The first two sections are philosophical. The third section is practical for using this website.
What CAPTCHAs are
Websites use CAPTCHAs for whatever alleged reason everyone that else does. To fight spam? To keep the warez free? It's pretty much unknown, but the websites probably use CAPTCHAs simply to make people suffer.
CAPTCHAs are the letters and numbers in either human-unreadable gibberishy images or human-undecipherable garbled audio that test whether the user runs software that can read them, which has been available since 2007. CAPTCHA stands for: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart -- in that they differentiate between humans and computers, so only bots can get past them.
CAPTCHAs are one of the biggest cancers that is killing the internet, bigger than even spam, which CAPTCHAs do not actually prevent. Instead, CAPTCHAs only increase the percentage of non-human messages because humans can't get past them. Before CAPTCHAs started, spam was 50% of all email and now it's 99.99% as the result of them.
On very rare occasions, CAPTCHAs fail their design, which is to prevent humans from accessing a site so only bots can access the site (unless a human obains a bot themselves). Since bots are very good at math, expect these CAPTCHAs in the future:
Alan Turing and Turing tests
Alan Turing lived in the first half of the twentieth century and did work that paved the way for encryption and computers to be the way they are today. His work will also continue to shape computers in the future, such as when Skynet declares war on the human race. In the 1950s, the British government learned that Turing was gay, a sex crime back then, and treated him as nicely as the USA treats sex criminals today. The British government thought it would be a good idea to pump him full of female hormones to turn him into a shemale. This is supposed to be some kind of chemical castration, which is what is commonly done to sex offenders in many countries today. Shortly afterward, he died of cyanide poisoning either due to suicide, assassination, or accidentally when the hormones made him careless. It's unknown which one it was but if the average person was castrated, they would shortly become an hero as well.
A Turing test in its original design had a human asking a computer questions to determine if the chatter on the other end was a bot or a human. The thing with the Turing test is that computers process mathematics extremely fast, but do not understand anything. In contrast, humans have less mental capacity, but understand things. The ability to understand is called a spirit/soul/thetan and it is beyond the understanding of present science. Animals with little intellect and are still able to understand things as without this, animals could not function in the chaos of life. If animals did not have any understanding, their simple brains would quickly have a software crash and then hang, and all animals would have died long ago.
The part of understanding is where CAPTCHAs come in. A CAPTCHA is where a computer gives the test and is supposed to be able to tell whether input going into it is from a human. Since computers cannot understand anything, they can't actually determine if something else is a computer or not. The best type of CAPTCHA test is some kind of test that relies on human understanding, such as a simple quiz test where the answers can't be determined without understanding the question. This kind of CAPTCHA is pretty rare and most CAPTCHAs are designed so that humans can't pass them and only bots can--a good example is the Google/YouTube CAPTCHAs where no human has ever gotten past them without using software to decipher them and since doing anything with an account at Gmail, YouTube, etc. requires decoding their CAPTCHAs nonstop, there's lots of software out there for that purpose. All CAPTCHAs that are letter/number CAPTCHAs or determine the animal CAPTCHAs are merely the same as computer encryption. And you know about encryption, right? The complex encryption that computers do is encryption that cannot be cracked by humans and it needs a computer to crack it. The same is with the standard letter/number CAPTCHAs; you need a computer to crack it.
How good are computers at decoding CAPTCHAs? Well, have you ever tried to register on a website that has a CAPTCHA that is completely human unreadable? Even with CAPTCHAs that are so hard to read that humans can only correctly guess them 1% of the time, there are bots that can correctly guess them 99% of the time. For example, there's a Russian program called XRumer that can decipher almost all CAPTCHAs and ones it can't, its AI can learn. There are also websites like beatcaptchas.com and decaptcher.com that can read all CAPTCHAs.
There are new CAPTCHAs out there using things like detecting types of animals or cartoon characters. A bot only has to have in its database the basic visual features of shapes and colors for different animals using three dimensional models to solve this. If people use this type of thing as the standard CAPTCHA, then bots will begin cracking them, then the images of animals will become more and more distorted in an attempt to thwart bots, and then eventually only the bots will decipher them. Now a computer couldn't tell if an image of a cat were funny, but people aren't going to use this as a CAPTCHA, they're going to just use gibberish that computers can decode better than humans.
In "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and "Blade Runner," they used empathy tests as a Turing test and the androids had delayed or fake reactions to them.
Random Plaza's weak Turing tests
Random Plaza doesn't use CAPTCHAs, but it does simple Turing tests simply to ask someone to do something that a bot would not expect and so would not know how to handle. If someone builds a spambot specifically for this website, they could get past it. To compensate, Random Plaza does stuff like you can't create so many accounts per day from the same IP address (it's generally around a couple dozen).
If your ISP is one that performs the atrocity of sending everyone through the same IP address such as how some ISPs in England do that so they can censor your internet, then the only way they will stop is if people quit these ISPs. (The book 1984 was set in England; don't let it come true. Also sharing the same IP with others makes it easy for them to hack into your accounts.) With AOL, it routes people through various web proxies that you share with others and your IP address constantly changes. For AOL, launching a web browser outside of the AOL window should let you browse outside of AOL's proxies. If you get the message because you're browsing at work and your company has on IP address or you're on an open wifi, then you can just go somewhere else. If you're in Qatar, then your IP address is 82.148.97.69 and you probably want to use a proxy service, but then again it's more likely no one from Qatar will ever join this website more than once per day. This website also isn't as popular as Wikipedia so if someone used up an IP address, it's likely one person.
