Re:Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box?
by kalleboo on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @08:42PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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North American food is what amused me, I was thinking how many are going to get that one right outside North America.
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.