Sunday, October 9, 2011

Man against Machine Episode 2: The Matrix

As requested this installment of Man against Machine will be about Krista's struggle to comment on my blog.

You know, it's no easy feat to comment on one of these things. It takes more than just writing out what you want to say and then clicking "submit". You need a google account with a unique username and password, access to an email you don't mind getting spammed every now and then with blogger related nonsense and good eye sight.

Good eyesight, you say? By that I mean the ability to effectively decipher one of these symbol decoder authentication things that websites set up so you can prove you're not a robot.



Not that anyone who would be using a robot to stream movies online or comment on amateur blogs wouldn't also have built the technology, within the robot, to decipher that code like a human.

So next time you want to say something on my blog think about how deeply you're willing to get involved, here in the infinitely wonderful cyberspace. Because once you're in, you're in. There's no going back; the internet will own your soul, have access to all your fake email addresses (or real ones), harass you daily and make you decode countless of those things (up there!) until you snap or get old and forget how to log on to your computer.

1 comment:

  1. FYI: The above is a REcaptcha, part of a wonderfully progressive project helping decipher centuries old texts being scanned into an online database:
    http://www.google.com/recaptcha

    Unfortunately, blogspot apparently only uses regular captchas. For shaaaame!

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