pet peeve: CAPTCHA

[Don Shepherd]

I LOATHE these.

I agree with the principle behind them, but the implementation simply does not work. Whenever I encounter one of these things, I enter what I think they want me to, but invariably my guess is wrong and I have to guess again. If I am trying to order something online and encounter these, I end up calling the 800 number and talking to a human being.

If we put a man on the moon a half-century ago, surely we must have a better way of doing this.