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Not related to the pic, but I have always loved your spam fighting resistor question that you use for comments. Have you had much trouble with spam since using it, and have you compared how it has fared to, say, reCAPTCHA?
Off topic, I’ve always wondered how would a person who is colour blind submit his/her comment if they can’t match the sliders on the resistor??
My lab partner is colour blind, and now he’s a great electronics engineer…
If you become an engineer, you WILL piss off every machinist, CNC programmer, purchasing agent, bookkeeper, supplier, and representative of common sense your company will ever have.
/works for an industrial supply company that deals heavily with Caterpillar
Nice. However, I’d rather have somebody cheat, and then fail the PE exam when they don’t have a Ti-89. If they pass the class easily, they won’t get stressed out and shoot up the school. They won’t get a job as an engineer and that way nobody dies
Comment by yb tnemmoC — February 10, 2011 @ 11:40 pm
Man, I just posted this comment because of the awesome captcha.
I like the CAPTCHA! Brilliant idea. Usage of Alphabets in the sliders and to-be-scanned-book words for the picture should also work. Also decreases the margin of scanned messages.
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Not related to the pic, but I have always loved your spam fighting resistor question that you use for comments. Have you had much trouble with spam since using it, and have you compared how it has fared to, say, reCAPTCHA?
Comment by Mark — February 10, 2011 @ 11:18 am
@mark – we have zero published spam on our blog. we love our CAPTCHA!
Comment by adafruit — February 10, 2011 @ 11:32 am
Speaking of the CAPTCHA, I’ve used it before to decode resistors because I am still learning all this stuff.
Comment by Doug — February 10, 2011 @ 12:04 pm
+1 on the “editor’s note”
Great comment!
Comment by Dimitris Tzortzis — February 10, 2011 @ 12:53 pm
Nice. Interestingly, pre-med programs are also infamous for rampant cheating…
RE: the CAPTCHA – I routinely log into this blog and click on the comments just to decode resistors. It’s excellent.
Comment by J. Peterson — February 10, 2011 @ 4:24 pm
Off topic, I’ve always wondered how would a person who is colour blind submit his/her comment if they can’t match the sliders on the resistor??
My lab partner is colour blind, and now he’s a great electronics engineer…
Love the note by the way
Comment by Simon — February 10, 2011 @ 8:08 pm
If you become an engineer, you WILL piss off every machinist, CNC programmer, purchasing agent, bookkeeper, supplier, and representative of common sense your company will ever have.
/works for an industrial supply company that deals heavily with Caterpillar
Comment by Cory — February 10, 2011 @ 8:39 pm
Nice. However, I’d rather have somebody cheat, and then fail the PE exam when they don’t have a Ti-89. If they pass the class easily, they won’t get stressed out and shoot up the school. They won’t get a job as an engineer and that way nobody dies
Comment by yb tnemmoC — February 10, 2011 @ 11:40 pm
Man, I just posted this comment because of the awesome captcha.
Comment by Kurogane — February 10, 2011 @ 11:49 pm
I know a lot of engineers who cheated. This answers a lot of questions!
Comment by X — February 11, 2011 @ 12:37 pm
I like the CAPTCHA! Brilliant idea. Usage of Alphabets in the sliders and to-be-scanned-book words for the picture should also work. Also decreases the margin of scanned messages.
Comment by Vikram — February 11, 2011 @ 4:13 pm
You are soo inviting people to write a script for the captcha
Comment by Alejandro Erickson — February 12, 2011 @ 5:11 am
for your consideration:
in which the CAPTCHA is discussed at great length.
Comment by johngineer — February 12, 2011 @ 9:18 am
Nice captcha
Comment by test — February 12, 2011 @ 9:58 pm
You know what is unfortunate? If you are a bad ass at engineering, you will probably kill people… depending on which defense contractor you work for
Comment by caliber — February 13, 2011 @ 1:26 am
I’m just commenting to test your captcha
Comment by fajar — February 14, 2011 @ 1:35 am
Ok, let me see this captcha…
Comment by Jerry Steele — February 15, 2011 @ 8:36 pm
Awesome captcha!!!
Comment by Alli — February 18, 2011 @ 4:45 am
captcha test
Comment by saulias — February 18, 2011 @ 6:44 am
Hi. I think you should tell something like that to AI students. Thanks!
- Skynet
* btw, you captcha failed against me!! hehe ;P
Comment by Skynet — February 18, 2011 @ 11:41 am
Comment by Andy — February 19, 2011 @ 1:31 am
Agreed.
Comment by Al — February 19, 2011 @ 6:46 am