News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by forgottenpass on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @01:52PM (#8695610)
You are entitled.

Has calling someone entitled ever been useful? For the last few years it's felt like nothing more than a petty "you're wrong" remark with bonus condensation built right in.

Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by freshhawk on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @03:33PM (#8696169)
Been useful at changing their behaviour/beliefs? No, for the same psychological reasons any direct contradiction isn't.

Been useful at communicating that they feel someone is confusing expectations with rights? Yes, that's why there is a word for it.

Also, I get it's annoying to hear entitled, ad hominem, logical fallacy, privilege, and other currently trendy words being over used and often misused. But I'll take it over what there was before that, which was no discussion at all at that level of abstraction most of the time. The places where these words are overused are places where the community is learning these concepts.

Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by blisterpeanuts on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @04:25PM (#8696412)
> Has calling someone entitled ever been useful? For the last few years it's felt like nothing more than a petty "you're wrong" remark with bonus condensation built right in.

In this case, calling someone entitled is actually a compliment, not an ad hominem insult or put-down, because it acknowledges the poster's humanity.

The proper response in this case would be, "Why, yes, I probably am a bit entitled, like most people. Thank you for recognizing that I am human."

Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by slayed0 on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @02:38PM (#8695865)
Do you mean condescension? Not trying to be a smart ass, I just got a chuckle out of the word choice.
Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by pcthrowaway on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @10:44PM (#8697748)
There you go, being condensing again.
Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by DavidWanjiru on Thursday December 04, 2014 @04:32AM (#8698512)
You need to chill out!
Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by hawleyal on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @04:35PM (#8696457)
Is this Reddit? What year is it?
Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by balls187 on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @02:24PM (#8695802)
>Has calling someone entitled ever been useful?

Not useful, and more over, it's ad hominem.

Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” by redthrowaway on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @03:02PM (#8696017)
It's only ad hominem if it's used as support for an argument not directly related to the other's personality. It's not ad hominem in this case, because "you're entitled" is being used to support the claim, or as a parallel claim, that it's unreasonable to be insulted by a computer program thinking you're another computer program.

Claim: Turing was wrong about the Church-Turing Thesis because he was a homosexual -> ad hominem

Claim: Turing was immoral because he was a homosexual -> not ad hominem (although still not a good argument)