TommySoda

He'll never get the actual Nobel Peace Prize and I'm sure, deep down, that absolutely infuriates him. Like when one kid is jealous of another kids toy so the parent buys another one just for them but the kid doesn't want it because they wanted *that* one. And the fact that he's probably absolutely livid every time someone brings up Obama's peace prize is hilarious to me.

We can’t even get them to upgrade our infrastructure to the 21st century in some cases so good luck with that. We still got shit running on Windows 7 or even Windows XP.

This isn’t sustainable. Almost all of our infrastructure runs on computers and eventually it will reach a point where you have a computer in charge of vital infrastructure that won’t be able to buy replacement part and it’ll just fail.

It's definitely hard to tell someone's tone when it comes to text so i appreciate you mentioning that. I understand the confusion as I wasnt very clear in what I was talking about which is 100% my fault. I went a little off the handle and got defensive, I will admit, and I apologize for that. I guess the point that I was trying to make is more so that we have many different ways to do it for years I was talking about things like captchas. The problem, in my opinion, is that captchas didn't evolve with the Internet. We've been picking traffic lights for over a decade now and it's obviously not working anymore. My whole idea with drawing pictures was to make it more human centric than clicking a bunch if buttons. Something that can take in the raw input of a mouse cursor or touchscreen and determine whether or not the movements are "human". Like a fingerprint that doesn't identify you. If it sees too many predictable patterns it flags it. I just feel like there's a lot of wasted potential in older human verification systems that have stagnated. We've just accepted bots as the norm online and the company's in charge aren't doing a damn thing besides saying they'll do something with no action.

Yeah well I don't really care for your opinion and I wasn't talking to you. I appreciate the feedback, though. The person above seems like they actually have social skills outside of calling people "chuds" and "neckbeards" as their only respone so I'd much rather talk to them tbh

Kinda, yeah. I was trying to come up with a captcha that's hard for a bot but incredibly easy for a human. The random intervals was to make it harder to automate and that's the idea I had off the top of my head. I just feel like captchas have had wasted potential for years and people kinda gave up on improving them.

That was kinda my idea with the whole random and unexpected checking in. It's easy to get humans to do it for bot farms when you have deterministic times in which you'd have to perform the captcha. Nowadays most simple captchas can be done by bots so I was brainstorming a way you could make it harder for the bots while being minimally intrusive to the user.

But why do you need to talk down to me like I'm an idiot instead of just correct me politely? I'm genuinely curious because it seems to be a very common thing nowadays where percieved confident incorrectness and ignorance is met with distain and anger. I didn't mean to offend anyone when I made this comment and was simply brainstorming while bored at work.

Cool, you don't have to be a dick about it. :P I already know that I don't know much about but I wanted to make a suggestion because the guy asked.

How about at a random interval once every couple months it will ask you to draw a picture of a cat in the browser and if it finds your drawing process too similar or the image too similar to one that's already in the database it will flag it without telling you. Three strikes and your out kinda rule. It's like drug tests but for the internet. Even if you did, like, a line across the screen to save time there's no way in hell it'd be the same as anything else in that database unless you are extremely unlucky.

There are so many ways to do human verification that have worked for years. The biggest reason bots are plaguing the internet is because these corpos don't really try anymore. There's literally no reason to do face scans or IDs other than to unanonymize people and take their data.

As a feet guy, I will never forgive people like him that have turned the foot fetish into the joke it is today. Makes us all look like creeps and it's almost impossible to bring it up in conversation in any serious way anymore. Also he's kinda just an awful person. Most of the time he adds himself into his own movies it's so he can be a creepy perv or so he can say the n word. Some of his movies are pretty good though.

Yeah but I just wanna eat cigarettes. They make my mouth all tingly.

I mean, nicotine is a nature pesticide made by tobacco plants. It’s kinda the same with capsaicin and humans love that shit. In a life or death situation this would probably be preferable to dying, at least. Realistically this is probably an older manual and shouldn’t be followed to the letter. You should not be eating less than 2 cigarettes a day. No, seriously, don’t eat cigarettes.

Yeah, as someone that is an introvert and had social anxiety, the mixup does get a little annoying. Being an introvert with social anxiety when growing up was a absolute nightmare in my experience. Especially because I wanted to socialize but couldn’t bring myself to do it. It’s a constant back and forth between “I need alone time” and “I wish I could talk to people” and it made me hate myself for being introverted. Luckily I’ve managed to mostly get over it as I’ve gotten older and now I’m happy with being an introvert. Now I’m in your boat and most people don’t even realize I’m introverted until they get to know me more personally.

My guess is that they don’t quite have the resources to do anything about it but are more than happy to let everyone know they are doing it to scare people. We’ve already seen how abysmal their ICE recruitment numbers have been and I highly doubt they’d be able to do anything against more than 50% of the entire population with what they currently have. Obligatory Fuck ICE