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Prove you are not a robot!

To Scooby:

Your "prove you're not a robot" stuff has really gotten ridiculous. I know for a fact that you can turn it off, so enlighten us as to what problem it is solving. When I come up against a particularly bad case of visual stupidity, I simply enter random keystrokes until I get one I can actually read. Nice way to discourage posting in general and in particular to piss off people who really would like to post. Not very bright. Just another modern inconvenience that people will come to accept, such as staring into a tiny screen to see something that your high-resolution laptop screen would render absolutely stunning, or trying to understand a static-ey. unstable phone conversation that your land line could render clear and static-free, without anyone having to shout.
October 31, 2012 7:46 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Not this again...
November 1, 2012 1:05 AM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Keep hitting the cycle button until you get one that you are fairly certain you will enter correctly
November 1, 2012 1:07 AM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
" so enlighten us as to what problem it is solving. "

To keep drunks and idiots from posting.
November 1, 2012 8:21 AM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
What is it about anonymous communication (including text messaging, etc.) that turns physicists into rude, disrespectful people (the exception being me) with 'binary opinions?
November 1, 2012 3:21 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
" turns physicists "

I would say most posts come from techs and some engineers. It seems like a number are ex-military. Just a guess on my part so who knows. If you look up the makeup of LLNL, LANL, or Sandia there is probably not that many physicists compared to everyone else.

Comments

scooby said…
My main reason is that in the event of a "robot" attacking this BLOG, I will be the one cleaning the mess, not you.
I will not publish anymore posts on the subject.
Anonymous said…
So There!!! THWWWPPF! (From the person who admitted earlier he didn't understand the subject.)
Anonymous said…
Thish real ezy after cople beers! wats yure problem?
Anonymous said…
Cataract surgery might help some of you. Or maybe replace that old CRT monitor with an LED flat screen.
Anonymous said…
Frontal lobotomy would also help most of you.

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