Submit Response » maths http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog Tue, 10 May 2011 01:19:15 +0000 en-us hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 Elitist CAPTCHA http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2007/06/04/elitist-captcha/ http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2007/06/04/elitist-captcha/#comments Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:09:02 +0000 http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2007/06/04/elitist-captcha/ I tried to sign up for correlate.us today, a rather nice-looking service that creates a ‘river’ of information from RSS feeds provided by the likes of Flickr, Last.fm and Twitter, so folk can view all your online activity in one place, complete with pretty graphs.

Unfortunately, I got caught by the CAPTCHA:

Elitist CAPTCHA

How charming to be considered non-human by a website just because I haven’t the faintest idea what ‘resolving’ some numbers in brackets even means, let alone how to do it.

Admittedly, I add up on my fingers and have to use a calculator for sums involving numbers of more than one digit, but it still seems horribly elitist to expect all users to have an A-level in maths before they’re allowed to use a site.

Update: for anyone wondering, the answer to min(8,5) is 5 and Joe who runs correlate.us kindly plans to change the CAPTCHA soon. Here’s my page on the site. For a more complete one-page summary of my recent faffing online, see Flow.

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