Captcha Fail

[yendi]

Just got this little captcha:

Comments

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

Obviously it's 'famulty dum-dum-dum-DUM-dum'

[rosefox]

The second one is spelled FECAE.

[yendi]

I actually wondered if they wanted the notes, but since it would take me about ten times as long to figure out the notes than it would to hit reload (even adjusting for the screenshot time), I never bothered.

[yendi]

Damn. How could I have missed that?

[hippie-mamabear.livejournal.com]

Crap, they expect us to read MUSIC now!? Sons of bitches...

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

OMFG.

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

In cases like that, you only have to get "famulty" right and it really doesn't matter what you type for the other "word". I haven't gotten musical notes yet, but I've gotten captchas in Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, and various other languages that aren't on my keyboard (not to mention complex math equations and graphic characters). Whenever I get those, I just enter "Storvik", and I haven't been rejected yet.

[jocosa]

I got one last week where both words were in Arabic characters.

[dark-blade.livejournal.com]

Well, the notes are FECAE, unless it's bass clef. Or some randomly notated clef. I've assumed treble, but I have always played instruments that either use treble clef alone, or double clef. How do they expect you to figure it out without nothing the clef? Ghf.

[yendi]

Thanks -- I'll have to try that next time.

[yendi]

Both? Sheesh.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

I think yendi already knows this, but one of the captchas is often a word that OCR is freaking out about. They're not supposed to make it obvious which one it is -- but this is pretty clearly what's going on here.

http://www.google.com/recaptcha/digitizing

they don't really want to know what the musical notes are, but their OCR engine said "I can't transcribe this word; throw it in the recaptcha bin for a human tagging."

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

What would be interesting if you're a handicapped person who controls the computer all through voice. What happens there?