Trouble reading Capcha ?

I don't seem to be able to read the Capcha images being used on the Second Life account login page.

"Click here if you can't read the code" produces another image I can't read.

I'm assuming it's the capcha that is the problem, the error message actually reads "Invalid username and/or password, please try again."

Here's one of the images:

jxgxkp is what it looks like to me.

I'm on my fifth try. Fifth different image, that is.

Well, this ought to solve the overly burgeoning population problem quite handily.

I tried 7 times and yes that's jxgxkp. My eyes are still bleeding from staring at my screen.

Mandy C

If they can just get the guy who screwed up the chat text to add a blurry looking outline and shadow to the capcha image they will have made the account pages totally impregnable.

Oh no! Keep him away from the capcha! Better yet, fire him!

Mandy C

Hmm.. the first character looks like a 'T' to me LOL... which would have made it (cap sensitive) Txgxkp

Yup, looks like jxgxkp to me.
I was able to get in my first try with the captcha I was given. Maybe it was broken somehow, earlier?

Only a true rapscallion (with bad eyesight) could possibly think that first letter is a T. You challenge the veracity and honor of my eyesight!

I therefore challenge you to a duel.

With, umm, oh, who would be good for you to fight with, maybe Aimee Weber and Catherine Omega.

I get to watch and sell tickets.

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By the way, it's captcha , not capcha as I typed it earlier. I have got this stuck in my head wrong and will be spelling it wrong a fair amount. It will go on my wrong spelling list along with anoint and commitment .

Ive had several failures, yes.

Now if they would only make filling out a captcha form a requirement for having the sun be twenty-five times the area it ought to be.

maybe you can only reaad the leters in Over sized sun powered sunlight

Ironically someone with the necessary skills can write a program to read captchas with greater accuracy than any human .

(Edited to add that I haven't had to use it yet since it just kept on using my existing session)

Apart from being totally loopy to have a this on the login instead of the registration page,
it is quite easy to write a prog to scan this image - the background "noise" is fairly uniform on these images and fairly easy to filter out.

too funny.

Another shining example of more sticky-tape and toothpicks put in place by somebody that doesn't understand the domain.


Next thing will be that all residents have to purchase a hardware dongle.

Jesus Christ I just got one of these today (didn't realise it had been added to the web-site log-in!) it took me a good few minutes to decide if one character was an o, 0 or a.

Now you see your mistake America.. you took a perfectly usable language (English UK) allowed the development of Microsoft, only to screw with it, loose many of the U's so highly rated by us Brits, and tried to make it universal by adding USA after the true name, and yes, we noted the U creeping in there.