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Is the Reliant Robin not a car then?
It's not a car. Legally anyway.
Same goes for a G-Wiz, which is a quadracycle - the same category as an all terrain quad bike.
CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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I actually did that once. The rest of the security practices were so ridiculous, I set all five security questions to the same nonsensical answer. I had to go through a security flow with a support rep. at some later point, and he's asked me all five questions, each time I'm giving him exactly the same answer, and by the fifth thinking, "Really? Do you think I somehow won't get this one?"
Sounds like a well trained representative?
Ha! That's a fair point. I'll award you with another security question story, then:
I called into support. This was not my first call, but it was the first call where I was prompted for the security question by the rep. And, there was no mention that it was a security question, just "So deathanatos, what color is the dress?" (Not the actual question, of course.) I was like, "uh, what?" at which point the rep. mentioned it was the security question. I'm already logged in, so I dug around the account settings, and found that under there, the security questions and their answers were visible, so I rattled off the answer at that point.
That particular method of support contact required you to log in, too, so anyone in contact could "answer" the security question by just looking it up…
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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Trick question? The bullet typically comes out the end, the cartridge/casing comes out the side/top.
Moreover there are guns for lefties where the casing is ejected from the other side...
Ooh, do you know of any? I had a look, to fact check, but all I found was advice for lefties on using 'right-handed' guns. Not doubting, just curious.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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These are hard sometimes for me, from UK: What counts as a truck? Is a fire engine a truck, is a 4x4 (like a Landrover), a HGV (ie lorry), a box van? What counts as a bus? Is a coach a bus, a minibus? What counts as a bicycle? Is a pedal-and-pop (a pedal cycle with an engine)? The image shows part of a headset that might be on a bike, is that enough to call it a bike, might be a lightweight motorbike? Is a hovercraft…
Are these examples of captchas that have failed you or just questions that come to mind? I ask myself the same sorts of questions but then haven't actually had captchas fail me for it much.
Mostly real examples, FWIW.
I use Brave with Tor quite often, every other site is behind a captcha.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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These are hard sometimes for me, from UK: What counts as a truck? Is a fire engine a truck, is a 4x4 (like a Landrover), a HGV (ie lorry), a box van? What counts as a bus? Is a coach a bus, a minibus? What counts as a bicycle? Is a pedal-and-pop (a pedal cycle with an engine)? The image shows part of a headset that might be on a bike, is that enough to call it a bike, might be a lightweight motorbike? Is a hovercraft…
Those are all equally hard for me as an American (except for the helicopter one, I'd be pretty sure that was put there to trick AIs).
Sometimes the turbine housing, or a section of a stabiliser aerofoil looks quite aeroplaney. But yes, I assume I've resolved that one correctly -- just getting in to the flow of my rant!
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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I was genuinely stumped by this one: https://ibb.co/1bjZyxm Do any of the tiles count? If so, do the tiles that barely have just the edge of a "tire" count? Who knows?
I'd skip this, because it would tell the AI that this "bicycle looking thing" is not a bicycle. If they wanted a cycle lane, they'd ask for that. Then again, if they wanted a zebra crossing they wouldn't ask for a crosswalk, but here we are...
I wouldn't skip it because I find the idea of Google cars braking to avoid crashing into a pictogram hilarious.
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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#689To add some balance, they should include "identify all the roundabouts" so that folk from the USA are equally disadvantaged.
For Americans - "identify cyclist driving through the downtown"
As an American cyclist who frequented SF… this gave me a good chuckle, thank you.
True story: Had a driver who swerved from the left-hand lane, across a lane of traffic, across the bike lane, and into a drive way, after I yelled at him (while rapidly braking) tell me "I didn't see you." I've got 3 reflectors (from his PoV), I'm wearing long sleeves reflective highlighter safety orange, and it's daylight…
Re: CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (2017)
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>>There's a big question on whether these approaches work well for onboarding the next billion users to the internet That isn't what captchas are used for. There are two side to every captcha, what the website is using them for and what the captcha creator or provider is using them for. In google's case, captchas are being used to hone AI. So it is no wonder that items like hydrants, store fronts, crosswalks and traf…
> Given that the first market for AI-driven vehicles seems to be western nations, specifically the US, it is no surprise that google gears its captcha program to objects from that area. This is a roundabout way of just saying the most obvious explanation (sites with US-centric captchas are presumably mostly interested in US users anyway) but wrapped up in an unnecessary conspiracy layer to add creepiness.
What conspiracy? Google has been rather open about this for years.