Someone wrote:

"I just discovered that lurking, in the far upper right corner of the
screen of the Captcha page where no one has any reason to look, is a
very pale blue "Continue," which causes the Captcha to stop preventing
me from posting.'

Some say that acronymns should be written in all caps. If so, then it
should be CAPTCHA. It is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public
Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"

Google does render it in all caps:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/1217728

--

Tony Cooper - Orlando,Florida

On 17/11/23 11:03, TonyCooper wrote:
>
> Someone wrote:
>
> "I just discovered that lurking, in the far upper right corner of the
> screen of the Captcha page where no one has any reason to look, is a
> very pale blue "Continue," which causes the Captcha to stop preventing
> me from posting.'
>
> Some say that acronymns should be written in all caps. If so, then it
> should be CAPTCHA. It is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public
> Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
>
> Google does render it in all caps:
>
> https://support.google.com/a/answer/1217728

I, as someone who claims to be human, often fail a CAPTCHA test. When
asked to select all parts of the image that show bicycles, for example,
I will miss seeing the section that is so unclear that I can't tell what
it shows. This is probably a challenge that an AI would handle better
than I do.

--
Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW

Tony Cooper:
> Someone wrote:
>
> "I just discovered that lurking, in the far upper right corner of the
> screen of the Captcha page where no one has any reason to look, is a
> very pale blue "Continue," which causes the Captcha to stop preventing
> me from posting.'
>
>
> Some say that acronymns should be written in all caps.

I don't believe anybody writes LASER or RADAR or PAKISTAN that way.

> If so, then it should be CAPTCHA.

That's the only way I've seen it.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | Since you invoked Wikipedia, I used [it] in my defense.
msb@vex.net | Don't make me do that again. --Stephen Perry

On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 01:12:31 +0000, msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:

>Tony Cooper:
>> Someone wrote:
>>
>> "I just discovered that lurking, in the far upper right corner of the
>> screen of the Captcha page where no one has any reason to look, is a
>> very pale blue "Continue," which causes the Captcha to stop preventing
>> me from posting.'
>>
>>
>> Some say that acronymns should be written in all caps.
>
>I don't believe anybody writes LASER or RADAR or PAKISTAN that way.

This is a case where you missed *my* point. "Some say..." indicates
that not all adhere.
>
>> If so, then it should be CAPTCHA.
>
>That's the only way I've seen it.

You haven't seen it written with initial letter capped and the rest of
the letters in lower case? You didn't read "someone"'s post?

Drifting a bit...pulling up a site about capitalization of acronyms,
one warned me that to view the site I had to "Accept all cookies".

If that site was viewed in the UK, would it use "Accept all biscuits"?

--

Tony Cooper - Orlando,Florida

Tony Cooper:
>>> Someone wrote:
>>>
>>> "I just discovered that lurking, in the far upper right corner of the
>>> screen of the Captcha page where no one has any reason to look, is a
>>> very pale blue "Continue," which causes the Captcha to stop preventing
>>> me from posting.'
>>>
>>>
>>> Some say that acronymns should be written in all caps.

Mark Brader:
>> I don't believe anybody writes LASER or RADAR or PAKISTAN that way.
Tony Cooper:
> This is a case where you missed *my* point. "Some say..." indicates
> that not all adhere.

My claim is that nobody does, even if they say that. If they did adhere,
we'd see LASER, for example.

>>> If so, then it should be CAPTCHA.
>>
>> That's the only way I've seen it.
>
> You didn't read "someone"'s post?

Okay, you got me. I meant "before this thread".
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Defendant's speech ends in long sentence"
msb@vex.net | --Minneapolis Tribune, February 25, 1981

My text in this article is in the public domain.

Peter Moylan wrote:

>> Some say that acronymns should be written in all caps. If so, then it
>> should be CAPTCHA. It is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public
>> Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
>>
>> Google does render it in all caps:
>>
>> https://support.google.com/a/answer/1217728
>
> I, as someone who claims to be human, often fail a CAPTCHA test. When
> asked to select all parts of the image that show bicycles, for example,
> I will miss seeing the section that is so unclear that I can't tell what
> it shows. This is probably a challenge that an AI would handle better
> than I do.

I don't know if I fail, but I usually have to fill out four ore more of
them. I never get an explanation why.

--
Bertel, Denmark

Mark Brader wrote:

>>>> Some say that acronymns should be written in all caps.
>
> Mark Brader:
>>> I don't believe anybody writes LASER or RADAR or PAKISTAN that way.
>
> Tony Cooper:
>> This is a case where you missed *my* point. "Some say..." indicates
>> that not all adhere.
>
> My claim is that nobody does, even if they say that. If they did adhere,
> we'd see LASER, for example.

Not if they count them as names and not acronyms.

