‘Captcha’ Requirement Gets Increasingly Long-Winded

Thursday, 09 September 2010 | by Pat's Picks

I understand and tolerate the requirement on some websites that you complete a “CAPTCHA” test to prove that you’re not an automated system trying to steal content or hoard tickets. But the Wall Street Journal’s CAPTCHA tests are getting increasingly ridiculous. CAPTCHA stands for ?Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.? It makes me wonder how many people just give up before getting to the article they are after. Let’s hope the trend stops before replication of a whole paragraph is required.

This was one of today’s:

And here’s another:

Of course, there’s a good chance CAPTCHA will generate something hilarious. Click here to see some funny examples.