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Will Solve Captcha for Money?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i've-done-worse-for-less dept.

alx_lo writes "Captchas are a nice idea to protect your blog or guestbook from being spammed by robots. But what good is this protection when you can hire "data entry specialists" to solve captchas for $0.60 per hour for 50 hours a week? Anyone here who can think up a solution that does not include drastically changing the global economy? How about captchas that require cultural background knowledge to solve?"

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  1. SweatShopSoftware.com by osgeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    My team of fine Southeast Asian workers will remove spam from your web site/bulletin board/blog for a low low price of $.60 US/hour.

    Incidentally, for those of you in the market to advertise your wares: My team of fine Southeast Asian workers will circumvent those inconvenient captchas on web sites/bulletin boards/blogs for a low low price of $.60 US/hour.

    Here at SweatShopSoftware.com, we have a solution to every problem.

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    1. Re:SweatShopSoftware.com by LoudMusic · · Score: 4, Funny

      Here at SweatShopSoftware.com, we have a solution to every problem.

      More accurately, you have a problem for every solution.

      (:

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  2. Re:no good solution for now by hc5duke · · Score: 5, Funny
    How about a mathematical Captcha that cannot be solved with a calculator. Well educated foreigners will not even work for $.60. Then again, how many Americans could solve these.

    Thank you for signing up with Blogger! Before you continue, please prove P=NP.

  3. Re:"Who's Hot" by osgeek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, but when the choices are Bea Arthur, Rosie O'Donnell, and Natalie Portman; selecting either of the first two should give you an electric shock on top of not allowing you to post.

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  4. Leisure Suit Larry by jconley · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wish I had someone that could have answered the questions at the beginning of Leisure Suit Larry for me when I was 11...I would have broken open the piggy bank to play!

  5. Re:no good solution for now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Okay, if you really can. Give me the square root of two in decimal. No approximate answers.

  6. Re:no good solution for now by mgblst · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is the square root of 2 then? And no approximate answers.

  7. Cultural Captchas: by Peter+Trepan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Match each band to the model of truck its music is eminating from:

    1. Metallica
    2. Billy Ray Cyrus
    3. Lynnrd Skynnrd


    a. GMC truck with double tires on the back
    b. Primer-color El Camino with beer cans in the back
    c. Shiny red F-150 with aerodynamic truckbed lid

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  8. Re:refundable micropayments. by Scurra+UK · · Score: 5, Funny

    So posting my 2 cents now costs $1? Guess that's inflation for you...

  9. Re:$0.60/hour? by Pollardito · · Score: 3, Funny
    You mean I can make more than the $0.40/hour I currently make? I need to talk to my boss about a raise...
    in the time it took you to write this post, you lost...well, not much so no worries
  10. Re: no good solution for now by Gospodin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait... I've got it!

    To prevent inexpensive foreign labor from solving CAPTCHAs, simply ask easy math and science questions... but only only provide access for wrong answers. This should let most Americans through.

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  11. pre-loaded captchas? by nblender · · Score: 4, Funny

    For each client, send a series of captchas: "solving" "captchas" "formoney?" "one" "thousand" "usdollar" "reward" "for-arrest" "of-your" "employer".

  12. Uhhhmmmmm by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Which biological characteristics, exactly, cause someone to know who Britney Spears is?

    Stupidity?

    Peer pressure?

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