Will Solve Captcha for Money?

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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Moo

[Chacham]

"Captchas are a nice idea to protect your blog or guestbook from beeing spammed by robots."

Captchas? Do you mean capuccino? And they are a nice idea, for some brick-and-mortar to make money off of selling in tiny amounts.

Seriously, did you know what the author meant before cliking on the link? Ugh, and it uses wikipedia to translate it. My Zod, where in Houston have we come to?