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From: Glenda Watson Hyatt
Date: Feb 9, 2006 12:15PM

Jukka wrote:

This is quite a puzzle. But any solution that requires the user to prove
he is human by his ability to see or to know things or to do things is
bound to discriminate against many people. There is no _single_ external
activity that is necessary and sufficient to classify a being as human.

Glenda adds:

I agree. In writing the article on CAPTCHAs, the only interim solution that
I came up with is to offer a variety of CAPTCHAs and, hopefully, the user
will be able to use one of them. Admittedly, this is very clumsy, but it
may have to do until a "more accessible" solution is developed. Ideally we
wouldn't need this darn things.

I find it ironic that we need tests to differentiate between computers and
humans when its humans who are developing these robots to act like humans.
Can't "we" simply stop doing this to ourselves???

Cheers,
Glenda
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