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Facebook CAPTCHA Adds Interesting Commentary on Friends

Published on August 13, 2010 in Baby Boomer. 1 Comment Tags: , .

A while ago, I wrote how even Facebook thought I was annoying.

I’m still trying to build up my circle of fake friends for a Facebook account, but since Facebook thinks I’m a troll or a spammer, I’m required to fill out the damned CAPTCHA for every friend request I make.

As I observed, the CAPTCHAs attached to females seemed to be a running commentary. But since Facebook suspended my friending activities for a while, I couldn’t check out to see if the same was true for guys.

I forgot about it until now.
Herewith are my findings: Somebody at Facebook is attaching CAPTCHA comments based on facial recognition or profile information.

The Terminus


Full Breezes


Reporter Extruded


Daffiest At


Two Furries


His Shambled


The Depleted


Nursery Rapkin


Has Arrogant


Nibbles Be

I guess it’s no wonder I can’t find any friends – I guess they think I’m annoying too.

Whereas I Do Hereby Give My Support to Cynical Bastard

Published on February 26, 2009 in Blogging, Education, Research and Technology. 4 Comments Tags: , , .


Since he brought it up, and I agree 100%, here is my support for monitoring volcanoes. But most importantly, please, please, please look at your blog and consider this:

  • I gave up the fight against word verification a long time ago. I still hate it, but have come to accept that that is a losing argument.
  • I thought I was starting to win the war against comment moderation, but it looks like the tide has turned against me on that one. I keep coming across more and more blogs that do that.
  • I haven’t complained too much here about people truncating their posts in their feeds in Google Reader, thereby FORCING us to click on their blog to read the whole post.
  • However, there is one thing I’m going to bitch and whine about a lot. I keep coming across blogs that have very light colored text on very light colored background.

Word Verification is Google’s way of trying to prevent comment spam. You’ve seen it, the squiggly letters? It’s called CAPTCHA, and CAPTCHA doesn’t work – it’s ineffective to stop spammers. So Cynical Bastard, don’t give up, get re-pissed.

Comment moderation doesn’t bother me that much, and I think I have only been blocked one time, and that was recently when I explained to Jane Fonda that reprinting an entire New York Times column, including mug shot and byline of reporter, wasn’t good blog etiquette. It didn’t get published.

Truncated feeds really bug me.  I have one blogger that is one of my favs that truncates, but that’s OK, I’ll do it for her. But any other truncated feed usually gets deleted pretty quick.

And then there is blog design. I suck at it, but I know crap when I see it.  The best contrast for type is blue/yellow, but it makes for some ugly page designs. Next best, is black type on white background, but that’s so boring.  But there is a formula for checking the contrast between text and background.

60 out.

Fun With CAPTCHA; Including the Most Difficult CAPTCHA Image In the Universe.

Published on November 12, 2008 in Baby Boomer. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .


Google ™ loves CAPTCHA, which puzzles me because Gmail Beta ™ does a fantastic job of sorting out Spam.  I don’t understand why it won’t do as great a job on blog comments. Google(tm) runs Blogger(tm)/Blogspot(tm) which hosts a whole caboodle of blogs. But they insist ™ that before I ™ can comment, I have to decipher a mumbo-jumbo of letters and numbers.

I hate CAPTCHA and I don’t even care if they are deciphering and digitizing the Great Books of The World via CAPTCHA.

The toughest CAPTCHA is courtesy of Dvice.com.

Editor: Peter Pachal
editor@dvice.com

doesn’t respond to my complaints and therefore shouldn’t even have comments enabled because he is too busy spinning his propeller beanie. Nyeah.

What’s really odd is that if I look at his blog using FireFox, the preferred browser for propeller heads, the CSS doesn’t fully render the page. And they are giggling and saying, the dipwad has ____________ turned on/off and doesn’t even know it.
Well, Nvidia-lovers, I don’t have anything turned on/off that effects/affects (pick correct usage) any other blogs I visit. nyeah.
IE/Safari:

FireFox:

The toughest CAPTCHA in the local universe!   Note: There is NO IMAGE. Tough, tough CAPTCHA.

I also like to have Fun with CAPTCHA ™. When a CAPTCHA shows up, I like to make up words and definitions. I’ve noticed that Google ™ CAPTCHA is now more “word-like.”

Word Verifier: SWasi; n. the act of walking after visiting Tower of Terrier. eg: “When I came off the Tower of Terrier, I was all swaysi.

Turns out the joke is on the people who use CAPTCHA to prevent spam. The spammers won. Quite a while ago.

Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail’s CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes.