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Re: PipeDot Captcha win

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> On 2014-02-23, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>> I just checked it out, in amazement that in all the furor about FuckBeta
>> I hadn't heard about this one.  And I'm impressed!  Visually it's nicer
>> than Soylent, and the idea of a code rewrite that preserves slashcode
>> functionality but builds it on PHP and CSS is appealing.
>
> Follow up (to my own post, boo):
>
> Just signed up for an account at PipeDot and instead of a captcha they
> give you a trig question.  Awesome!  And beautifully rendered, too -
> maybe some sort of TeX running behind the scenes?  I'm not familiar with
> this captcha alternative.
>
> I also have forgotten my trig, apparently :(
>
> sin^2 ? + cos^2 ? = ???
> Is the answer "one"?  Hell, this site is tough!  (this, too, is a test
> of Unicode and vim digraphs, ha ha).
>

Yes, the answer is 1.

I had to think about it too. :)

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Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-22 20:42 +0000
  Re: Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-22 16:29 +0000
  Re: Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-22 15:51 -0800
    Re: Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-23 01:24 +0000
      Re: Slash, Soy, Technocrat: two weeks later RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-23 09:14 +0000
        PipeDot Captcha win RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-23 15:26 +0000
  Re: PipeDot Captcha win wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-23 10:30 +0000

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