Let’s prove our humanity with cute kittens!

[almostwitty]

We’ve all had to go through those moments whereby in order to prove our humanity to a computer, blog or commenting system, we have to spot and reproduce a random stream of numbers and letters. Aside from this being dead annoying, the letters/numbers are usually tiny tiny tiny and I’ve spent a good wasted five minutes going round and round trying to get the right combination. Plus it’s a bit of a computer-esque view of humanity - are we all just a bunch of letters and numbers?

So why don’t we prove our humanity in other ways? Fortunately, someone’s come up with a kitten authentication system. Instead of typing in letters and numbers, just click on three pictures of cute kittens! And there’s no way a computer can figure out what is a cute kitten and what is an evil-but-cute ostrich… is there?

Originally published at almost witty. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Genius.

[pinkhairedcyn.livejournal.com]

" And there’s no way a computer can figure out what is a cute kitten and what is an evil-but-cute ostrich… is there?"

Computer vision being what it is, I'm going to say: Maybe it could. But it would probably be too much work to do it for blog spam.

[neurofern.livejournal.com]

that's kick arse!!!

[metamorphiccat.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on that. The numbers and letters thing annoys me, as it invariably leaves me with the feeling that I either really need to clean my glasses or I need horribly expensive new ones.