Captured By CAPTCHA
If you’ve ever registered for a site or an email list, you’re surely familiar with those frustrating anti-spam CAPTCHA forms. CAPTCHA, which is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” generally does a really good job of blocking … me:
Captured By CAPTCHA (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
The CAPTCHA form used on their site
Quickly conquered computerized blight,
Because bots can’t decode
Any image it showed.
But then neither can I—there’s my plight
(You can find more of my technology humor here.) [tags]CAPTCHA, Internet Humor, Technology Satire, Site Registration, Forms, Bot Humor, Spam Humor[/tags]
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Very funny cause it’s true!
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Ha ha! Well said Madeleine!
Sometimes, I think the bots have a better chance of figuring out the captchas than us humans!