Baffling the Spam Bots

dumpster_dave writes "Scientific American is running an article, Baffling the Bots on techniques to outsmart and subvert spam bots and their chat-room cousins via CAPTCHA. You have probable seen this in the form of images containing text as gate-keepers to various on-line services. The latest evolution is using non-words and distorting the text such that even the best AI systems cannot decipher them, yet humans can not help but do so [cf., Gestalt Psychology]."

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Re:MICHAEL EATS HIS OWN FECES

[Toby Studabaker]

Hey, you insensitive clod. Have you ever considered that the fecal freaks really hurt inside? You'd hurt too, if you brain compelled you to munch nasty feces or - even worse - watch japanese scat/vomit videos every day.