[nfbcs] Captcha

[Mike Freeman]

Agreed. Moreover, although I am not familiar with Cold Fusion, I venture to
opine that if web developers thought it a significant advance over
spam-blocking strategies now available, they'd have beaten a path to the
door of the developers of Cold Fusion. It's possible that its technology is
a significant advance over present anti-spam-bot solutions but it will only
be a matter of time before it, too, is circumvented.

To my way of thinking, the only solution is political, not technical: the
United States should deny foreign aid to any country whose ISPs are used for
spam dissemination. <grin>

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Gary Wunder
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:17 PM
To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Captcha

To understand the problem of detecting whether or not you have a human or a
machine on the other end of the connection, consider SIRI. I can ask it to
add two numbers and it will. I can say "What day is it" or "What day of the
week is it" or "what day will it be tomorrow" If I come up with syntax it
does not understand, I am confident someone on the development team is
looking at this as well. We are fighting the problem of defining the
difference between artificial intelligence and human intelligence, and I
fear the only real difference is experience and there's lots of effort to
give machines that experience--language syntax, geographical information,
historical information, current news. What is it that makes us unique? If we
can't find that, then we will fail at coming up with a way to differentiate
between man and machine. Like John and Mike, I am not optimistic that we
will find a good captcha, so we have to continue to make our needs known and
not be left out.

Gary



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