--
Bertel, Denmark

Le 17/11/2023 à 01:12, Mark Brader a écrit :
> Tony Cooper:
>> Someone wrote:
>>
>> "I just discovered that lurking, in the far upper right corner of the
>> screen of the Captcha page where no one has any reason to look, is a
>> very pale blue "Continue," which causes the Captcha to stop preventing
>> me from posting.'
>>
>> Some say that acronymns should be written in all caps.
>
> I don't believe anybody writes LASER or RADAR or PAKISTAN that way.

Some acronyms have what it takes to become normal words. ASDIC didn't,
sonar did.

>> If so, then it should be CAPTCHA.
>
> That's the only way I've seen it.

On Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 7:03:21 PM UTC-5, TonyCooper wrote:

> Someone wrote:

My, my, my. The Great Anonymizer is at it again.

> "I just discovered that lurking, in the far upper right corner of the
> screen of the Captcha page where no one has any reason to look, is a
> very pale blue "Continue," which causes the Captcha to stop preventing
> me from posting.'
>
> Some say that acronymns should be written in all caps. If so, then it
> should be CAPTCHA. It is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public
> Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"

I've never seen that, and I don't recall seeing the name in all-caps. It's just
seemed like a geek-speak cutesy version of "Capture."

> Google does render it in all caps:

Let's see what the Captcha page summoned by GG has. (And it's just
a checkbox, not a visual puzzle, the last one of which I encountered
wanted "Crosswalks" and when that didn't work, "buses.")

> https://support.google.com/a/answer/1217728

On 2023-11-17 01:55, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
> Peter Moylan wrote:
>
>>> Some say that acronymns should be written in all caps. If so, then it
>>> should be CAPTCHA. It is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public
>>> Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
>>>
>>> Google does render it in all caps:
>>>
>>> https://support.google.com/a/answer/1217728
>>
>> I, as someone who claims to be human, often fail a CAPTCHA test. When
>> asked to select all parts of the image that show bicycles, for example,
>> I will miss seeing the section that is so unclear that I can't tell what
>> it shows. This is probably a challenge that an AI would handle better
>> than I do.
>
> I don't know if I fail, but I usually have to fill out four ore more of
> them. I never get an explanation why.

Possibly because you failed to notice the small corner of a blurry
traffic light in the background of one of the cells.

--
I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.

On 2023-11-17 15:48:52 +0000, lar3ryca said:

> On 2023-11-17 01:55, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
>> Peter Moylan wrote:
>>
>>>> Some say that acronymns should be written in all caps. If so, then it
>>>> should be CAPTCHA. It is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public
>>>> Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
>>>>
>>>> Google does render it in all caps:
>>>>
>>>> https://support.google.com/a/answer/1217728
>>>
>>> I, as someone who claims to be human, often fail a CAPTCHA test. When
>>> asked to select all parts of the image that show bicycles, for example,
>>> I will miss seeing the section that is so unclear that I can't tell what
>>> it shows. This is probably a challenge that an AI would handle better
>>> than I do.
>>
>> I don't know if I fail, but I usually have to fill out four ore more of
>> them. I never get an explanation why.
>
> Possibly because you failed to notice the small corner of a blurry
> traffic light in the background of one of the cells.

There is someone (a recognized crackpot) at sci.physics.relativity who
insists that there is a woman's hand in a photo of Hitler and his
buddies in 1925. No one else can see it.

--
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 36 years; mainly
in England until 1987.

On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 06:20:41 -0800 (PST), "Peter T. Daniels"
<petertdaniels@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 7:03:21?PM UTC-5, TonyCooper wrote:
>
>> Someone wrote:
>
>My, my, my. The Great Anonymizer is at it again.
>
>> "I just discovered that lurking, in the far upper right corner of the
>> screen of the Captcha page where no one has any reason to look, is a
>> very pale blue "Continue," which causes the Captcha to stop preventing
>> me from posting.'
>>
>> Some say that acronymns should be written in all caps. If so, then it
>> should be CAPTCHA. It is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public
>> Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
>
>I've never seen that, and I don't recall seeing the name in all-caps. It's just
>seemed like a geek-speak cutesy version of "Capture."
>
>> Google does render it in all caps:
>
>Let's see what the Captcha page summoned by GG has. (And it's just
>a checkbox, not a visual puzzle, the last one of which I encountered
>wanted "Crosswalks" and when that didn't work, "buses.")
>
>> https://support.google.com/a/answer/1217728

That discussion does not mention the simplified version
where CAPTCHA is there in large letters, to discourage
the AI hacker, but the test is to check the box that
says, "I am not a robot."

I've seen "Captcha" enough that I don't need to see it in
discussions written in all-caps. A CAPTCHA page, however,
does seem to be a place for all-caps.

--
Rich Ulrich