter <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Google, FB, Twitter, all have audio captchas. for people with hearing loss, >>> these prove abysmally challenging, but even I have managed to solve them. >>> They're not at all easy, and I dread the thought of trying to re-sign-up >>> for Craigslist because of this. >>> >>> • Mark BurningHawk Baxter >>> • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 >>> • MSN: [email protected] >>> • My home page: >>> •http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
