If you've used Ticketmaster to purchase or check the price of tickets, you know the drill: Before you're allowed to see what's available, you must go through a "security check" that involves typing two distorted words.
Oftentimes, the words generated by this computer server seem almost nonsensical. A sampling from not two minutes ago: "awareness be" ... "shutout business" ... "Danforth from" ... "for disables" ...
But does CAPTCHA ever generate a combination of words that doesn't seem so random?
While doing research for a Summer Concert Preview, this is the challenge-response test I was confronted with on Wednesday (snapped with my iPhone):
Most likely, this is one of the more unfortunate coincidences in the history of word-verification software. For Ticketmaster's part, they say: "We use a third-party provider for these, and we are going to look into this."
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Now this is just plain creepy...
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Alvin green wouldn't let this happen
sometimes, when you type in the words for these security checkpoints, it ties in to some software and you are actually participating in re-typing a book into digital format. so it doesn't seemed far-fetched that you could have some related words pop up together.
i see that i have to do this exercise to leave a comment here. lol
It must be random. However, sometimes these things come out funny instead of offensive. One time on another website, the two words I had to type in to continue were "Engorged President." No lie. I have the screen grab to prove it.
Stop making something out of nothing. It doesn't say Columbine High. A columbine is actually a flower. So give it a rest. This is not newsworthy.
I'm sure I'm going to get the specifics wrong, but some captcha software doesn't randomly generate all of its words. As hiprhyme above mentioned, sometimes the words will be words of a text that weren't able to be read by an ocr reader (or something or other; as I mentioned -- sketchy on the details) and you're participating in clarifying them.
So perhaps this one was on the topic of the Columbine shooting.
I think I just read the most useless article ever published.
Quit being so PC ... it's rediculous.
@ Anonymous you misspelled 'ridiculous'
Boring.....
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