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Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:47PM (#19158681)
Those really grainy images, they always seemed like they had to have noise added on purpose? It was like really badly processed film grain, but if the images were enlargements then wouldn't they be pixelated?

Stuff you get now often requires cultural information, like "sidewalk" isn't a cross-cultural name, I'd guess almost everyone knows it, but meh. What classes as a store, is a lawyers office a store? Also, I seem to recall I had "click on all minivans"?? Not sure what one of those is, nor really what is classed as a car in USA, is an MPV a car [I'd guess that's what a minivan is?]? Do pedestrian crossing lights (green/red man) count as [part of] traffic lights? I've often wanted a short description of the locus of the terms they're using. Of course it never tells you if you failed, just gives you a further captcha, which it might have done anyway.

Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by kalleboo on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @08:42PM (#19158968)
The fire hydrant one always annoyed me - in many countries stand-up fire hydrants are nonexistent or at least look very different. I guess they're banking on people having seen enough American movies/TV shows?
Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by kaybe on Thursday February 14, 2019 @03:37AM (#19160494)
It's not like the word 'fire hydrant' exists in those countries either, so some kind of knowledge/learning/look-up is involved anyway, no?
Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by tomatocracy on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:30AM (#19160689)
In the UK we call them fire hydrants and they’re typically placed underground with a small metal cover in the middle of the road and a sign on the pavement (sidewalk for Americans) saying where it is.
Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by dzhiurgis on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @10:28PM (#19159384)
Remember this belongs to Google https://patents.google.com/patent/US9407661B2/en
Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by ancarda on Thursday February 14, 2019 @04:11AM (#19160621)
Are you sure? On the page it says:

    Current Assignee: Juniper Networks Inc
Was it owned by Google at some point in the past?
Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by Mindwipe on Thursday February 14, 2019 @06:28AM (#19161111)
Yeah, a lot of the storefront ones are just plan hit things randomly until it lets you through - how am I supposed to know if a building with some writing on it in Korean is a store or something else? Are you supposed to include the poles in traffic lights or not?

The V2 was just annoyingly badly designed because the questions were badly put.

Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? by Abishek_Muthian on Thursday February 14, 2019 @08:48AM (#19161785)
North American food is what amused me, I was thinking how many are going to get that one right outside North America.