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Re:How CAPTCHA got trashed - The wiggly words are now most u... by ScottWhigham on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @04:44AM (#247442)
Doesn't at least some part of you think, "If it was so easy, it would have been done at some point in the past 15 years? There are all of these absolutely brilliant minds working on this problem - why haven't they done this before?"
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Re:How CAPTCHA got trashed - The wiggly words are now most u... by khafra on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @09:34AM (#247549)
Microsoft tried to get micropayments rolling at least half a decade ago, that's probably why there isn't a workable system in place yet.
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Re:How CAPTCHA got trashed - The wiggly words are now most u... by mleonhard on Thursday July 17, 2008 @05:48AM (#248366)
There isn't a workable system yet because each company tries to make something proprietary. Micropayments will catch on when there's a simple protocol for it, like SMTP is for email.
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