cool use of technology - and we are helping

[Silver_2000]

Recently we implemented a verification system called recaptcha on TALON and many of the other sites I manage to keep spammers from signing up with robots

This article shows that Carnegie Mellon usniversity is using the recaptcha info to help digitize old newspapers and stuff - really cool use of a few seconds of lots of peoples time :tu::tu:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9989480-93.html?tag=nefd.lede


ZURICH, Switzerland--Chances are that if you've solved one of those distorted-word tests to secure an account with Facebook, Craigslist or Ticketmaster, you've helped The New York Times inch a little closer to digitizing its entire print newspaper archive from 1851 to 1980.

http://recaptcha.net/

[dboat]

That is pretty cool.. does it mean that if you do one that you are "green" by using wasted energy?:icon_mrgreen:

[PUMP]

That is pretty cool.. does it mean that if you do one that you are "green" by using wasted energy?:icon_mrgreen:Probably so, unless you ponder on it too long, in which case you have re-wasted the waste and now it's brown:hammer: