Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: PipeDot Captcha win Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:26:59 +0000 (UTC) Organization: solani.org Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: solani.org 1393169219 30794 eJwNx8ERACEIA8CW5CBhLAfQ9F+Ct7+F0zgZBAOCxLBVu1B9/oX73YnDbHwuW3Mhi2Zq3C71ACKaEWU= (23 Feb 2014 15:26:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:26:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBwDAEBMCVUP90nCD2HyF3+KjscIKOxeZkmAx4LBNLoA5DtiHr3mU3akp/nUTz2gMS2xEM Cancel-Lock: sha1:qQ0NdmRZLYgKXCsunA1j1E+4tAs= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYEBwDAEBMCV8DzGCWn2H6F3ASo3nUGPF0/bfFbOndb5lL7wA5Veo0gHrlVZcbCSg/wBDjMQLA== Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:787 On 2014-02-23, RS Wood 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 θ + cos^2 θ = ??? Is the answer "one"? Hell, this site is tough! (this, too, is a test of Unicode and vim digraphs, ha ha).