Datasheetarchive

[JW]

Anybody notice the new annoyance at http://www.datasheetarchive.com/

If the datasheet is on their servers, they now require Captcha.
*groan*

 

[N_Cook]

JW <none@dev.null> wrote in message
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Anybody notice the new annoyance at http://www.datasheetarchive.com/

If the datasheet is on their servers, they now require Captcha.
*groan*

I have seen one excellent use for Captcha. New York Times ? issues from the
1800s ? scanned in but next to impossible to digitally convert to text.
Passed on phrases as captcha and when 2 or more humans agreed on what they
saw and texted in, then the converted text was updated.

 

[Evan Platt]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:59:00 -0000, "N_Cook" <diverse@tcp.co.uk>
wrote:

I have seen one excellent use for Captcha. New York Times ? issues from the
1800s ? scanned in but next to impossible to digitally convert to text.
Passed on phrases as captcha and when 2 or more humans agreed on what they
saw and texted in, then the converted text was updated.

If I understand it, that's how dual word captcha's work. One word is
known, the other isn't.

If you type the known word correct, it may let you type anything for
the unknown word - unless for example it knows the unknown word is 6
letters, and the 3rd letter is a A, it may require that.
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[John Robertson]

JW wrote:

Anybody notice the new annoyance at http://www.datasheetarchive.com/

If the datasheet is on their servers, they now require Captcha.
*groan*

They probably had too many people sucking out all they could. I have no
problem with Captcha if it enables them to survive.

John :-#)#

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