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I am a writer, developer, futurist, and one-half of the Knotty Geeks podcast.
Interests: Astronomy, newLISP, Science Fiction.
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Kitten Captcha now online!
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| Jeremy Reimer | Posted on: Mon Mar 5 14:08:25 2012 | |
 Joined: Fri Nov 19 10:21:20 2010 | I was going to do this when I first released Monarch, but it seemed hard so I didn’t actually get around to doing it. Until now. To prevent spammers that can read even the most twisted words and phrases, I’ve implemented my own version of Kitten Captcha, something I wrote about on Ars way back in 2006 here: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/04/6554.ars Well, I’ve finally done it. The system displays a bunch of random pictures and a new user has to select all the pictures that are in fact cats. The file names are all randomized so that a spambot can’t just guess what they are, and you have to pick only three out of the ten images so you can’t just select everything. I deleted all the spam accounts that OSY 3.0 had accumulated (about 30 of them!) and so we’ll see how this new system works. I hope it both discourages bots and encourages new users due to its being cute and cuddly. Here’s a screenshot of the page in action: 
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| Blendo | Posted on: Tue Mar 6 17:53:45 2012 | |
 Joined: Tue Mar 6 17:50:03 2012 | Seems to work, how about entomological references between different classes, that would keep the slow and clumsy from climbing on board Admiral. B | |
| Jeremy Reimer | Posted on: Wed Mar 7 11:50:37 2012 | |
Joined: Fri Nov 19 10:21:20 2010 | I can always tweak it later with different types of pictures if I want. For now all I care about is keeping spambots out. If the kittens can Hold The Line against the robots, that’s all I ask of them. | |
| AllYorBaseRBelong2Us | Posted on: Mon Mar 19 19:21:40 2012 | |
 Joined: Sun Dec 5 06:23:12 2010 | This is indubitably a cat:  HA! HA! HA!
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