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http://halflife2.zoy.org/ Tee hee.

...and suddenly a multitude of slashdotters visit wikipedia: Goatse... :-D

(also a convenient mirror of the original site for those who dare...)

Yeah, he should've licensed it under the WTFPL license.

It's right here.

You linked to a page (the wiki) that has a link to a page (http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/) with Goatse on it, (thankfully?) distorted for use as an image captcha.

This is clearly an example of the Stealth Goatse - well played.

Parent links to a page which has the ominous Cwazymail image. Beware!

If someone's willing to pay for a higher search ranking, the spammer can pay humans to beat the CAPTCHAs. I can see it now, a sweatshop in a low-wage country with hundreds of workers monotonously typing in the text from the skewed and scrambled images.

There's also PWNTcha, a CAPTCHA decoder. (Previously slashdotted.)

That one's just great: http://sam.zoy.org/fun/goatse/pumpkin.jpg

http://halflife2.zoy.org/hello.jpg?torrents.php/to rrents/4124/Serenity-T4C.torrent

Right here

Hurricane Goatse

I'd hate to be in the eye of the storm there

this?

Now would that be considered child abuse?

When did captchas suddenly lost their power ? I can't see their's on the list of broken ones and it does seem to have all properties required from a strong captcha.

Google accumulates too much cross-referencable personal information if you ask me. It is your next Big Brother or a franchise of one.

Say you searched for something like 'nuclear bomb howto'. Via proxy mind you. Having your cell phone at hand it becomes possible to pick you up on terrorism charges in next 10 minutes. It's an exgagerated example, but think about.

To possess all this information and withstand a temptation not to 'process' it - this requires a lot of respect for individual privacy and moral strength. Google can claim 'make no evil' all they want, but I just don't believe them anymore.

The article is a troll ... note how the code is withheld and the general lack of details or substance ... finally, note that this person hosts a Lastmeasure mirror on their domain; http://traceroute.zoy.org/ (DO NOT CLICK, except in links/lynx).

I bet he'll have a lot of unsolicited male in his "inbox" ...

(sorry) [goatse tribute warning, first page is work-safe]

Modern ttys support colors too: http://sam.zoy.org/libcaca/

Most captchas out there can be easily defeated with a variety of methods. The implementation you describe would be horridly complex. Rather pointless when you can write a robot capable of solving them as much as you want versus hooking up a system dependent on humans.

You've obviously got a lack of knowledge on how spammers operate, nowhere would you ever see a setup like this in the wild.

No, but this does!

Several projects have had excellent luck using image processing algorithms to recognize the warped and mangled text areas, separate out the letters, then figure out what alphanumeric character it is. What's interesting about this research is that it's starting a sort of Cold War between websites that use CAPTCHA's and spammers who are doing their own research to break them with script bots. As the CAPTCHA's get more complex, and the text more convoluted, the script bots are using ever more complex image processing algorithms. This escalating war could be beneficial for anyone interested in using image processing algorithms, especially when the information you're looking for exists in a graphically "noisy" environment.

The best place to learn more about this is PWNtcha - captcha decoder.

Another guy spent about 24 hours creating his own image processing algorithm that uses a graphics function to discover the outlines of character shapes, then runs each character through a neural net which could recognize the shape of the character (and these characters are seriously warped, so it's not your typical OCR). Also, be sure to see his other page which talks about how his software can crack 92% of GIMPY-generated CAPTCHA's!

Also check out http://www.captcha.net/.

Google for more information about using AI image processing routines to defeat CAPTCHA's. This is an area of active research that will result in a lot of new algorithms and processes in the coming years!

Wikipedia got pooped on this morning. Hundreds of wikiwankers got to see this

MAD PROPZ TO THE GNAA!

Or check out the last measure

...Hooyah!

Though I worry your post only presages a dream...

(Side note: where did the apparently ineffective CAPTCHAs go?)

well, you had to ask

People are so gullilble. They're like Pavlov's dogs who salivate every time they see or hear the word "free",

Congrats on not taking their "deal/fidelity/loyalty card". I hate those things. Just lower the price. It's as bad as those stupid mail-in rebates.

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> this [...] means French servers can make [DeCSS] available.

Well, they didn't fail to do so for the last five years :-)

Sorry, the prize is goatse.

"Glenn, you managed to produce a very interesting piece of writing about the 'Goatse' man, but this was let down somewhat by your failure to explain exactly what the image contains."

-- Comment on yr 12 English assignment [SFW]

CLIK HEER FOR TEH BUTTESXC

If this doesn't get you to switch, nothing will

damn, here's the tribute site

Coffee roaster that pops popcorn

And here's a picture in microwave sprectum.

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S C R E E N S H O TS

Mirrored, ALL pages! Thanks to Jim Z. for the bandwidth!

This proposal totally sucks. The goal of a CAPTCHA is not only to be extremely difficult for a computer, you also need to make it simple enough for the user. Most current implementations are considered extremely inaccessible, and if you have accessibility in mind, these 3D images are a huge step backwards. The utter vanity of it all is emphasised by its vulnerability to the porn site attack (offering porn to monkeys to crack CAPTCHAs). Be assured that I and other people will devote as much time as possible to eradicate moronic CAPTCHAs from the Internet.

as to the authenticity of the claim that Tim Berners-Lee is the "father" of the web. A blog entry here aparently has evidence that some of Tim's earlier efforts are actually stolen. I can't directly vouch for the authenticity, but there are some strange but compelling connections made.

Here is a picture showing what Bush actually does on the web.

WARNING: This picture is not safe for work (NSFW) and incorporates material from a shock site. You have been warned, so please don't mod me down. If you don't want to see this material, don't click the link.

Now here's the link: http://sam.zoy.org/fun/goatse/bush.jpg

Goatse O's?

Surely you mean Cheerioatses

here

"traceroute" (blog) (must be a *nix geek too) is a med student and has already seen this tech. He likes it a lot and thinks it could really help save lives.

A Checkered Past

What's the deal with the torrent site, Suprnova.org? It has been down for days now. Anyone have any guesses as to why? I hope this is just a server upgrade.

Some latter-day IFs (linky-linky) do provide just that. Of course, in that case, you already have all game data local on your HD and serving a given piece of media to 200 players isn't an issue...

Maybe what we need is a smart client which can understand old-style BASIC "PLAY" grammar -- "o4t240cdededrddcdere.... About the graphics, loads of MUDs already have ASCIIArt maps and stuff -- libcaca is your friend.

Zoy's DOOM3 Pumpkin, also very creative :)

You've been warned!

Send this URL spoofed to your Outlook Express using friends. It's semi-work safe and Halloween themed.

the original, of course

The rest of that site is pretty cool as well. Check out his Doom 3 tribute site.