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		tlrobinson on Nov 23, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ReCAPTCHA: simultaneously protecting against bots ... It's on the front page because people thought it was more interesting than everything not on the front page. Plus, one of them is so bad that OCR software couldn't recognize it. Wait, what?! I think you don't quite understand the premise of CAPTCHAs.

unalone on Nov 23, 2008 [–]

I was wondering whether or not to flag this, but decided against it on the off chance that people hadn't heard of it.

I find ReCAPTCHAs very easy to fill out, myself. I've never had one wrong yet. If it's doing good at stopping bots, then it's absolutely a prime solution.

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