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Guldbamsen 
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 Posted: June 13 2017 at 04:55 |
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No rhyme or reason to this, I think we have established that a good while back. People with clean harddisks get hit with captchas just as much as folks like myself who dabble in explosives and trout porn.
I have less problems over my phone, which is what I am using rtm, but it is extremely irritating to use. |
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Tuzvihar
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Posted: June 13 2017 at 04:50 |
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Sorry to disapoint you but... It happens for some posts of mine too and then again it still wants me to choose appropriate pictures for others... |
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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
Charles Bukowski |
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: June 13 2017 at 04:49 |
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I hrwill neot bai tes rrekoard et es skrrratschd!
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: June 13 2017 at 04:34 |
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Bow down before your robot superiors and repeat after me:
1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 (despite what it translates to, my mother is a saint) |
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Meltdowner
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Posted: June 13 2017 at 04:24 |
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I wrote four posts without emoticons nor quotes and they all got through.
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Aussie-Byrd-Brother
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Posted: June 12 2017 at 05:58 |
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An interesting thing happened today...I got my first Captcha in some time, and when it said for me to click on the `I am not a robot' bit, it simply let me through without needing to verify anything.
So good news, it seems I've bonded with our robotic overlords and won their trust. Let's all build a better world together. 
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jayem
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Posted: June 12 2017 at 05:45 |
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Here's a possible explanation for statu quo (I haven't yet noticed as having been mentioned):
Even if robots cannot create accounts, they can still crack passwords...
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jayem
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Posted: June 11 2017 at 14:24 |
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Are you being cleaner on PA than on RverbNation ? Where are the infos on moving the captcha tests to registration stage ?
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Vompatti
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Posted: June 11 2017 at 14:24 |
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^ Each country has their own IP ranges, but you can't tell the country (or the ISP) just by looking at one set of digits.
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Quinino
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Posted: June 11 2017 at 14:07 |
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My understanding is that the address in itself has certain digits specific to the country, others to the ISP and finally the random ones attributed to every customer everytime he connects to the net (unless you contracted a fixed IP, which you have to when for example hosting a site - and pay much more).
Not an expert, though, I might be missing something |
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someone_else
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Posted: June 11 2017 at 13:12 |
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Somehow IP addresses are assigned to a location. I am not an expert in this field, but IP-addresses can be located by using a database. I think there may be some registration relating bundles of IP-addresses to companies who own them - and their locations. Formerly, there was a reference to the service that PA used to locate IP addresses. It could be found on the home page or the forum home page, but I cannot find it anymore. It was an outfit called MaxMind. The site still exists. Here you can play with it, up to 25 IP-addresses a day.
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Easy Money
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Posted: June 11 2017 at 12:40 |
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Mostly what i know about ips is that you can often find someone's location by looking up their ip number, but I know there are also ways of getting around that.
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Quinino
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Posted: June 11 2017 at 12:33 |
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^ Can't really argue, maybe it's as you say - or eventually not the same behavior for every ISP/country/contract ?
Someone more "expert" could please clarify us both and everybody on this subject, if it really matters. |
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Easy Money
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Posted: June 11 2017 at 12:20 |
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^ I don't think that is true, I think ips have to do with location.
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Quinino
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Posted: June 11 2017 at 12:15 |
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^ Such explanation puzzles me even more, because I think IPs change everytime you restart your modem, isn't that so ?
Every other day you'll have a new different IP with no (?) connection with the former. |
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Easy Money
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Posted: June 11 2017 at 12:08 |
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^ We've already gone through all this on other threads, apparently my advantage, according to one 'expert' is my relatively clean ip number. I guess he is right, no other explanation seemed to hold up.
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jayem
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Posted: June 11 2017 at 12:01 |
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What browser / anti-thingy does your computer run on ? M@x's info means no geek is about change PA's architecture so as to insert anti-robot programs at registration stage rather than at posting stage. I hope he'll have someone compile it all better. Any geek of trust here ? If there's nobody I'm ready to spend some time on it and see how it all works...
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Man With Hat
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Posted: June 11 2017 at 11:32 |
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stop bragging ;)
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I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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Easy Money
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Posted: June 11 2017 at 08:55 |
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None of those things ever happen to me on this site, so I guess I don't know. Meanwhile, last night I was doing a lot of editing on a RverbNation site and I had to pass two robot tests. I get robot tests on other sites, but not on this one. Edited by Easy Money - June 11 2017 at 09:31 |
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siLLy puPPy
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Posted: June 11 2017 at 06:54 |
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Correct. The issues at hand far exceed the captcha thing. There have been bugs on this site for quite some time and continue to get worse. Main ones for me are: Often but not always on homepage and band pages the page will be deteremined to go to a certain point and stay there. If i scroll up or down it goes back. I get a user error of some sort for forums. I have to refresh once to 20 times and sometimes it just will not accept anything. The captcha things sometimes show up sometimes not.
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