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angus
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« on: May 16, 2012, 09:49:39 AM »


CAPTCHA (stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") is a sequence of alphanumeric characters in twisted, weird, or melty fonts that are hard to read and that you must type into a little box when you are ordering something on-line.  I've seen them for years, but didn't know what they were called until someone told me a few months ago on this very forum.  And on that day I also learned that they were invented by an autistic mathematician, Alan Turing.  Gotta love that irony. 

They are sometimes hard to read, but I can usually decipher them.
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« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2012, 12:14:19 PM »

I got one today that was a little different.  I was trying to get free piano sheetmusic for Nightswimming in G-major.  It's an REM song, and I heard it and was trying to pick it out on the piano and decided to look it up.  It had a box that said rabbit.  Then there was a multiple-choice question.  "Click on the word below that matches the word in the box."  Or something like that, and the choices were rabbit, paper, and girl.  I clicked on rabbit.  Anyway, then it took me to a laywer's website.  Dammit.  So frustrating, I see "R.E.M. - Nightswimming Piano Music Sheet" and click on it, and after a multiple-choice question, I get taken to a lawyer's website.  WTF? 

Well, anyway, I finally found a sample page.  The first of seven pages of the music can be printed out for free from a site that sells the sheet music.  I'm too cheap to buy it, but I think I can figure the rest of it out if I have the first page.
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