Seriously, Ubuntu Software Center? *g*

[anj tuesday]

Am 02.05.2012 18:16, schrieb Clay Weber:
> On Wednesday, May 02, 2012 05:04:37 PM anj tuesday wrote:
>> Am 02.05.2012 16:40, schrieb gene heskett:
>>> On Wednesday, May 02, 2012 10:39:59 AM anj tuesday did opine:
>>>> Am 02.05.2012 15:45, schrieb gene heskett:
>>>>> On Wednesday, May 02, 2012 09:33:31 AM anj tuesday did opine:
>>>>>> With captchas like these, I've yet to manage to sign up for the
>>>>>> send-in-your-recommendations feature:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://imgur.com/a/7okOK#4
>>>>> You got a better series of them than I did, and I also gave up.  But I
>>>>> should have known better, its a rare occasion indeed when the kde
>>>>> folks care what the user wants. I have gotten the impression that
>>>>> they will do anything they can to reduce the volume of incoming mail
>>>>> while making it _look_ like they take feedback.  Those capcha's are
>>>>> intended to be human solvable while OCR techniques fail.  But not
>>>>> even I've Been Moved's Watson could solve those.  Stuff them
>>>>> someplace dark with a methane atmosphere, please.
>>>> Yeah, it feels like you're not supposed to actually manage to
>>>> sign up. But I wouldn't blame KDE for the vagaries of
>>>> Ubuntu Software Center...?
>>> Humm, I coulda sworn this was the Kubuntu list. :)
>>>
>>> Cheers, Gene
>> Sure is :) Doesn't turn Ubuntu things into KDE things...
> Or turn Captcha things into Ubuntu things turning into Kubuntu things ;)
>
> I have seen official Captcha  reCaptcha images become unreadbale quite often
> these days. I wonder if it is the quality of the content they feed out to all
> the website authentication areas they service, or they have made it more
> difficult to make it tougher for bots and spammers to break. Very frustrating no
> matter the reason, as is the spam and porn that makes it through if sites ease
> up on the verifications
>
Why would the unguessable or "wrong locale"-y ones (had some Greek
and Hebrew) even get rolled out? If computers can't "read" them,
wouldn't it have to start with humans consciously deciding to add them
(and their clear text "solutions")? Must be a sadistic bunch...