If an IP address created a lot of accounts over and over, sometimes Random Plaza will use an ASCII text phrase for you to type back. This should be completely human-readable. If it is not, then there is some issue with your web browser, likely that it it can't render monospaced or preformatted fonts. Just get the newest version of Firefox, Safari, etc. and it should fix it. Random Plaza's ASCII text is viewable even on iPhones (hence the dots and not spaces between them needed to make them space correctly on iPhones). Blind users, the phrase in ASCII text is composed of letters, so if translated to a way where they can be felt, one can feel the larger letters that the smaller letters make up, provided of course they are in the same spatial proportion. Get a Braille computer monitor or a Braille printer. If this is too much of a problem, try getting an IP address no one else has used on this website in the last twenty four hours.
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Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)17:20:57 UTC. No.288 [Reply]
Who here is a fan of the Twilight series?
Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)18:38:06 UTC. No.289
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Anonymous 2010-01-23(Sat)19:47:44 UTC. No.293 [Reply]
At the end of the tax year, the IRS office sent an inspector to audit the books of a local hospital. While the IRS agent was checking the books he turned to the CFO of the hospital and said, "I notice you buy a lot of bandages. What do you do with the end of the roll when there's too little left to be of any use?"
"Good question," noted the CFO. "We save them up and send them back to the bandage company and every now and then they send us a free box of bandages."
"Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual question had a practical answer. But on he went, in his obnoxious way.
"What about all these plaster purchases? What do you do with what's left over after setting a cast on a patient?"
"Ah, yes," replied the CFO, realizing that the inspector was trying to trap him with an unanswerable question . "We save it and send it back to the manufacturer, and every now and then they send us a free package of plaster."
"I see," replied the auditor, thinking hard about how he could fluster the know-it-all CFO. "Well," he went on, "What do you do with all the leftover foreskins from the circumcisions you perform?"
"Here, too, we do not waste," answered the CFO. "What we do is save all the little foreskins and send them to the IRS Office, and about once a year they send us a complete dick."
Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)17:06:21 UTC. No.287 [Reply]
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Anonymous 2010-01-23(Sat)19:35:43 UTC. No.292
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Anonymous 2009-03-09(Mon)05:10:16 UTC. No.17 [Reply]
The Ballad of Agent Pubeit
Brave Agent Pubeit, Agent Pubeit was very brave
Watch ye friends and ye shall see that he will win the day
Deep underground with stone and trains, Vaseline was applied
We handed him pubes, so many pubes, so he may complete his guise
The path to victory and win, paved with pubes accumulated
from the anonymous horde they came to him, fail he could not afford
the various pubes they stuck to him from the Vaseline he put on before
Brave Agent Pubeit came up from underground
Covered in Vaseline and pubes, he emerged proud
40 degrees in the streets, the streets
here's where we got the call,
Agent Pubeit the brave was on his way, free of delays and stalls
verily he traveled on his way, the brave the brave the quick
to the Church of Scientology to tell them to suck his dick
the many they stared afraid they were for a thing they have not seen
slippery and covered in pubic hair was the way it had to be
Meanwhile back at our the base the attack had already begun
Prank calls and our various faxes would ensure the battle was won
A dozen proud preceded him serving to distract
Incessant and vicious our calls they were, offensive and horrible our fax
BRAVE Agent Pubeit, he was about to arrive
At the Church of Scientology, his target could not hide
Touch everyone and everything once he runs inside
Pubes on their hands as they go to grab the gross slippery pube-covered guy
Brave Agent Pubeit, Agent Pubeit ran away
He knocked over shit and he got our pubes all over the place
He touched three guys and they found out, how slippery one man could be
He spread confusion and our dickhair, with his touch of Vaseline
His mission complete it may seem, but there was more
Three blocks away awaited another Scientology org
The buildings two he strikes at thee, as he has once before
The CLO headquarters did not know what they had in store
Radioed in we attacked our target number two
Let the enemies know that with them, Anonymous was not through
Off the hook their phones rang as we directed our second push
Agent Pubeit will soon come their way and deliver upon them some bush
Brave Agent Pubeit, safely got away
Scientology we strike at thee because you're fucking gay
Your buildings both we hath spread, our agent covered in pubes
Remember this day we have delivered Operation: Slickpubes.
Anonymous 2009-03-09(Mon)05:17:15 UTC. No.20
Actually OP, he didn't get away. He and the cameraman got a 10 year prison sentence for hate crimes.
Anonymous 2009-03-05(Thu)20:21:32 UTC. No.3 [Reply]
Can a simple pill really make a man larger?
Discuss.
PS: I don't just mean a certain part of the anatomy, I mean the whole body.
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Anonymous 2009-03-08(Sun)04:01:39 UTC. No.10
>>4
What kind of stupid politically correct term is "little person"? It's more insulting than midget. The proper term is "vertically challenged"!
Anonymous 2009-03-09(Mon)04:41:13 UTC. No.12
Why not hobbit? Or halfling?
Anonymous 2009-03-09(Mon)05:03:53 UTC. No.15
>>12
that's not very politically correct. i agree "vertically challenged" is best.
Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)06:38:42 UTC. No.282
In Alice and Wonderland
Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)06:39:48 UTC. No.283
One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you Don't do anything at all Go ask Alice When she's ten feet tall
Anonymous 2009-12-28(Mon)05:43:00 UTC. No.281 [Reply]
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Anonymous 2009-07-25(Sat)14:44:19 UTC. No.193 [Reply]
In Saudi Arabia, they had a beauty pagent where all the girls were covered in clothes and veils where you couldn't see them at all and instead of beauty competition, they tested them on their morals.