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They could just ask to decypher one of those parking signs as well: http://www.polisassist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/confus...
What the hell is that thing?! Is that normal in the US?
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> So even if we have the speed and bandwidth, Apple insists you can only update on Wifi. I hit that with Android once too. Had unlimited mobile data, and was in a pub with broken wifi, so it wouldn't let me do the update at all.
Yes, even Android has this issue. It's definitely a legacy carried over from the US - data is still expensive there and carriers probably discourage phone makers from sending large data over their network.
If someone from HCaptcha is reading this, can you please increase the size/highlight the words that we need to see. For example, make the word(s) 'Car', 'Fire Hydrant' bigger in the sentence
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Same in the UK and most commonwealth countries I think
There are pelicans too. Because pelicans have bright yellow flashing balls and ...
Zebra has striped road markings, with flashing yellow marker lights so that vehicle users have plenty of advance warning of the crossing. Pedestrians have right of way on these crossings at all times, other road users should slow until they can discern whether any pedestrians are trying to cross and if necessary stop.
Pelican is an older design, though still used in new crossings in London and some other places. The pedestrians controls are in a box at hand height but the signals are on the far side of the crossing. These trigger road signals in a pattern with an extra flashing amber phase meaning "road vehicles may cross only if there are no pedestrians using the crossing".
Puffin is a replacement for Pelican with two innovations. Firstly the pedestrian signals are with your controls on your side of the road and they're placed so that to face towards them you're also facing oncoming traffic (this will most often be the right side of the crossing since the British drive on the left, but not in every situation). Secondly there is no flashing amber phase, the Puffin has infrared detectors so it can discern whether pedestrians are still on the crossing and extend the red phase slightly if they are.
The Toucan and Pegasus mentioned elsewhere are variants of Puffin rather than Pelican.
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It would be interesting to see why someone would downvote it. Since when are captchas a bigger issue than spam bots and fraud users? and yes i also think that those tasks are actually helping our society. Adding models for self driving cars, for security/emergency breaking systems etc. So whats the issue?
I did not downvote you, but I assume it's because you're wrong. Depending on your browser settings, addons, etc. CAPTCHAs may be nearly impossible to solve. That is to say, you ARE solving them correctly, but Google thinks otherwise, and punishes you with ever more pictures that fade in and out ever more slowly. So the fact that they're easy to solve or work well for you means nothing. Other people are having real is…
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That the laptop shuts down when below minimum operating temperature is a Good Thing™. For example, the battery performance changes greatly (reduced capacity and discharge rate), and the battery may even take permanent damage when charged at low temperatures. Also it is a very bad idea to bring a laptop indoors from the cold and immediately turning it on. Condensing water can cause short circuits (people who wear glas…
I am in Montreal, Everyday I got to school during winters I had to subject my laptop to -20c for 45min before coming back to a warm indoor. It's not like we have any alternatives. It's true for our phones as well. OP's points still stands. I would add that if your product can't stand this constant hot-cold cycle, don't get in the Canadian market. If you are selling here, we can assume you have accepted the reality of…
To add some balance, they should include "identify all the roundabouts" so that folk from the USA are equally disadvantaged.
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Same in the UK and most commonwealth countries I think
In Ireland we have zebra and pelican crossings. The general term used in the driver training literature is "pedestrian crossing." Most people would recognise the term "crosswalk" from American media, though.
We have pedestrian crossings, not cross walks.
Fire hydrants around here are inside the ground, or in a riser if inside a building.
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No, the owner of the site is getting a free service from Google to try and prevent bots from using their site. If you don't like CAPTCHAs then your problem is with the site owner, not google.
Google's CAPTCHA is specifically engineered to gaslight you though. Often it will ask you to identify fire hydrants or bicycles, and despite selecting all of them (and it being easy to recognise them as they are fairly unique objects), it will still give you an error, and give you a new set of images to try again. If it is feeling really malevolent it will even give you a third round. Hell, it happens regularly on th…